Environmental management

This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management.

This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management.

Food aid is historically a major element of development aid to support longer-term development, and the primary response to help countries and peoples in crisis.

Food aid is historically a major element of development aid to support longer-term development, and the primary response to help countries and peoples in crisis.

This volume explores the impact of democratization and marketization on the environment in East Central Europe.

This volume explores the impact of democratization and marketization on the environment in East Central Europe.

Urban Alchemy delves into the pressing challenges and unique opportunities facing developing countries in their quest for sustainable urban transformation.

Renewable and carbon-neutral energy have been promoted as the future of energy production in the United States.

Renewable and carbon-neutral energy have been promoted as the future of energy production in the United States.

Sustainability Assessment is an increasingly important tool for informing planning and development decisions across the globe.

Sustainability Assessment is an increasingly important tool for informing planning and development decisions across the globe.

According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors since 2007.

According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors since 2007.

When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order.

When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order.

In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent.

In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent.

The world increasingly relies on groundwater resources for drinking water and the provision of food for a growing population.

The world increasingly relies on groundwater resources for drinking water and the provision of food for a growing population.

Economic development that is environmentally, socially and ethically sound is at the forefront of contemporary debates all over the world.

Economic development that is environmentally, socially and ethically sound is at the forefront of contemporary debates all over the world.

This book analyses the potential socio-economic and environmental impacts of the Initiative for Regional Infrastructure Integration in South America (IIRSA), a continent-wide programme.

This book analyses the potential socio-economic and environmental impacts of the Initiative for Regional Infrastructure Integration in South America (IIRSA), a continent-wide programme.

Many of our planet's support systems are in crisis.

Many of our planet's support systems are in crisis.

In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda.

In recent years the issue of food security has become centre stage in the global agenda.

Water is the resource that will determine the wealth, welfare, and stability of many countries in the twenty-first century.

Water is the resource that will determine the wealth, welfare, and stability of many countries in the twenty-first century.

Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.

The contributors explore the decision-making processes that surround environmental issues and attempt to provide realistic models for making policy decisions.

The contributors explore the decision-making processes that surround environmental issues and attempt to provide realistic models for making policy decisions.

First Published in 2011.

First Published in 2011.

By recording one country's experience with its vast natural resource base, America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges will help to inform the management of future demands on the resource base in the U.

By recording one country's experience with its vast natural resource base, America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges will help to inform the management of future demands on the resource base in the U.

First Published in 2011.

First Published in 2011.

First Published in 2011.

First Published in 2011.

Clawson is concerned here not so much with what forest policy should be, but more with the criteria by which it should be determined.

Clawson is concerned here not so much with what forest policy should be, but more with the criteria by which it should be determined.

This study represents the first scholarly attempt to consider the difficult allocation problems associated with management of natural resources and proposed changes in the natural environment.

This study represents the first scholarly attempt to consider the difficult allocation problems associated with management of natural resources and proposed changes in the natural environment.

Based on theoretical insights from ecofeminism, women and development, and postmodernism, and the convincing empirical work of numerous scholars, this book is organized around five aspects of gender relationships with the environment: Part I-gender divisions of labor, Part 2-property rights, Part 3-knowledge and strategies for sustainability, Part 4-environmental and social movements, and Part 5- policy alternatives.

Based on theoretical insights from ecofeminism, women and development, and postmodernism, and the convincing empirical work of numerous scholars, this book is organized around five aspects of gender relationships with the environment: Part I-gender divisions of labor, Part 2-property rights, Part 3-knowledge and strategies for sustainability, Part 4-environmental and social movements, and Part 5- policy alternatives.

This book, which has been prepared by an international group of experts, provides comprehensive guidance for the design, planning and implementation of assessments and monitoring programmes for water bodies used for recreation.

This book, which has been prepared by an international group of experts, provides comprehensive guidance for the design, planning and implementation of assessments and monitoring programmes for water bodies used for recreation.

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or broadly support livelihoods.