Environmental category: 9736 books
Engaging the Everyday
Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
An argument that environmental challenges will only resonate with citizens of affluent postindustrial countries if sustainability concerns emerge from everyday practices.
Far-reaching efforts to address environmental issues rarely seem to resonate with citizens of the United States or other...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The contribution of economic thought and method to environmental management needs practical illustration. Too few books on the subject achieve such an outcome. This book is among the notable exceptions. That economics can provide a powerful vehicle for communicating an integrated understanding of...
Equivalency Methods for Environmental Liability
Assessing Damage and Compensation Under the European Environmental Liability Directive
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The book is the only technical volume that explains how equivalency analysis methods mentioned in Annex II of the European Environmental Liability Directive should be implemented. It uses case studies to illustrate real-world application of the methods, which are based on the experience in the USA...
by Ken Whitelaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
ISO 14001 Environmental Systems Handbook Second Edition outlines the scope and purpose of the standard, making it accessible to all.
The author begins by explaining the concepts of the standard, which sets the tone for a practical guide to implementation of an ISO 14000-compliant environmental...
Smart Markets for Water Resources
A Manual for Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity? This book shows that water markets fail because of high transaction costs, resulting in inefficient allocations and unpredictable environmental effects. To overcome these obstacles, this book...
Common Ground on Hostile Turf
Stories from an Environmental Mediator
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In our increasingly polarized society, there are constant calls for compromise, for coming together. For many, these are empty talking points—for Lucy Moore, they are a life's work. As an environmental mediator, she has spthe past quarter century resolving conflicts that appeared utterly intractable....
by Noam Chomksy, Laray Polk
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
“There are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II.
While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Clay’s Handbook of Environmental Health, since its first publication in 1933, has provided a definitive guide for the environmental health practitioner, or reference for the consultant or student. This 21th edition continues as a first point of reference, reviewing the core principles, techniques...
Environmental Sociology
European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Despite being a relatively young sub-discipline, European environmental sociology has changed considerably in the last decades towards more interdisciplinary collaborations and problem solving. Current trends such as global environmental modernization and processes of economic, political and socio-cultural...
Following the Proceeds of Environmental Crime
Fish, Forests and Filthy Lucre
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Huge quantities of natural resources are illegally harvested and their proceeds laundered in the Asia-Pacific region, fostering corruption and undermining environmental governance. Most illegal exploitation and pollution occurs in countries with poor governance capacities, but much of the sale for...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests, fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others, calls for a critical rethinking of the nature of our democracy and citizenship. This work aims to move the ideas of green democracy and ecological citizenship...
Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability
Lessons across Natural Resource Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability. Improved understanding is also essential to promote governance...
by A.H. Neilson, D. Mackay, S. Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
Environmental Impacts of Road Vehicles
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
The first concerns that come to mind in relation to pollution from road vehicles are direct emissions of carbon dioxide and toxic air pollutants. These are, of course, important but the impacts of road traffic are altogether more substantial. This volume of the Issues in Environmental Science and...