Environmental

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386288943Author U C JhaFormat HardbackImprint K W Publishers Pvt LtdPublisher K W Publishers Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 925g

This work analyses fairness dimensions of the climate regime. A central issue in international law and policy is how countries of the world should allocate the burden of addressing global climate change. With the link between human activities and climate...

Environmental Law and Sustainability, a Berkshire Essential, introduces environmental regulations and agreements from around the world, with a focus on those with the most potential for international impact. This concise handbook, designed for use in...

This book investigates the existing and possible links between the concept of a Carbon Club and the Paris Agreement. In doing so the book defines those criteria that may lead to an effective establishment of a Carbon Club acting within the mandate of the...

This book originates from the work of contributors to initiatives and global networks promoting and pursuing lines of enquiry that recognise and probe relationships between sustainable consumption, design and production, and the implications of those...

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 9798218121075Author Murray M SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Two Guys PublishingPublisher Two Guys PublishingWeight(grams) 630g

Global governance now provides people with recourse for harm through International Grievance Mechanisms, such as the Independent Accountability Mechanisms of the Multilateral Development Banks. Yet little is known about how such mechanisms work. This...

Addressing global environmental challenges from a peace ecology perspective, the present book offers peer-reviewed texts that build on the expanding field of peace ecology and applies this concept to global environmental challenges in the Anthropocene...

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Orleans. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern...

The international community is not taking the action necessary to avert dangerous increases in greenhouse gases. Facing a potentially bleak future, the question that confronts humanity is whether the best of bad alternatives may be to counter global...

This volume is a companion to The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development. Here the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law assembles a volume of legal instruments which can be recognized as constituting the core of the law of energy for sustainable...

Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection investigates the main challenges facing the implementation of environmental protection and the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection. Adopting legal, economic...

Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing is the first in-depth account of the Hoodia bioprospecting case and use of San traditional knowledge, placing it in the global context of indigenous peoples' rights, consent and benefit-sharing. It is...

This volume identifies existing statist approaches and political economies of river management in South Asia. These rivers are heavily suffering from millions of people who in contrast consider them as holy and worship them. Edited by Professor Imtiaz...

Dieter Senghaas, professor emeritus of international relations, University of Bremen, was one of most innovative contemporary German social scientists, with major contributions on peace and development research and on music and peace. He was awarded many...

Law's ideas of nature appear in different doctrinal and institutional settings, historical periods, and political dialogues. Nature underlies every behavior, contract, or form of wealth, and in this broad sense influences every instance of market...

This book argues that social and environmental policy should be synthetically treated as one and the same field, that both are but two aspects of the same coin - if sustainability is the goal. Such a paradigm shift is indicated, important, and timely to...

The term "Soil Security" is used in the context of maintaining the quality and quantity of soil needed in order to ensure continuous supplies of food and fresh water for our society. Topics in this unique book on the management of soil...

This book is for those who are not just interested in the ways humans have harmfully altered their environment, but instead wish to learn why the many governmental policies in place to curb such behavior have been unsuccessful. Since humans began to...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916698246Author Clare Harman ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief PublishingWeight(grams) 263g

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This book provides a comprehensive socio-legal examination of how global efforts to fight climate change by reducing carbon emissions in the forestry sector (known as REDD+) have affected the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in...

Traditional notions of security are premised on the primacy of state security. In relation to energy security, traditional policy thinking has focused on ensuring supply without much emphasis on socioeconomic and environmental impacts. Non-traditional...

This Open Access book provides a critical reflection into how indigenous cultures are attempting to adapt to climate change. Through detailed first-hand accounts, the book describes the unique challenges facing indigenous peoples in the context of...

This book presents peer-reviewed texts from the International Peace Research Association's Ecology and Peace Commission: M.I. Abazie-Humphrey (Nigeria) reviews "Nigeria's Home-Grown DDR Programme"; C. Christian and H. Speight (USA) analyse...

This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).This volume reviews the livelihood opportunities for...

Climate change is increasingly recognized as a global threat, and is already contributing to record-breaking hurricanes and heat waves. To prevent the worst impacts, attention is now turning to climate engineering - the intentional large-scale...