Environmental category: 9736 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Environmental pragmatism is a new strategy in environmental thought. It argues that theoretical debates are hindering the ability of the environmental movement to forge agreement on basic policy imperatives. This new direction in environmental thought moves beyond theory, advocating a serious inquiry...
Environmental Integration in the EU's External Relations
Beyond Multilateral Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
The book examines the integration of environmental protection requirements into EU external relations focusing on unilateral, bilateral and inter-regional instruments, which have been less explored than the multilateral dimension of EU environmental policy. The book also explores for the first time...
The Large Dam Dilemma
An Exploration of the Impacts of Hydro Projects on People and the Environment in China
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Large dam construction has significant environmental and social impacts at different scales. As the largest developing country in the world, China has built about half of the world’s large dams, and more are expected to be built over the next two decades to meet the country’s rapidly growing demand...
by Salim Momtaz, Zobaidul Kabir
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries isa valuable reference book for practitioners and researchers conducting research in and developing studies on environmental science and management and environmental and social impact assessment. The book’s authors have...
A Good That Transcends
How US Culture Undermines Environmental Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s, the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality, ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy. With these changes has also come an increased popular resistance to environmental reform, but, as Eric T. Freyfogle...
Materials Engineering and Environmental Science
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Materials Engineering and Environmental Science (MEES2015)
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book consists of one hundred and nine selected papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Materials Engineering and Environmental Science (MEES2015), which was successfully held in Wuhan, China during September 25–27, 2015. All papers selected for this proceedings were subjected...
by Philippe Cullet
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book is a comprehensive study of differential treatment for developing countries in international environmental law. It offers a compelling analysis of the legal dimension of the relationship between developed and developing countries in the environmental field and beyond. It first critically...
by Owen Harrop, Ashley Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
This text explains what constitutes good practice in applying environmental assessment as an environmental management tool. A wide range of case studies and other student text features are employed to demonstrate how the different methods, techniques and disciplines of environmental assessment can...
Environmental Metal Pollutants, Reactive Oxygen Intermediaries and Genotoxicity
Molecular Approaches to Determine Mechanisms of Toxicity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Humans are exposed daily to low concentrations of metals that are released into the environment by both natural and industrial processes. Environmental Metal Pollutants, Reactive Oxygen Intermediaries and Genotoxicity: Molecular Approaches to Determine Mechanisms of Toxicity examines concerns about...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book is a valuable contribution to the debate about the harmful effects of environmental toxicants on human health, which is a growing concern in the 21st century. Complementary chapters decipher the phenomena and highlight the latest developments in environmental toxicology, providing readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
The first edition of Public Policies for Environmental Protection contributed significantly to the incorporation of economic analysis in the study of environmental policy. Fully revised to account for changes in the institutional, legal, and regulatory framework of environmental policy, the second...
Megacities 2050: Environmental Consequences of Urbanization
Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Landscape Architecture to Support City Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This interdisciplinary proceedings book addresses highly relevant topics in urbanization and its environmental impacts and presents case studies revealing the negative environmental consequences of the anthropogenic and technogenic pressures. Urbanization is an important trend in current land-use...
Protecting the Periphery
Environmental Policy in Peripheral Regions of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
First published in 1994. ln Protecting the Periphery the editors present a series of papers revealing the impact of EU policies on environmental quality in regions at the edge of the European Union and in those lying just outside it. In many cases these regions contain habitats and landscapes of international...
Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism
Current Global Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Constitutions can play a central role in responding to environmental challenges, such as pollution, biodiversity loss, lack of drinking water, and climate change. The vast majority of people on earth live under constitutional systems that protect the environment or recognize environmental rights....