Environmental

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...

The causes and effects of climate change are just as varied as the proposed solutions and approaches for dealing with the problem. Given the global character of climate change, comprehensive global cooperation is called for that leads to effective and...

After the perceived failure of global approaches to tackling climate change, enthusiasm for local climate initiatives has blossomed world-wide, suggesting a more experimental approach to climate governance. Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond...

Commemorating Morton Deutsch's 95th birthday, this book presents ten major texts by this highly respected social psychologist on war and peace. This second volume presents Deutsch in his role as a leading social science activist on issues of war and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403539478Author Simone BorgFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403546575Author Hans Christian BuggeFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789622095168Author Lawrence Wai–ch LaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University PressWeight(grams) 542g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403502564Author José Juan González MárquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams)...

Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403542454Author Daniel Rincón RubianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 268g

A critical legal scholar uses feminist and environmental theory to sketch alternate futures for Appalachia.Environmental law has failed spectacularly to protect Appalachia from the ravages of liberal capitalism, and from extractive industries in...

Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law provides the first comprehensive explication of the dynamic interactions between climate change, public health law, and environmental law, both in the United States and internationally. Responding to climate...

This book provides a description of FANTOM, an ocean model, that has been developed to investigate the fate of selected POPs in the North Sea. The main focus of the model is on quantifying the distribution of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798201889609Author Siva Prasad BoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Joy BosePublisher Joy BoseWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998788354Author Charles MwewaFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint American College of PhysiciansPublisher American College of PhysiciansWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403528267Author Anton Ming-Zhi GaoFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

How is modern civil society created? There are few contemporary studies on this important question and when it is addressed, scholars tend to emphasize the institutional environment that facilitates a modern civil society. However, there is a need for a...