Environmental category: 9736 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend towards internationalizing history, environmental...
Computing Our Way to Paradise?
The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Rattle's new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected global ICT network of products, processes, and services,...
The Swedish Nuclear Dilemma
Energy and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Renowned economist William Nordhaus has developed many innovative approaches for analyzing complex environmental questions. He applies them to the possible phaseout of nuclear power in Sweden in The Swedish Nuclear Dilemma: Energy and the Environment. While making a major contribution to that debate,...
Rebirth of the Sacred
Science, Religion, and the New Environmental Ethos
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
There is also a large and growing consensus in the scientific community that resolving the environmental crisis will require massive changes in our political and economic institutions and new standards for moral and ethical behavior. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Nadeau makes a convincing case...
Transnational Environmental Policy
Reconstructing Ozone
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making: the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more general question about the problem-solving capacities...
by Thomas Professor Sterner
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
As Thomas Sterner points out, the economic 'toolkit' for dealing with environmental problems has become formidable. It includes taxes, charges, permits, deposit-refund systems, labeling, and other information disclosure mechanisms. Though not all these devices are widely used, empirical application...
Green Japan
Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
As climate change continues to threaten both our economic and ecological well-being, countries around the world are trying to implement green strategies that will simultaneously curb emissions and spur economic growth.
Green Japan critically examines the Japanese effort to combine economic...
by Paul E. Rosenfeld, Nicholas P Cheremisinoff, Consulting Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This new Handbook provides a series of reference guides to cleaner production methods, technologies, and practices for key industry sectors.
Each volume covers, for each industry sector: * the manufacturing technologies * waste management * pollution * methods for estimating and reporting emissions...
Our Once and Future Planet
Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that’s not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it’s hard not to focus on the negative
But that paints an unbalanced—and...
Nature and Nurture
Poverty and Environment in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In recent years, initiatives by the international community to address the links between poverty and environmental degradation have been increasing. These initiatives range from policy reform and top-down approaches to local, bottom-up actions by communities. This publication focuses on local actions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains a selection of papers from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled "Stochastic models of hydrological processes and their applications to problems of environmental preservation" convened in Moscow over the period 23-27 November 1998. The Workshop was unique in providing...
Global Cities
Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial,...
Nature's Trust
Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Environmental law has failed us all. As ecosystems collapse across the globe and the climate crisis intensifies, environmental agencies worldwide use their authority to permit the very harm that they are supposed to prevent. Growing numbers of citizens now realize they must act before it is too late....
The Greening of European Business under EU Law
Taking Article 11 TFEU Seriously
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The relationship between environmentally sustainable development and company and business law has emerged in recent years as a matter of major concern for many scholars, policy-makers, businesses and nongovernmental organisations. This book offers a conceptual analysis of the principles of sustainable...