Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Multi-stakeholder Processes for Governance and Sustainability: Beyond Deadlock and Conflict by Minu Hemmati 9781853838699
RRP: $263.25$228.70Governments, business, international bodies and local groups are turning to multi-stakeholder processes to find practical ways forward. This book explains how MSPs can be organized to deliver their potential for successful resolution of complex issues... -
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology with Environment and Development by Christoph Bail 9781853838408
RRP: $70.18$62.58Modern biotechnology - the controversial manipulation of genes in living organisms - has far-reaching implications for agriculture, human health, trade and the environment. Against the odds, an international treaty governing biosafety and trade in... -
The Evolution of Green Politics: Development and Change Within European Green Parties by Jon Burchell 9781853837517
RRP: $263.25$228.70The emergence of Green parties throughout Europe during the 1980s marked the arrival of a new form of political movement and a challenge to existing party models. This work presents an in-depth, thematic comparative approach to the analysis of recent... -
Vanishing Borders: Protecting the planet in the age of globalization by Hilary French 9781853836930
RRP: $263.25$228.70The world is shrinking faster than ever. Goods, money, microbes, pollution, people and ideas are crossing boundaries ever more frequently. The implications for our future and for the health of the planet are profound. Vanishing Borders outlines the... -
The Daily Globe: Environmental Change, the Public and the Media by Joe Smith 9781853836695
RRP: $214.50$185.46Arguably the greatest challenges facing humanity are environmental. However, they are routinely under-reported in the media. Pressure groups and governments trying to get information through to the public often blame the media, but the picture is not... -
A Guide to EC Environmental Law by Dorothy Gillies 9781853835858
RRP: $81.88$71.66EC law is now a pervasive part of the legislation affecting business, government agencies, the voluntary sector and the individual citizen across the whole of the European Union. This uniquely comprehensive and accessible guide provides a simple and... -
Improving Compliance with International Environmental Law by Jacob Werksman 9781853832611
RRP: $93.58$82.31Measures for regulating the behaviour of nation states in relation to the global environment have increasingly taken the form of international treaties and conventions. Many have argued that this has proved to be an ineffective way of halting... -
Human Rights and the Environment: Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World by Lyuba Zarsky 9781853838156
RRP: $81.88$71.66The impact of environmental damage on human rights - civil, political or welfare and labour rights - is becoming ever-more widely appreciated and has direct bearing on the behaviour of companies and their norms of conduct. In this volume, contributors... -
Future Generations and International Law by Emmanuel Agius 9781844079919
RRP: $263.25$228.70Sustainable development requires consideration of the quality of life that future generations will be able to enjoy, and as the adjustment to sustainable lifestyles gathers momentum, the rights of future generations and our responsibility for their... -
Human and Environmental Security: An Agenda for Change by Felix Dodds 9781844072132
RRP: $234.00$202.82Security has tended to be seen as based on military force, yet this illusion is crumbling, literally and figuratively, before our eyes in the conflict zones of Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa. It is now clear that real human security, defined by the... -
The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility Across Borders by Michael Mason 9781844070664
RRP: $263.25$228.70The growth of pollution that crosses national borders represents a significant threat to human health and ecological sustainability. Various international agreements exist between countries to reduce risks to their populations, however there is often a... -
The Future Control of Food: A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security by Geoff Tansey 9781844074303
RRP: $263.25$229.48This book is the first wide-ranging guide to the key issues of intellectual property and ownership, genetics, biodiversity and food security. Proceeding from an introduction and overview of the issues, comprehensive chapters cover negotiations and... -
Trade, Aid and Security: An Agenda for Peace and Development by Mark Halle 9781844074198
RRP: $74.08$65.09'A compelling contribution to our evolving understanding of the links between trade, aid and security and what the international community needs to do to ensure peace and development in the world.' Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations... -
Environmental Policy Integration in Practice: Shaping Institutions for Learning by Mans Nilsson 9781844073931
