Environmental policy and protocols

This book examines the link between population growth and environmental impact and explores the implications of this connection for the ethics of procreation.

Measuring Sustainable Development Goals Performance provides a quantitative and analytical framework for evaluating social, economic, and environmental policies aiming at the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development.

The world as we know it is undergoing a sudden and violent transformation, unlike anything the planet has experienced since the Cretaceous Extinction.

This Element provides novel insight into global climate policy implementation.

Inspired by recent litigation, this book identifies and critically appraises the manifold and varied approaches to calculating compensation for damage caused to the environment.

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment.

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflections and empirical research from leading researchers and practitioners working in this transdisciplinary and transnational academic field.

The science is clear: climate change is a fact and the probability is extremely high that it has been caused by humans.

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

The heart of the contemporary argument on climate change and energy transition focuses on how energy supply should be decarbonized to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

First systematic study of global cities as lawmakers in the world of transnational climate change governance.

In May 2013, China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea (Asia 5) were given status as permanent observers in the Arctic Council.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential role of trees and forests in cities and examines the creative approaches cities around the world are taking to protect trees and expand their urban forests.

This is a companion book to Earthscan's 2010 book Climate Change Adaptation and International Development.

The importance of the effective management of the natural environment has become vital over the past few decades.

Motivated by a deeply rooted sense of place and community, Appalachian women have long fought against the damaging effects of industrialization.

The fundamental point of this book is that, in the past, the world's political, economic, military and social development took place during a time of relatively stable sea level.

The aim of the book is to analyse the factors that have influenced wind power outcomes in a range of countries which have featured significant wind power deployment programmes.

This original contribution to the field is the first to bring economic sociology theory to the study of federal land exchanges.

This book studies the extent to which nuclear safety issues have contributed towards the stagnation of nuclear power development around the world, and accounts for differences in safety regulations in different countries.

Why doesn't everyone see sustainability as a huge issue?

This book examines the visions, fantasies, frames, discourses, imaginaries, and expectations associated with six state-of-the-art energy systems-nuclear power, hydrogen fuel cells, shale gas, clean coal, smart meters, and electric vehicles-playing a key role in current deliberations about low-carbon energy supply and use.

The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building pioneers a new era of climate change governance, performing the foundational job of clarifying what is meant by the often ad-hoc, one-off, uncoordinated, ineffective and unsustainable practices of the past decade described as 'capacity building' to address climate change.

Set in the 'human-environment' interaction space, this book applies new theoretical and practical insights to understanding what makes healthy urban environments.

A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy efficiency, and, most recently, addressed global climate change.

In the context of sustainable development, recent land debates tend to construct two porous camps.

Climate migration, as an image of people moving due to sea-level rise and increased drought, has been presented as one of the main security risks of global warming.

How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begunfrom lower test scores to higher crime ratesand how we might tackle them todayIt's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe.

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending.

This book describes how local consumption, particularly in urban areas, is increasingly met by global supply chains.

Chemical warfare materiel (CWM) is a collection of diverse items that were used during 60 years of efforts by the United States to develop a capability for conducting chemical warfare.

This book explores the intimate relationship of the people of North East India with the environment as evinced from their traditional beliefs, cultural practices, and livelihood.

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

In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change.

Sustainability and food production represent a major challenge to society, with both consumption and supply sides posing practical and ethical dilemmas.

Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism presents some of the finest essays on social justice, environment, rights and governance.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between environment and sustainable development in society from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global political economy are often poorly understood.

At a time when Europeans across the continent are focused on the EU's future direction, this book provides an important contribution to the current debate.

This book provides a comparative study of the role of international organizations in environmental governance.

Through an examination of carbon footprint metaphors, this books demonstrates the ways in which climate change and other ecological issues are culturally and materially constituted through metaphor.

This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia.

This book analyses the case-law of the European Court of Justice on free movement in the energy sector.

During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts.

As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance.