Environmental category: 9736 books
Towards Global Sustainability
Issues, New Indicators and Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
This study develops a new indicator for national and global sustainability. The main components of the EIIW-vita indicator are: the share of renewable energy, the genuine savings rate and the relative "green export" position of the respective countries; it is in line with OECD requirements...
Sustainable Engineering
Concepts, Design and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Assessing Engineering Designs for Environmental, Economic, and Social Impact
Engineers will play a central role in addressing one of the twenty-first century’s key challenges: the development of new technologies that address societal needs and wants within the constraints imposed by limited...
by Joseph F. C. DiMento
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
International law has become the key arena for protecting the global environment. Since the 1970s, literally hundreds of international treaties, protocols, conventions, and rules under customary law have been enacted to deal with such problems as global warming, biodiversity loss, and toxic pollution....
A Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains...
Environmental Resource Management and the Nexus Approach
Managing Water, Soil, and Waste in the Context of Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book elaborates how water, soil, and waste may be managed in a nexus and how this approach may help combat global change. In addition to providing a brief account on nexus thinking and how it may help us tackle issues important to the world community such as food security, the book presents the...
by Ross McKitrick
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is at the forefront of public attention and poses serious challenges for policymakers around the world. Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, provides a rigorous and thorough...
by Steven Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The first edition of this pragmatic course text emphasized the policy value of a "big picture" approach to the ethical, political, technological, scientific, economic, and management aspects of environmental issues. The text then applied this approach to real-world case examples involving...
Useless Arithmetic
Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environmental policies are seriously flawed. Based on unrealistic and sometimes false assumptions, these models...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book focuses on the application of newly innovated analytical tools for sustainable development on regional economic and environmental issues in Korea. With a range of case studies, the authors explore a series of theoretical models and empirical methods including spatial CCE Model, multiregional...
Environmental Literacy in Science and Society
From Knowledge to Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
In an era where humans affect virtually all of the earth's processes, questions arise about whether we have sufficient knowledge of human-environment interactions. How can we sustain the Earth's ecosystems to prevent collapses and what roles should practitioners and scientists play in this process?...
Implementing Ecological Integrity
Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains some of the papers which were presented at the NATO Science, Environmental Security, Advanced Research Workshop on "Implementing Ecological Integrity: Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health" held in Budapest from June 26 to July 1, 1999. All papers...
by Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively...
Global Environmental Protection through Trade
A Systematic Approach to Extraterritoriality
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Despite an increasing global awareness of environmental concerns, setting internationally binding and ambitious commitments has proven exceedingly complex. As states are seeking alternative methods to support global environmental protection, this book takes a closer look at the possibility of using national...