Environmental

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). The camps on the Thai-Myanmar border are the result...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108707749Author Khaled HassineFormat PaperbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

This is an open access book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and remains a towering presence in both fields. This edited volume reviews his work and assesses its influence in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869419088Author Baby ProfessorFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Baby ProfessorPublisher Baby ProfessorWeight(grams) 386g

Natural disasters are increasingly affecting the world, taking lives unexpectedly and leaving many others injured and homeless. Moreover, disasters disrupt local, national and even global economies, instantly changing the direction of development. In the...

Climate change, population growth and the increasing demand for water are all capable of leading to disputes over transboundary water systems. Dealing with these challenges will require the enhancing of adaptive capacity, the improving of the quality of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108841801Author Sarah J. MorathFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

This is the second volume to commemorate the 90th birthday of the distinguished scholar Chadwick F. Alger to honor his lifetime achievement in international relations and as President of the International Studies Association (1978-1979). After a brief...

This book provides a socio-legal analysis of the public participation of children in climate change matters, whilst developing a range of tools through which their participation can be increased. Climate change affects young people in many ways: causing...

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Rapid and transformational actions are ever more urgently needed to achieve a just, resilient, and ecologically sustainable global society, as envisioned and supported by the Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover, dynamic governance approaches are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403547619Author Indre ZvaigzdinieneFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 200g

Humans are responsible for biodiversity loss in many related and sometimes conflicting ways. Human-wildlife conflict, commonly defined as any negative interaction between people and wildlife, is a primary contributor to wildlife extinction and a...

Earth's climate is in crisis. Climate governance has failed. This book diagnoses climate governance as if it were a sick patient, uncovering the fundamental factors causing the worsening climate crisis. It distils decades of global climate negotiations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403514574Author Richard LasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

This book explores African domestic and regional responses and approaches to environmental protection and sustainability. Written by African experts, the collection consists of five parts covering the whole of Africa. It provides broad coverage of...

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 examines the protracted refugee situation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241571029Author World Health Organization(WHO)Format PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health...

Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World draws together a team of specialist authors from disciplines including urban planning, social sciences, engineering and environmental science to examine the...

Drawing specifically on the international climate regime, Simone Schiele examines international environmental regimes from a legal perspective and analyses a core feature of international regimes - their ability to evolve over time. In particular, she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917238694Author Oliver A HouckFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Amazon Publishing ProsPublisher Amazon Publishing ProsWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108488785Author Samira IdllaleneFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Climate change, population growth and the increasing demand for water are all capable of leading to disputes over transboundary water systems. Dealing with these challenges will require the enhancing of adaptive capacity, the improving of the quality of...

Most environmental statutes passed since 1970 have endorsed a pragmatic or 'precautionary' principle under which the existence of a significant risk is enough to trigger regulation. At the same time, targets of such regulation have often argued on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403536828Author Anton CoorayFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

This book exposes the barriers to inclusive and effective public policy making, which are the current decision making paradigm and commonly held ideas that reduce public policy problems to scientific and technical ones. Through both environmental policy...

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:...

This book exposes the barriers to inclusive and effective public policy making, which are the current decision making paradigm and commonly held ideas that reduce public policy problems to scientific and technical ones. Through both environmental policy...

This collection invites environmental law scholars to reflect on what it means to be an environmental law scholar and to consider how and why environmental law scholars engage in environmental law scholarship. Leading environmental law scholars from...

This book addresses the issues and methods involved in governing risks posed by genetically modified (GM) agriculture. It examines the evolution of policies intended to ensure the safety of GM crops and food products in the United States and Europe and...

The unprecedented degradation of the planet's vital ecosystems is among the most pressing issues confronting the international community. Despite the proliferation of legal instruments to combat environmental problems, conflicts between rich and poor...

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...

The migration process is interpreted in a different way when researchers live in so-called societies of origin, than when it is interpreted from societies of destination-even when research work is multi-situated. The localization of researchers in this...

A decade after the approval of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), the concept has gained wide acceptance at the local, national and international levels. Communities are recognizing and celebrating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403535272Author Natalia CharalampidouFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 630g

The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Research Studies' third colloquium of 2005 brought together more than 130 experts from 27 nations on nearly every continent. This book brings together a number of the papers presented there and offers a global...

The present study seeks to examine the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) - in-built law-making mechanisms and processes of institutionalization - and their ad hoc treaty-based status and the issue of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108830584Author James M. Van NostrandFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

The European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is the world's largest carbon trading market. This book offers a new perspective on the EU ETS as a multi-level governance regime, in which the regulatory process is composed of three distinct...

Center for European Integration, University of Bonn, Germany Instituto Nacional de Administradio, Lisbon, Portugal Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Danish School of Public Administration, Frederiksberg,...