Environmental management

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The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development.

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

This book analyses the role of liquified natural gas in a decarbonising world and presents the most significant energy-transition options and implications for the liquified natural gas industry.

A comprehensive textbook that integrates tools from technology, economics, markets, and policy to approach energy issues using a dynamic systems and capital-centric perspective.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

This book presents strategies and models for cultural heritage enhancement from a multidisciplinary perspective.

One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases.

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010's Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Despite reports of food safety and quality scandals, China has a rapidly expanding organic agriculture and food sector, and there is a revolution in ecological food and ethical eating in China's cities.

The Mekong Basin is home to some 70 million people, for whom this great river is a source of livelihoods, the basis for their ecosystems and a foundation of their economies.

Presents different strategies for biological control along with their ecological bases, using many examples from a diversity of ecosystems.

The most effective way to participate in land stewardship and environmental management is to get involved in the review of proposed developments.

Macroengineering: An Environmental Restoration Management Process provides a comprehensive understanding of all the technical, cost, and regulatory issues that an environmental project manager would potentially face on a large scale environmental restoration project.

This book is an intellectual contribution of policy scientists and researchers from different academic institutions in different parts of the world.

The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy.

The United States faces decisions requiring information about the oceans in vastly expanded scales of time and space and from oceanic sectors not accessible with the suite of tools now used by scientists and engineers.

Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible.

This book examines water resource management in China's electric power sector and the implications for energy provision in the face of an emerging national water crisis and global climate change.

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests.

This benchmark publication assembles information on the current and anticipated effects of climate change on animal health.

Transboundary watercourses account for an estimated 60 per cent of global freshwater flow and support the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

Forty percent of the world's population depends upon increasingly scarce and shared water resources.

Discusses government policies that cause malnutrition or starvation in North Korea, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and the West Bank and Gaza.

There is no question that the timber industry needs to adopt sustainable practices that ensure a future for the industry.

This book examines the "e;oil-tourism interface"e;, the broad range of direct and indirect contact points between offshore oil extraction and nature-based tourism.

This book is about environmental defenders and the violence they face while seeking to protect their land and the environment.

This book presents a collection of research papers and case studies from leading experts in the field.

Practical Conservation Biology covers the complete array of topics that are central to conservation biology and natural resource management, thus providing the essential framework for under-graduate and post-graduate courses in these subject areas.

Scientists and consultants need to estimate and map properties of the terrestrial environment.

Following the original initiative of the International Organisation for Biological Control some 15 years ago, research groups and agrochemical companies have been investigating the effects of pesticides on beneficial organisms, devising laboratory and field test methods and lately developing protocols for regulatory testing requirements in Europe.

Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.

Alaska in the early 1950s was one of the world's last great undeveloped areas.

This book examines the bioeconomy concept, analysing the opportunities it can generate, the constraints and the potential benefits for society.

This book questions the use of salvage law as legal regulatory framework for the remuneration of environmental services in salvage operations, proposing that such services should be based on direct contracting between commercial salvors and coastal States.

This book analyses the drivers of specific common pool resource problems, particularly in fisheries and forestry, examining the way in which private and public regulation have intervened to fight the common pool resource problem by contributing to the establishment and maintenance of property rights.

Protected areas have become an increasingly important tool both in the conservation of biodiversity and in revenue generation through sustainable use.

There is much we can learn about conservation from native peoples, says Gene Anderson.

From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines.

Growing scarcity of freshwater worldwide brings to light the need for sound water resource modeling and policy analysis.

For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?

This book provides insights into China's energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies.

This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples' human rights and for sound national and international legal governance.

Natural resource managers face a complex decision-making environment characterized by the potential occurrence of rapid and abrupt ecological change.

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The increasing demand for rural land and its natural resources is creating competition and conflicts.

This is the first of two volumes that together provide an integrated picture of the Montenegrin Adriatic coast, presenting the natural components of the system as well as the chemical composition and chemical processes in the extended area.

Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by insects, or water filtration by wetlands).