Environmental

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...

Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation responds to an unresolved question in legal scholarship: how are (or how might be) indigenous peoples' rights included in contemporary regulatory regimes for water. This book considers that question in the...

The modern era is facing unprecedented governance challenges in striving to achieve long-term sustainability goals and to limit human impacts on the Earth system. This volume synthesizes a decade of multidisciplinary research into how diverse actors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403540856Author Barbara KowalczykFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 331g

This study is an outgrowth of an interest in the question of access to the sea developed by the author during a ten-month sojourn during 1962 and 1963 as American Vice Consul in Antofagasta, Chile. During this period he had the opportunity to visit Peru...

The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our...

This book collects land use laws from countries on each continent that attempt to achieve sustainable development. Due to the startling evidence of global deterioriation and the long-term trends in land use, the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839704031Author Tilak GinigeFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Intersentia LtdPublisher Intersentia Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403515465Author Mohammad Ershadul KarimFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 376g

Conversations about climate change at the science-policy interface and in our lives have been stuck for some time. This handbook integrates lessons from the social sciences and humanities to more effectively make connections through issues, people, and...

This book aims to provide a general systematic analysis of key issues of Turkish environmental law and policies and to highlight the related concerns and challenges. Its chapters provide a historical perspective and general understanding of the legal...

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its companion agreement, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), provide important and often underappreciated protection for the environmental laws of the Party states:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839704475Author Aitana de la VargaFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint IntersentiaPublisher Intersentia

This manual provides an overview of climate-driven stressors relevant to transport infrastructure in Central Asia and explores adaptation strategies.Over the next decades, the effects of climate change will likely exert considerable pressure on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403533087Author Mohammad NaseemFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 449g

Although it is usually assumed that only the federal government can confer citizenship, localities often give residents who are noncitizens at the federal level the benefits of local citizenship: access to medical care, education, housing, security,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403502465Author Lye Lin-HengFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789041192288Author Jose Juan Gonzalez MarquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

This volume of new essays presents critical new scholarship on law for sustainable development. Its contributors provide international and comparative perspectives on the current state of environmental law and its future directions. Aimed at both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403547411Author Maizatun MustafaFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 481g

This book provides a comprehensive and up to date comparative study of the management and resolution of conflicts between conservation and recreation in protected areas in the US and China. Competing claims on the use of nature, increasing regulation of...

This examination of the role of litigation in addressing the problem of climate change focuses not only on how the massive and growing number of lawsuits influences regulation directly, but also on how the lawsuits shape corporate behaviour and public...

Emerging from the scientific parameters underpinning REDD+ (including the measurement of carbon stocks, reporting and verification), Law, Tropical Forests and Carbon considers the crucial challenges for global and national governance and the legal rights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403533865Author Mohammad NaseemFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

This book develops a new theory of the modern economy. Conventional economic theory is (still) based on an essentially static notion of equilibrium. In contrast, this book offers an analysis of the economic process based on a truly dynamic approach. It...

This work presents the evolution of the traditional concept of "national security" as military security to additionally embrace "environmental security" and then necessarily also "social (societal) security", thence to be...

Based on the swisspeace annual conference 2012, the publication examines the delicate balance between external interventions and locally-led initiatives. It addresses the question of what "local" means in the peacebuilding and development...

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...

This book presents Nils Petter Gleditsch, a staff member of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) since 1964, a former editor of the Journal for Peace Research (1983-2010), a former president of the International Studies Association (2008-2009) and...

Since the 1960s the environment has become an issue of increasing public concern in North America and elsewhere. Triggered by the Second Indochina War (Vietnam Conflict) of 1961-1975, and further encouraged by the International Conference on the Human...

The era of eco-crises signified by the Anthropocene trope is marked by rapidly intensifying levels of complexity and unevenness, which collectively present unique regulatory challenges to environmental law and governance. This volume sets out to address...

In recent years, voluntary approaches to emission reductions have increasingly been adopted by major companies all over the world and have increasingly been supported by regulatory bodies and public administrations. Despite this world-wide effort to...

This treatise is an outgrowth of a series of seminars and tutorials on selected legal aspects of geology that were offered to several generations of undergraduate students at Lawrence University. The offerings were in response to a keen interest in how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789966255822Author Charles O. OkidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint East African Educational Publishers LtdPublisher East African Educational...

Climate disasters demand an integration of multilateral negotiations on climate change, disaster risk reduction, sustainable development, human rights and human security. Via detailed examination of recent law and policy initiatives from around the...

This book explores ways in which ideas from America could be used to improve the effectiveness of environmental laws in Britain and throughout Europe. It addresses some of the wider issues which help to decide whether environmental laws are effective or...