Environmental policy and protocols

A program for building a global clean energy economy while expanding job opportunities and economic well-being.

This Handbook examines the regulatory, social, financial, and technological issues pertaining to energy communities in smart cities.

Deep reductions in energy use and carbon emissions will not be possible within political economies that are driven by the capitalist imperatives of growth, commodification and individualization.

Must freedom be sacrificed to achieve ecological sustainability - or vice versa?

This book addresses disaster and disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices, constraints and capacity in the context of coastal Bangladesh.

This book aids those concerned about environmental issues to firmly grasp relevant analytical methods and to comprehend the thought process behind environmental economics.

This book presents contemporary case studies on selected Italian food and wine products to explore how traditional production and consumption models address and adapt to the sustainability challenges in the Italian high-excellence agri-food sector.

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.

This book examines the role that bioremediation can play in the detoxification of soil, water, and air to improve environmental and human health, with a specific focus on heavy metals and radionuclides.

It is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and concern for public welfare.

Universities have a key role to play in contributing to environmental development and combating climate change.

With a specific focus on the United States and the United Kingdom, Carbon Inequality studies the role of the richest people in contributing to climate change via their luxury consumption and their investments.

Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border community As a borderland city with generations of slow violence and extreme weather events like flash flooding and intense heat waves, San Antonio, Texas, speaks directly to global issues in climate politics.

In this unique book, Alain Guilloux uses four major elements of governance - namely norms, actors, processes, and outcomes - to examine Taiwan's national governance as well as its participation in global governance in relation to humanitarian aid.

This book explores how participatory governance processes help to find integrated solutions to resource-based development while protecting ecosystems in UNESCO designated areas.

There has been a profound change within the sphere of government and societal regulation in recent years.

One of the policies that has been most widely used to try to limit urban sprawl has been that of urban containment.

This book discusses the current demographic shifts of blacks, Latinos, and other people of colour out of certain strong-market cities and the growing fear of displacement among low-income urban residents.

This title, first published in 1987, provides an authoritative account of both the science and the politics of acid rain.

To increasing numbers of people, sustainability is the key challenge of the twenty-first century.

In this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society, and claim that the growing spectrum of knowledge-based occupations has led to the pluralisation of expertise.

Green European addresses the quest for a better understanding of European type(s) of environmentalism.

This book examines the imperative role of global environmental governance, and the need to incorporate corporate environmental accountability and mechanisms for enforcement, to effectively address the global environmental crisis.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa's largest dam, but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region.

The vast majority of the world's population lives on or near the coast.

Environmental sustainability efforts require a great deal of engagement and political will, ranging from local communities to state departments.

Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, conservative politicians have railed against the President's "e;War on Coal.

This volume originated as a report given to the World Bank in 1978 on the household energy consumption of both the urban and rural poor in developing countries.

Climate change confronts us with our most pressing challenges today.

How knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain futureIf you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions.

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.

What kind of decision-making should multinationals engage in to create a sustainable company?

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Awarded honourable mention for the 2024 GFASG Book Award.

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about climate activism, militancy, and strategy that have been gathering force in radical ecological circles.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the challenges and issues concerning the economic valuation of natural resources.

Waste management poses a daunting global challenge.

The concept of circular economy is based on strategies, practices, policies, and technologies to achieve principles related to reusing, recycling, redesigning, repurposing, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recovering water, waste materials, and nutrients to preserve natural resources.

How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends?

The growth of the global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers'' rights, the treatment of animals, and other issues.

This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the American people and the environment.

Originally published in 1985.

This book examines the role legal rules play in the resolution of disputes in transboundary river basins.

The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations.

This book examines the development of a European environmental conscience through successive steps of European integration in energy policy.

Food security is high on the political agenda.

The chapters in this volume are peer reviewed editions of the papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy which was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 15-17, 2010.