Environmental

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403533681Author Mohammad Ershadul KarimFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 408g

Science, which inevitably underlies environmental disputes, poses significant challenges for the scientifically untrained judges who decide such cases. In addition to disrupting ordinary fact-finding and causal inquiry, science can impact the framing of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009475129Author Angela PotochnikFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030315917Author Professor Nils Petter GleditschFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782807619753Author Michel PrieurFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint PIE - Peter LangPublisher PIE - Peter LangWeight(grams) 148g

This book has peer-reviewed chapters by scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico and the USA that were presented to the Ecology and Peace Commission (EPC) of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in November 2012 in Japan...

This book evaluates and compares risk regulation and safety management for offshore oil and gas operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway and Australia. It provides an interdisciplinary approach with legal, technological and...

Europe still retains large areas which play host to numerous native and free-functioning ecosystems and lack roads, buildings, bridges, cables and other permanent manifestations of modern society. In the past such areas were considered wastelands, whose...

Providing a detailed and comparative assessment of the humanitarian responses to a series of major disasters in Asia over the past two decades, including massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, this book explores complex and changing...

This book examines the mutual interplay of climate and energy policies in eleven Central and Eastern European countries in the context of the EU's energy transition. Energy security has long been prioritised in the region and has shaped not only...

The United States has been experiencing an energy transition for over four decades, and now - thanks to the Clean Power Plan of the Obama Administration and the Paris climate agreement - a clean energy future is moving closer to reality. In Clean Power...

While economic and other social science expertise is indispensable for successful public policy-making regarding global climate change, social scientists face trade-offs between the scientific credibility, policy-relevance, and legitimacy of their policy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639081824Author Andreas ZumbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 118g

This book brings together three distinct areas of International Law – namely Environmental, Heritage and Ocean Law – to address the international legal protection of historically significant wrecks, with particular focus on the environmental hazards they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600422805Author Cosmin CorendeaFormat PaperbackImprint Vandeplas Pub.Publisher Vandeplas Pub.Weight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403547510Author Wang XIFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789041196293Format PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

This book focuses on ecological damage: the damage to private natural resources which have an ecological value in excess of their market value and the damage to public natural resources. Its aim is to design a compensation system, taking into account the...

With a vast river network and rainforests extending over eight South American countries, the Amazon plays a vital role particularly in maintaining biodiversity and terrestrial carbon storage. Due to its ecological characteristics, the Amazon benefits not...

Courts have emerged as a crucial battleground in efforts to regulate climate change. Over the past several years, tribunals at every level of government around the world have seen claims regarding greenhouse gas emissions and impacts. These cases rely on...

This book provides a new approach to thinking about the politics and geographies of climate governance. It argues that in order to understand the nature and potential of the range of new responses to climate change emerging at multiple scales we need to...

Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of...

Analysing the regulation of vessel-source pollution from the perspective of the political interests of key players in the ship transportation industry, this 2005 book by Alan Khee-Jin Tan offers a comprehensive and convincing account of how pollution of...

On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Rodolfo Stavenhagen, a distinguished Mexican sociologist and professor emeritus of El Colegio de Mexico, Ursula Oswald Spring (UNAM/CRIM, Mexico) introduces him as a Pioneer on Indigenous Rights due to his research...

This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea. Moving beyond the spirit of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the mechanisms of which are limited to physical geography, it demonstrates...

This book aims to identify the challenges presented by current urban environmental governance practices in fast growing Indian cities, to propose changes to the current governance implementation strategies, and to explore the best practices to achieve...

This work offers a multidisciplinary approach to legal and policy instruments used to prevent and remedy global environmental challenges. It provides a theoretical overview of a variety of instruments, making distinctions between levels of governance...

As the evidence for human-induced climate change becomes more obvious, so too does the realisation that it will harshly impact on the natural environment as well as on socio-economic systems. Addressing the unpredictability of multiple sources of global...

This book analyses the topical and contentious issue of the human rights impacts associated with carbon projects, especially in developing countries. It outlines a human rights-based approach to carbon finance as a functional framework for mainstreaming...

Despite a growing interest in critical social and political studies of climate change, the field remains fragmented and diffuse. This is the first volume to collect this body of scholarship, providing a key reference point in the growing debate about...

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing threatens the viability of high seas living resources. This book details the efforts of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Commission and the Australian government to...

The research focus for the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in 2003 was a timely and challenging one, entitled 'The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development'. As contemporary world politics demonstrates, energy resources and generation are crucial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403548630Author Anton CoorayFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403539331Author Mohammad NaseemFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403512181Author Daniel Rincón RubianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403502076Author Emmanuel B KasimbaziFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403500102Author Georges BaurFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

Factor X: Re-source-Designing the Recycling Society explores the role of recycling in efforts to achieve the sustainable world envisioned in the Federal Environment Ministry's Resource Efficiency Programme, known as ProgRess. The chapters build a roadmap...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789041193100Author Richard LasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

This is the second part of a trilogy published in the Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Rodolfo Stavenhagen, a distinguished Mexican sociologist and professor emeritus of El Colegio de Mexico...