Environmental

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,...

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...

Future generations, wildlife, and natural resources - collectively referred to as 'the voiceless' in this work - are the most vulnerable and least equipped populations to protect themselves from the impacts of global climate change. While domestic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789878929279Author Antarctic Treaty Consultative MeetingFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Secretariat of the Antarctic TreatyPublisher Secretariat of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403504575Author Jamie BenidicksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039180482Author Neil Thomas ProtoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 467g

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 discusses the environmental impact of...

Reflecting a global trend, scores of countries have affirmed that their citizens are entitled to healthy air, water and land, and that their constitution should guarantee certain environmental rights. This book examines the increasing recognition that...

This book is about joint implementation. It addresses legal, economic and institutional questions which should be taken into account in setting up joint implementation projects and in developing criteria for joint implementation under the UN Framework...

This volume investigates who can be considered responsible for historical emissions and their consequences, and how and why this should matter for the design of a just global climate policy. The authors discuss the underlying philosophical issues of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782807615281Author Emilie GaillardFormat HardbackPage Count 494Imprint PIE - Peter LangPublisher PIE - Peter Lang

These texts by Samir Amin have been selected for the purpose of encouraging readers to learn more about his work to trace the historical trajectory of capitalism, which has consistently produced polarization at the global level. Thus the dominated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403534527Author LYE Lin HengFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law International

How to tackle environmental damage from the throwaway society is one of the defining questions of the twenty-first century. By establishing a circular economy, we can encourage and support sustainable production and consumption. These essays by an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913715144Author Bob MC GeadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief PublishingWeight(grams) 109g

This last volume in a trilogy published on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Rodolfo Stavenhagen, professor emeritus of El Colegio de Mexico, includes eight essays on Peasants, Culture and Indigenous Peoples: Critical Issues; Basic Needs, Peasants and...

The term 'smart grid' has become a catch-all phrase to represent the potential benefits of a revamped and more sophisticated electricity system that can fulfil several societal expectations related to enhanced energy efficiency and sustainability. Smart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916698000Author Ben SharplesFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief PublishingWeight(grams) 336g

Cities are no longer just places to live in. They are significant actors on the global stage, and nowhere is this trend more prominent than in the world of transnational climate change governance (TCCG). Through transnational networks that form links...