Environmental policy and protocols

This edited collection brings together a selection of expert authors and draws on a wide range of case studies, geographies, and perspectives to explore the links between forced migration and energy access.

Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world.

Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world.

This book presents an analysis of climate change and agricultural laws in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa in order to determine whether they adequately addressed the concept of agricultural adaptation.

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most prominent theories, concepts and debates in environmental political thinking.

This book provides systematic coverage of the key concepts in the study of environmental politics; the evolution of environmental thinking; the national and international actors involved in environmental policy; and a selection of specific environmental problems including their causes, the challenges and results of addressing them to date.

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.

Environmentalism - defined here as activism aimed at protecting the environment or improving its condition - is undergoing significant change in the United States.

Environmentalism - defined here as activism aimed at protecting the environment or improving its condition - is undergoing significant change in the United States.

This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas.

This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas.

Sustainable development stirs up debate about the capacities of political steering and governance.

Sustainable development stirs up debate about the capacities of political steering and governance.

Can, and should, liberalism make itself hospitable to a politics which does justice to climate change?

Can, and should, liberalism make itself hospitable to a politics which does justice to climate change?

As rates of consumption grow, the problem of waste management has increased significantly.

As rates of consumption grow, the problem of waste management has increased significantly.

Although the science of climate change is well-established and there are well-known policy instruments that could significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions without prohibitive economic costs, political obstacles to more determined action remain despite heightened concern among mainstream politicians and the public.

Although the science of climate change is well-established and there are well-known policy instruments that could significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions without prohibitive economic costs, political obstacles to more determined action remain despite heightened concern among mainstream politicians and the public.

Climate change is now a mainstream part of the international political agenda.

Climate change is now a mainstream part of the international political agenda.

Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions.

Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions.

High-level nuclear waste (HLW) is a controversial and risky issue.

High-level nuclear waste (HLW) is a controversial and risky issue.

Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades.

Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades.

Green activism played a critical role in the downfall of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s.

Green activism played a critical role in the downfall of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s.

After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over competitiveness, globalisation, de-industrialisation, unemployment and the comparatively slow growth of the EU economy especially in this post-recession phase.

After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over competitiveness, globalisation, de-industrialisation, unemployment and the comparatively slow growth of the EU economy especially in this post-recession phase.

Providing shelter after a disaster is recognised as one of the most complex areas of humanitarian relief and recovery.

Providing shelter after a disaster is recognised as one of the most complex areas of humanitarian relief and recovery.

This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon.

This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon.

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.

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.

Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this collection of essays addresses what is arguably the most pressing and urgent issue of our day - the continuing development of global environmental crises and the need for new and urgent responses to them by the world community.

Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this collection of essays addresses what is arguably the most pressing and urgent issue of our day - the continuing development of global environmental crises and the need for new and urgent responses to them by the world community.

Local campaigns are the most persistent and ubiquitous forms of environmental contention.

Local campaigns are the most persistent and ubiquitous forms of environmental contention.

Globalisation is about transnational politics.

Globalisation is about transnational politics.

Two decades after its launch by the UN Brundtland Commission, the paradigm of sustainability seems to have reached its limits.

Two decades after its launch by the UN Brundtland Commission, the paradigm of sustainability seems to have reached its limits.

Nature conservation has become increasingly important in Britain over the last three decades.

Nature conservation has become increasingly important in Britain over the last three decades.

First published in 1992, this title offers an experienced and constructive evaluation of the ways in which water resources have been developed in Africa.

First published in 1992, this title offers an experienced and constructive evaluation of the ways in which water resources have been developed in Africa.

The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process.