Environmental policy and protocols

Bringing together case studies from Canada, the Nordic countries and Russia, this book is the first to provide a comparative examination of the current transformations in the forest industry regimes and the challenges they make for the communities dependent on this industry.

In 2017 four rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, India, and Colombia were given the status of legal persons, and there was a recent attempt to extend these rights to the Colorado River in the USA.

Badeanzüge und Sonnenbrillen, Fernseher und Handys, Flugzeuge und Kinderwagen: Wie die meisten Dinge unseres Alltags bestehen sie zu einem großen Teil aus Plastik - von Wegwerfprodukten wie PET-Flaschen und anderem Verpackungsmaterial ganz zu schweigen.

This is an original, accessible book for scholars, students, activists, and the general public on the greatest crisis the world has faced.

This title was first published in 2003.

Originally published in 1983, Governmental Interventions, Social Needs, and the Management of U.

After sweeping environmental legislation passed in the 1970s and 1980s, the 1990s ushered in an era when new legislation and reforms to existing laws were consistently caught up in a gridlock.

Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution?

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

First published in 1998, this volume looks at the potential and motivation for companies and industries to go green.

This book provides an original and groundbreaking account of the applicability and key contributions of international law to small-scale fisheries, a fisheries subsector that has been historically overlooked by governments and international legal scholarship.

Using the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a case study, this book focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and develops the concept of resilience and how it applies to Homeland Security in the aftermath of the worst natural disaster to hit the United States.

First published in 1990.

In the face of growing environmental challenges, including climate change and energy security, countries across the globe are developing new policies and programs to address these challenges, and China is no exception.

Climate change skeptics and business pundits alike are convinced that any public policy instruments used to curtail environmental degradation are antithetical to the interests of the corporate community.

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.

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence - fundamental when thinking about climate change.

The characteristics of small states generate multiple and contradictory expectations concerning their climate policies and politics.

Climate change is a cross-cutting, long-term, global problem that presents policymakers with many challenges in their efforts to respond to the issue.

Media coverage of climate change has attracted much scholarly attention because the extent of such coverage has an agenda-setting effect and because the ways in which the coverage is framed can influence public perception of and engagement with the issue.

A book that manages to be entertaining and irreverent while serving as an informative primer on a subject that is crucial to the future of all Americans.

Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming.

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

A risk conundrum can be viewed as a risk that poses major issues in assessment, and whose management is not easily engaged.

This authoritative reference work gives timely information on the global politics of water.

Now in its eighth edition, The Environmental Policy Paradox continues the book's tradition of offering an accessible introduction to the social, economic, legal, and political matters pertaining to environmental policy while also developing the student's own unique views.

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

Other People's Country thinks through the entangled objects of law - legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on - that 'govern' waters and that make bodies of water 'lawful' within settler colonial sites today.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and current practices of rewilding.

Since the early 2000s, authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon.

Hydropower generation by construction of large dams attracts considerable attention as a feasible renewable energy source to meet the power demand in Asian cities.

There has been increasing concern over the impacts of 21st century challenges, be it on environmental, social, and economic aspect.

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

The problems and debates surrounding climate change possess closely intertwined social and scientific aspects.

In December 2015, 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, seen as a decisive landmark for global action to stop human- induced climate change.

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda.

Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people's lives around the world: families are losing their homes, lands and livelihoods as a result of sea level rise, increased frequency and intensity of storms, drought and other phenomena.

Sustainability from an economic and environmental perspective is linked to the way we extract and consume the earth's finite resources and is implicit in the definition of a circular economy (CE) as a model of production and consumption designed to retain value within the economic system.

This book provides readers with a foundation in policy development and analysis, describing how policy, including legal mechanisms, are applied to the marine environment.

Dangerous climate change is coming.

The Zambezi river is the fourth longest in Africa, crossing or bordering Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

As prosperity levels rise, so too does the number of products and services being consumed.

The Nation Looks at its Resources records the key points of the Mid-Century Conference on Resources for the Future held in Washington in 1953.

The Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) is not only a stunning piece of landthe first large national park created from all private lands and the first large park adjacent a large metropolitan centerbut the fight to save this fragile ecosystem in the 1960s was a key turning point in the environmental movement and helped transform the political landscape of California and the nation.

Between 1995 and 2005, the government of Alberta undertook major reforms to the way water is governed in the arid southern part of the province.

Natural Resource Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of natural resource economics that is based upon a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research.

Our current ecological crisis-featuring problems such as climate change, ocean acidification, and mass extinction-raises various moral issues, including a high probability of injustice and massive harm.

Political Agroecology is the first book to offer a systematic and articulated reflection on Political Agroecology from the Agroecological perspective.

This book examines the dynamics of natural resource conflicts in Africa and explores the different governance approaches for securing sustainable peace.