RRP: $224.25$193.75Environmental values and concerns are meant to be reflected through environmental policy, which is then integrated into mainstream economic and social policy that serves to govern society and the economy in different sectors. Yet effective environmental... -
Intellectual Property, Biogenetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge by Graham Dutfield 9781844070497
RRP: $103.33$93.05Biogenetic resources - the critical biological and chemical materials that underpin so much of medicine, both modern and traditional, agriculture, and wider economic activity in so many fields - are at the centre of heated debate regarding their use,... -
Living In The Number One Country: Reflections from a Critic of American Empire by Herbert I. Schiller 9781583220283
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583220283Author Herbert I SchillerFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 381g -
The Power of Communication: Managing Information in Public Organizations by Doris A. Graber 9781568022116
RRP: $148.20$130.18Whether it's the Internal Revenue Service or the local police department, every person's life is affected by how public organizations handle information. New technologies are inundating us with data-agencies collect, store, analyze and disseminate... -
Stop Mass Hysteria: America's Insanity from the Salem Witch Trials to the Trump Witch Hunt by Michael Savage 9781546082910
$30.05Since Donald Trump's historic ascendance to the presidency, American politics have reached a boiling point. Social and economic issues, even national security, have become loud, violent flashpoints for political rivals in the government, in the media and... -
Back in the Game: One Gunman, Countless Heroes, and the Fight for My Life by Jeffrey Stern 9781546076124
$29.89On the morning of June 14, 2017, at a practice field for the annual Congressional Baseball Game, a man opened fire on the Republican team, wounding five -- including Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise nearly fatally. Told with harrowing detail,... -
Democracy and Public Policy in the Post-COVID-19 World: Choices and Outcomes by Rumki Basu 9780367695880
RRP: $77.98$68.37After the COVID-19 disaster, ‘old’ frailties and inadequacies in agriculture and industrial productive capacities, in public health and transport systems have evinced sharply in the open, reopening the debates over public policy reforms as never before... -
Good Government: The Relevance of Political Science by Soren Holmberg 9781781954126
RRP: $79.85$75.35In all societies, the quality of government institutions is of the utmost importance for the well-being of its citizens. Problems like high infant mortality, lack of access to safe water, unhappiness and poverty are not primarily caused by a lack of... -
Handbook of Environmental Protection and Enforcement: Principles and Practice by Andrew Farmer 9781138975675
RRP: $85.78$74.96Environmental Enforcement Authorities (EEAs), sometimes called Environmental Protection Agencies (EPAs), are the regulatory, monitoring and enforcement agencies of national, state/provincial and local governments worldwide responsible for implementing,... -
Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa: Five Decades of Misrule by Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi 9781138920767
RRP: $85.78$74.96Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and political science - this volume addresses the problems of the regime change and state failure in Africa in the context of the global... -
E-Government in Kazakhstan: A Case Study of Multidimensional Phenomena by Maxat Kassen 9781138220706
RRP: $107.23$93.05When it comes to analyzing the phenomenon of digital government, the overwhelming focus is on the most developed nations in the world, and Western countries in particular. However, Kazakhstan, a post-totalitarian country, has also proved to be successful... -
The Plain Language Guide to the World Summit on Sustainable Development by Jan McHarry 9781138471498
RRP: $105.28$91.40The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates who mapped out the future of the global sustainable development agenda. The resulting technical document, the Johannesburg Plan of... -
Taking Responsibility: Personal Liability Under Environmental Law by Stephen Tromans 9781138459199
RRP: $234.00$202.04A report written by two environmental lawyers which explains the responsibilities of company directors under UK and European environmental law, and their potential personal liabilities. It sets out what steps to take to avert liabilities and what to do... -
Transnational Social Policies: The New Development Challenges of Globalization by Daniel A. Morales-Gomez 9781138459182
RRP: $93.58$81.53Addresses and analyses the increasing influence of transnational economic, commercial, political and legal policies on the national policies of developing countries. The text includes case studies from a range of developing countries in Asia, Africa and... -
