Environmental management

Municipal solid waste entombed in landfills will produce pollution in the form of landfill gas and leachate when the barriers fail in the long term.

This book, first published in 1983, provided the first thorough and informative introduction to the theory, practice and politics of rural settlement planning.

As a forester interested in economics and policy, Daowei Zhang followed the softwood lumber dispute between the U.

Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps).

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America.

'An important and timely book' from the Foreword by Stanley Johnson 'A complete and absorbing history of a decade of intense international politics offers many insights for future negotiators of sustainable solutions' Stephen Bass, International Institute for Environment and Development 'Skillfully navigates the jungle of forest politics, leaving us in no doubt that the verbal commitment to save the world's forests has yet to be translated into action on the ground.

Cents and Sustainability is a clear-sighted response to the 1987 call by Dr Gro Brundtland in Our Common Future to achieve a new era of economic growth that is 'forceful and at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable'.

This book demonstrates the importance and potential role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in foreseeing and curbing future global pandemics.

International environmental agreements provide a basis for countries to address ecological problems on a global scale.

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An accessible, engagingly written book on Arctic environmental change and cooperation by an author intimately involved in Arctic science and policy.

This book highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills.

Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this context is yet to be defined.

The Sustainability Transformation is a must-read for anyone trying to make sense of what is happening to our world - and wanting to change it for the better.

This book examines the international causes of hunger and malnutrition and reveals how critical elements of the global economy heighten food insecurity in the developing world.

America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and availability of energy.

It is common practice to evaluate wastewater to understand drug consumption, from antibiotics to illegal narcotics, and even to analyze dietary habits and trends.

This third book in the Corporate Environmental Management series examines the sorts of strategies that companies can put into place to make their performance more consistent with the concept and practice of sustainable development whilst taking into account the impacts of free trade and globalization.

How are men, masculinities and gender power implicated within global institutions?

Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of resilience in agriculture, and implications for producers seeking to adapt to change and uncertainty.

This book summarizes the achievements and experience of the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection, analyzes the new situation and requirements of the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection, and discusses the main issues and their solution alternatives for the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection efforts.

The debate on the physical limits and constraints to the economic growth of globalized society is now widespread.

Global warming is an increasing problem, tropical forests are being wiped out and major upper watersheds are being degraded.

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times - fundamental to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse ecosystem degradation.

First published in 1982.

The first richly illustrated worldwide portrayal of urban ecology, tying together organisms, built structures, and the physical environment around cities.

This book reviews how far East Asian nations have implemented green fiscal reform, and show how they can advance carbon-energy tax reform to realize low-carbon development, with special reference to European policy and experience.

Regional Studies is a collection of papers that deals with strata-bound mineral deposits in the Eastern Alps, in the Canadian Cordillera, in north-central, and southwest England.

This updated and revised second edition brings geopedology issues into the current context.

The book offers a comprehensive account of how the world evolved to its present state in which humans now exercise a powerful, in many cases dominant, influence for global environmental change.

Waste management poses increasing challenges to both the protection of the environment and to human health.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

This book explores the role of technology in ecological urban design and regeneration.

This volume systematically analyses why legal doctrines for the protection of biodiversity are not sufficiently effective.

Updated to include new laws and regulations, this second edition of a bestseller also contains new chapters on Environmental Justice and Range Rule.

Protein is one of the most important ingredients of the human diet and is considered crucial for the growth development of all age groups.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the most current developments in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting.

Drawing on the author's personal experiences working across the globe, this book explains why we need to conserve biodiversity, the threats it faces, how we can successfully conserve biodiversity, and some success stories of how we have conserved it.

The recognition that climate change is now a climate emergency has been endorsed by a wide range of scientists and the United Nations.

The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "e;the tragedy of the commons"e;.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of migration as the default response to climate change, introducing the concept of Environmental Non-Migration (ENM).

With the consequences of climate change and biodiversity loss becoming more and more apparent, both the protection of water resources and water-related ecosystems as well as protection from water, that is flood protection policies, have become increasingly important.

Globally, environmental impact assessment (EIA) is one of the most enduring and influential environmental management tools.

Forest management auditing is expanding from its traditional focus on forest management, stewardship and Chain of Custody certification to more innovative topics such as ecosystem services, forest carbon credits, Non-Wood Forest Products, wood energy and Fair Trade certification.

Originally published in 1974 Campaigning for the Environment addresses the issue of the environmental lobby.

Don't drain the swamp!

Coastal zones represent a frontline in the battle for sustainability, as coastal communities face unprecedented economic challenges.

Global Change in Marine Systems analyses and appraises societal and governing responses to change affecting marine social and ecological systems around the world.

This book provides a historical and analytical account of changes in the seafood supply chain in Britain from the mid-twentieth century to the present, looking at the impact of various types of governance.