Environmental

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

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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 Draft2DigitalPublisher Draft2DigitalWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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...

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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...