Environmental policy and protocols

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.

In this important new book on the declining health of one of America's leading environmental treasures, Howard Ernst reveals a Chesapeake bay that has become functionally dead.

Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity.

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded.

ISC 2022 is dedicated to the Niti Aayog policies to promote sustainability through exchange of ideas emerging out of the academia.

In Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality: Volume 2 Tom Woolley uses new research to continue to advocate for limiting the use of hazardous materials in construction and raise awareness of the links between pollutants found in building materials, poor indoor air quality and health problems.

A look at how public relations has dominated public understanding of the natural environment for over one hundred years.

Adaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities outlines and explains adaptation urbanism as a theoretical framework for understanding and evaluating resilience projects in cities and relates it to pressing contemporary policy issues related to urban climate change mitigation and adaptation.

This timely and powerful autoethnography traces the spread of and responses to Covid-19: from the uncertainty surrounding its outbreak, to its devastating and continued aftermath.

'Environmental skepticism' describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant.

Mineral exploration is an economic activity of worldwide importance.

The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees.

How will humanity continue to meet its energy needs without destroying the conditions necessary to sustain human life on earth?

The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period.

The terrestrial organisms of the Gal'apagos Islands live under conditions unlike those anywhere else.

Environmental problems - particularly climate change - have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades.

China and its neighbours face a series of water security issues, in which international law plays a vital role.

Originally published in 1988, this book was a plea for new approaches to environmental education.

This book explores the intrinsically multiscale issue of renewable energy transition from a local, national and transnational perspective, and provides insights into current developments in the Upper Rhine Region that can serve as an international model.

An increase in the global demand for energy, combined with an increase in the price of energy and energy products, has advanced the growing interest in renewable energy technologies and the wide implementation of renewable energy sources (RES).

Global climate change poses an unprecedented challenge for governments across the world.

The protest against meat eating may turn out to be one of the most significant movements of our age.

In less than a decade, activism against the fossil fuel industry has exploded across the globe.

The EU has been the region of the world where the most climate policies have been implemented, and where practical policy experimentation in the field of the environment and climate change has been taking place at a rapid pace over the last twenty-five years.

Can global justice be promoted by distributing money more equitably?

This book undertakes a scholarly assessment of the state of the art of law and policy perspectives on groundwater and climate change at the international, regional and national levels.

Even though the United States relies heavily on imports for many non-fuel minerals, mineral supply has played only a small role in foreign policy since World War II.

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.

The EU has been portrayed as a leader in international climate change negotiations.

This book presents an empirical study of the role of knowledge in the making of the climate-security nexus.

Carbon Politics and the Failure of Kyoto charts the framework and political evolution of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations and examines the ensuing failure of the international community to adequately address climate change.

Many of the challenges that decision-makers grapple with in relation to climate change are governance related.

The massive expansion of global aviation, its insatiable demand for airport capacity and its growing contribution to carbon emissions make it a critical societal problem.

Our behaviour in our own homes - our recycling habits, consumer choices and transport preferences - all have a huge impact on the environment locally and globally.

This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation.

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

In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods.

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy.

In Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylha bring together crucial insights from environmental history, sociology, media and communication studies and psychology to help us understand why we are failing to take necessary measures to avert the unfolding climate crisis.

The principal barrier to the introduction of more sustainable disposal methods has previously been thought to be the lack of both available knowledge and an awareness of the benefits and ease of these systems.

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.

This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality.

Any effective response to an uncertain future will require independently thinking individuals working together.

Policy insider''s compelling argument to reorganise our efforts in science, diplomacy, and economics to tackle climate change five times faster.

Provides an overview of the important role that environmental experts play at the science-policy interface, and the complex challenges they face.

First published in 1994, The Wealth of Communities presents the stories of ten communities from Philippines to Poland, from Los Angeles to Zimbabwe, where they are making intelligent and sustainable use of the world around them.

Highlighting how the environment and society are intrinsically linked, this book argues that environmental concerns need to be treated as a core concept in the study of sociology.

The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent underground oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is considered by many to be the worst environmental disaster in U.