Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
How the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative created a new paradigm in climate policy by requiring polluters to pay for their emissions for the first time.
In 2008, a group of states in the northeast United States launched an emissions trading program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)....
Which World?
Scenarios For The 21St Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In Which World?, scientist Allen Hammond imaginatively probes the consequences of pressocial, economic, and environmental trends to construct three possible worlds that could await us in the twenty-first century: Market World, in which economic and human progress is driven by the liberating power...
The End of the Long Summer
Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
For the past twelve thousand years, Earth’s stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. But this long benign summer is an anomaly in the Earth’s history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is now disrupting our...
Sunlight and Seaweed
An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
‘Sunlight and Seaweed is the beginning of a new way of helping the planet we live on.’ AU Review
Acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery investigates exciting new technologies currently being developed to address our most pressing environmental threats in a book that presents a positive future...
Ecology and Equity
The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.
Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses...
Alchemy in the Rain Forest
Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic,...
Beyond the Sacred Forest
Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Reflecting new thinking about conservation in Southeast Asia, Beyond the Sacred Forest is the product of a unique, decade-long, interdisciplinary collaboration involving research in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Scholars from these countries and the United States rethink the translation...
Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization
New strategies for new challenges—with a focus on the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book equips readers with a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by radical socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural changes due to globalization and describes effective, sustainable solutions to these challenges. The focus is especially on the rapid urbanization processes in countries...
by Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This book examines sustainable energy development in China, a non-liberal state, as a counterexample to conventional wisdom that effective policy outcomes are premised on the basis of decentralized governance. The use of sustainable energies as part of the solution for stabilising global warming has...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Biomass Supply Chains for Bioenergy and Biorefining highlights the emergence of energy generation through the use of biomass and the ways it is becoming more widely used. The supply chains that produce the feedstocks, harvest, transport, store, and prepare them for combustion or refinement into other...
The 'Earth Summit' Agreements: A Guide and Assessment
An Analysis of the Rio '92 UN Conference on Environment and Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
First published in 1993. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, in June 1992, was a unique event in the annals of international affairs. The ‘Earth Summit’ brought more heads of state and government together than any previous meeting, and five separate...
Vacationscape
Developing Tourist Areas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The third edition of this classic volume integrates the idea of balancing tourism with protection of the resources upon which it depends. The text stresses the role of the community, identifies potential pitfalls, and raises issues of developmental ethics. It includes topics such as environmental...
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment
The Politics of Local Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2000
The tension between professional expertise and democratic governance has become increasingly significant in Western politics. Environmental politics in particular is a hotbed for citizens who actively challenge the imposition of expert theories that ignore forms of local knowledge that can help to...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
ICT Innovations for Sustainability is an investigation of how information and communication technology can contribute to sustainable development. It presents clear definitions of sustainability, suggesting conceptual frameworks for the positive and negative effects of ICT on sustainable development....