Environmental policy and protocols

Can contemporary democratic governments tackle climate crisis?

Can contemporary democratic governments tackle climate crisis?

This volume investigates nuclear energy policies in Western Europe over the entire post-war period, but with special attention to the two most recent decades.

Are profits and sustainability compatible?

In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice.

Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required.

This Handbook is the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law.

This Handbook is the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law.

This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond.

Policy dismantling is a distinctive form of policy change, which involves the cutting, reduction, diminution or complete removal of existing policies.

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.

Los usos múltiples del agua son un concepto asociado al acceso al agua por parte de las familias campesinas de las zonas rurales tanto para sus actividades humanas como productivas de subsistencia desde sistemas de abastecimiento domésticos.

Environmental public health is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the direct and indirect impact of exposure to environmental hazards on the public's health and wellbeing.

Environmental public health is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the direct and indirect impact of exposure to environmental hazards on the public's health and wellbeing.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses plays a crucial role in protecting and managing international watercourses and other sources of fresh water.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses plays a crucial role in protecting and managing international watercourses and other sources of fresh water.

This volume investigates nuclear energy policies in Western Europe over the entire post-war period, but with special attention to the two most recent decades.

In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice.

The evidence presented in the recently released Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests strongly that continued failure to make meaningful cuts to greenhouse gas emissions could bring about disastrous results for the human community, especially for future generations.

This book presents a fascinating analysis of expertise and policy formation, based on an in-depth study of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.

Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required.

Since the advent of agriculture approximately 12,000 years ago, human activity has created a unique set of ecosystems.

This book advances a new distributional framework to guide the evaluation and design of environmental policies.

Anthropogenic climate change poses a grave threat to societies around the world.

Global justice is an exciting area of refreshing, innovative new ideas for a changing world facing significant challenges.

Global justice is an exciting area of refreshing, innovative new ideas for a changing world facing significant challenges.

The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices and offer constructive directions forward.

The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices and offer constructive directions forward.

The oceans cover more than seventy per cent of the surface of the planet and they provide many vital ecosystem services.

The oceans cover more than seventy per cent of the surface of the planet and they provide many vital ecosystem services.

Are profits and sustainability compatible?

Struggles over precious resources such as oil, water, and land are increasingly evident in the contemporary world.

Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions.

Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions.

Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty.

Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty.

Climate change is a profoundly social and political challenge that threatens the well-being, livelihood, and survival of people in communities worldwide.

Climate change is a profoundly social and political challenge that threatens the well-being, livelihood, and survival of people in communities worldwide.

The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy.

The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy.

From green frogs and blue angels to white bunnies, modern consumers are confronted by a growing array of colorful eco-labels on everything from coffee to computers.

From green frogs and blue angels to white bunnies, modern consumers are confronted by a growing array of colorful eco-labels on everything from coffee to computers.

The prospect of international conflict over water has long been the subject of academic and popular concern, but subnational political conflict is considerably more common, and almost certainly imposes greater economic and environmental costs.

The global, regional, and local energy landscape has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century.

The global, regional, and local energy landscape has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century.

How it is that the United Statesthe country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the worldhas chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its land area as public lands?

The insurance industry has found itself at the front line of climate change challenges, providing insurance cover in relation to risks associated with climate change.

National governments and private stakeholders have long recognized that protecting the global environment requires international cooperation.

National governments and private stakeholders have long recognized that protecting the global environment requires international cooperation.

Featuring a new foreword that brings the book up to date Rare earths are elements that are found in the Earth's crust, and are vital ingredients for the production of a wide variety of high tech, defense, and green technologies-everything from iPhones and medical technologies to wind turbines, efficiency lighting, smart bombs, and submarines.