Environmental policy and protocols

An important read for academics and policy-makers alike, Hard Choices, Soft Law asserts that voluntary standards, or 'soft' law, are an important supplement to international law in a number of areas.

Environmental and energy policies have become increasingly significant in European and North American politics.

Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics.

This book identifies the impact of internal and external stakeholders on the implementation of sustainable development policies in the coal mining sector in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes.

After World War two, the United States became integrates into the world forest economy however the complexity of their trade agreements introduced several issues which needed to be addressed by world forestry policy.

Handbook of Energy Economics and Policy: Fundamentals and Applications for Engineers and Energy Planners presents energy engineers and managers with analytical skills and concepts that enable them to apply simple economic logic to understand the interrelations between energy technologies, economics, regulation and governance of the industry.

This book provides a range of perspectives on some of the most pressing contemporary challenges in EU environmental law and governance from some of today's leading European environmental academics and practitioners.

Electrification and the Future of Decentralized Electricity Supply addresses the role of electrification in the energy transition by examining what an electrified future entails, how it can be achieved, and the challenges that must be overcome to succeed.

This book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the links between environmental change, land grabbing, and migration, drawing on research conducted in Senegal and Cambodia.

This book sets forth a new research agenda for climate theory and aesthetics for the age of the Anthropocene.

Plastic has become a ubiquitous part of modern life.

The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health.

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

Today's students want to understand not only the causes and character of global environmental problems like climate change, species extinction, and freshwater scarcity, but also what to do about them.

The history of human rights suggests that individuals should be empowered in their natural, political, political, social and economic vulnerabilities.

We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that this will require sacrifice and high costs.

The management of common pool resources and publicly-owned areas is fraught with difficulty.

This title was first published in 2000.

Humankind benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by ecosystems, and collectively these benefits are known as ecosystem services.

In an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption.

This book examines China's resource endowment and the country's current exploitation and use of resources and analyzes the main challenges and potential opportunities facing the country.

This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being.

Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world.

This book is based on the assumption that great powers determine global politics and, in this instance, environmental politics.

This title was first published in 2000.

China, a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world's population, will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon emissions.

Environmental issues stretch across scales of geographic space and require action at multiple levels of jurisdiction, including the individual level, community level, national level, and global level.

This book examines sustainability in European environmental policy and explores the related challenges of governance and knowledge.

Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world.

Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainability in a comprehensive manner.

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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.

India, one of the largest importers of oil in the world, has been diversifying its energy resource options and moving towards greater energy security.

It is generally accepted - the US administration excepted - that the emissions reduction targets agreed in the Kyoto Protocol are only the beginning of what needs to be achieved in international climate negotiations.

This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources.

The apocalyptic visions of climate change that are projected in the media often involve extreme weather events, disasters and mass migration of poor people.

This book provides recently developed and tested methods for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of planning and policy options.

Gary Genosko's timely study traces McLuhan's influence on the work of Jean Baudrillard, arguing that McLuhan's ideas have been far more influential than hitherto imagined in the development of postmodern theory.

This book investigates the ethical values that inform the global carbon integrity system, and reflects on alternative norms that could or should do so.

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Originally published in 1990, this study tracks the issues, progress and problems in environmental issues in the United States from the 1980's.

The field of human rights and the environment has grown phenomenally during the last few years and this textbook will be one of the first to encourage students to think critically about how many environmental issues lead to a violation of existing rights.

The scale and severity of our environmental challenges are quickly becoming apparent.

Understanding why renewable energy policies succeed and fail is essential for a range of stakeholders in the energy and environmental sectors.

This book critically analyses the prospects of overhauling the legal framework of climate change regulation of corporations in African state.

This book brings together the most current thinking about the Anthropocene in the field of Environmental Political Theory ('EPT').

This book analyses 'zero-waste' (ZW) as an emerging waste management strategy for the future, which considers waste prevention through innovative design and sustainable consumption practices.

Discerning Experts assesses the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action.

Many new development initiatives have been introduced in Africa over the past few decades.