Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.
A comprehensive assessment and analysis of the validity, trustworthiness, and effectiveness, of such environmental ratings as ENERGY STAR, LEED, and USDA Organic.
A proposal for a new chemicals strategy: that we work to develop safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals rather than focusing exclusively on controlling them.
Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past—including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius—in dialogue with current environmental political theory.
An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the “management treadmill.
An account of the movement for sustainable development in Ecuador through four eras: movement origins, neoliberal boom, neoliberal bust, and citizens'' revolution.
An examination of barriers that impede and incentives that motivate the global development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies, with case studies from China.
Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs.
How the success and popularity of recycling has diverted attention from the steep environmental costs of manufacturing the goods we consume and discard.
How the tools of information technology can support environmental sustainability by tackling problems that span broad scales of time, space, and complexity.
'Crucially, this book bridges a gap in our understanding of how different societal sectors can be united to define roles, identify shared interests and devise strategies that complement progress towards more sustainable material use.
Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.
An analysis of the political consequences of special district governance in drinking water management that offers new insights into the influence of political structures on local policymaking.
Failing Forward documents the global rise of neoliberal conservation as a response to biodiversity loss and unpacks how this approach has managed to fail forward over time despite its ineffectiveness.
Technopreneurship is an advanced version of entrepreneurship that incorporates cutting-edge technologies from AI to big data into entrepreneurial activities and leads to innovative solutions to problems that previous solutions have failed to sustain in the long term.
This book explores the governance of smart cities from a holistic approach, arguing that the creation of smart cities must consider the specific circumstances of each country to improve the preservation, revitalisation, liveability, and sustainability of urban areas.
In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation.
The Tank Cascade System (TCS) of Sri Lanka is a connected series of tanks organized within a micro-catchment of a dry zone landscape for storing, conveying, and utilizing water from a temporary stream.
En noviembre de 2020, en medio de la emergencia provocada por la pandemia del Covid-19, el huracan Iota conmociono a los habitantes del Archipielago de San Andres, Providencia y Santa Catalina.
Para que tengamos un planeta mejor, más justo y sustentable, sin duda alguna debemos apostarle a la cocreación de otras educaciones posibles que tejan procesos y que, a su vez, posibiliten la visibilización de un mágico territorio, como lo es el páramo, sus habitantes y la manera en la que históricamente se han entrelazado memorias y sentimientos en torno a su terruño.
This handy guide provides the information needed to identify all the species of marine mammals that occur along the California coast, and tells the best places to observe them.
This handy guide provides the information needed to identify all the species of marine mammals that occur along the California coast, and tells the best places to observe them.
Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region.
The Tank Cascade System (TCS) of Sri Lanka is a connected series of tanks organized within a micro-catchment of a dry zone landscape for storing, conveying, and utilizing water from a temporary stream.
A new expanded and illustrated edition of the history-making speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'We are the change and change is coming' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day.
