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Which Way Forward
People, Forests, and Policymaking in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Indonesia contains some of Asia‘s most biodiverse and threatened forests. The challenges result from both long-term management problems and the political, social, and economic turmoil of the past few years. The contributors to Which Way Forward? explore recent events in Indonesia, while focusing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of this book is to introduce a non-specialist...
Victims of the Environment
Loss from Natural Hazards in the United States, 1970–1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The research reported in this volume was designed to provide estimates of the extent of damages and injuries from certain natu ral hazards inflicted on households in the United States. In addi tion, it reports on sources of aid proffered to households and the extent to which there are differences...
Ecological Social Work
Towards Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The world is on the brink of ecological crisis. In the last decade we have seen a number of catastrophic events that illustrate this, including the 2004 tsunami across the Pacific, which killed over 150,000 people, and Hurricane Katrina in the United States, which left thousands dead and millions displaced....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Social work has been late to engage with the environmental movement. Often working with an exclusively social understanding of environment, much of the social work profession has overlooked the importance of environmental issues. However, recently, the impact of and worldwide attention to climate...
by Richard N. L. Andrews, Michael E. Kraft, Karin Bäckstrand
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.”
Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning...
Running Dry
Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The world’s water is under siege. A combination of corporate greed, the elite pursuit of political power, and our unrelenting reliance on carbon-based energy is accerlating a broad range of environmental and political crises. Potentially catastrophic climate change, driven primarily by the consumption...
Conservation and Development in India
Reimagining Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Despite decades of efforts to integrate conservation and development, India is torn between two very different worldviews of peoples’ place in the country’s natural environment. This book takes a critical look at nature conservation and poverty alleviation in India. It opens up discussion of the...
Improving Regulation
Cases in Environment, Health, and Safety
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Is there potential for a U.S. regulatory system that is more efficient and effective? Or is the future likely to involve 'paralysis by analysis'? Improving Regulation considers the challenges faced by the regulatory system as society and technology change, and our knowledge about the effects of our...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This book offers a systematic investigation of the ecological and environmental issues related to the land cover changes in Nepal by researchers from both China and Nepal. It discusses the eco-environmental issues faced by Nepal, particularly in the hills and mountain regions. It also sheds light...
Scarcity and Growth Revisited
Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millenium
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications...
Saving Our Environment from Washington
How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Congress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod explains...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
This book focuses on exploring the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development at the global, regional, and national levels. Disasters and development are closely related, yet the disciplinary silos prevail and there is little communication and cooperation between the disaster management,...
by Bruce E. Johansen Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Climate change is more than just a buzzword. It is a reality that society and industry have failed to deal with effectively. "Greenwashing," a term that author Bruce E. Johansen defines as the "environmental sleight of hand" performed by technology and advertising, has us convinced that certain "green"...