Politics and the Environment: Risk and the Role of Government and Industry by Michael Howes 9781138164192
RRP: $263.25$228.70'An evenhanded, realistic and thoughtful approach to identifying environmental problems and management goals' Stephen Zavestoski, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of San Francisco '...a theoretically advanced yet... -
Localization: A Global Manifesto by Colin Hines 9781138159495
RRP: $263.25$229.48Localization is a manifesto to unite all those who recognize the importance of cultural, social and ecological diversity for our future - and who do not aspire to a monolithic global consumer culture. It is a passionate and persuasive polemic,... -
Implementing the Precautionary Principle: Approaches from the Nordic Countries, EU and USA by Nicolas de Sadeleer 9781138012172
RRP: $85.78$75.74From fisheries to persistent organic pollutants to climate change itself, no other environmental principle in environmental law has produced as much controversy as the precautionary principle. Unlike a preventive approach in which action is taken... -
Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat by Fran Hawthorne 9781119086758
RRP: $60.43$39.02The forces that shape America's most powerful consumer agency Because of the importance of what it regulates, the FDA comes under tremendous political, industry, and consumer pressure. But the pressure goes far beyond the ordinary lobbying of Washington... -
Republic at Risk: An Introduction to American Politics by Walter J. Stone 9781108738040
RRP: $60.43$53.66When people have the freedom to further their own personal interests in politics, the results may be disastrous. Chaos? Tyranny? Can a political system be set up to avoid these pitfalls, while still granting citizens and politicians the freedom to pursue... -
Responsive States: Federalism and American Public Policy by Andrew Karch 9781108719230
RRP: $50.68$42.88The US Constitution did not establish a clear division of responsibilities between the national government and state governments, so the distribution of policymaking authority is subject to constant renegotiation and debate. When national lawmakers... -
The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe by Simukai Chigudu 9781108489102
RRP: $175.50$158.01Zimbabwe's catastrophic cholera outbreak of 2008-9 saw an unprecedented number of people affected, with 100,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths. Cholera, however, was much more than a public health crisis: it represented the nadir of the country's... -
How Autocrats Compete: Parties, Patrons, and Unfair Elections in Africa by Yonatan L. Morse 9781108474764
RRP: $204.75$183.90Most autocrats now hold unfair elections, yet how they compete in them and manipulate them differs greatly. How Autocrats Compete advances a theory that explains variation in electoral authoritarian competition. Using case studies of Tanzania, Cameroon,... -
Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America by Jaime E. Settle 9781108472531
RRP: $68.23$62.77Why do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political party? Jaime E. Settle argues that in the context of increasing partisan polarization among American political elites, the way we communicate on Facebook uniquely... -
Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America: Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change by Lindsay Mayka 9781108470872
RRP: $175.50$158.79While prior studies have shown the importance of participatory institutions in strengthening civil society and in improving policy outcomes, we know much less about why some participatory institutions take root while others do not. This book explains the... -
Regime Support Beyond the Balance Sheet: Participation and Policy Performance in Latin America by Matthew Rhodes Purdy 9781108420259
RRP: $175.50$158.01This book challenges the conventional wisdom that policy performance is the most important determinant of regime support. It does so by focusing on two countries where performance and support do not match. Chile is the economic envy of every country in... -
The Europeanization of Politics: The Formation of a European Electorate and Party System in Historical Perspective by Daniele Caramani 9781107544604
RRP: $56.53$47.62In a broadly comparative, historical and quantitative analysis, this study reveals the unity of European electorates and party systems. Investigating thirty countries in Western and Central-Eastern Europe over 150 years of electoral history, the author... -
Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France by David A. Bateman 9781108470193
RRP: $157.95$81.06The first wave of democratization in the United States - the removal of property and taxpaying qualifications for the right to vote - was accompanied by the disenfranchisement of African American men, with the political actors most supportive of the...