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A New Imperative
Regions and higher education in difficult times
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
At a time in history when global challenges are becoming more intractable and threatening, it makes sense to draw on the specialist expertise of our universities. Much of government interest in doing so has typically focused on the major research institutions with their records of new discovery and...
Environmental Governance
Institutions, Policies and Actions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In this innovative book, Arild Vatn presents an overview of the field of environmental governance, from its theoretical foundations, to the major issues and practical applications. While having an interdisciplinary orientation, the main theoretical basis is in institutional theory. The book spans issues...
A Future Beyond Growth
Towards a steady state economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
There is a fundamental denial at the centre of why we have an environmental crisis – a denial that ignores that endless physical growth on a finite planet is impossible. Nature provides the ecosystem services that support our civilisation, thus making humanity unavoidably dependent upon it. However,...
Israel and Its Arab Minority, 1948–2008
Dialogue, Protest, Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Using a balanced approach, this study provides a comprehensive picture of the Arab sector over six decades. It examines what, when, and why the Arab minority in Israel chooses to either negotiate with the government or turn to protest or violence in order to change the status quo. This book offers...
Transforming America
Barack Obama in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The presidency of Barack Obama seeks major transformation of American politics and policy. This new collection, edited by Steven E. Schier, examines the unusual combination of risk and ambition in Obama's presidency concerning popular politics, Washington politics, and economic and foreign policy....
The Gray Rhino
How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A "gray rhino" is a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both the elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan. Gray rhinos are not random surprises, but occur after a series of warnings and visible evidence. The bursting of the housing bubble...
by Timothy Doyle, Doug McEachern, Sherilyn MacGregor
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Environment and Politics 4th Edition is a concise introduction to this ever-expanding interdisciplinary field, explaining and illustrating how concepts, conflicts, movements, political systems and the practices of policy-making can be analysed in a systematic way. This book provides a comprehensive...
The approaching great transformation
Toward a liveable post carbon economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Joel Magnuson's visionary insights into the decline of the Oil Age and life afterward combine sobering warnings with genuine hope. The facts are hard: global oil deposits will soon peak if they haven't already and the violent race to secure what's left has already begun. Meanwhile, our culture of...
The Green Paradox
A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.
The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach—which aims...
by Frederic C. Rich
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
“Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, there is much to admire in this book, which reminds us that the stewardship of nature is an obligation shared by all Americans.”—U.S. Senator Angus S. King Jr.
The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals that...
Environmental Politics
Stakeholders, Interests, and Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
The second edition of *Environmental Politics: Stakeholders, Interests, and Policymaking *shows students that environmental politics is fundamentally a clash of competing stakeholders’ interests, and environmental policy the result of their reconciliation. But developments in environmental policymaking...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Drawing on cutting-edge research from leading scholars, this book investigates state preferences for regime creation and assesses state capacity for executing these preferences in Northeast Asia’s energy domain, defined as the geographical area comprising the following countries: Russia, Mongolia,...
Restless Continent
Wealth, Rivalry and Asia's New Geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
An essential road map to modern Asia’s dynamic transition on the world stage from the foreign policy expert and author of There Goes the Neighbourhood.
The world has never seen economic development as rapid or significant as Asia’s during recent decades. Home to three-fifths of the global population,...
The Little Red Dot
Reflections by Singapore's DiplomatsVolume I
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2005
2005 was the 40th anniversary of Singapore's independence. This collection of essays by Singapore's past and present diplomats tells the remarkable story of how this small and vulnerable country has become a stable, prosperous and respected member of the international community. The essays include...