Environmental category: 9736 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Several disturbing issues pose a threat to the marine environment and its wellbeing, among them marine environmental pollution and degradation of marine biodiversity. Most troubling is that these issues are overwhelmingly caused by human activities which are sometimes transboundary, and their consequences...
Environmental Condition of the Mediterranean Sea
European Community Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This study investigates the extent of the pollution of the Mediterranean Sea with respect to the four bordering EC countries - spain, France, Italy, and Greece. The environmental pressures and economic impacts are examined and the institutional/legal framework is described together with all the necessary...
Transnational Environmental Regulation and Governance
Purpose, Strategies and Principles
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
A large and growing proportion of contemporary environmental regulation is transnational, which means that it is impossible to understand environmental governance without a firm grasp of the nature of transnational environmental regulation (TER). In this illuminating work, Veerle Heyvaert offers readers...
Environmental Rights
The Development of Standards
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Environmental rights, also known as the human rights or constitutional rights that are used for the protection of the environment, have proliferated over the last forty-five years. However, the precise levels of protection that they represent has since been a major question associated with this phenomenon....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Poland, like other post-communist countries, is undergoing a transformation into a capitalist system. This transformation affects the country in many ways: economic, social, psychological and also ecological. Ecological problems are strongly connected with the political, economic and psychological...
Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology
Trees and Toxics in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Environmental problems present democratic dilemmas. The problems are so large and so often pit localities and interest groups against each other that they challenge basic democratic institutions, particularly the ideal of citizen participation in society’s choices. In this book, Daniel Press examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as a distinguished tool of environmental management. It helps to integrate a company's environmental and business interests, whereby enhancing corporate eco-efficiency in terms of reducing environmental costs or making one's product...
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany
Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
German environmental organizations have doggedly pursued environmental protection through difficult times: hyperinflation and war, National Socialist rule, postwar devastation, state socialism in the GDR, and confrontation with the authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. The author recounts the fascinating...
Environmental Law and Policy in Wales
Responding to Local and Global Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
This book is a collective academic response from environmental law scholars sharing an interest in Welsh perspectives on today’s local and global environmental challenges. The editors brought colleagues together at a ground-breaking colloquium at Swansea University in April 2011, seeking to foster...
Conservative Conservationist
Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
In the history of American environmentalism, Russell E. Train plays a starring role. Few individuals have been so influential in creating the United States' environmental policies and encouraging conservation efforts around the world. In this absorbing new biography, J. Brooks Flippen describes Train's...
Rachel Carson and Her Sisters
Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving connections from the past through the present. Readers will find new insight into Carson and contemporary figures she influenced...who have historically received less attention. Musil’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Covers the most recent topics in the field of environmental management and provides a broad focus on the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of environmental management
Provides an up-to-date survey of the field from the perspective of different disciplines
Covers the topic of environmental...
Adoption of Environmental Innovations
The Dynamics of Innovation as Interplay between Business Competence, Environmental Orientation and Network Involvement
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
How do small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt environmental innovations? Do they have the necessary internal competence? Is any support offered by external parties (i.e. network involvement)? What are the policy implications? This book is based on extensive fieldwork, conducted in four traditional...
by John Hannigan
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The third edition of John Hannigan’s classic undergraduate text has been fully updated and revised to highlight contemporary trends and controversies within global environmental sociology. Environmental Sociology offers a distinctive, balanced treatment of environmental issues, reconciling Hannigan’s...