Natural Law category: 200 books
by Peter Utting
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Behind the headlines about the loss of tropical forests in Latin America lies a complex and fascinating story of the social pressures which cause it. Trees, People and Power looks at the various groups, interests and conflicts involved, and explores the repercussions for forestry, the environment...
World Water Actions
Making Water Flow for All
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
This text is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the need for management to assess the challenges of water scarcity and plan changes based on proper valuation and financial instruments, international co-operation and efficient use. Part II analyses the problems of water scarcity and the available...
by Peter Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
This dictionary is a guide to the various legal, regulatory, technical, commercial and financial acronyms, terms and phrases used in today's international oil and gas industry. Written by a leading expert in the field, this portable, concise and comprehensive dictionary is invaluable to a reader navigating...
From the Corn Belt to the Gulf
Societal and Environmental Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Nutrients from farms in the Mississippi River Basin are the leading cause of the Gulf of Mexico‘s 'Dead Zone,' a 5,000 to 7,000 square mile region where declining oxygen levels are threatening the survival of marine life. From the Corn Belt to the Gulf explores how new agricultural policy can help...
Hollow Justice
A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
by Mordechai Schechter, Robert C. Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Multiple Purpose River Development
Studies in Applied Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book sketches out a framework for analyzing the economic efficiency of particular river basin programs. It provides a useful cross-disciplinary perspective for economists and water resource developers-especially designed to provide working material for students in applied economics for conservation curricula. Originally published in 1958.
Environmental Justice and Land Use Conflict
The governance of mineral and gas resource development
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Conflict over the extraction of coal and gas resources has rapidly escalated in communities throughout the world. Using an environmental justice lens, this multidisciplinary book explores cases of land use conflict through the lived experiences of communities grappling with such disputes.
Drawing...
Saving the Seed
Genetic diversity and European agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Genetic diversity is essential to the security of agriculture. Without the availability of a wide range of plant varieties and the genetic resources they contain, crops cannot adapt to combat the ever-changing threats of pests, diseases and climatic change. Yet, with the increasing industrialisation...
Structure and Properties of a Wilderness Travel Simulator
An Application to the Spanish Peaks Area
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Future of Large Dams
Dealing with Social, Environmental, Institutional and Political Costs
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Viewed by some as symbols of progress and by others as inherently flawed, large dams remain one of the most contentious development issues on Earth. Building on the work of the now defunct World Commission on Dams, Thayer Scudder wades into the debate with unprecedented authority. Employing the Commission's...
Dams and Development
A New Framework for Decision-making - The Report of the World Commission on Dams
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
By the year 2000, the world had built more than 45,000 large dams to irrigate crops, generate power, control floods in wet times and store water in dry times. Yet, in the last century, large dams also disrupted the ecology of half the world's rivers, displaced tens of millions of people from their...
Pricing Irrigation Water
Principles and Cases from Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
As globalization links economies, the value of a country's irrigation water becomes increasingly sensitive to competitive forces in world markets. Water policy at the national and regional levels will need to accommodate these forces or water is likely to become undervalued. The inefficient use of...
Public Lands Politics
Interest Group Influence on the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.