Environmental policy and protocols

This book introduces the concept of the Anthropocene and examines its importance for environmental legal thinking, research and practice.

A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publicationAs we approach the 30th anniversary of Earth Day (the first of its kind was April 1970), congressional debate about environmental protection often remains paralyzed and polarized.

To its critics, the automobile is a voracious consumer of irreplaceable energy resources, a leading polluter of the environment, and a destroyer of cohesive communities.

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

This book presents a comprehensive study of the role that the Blue Flag beach program has played around the world, considering economic, social and environmental perspectives.

Waste management poses a daunting global challenge.

"e;An excellent starting place for research on plastic and its environmental impact.

This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across subnational regions and between governance levels in China.

This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across subnational regions and between governance levels in China.

This book critically examines the driving forces, discourses, and conflicts surrounding Chinese investments in overseas farmland, with a specific focus on Australia.

"e;An excellent starting place for research on plastic and its environmental impact.

Waste management poses a daunting global challenge.

Amidst growing environmental concerns worldwide, Japan is seen as particularly vulnerable to the effects of changing climate.

Educating for Sustainable Development (ESD) approaches are holistic and interdisciplinary, values-driven, participatory, multi-method, locally relevant and emphasize critical thinking and problem-solving.

State climate and clean energy policy will play a critical role in the future of the political dialogue and economic development.

This book examines a new topic in Human Resource Management (HRM), green - or environmental - HRM, analysing the role humans play in environmental management at work and environmental behaviours at workplaces around the world.

The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU's entire land territory plus large marine areas.

In recent years, 'environmental collapse' has become an important way of framing and imagining environmental change and destruction, referencing issues such as climate change, species extinction and deteriorating ecosystems.

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries.

The idea of human dominion over nature has become entrenched by the dominant rights-based interpretation of private property.

This book provides an analysis of the recent governance of the Amazon in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia with a particular focus on deforestation processes, demonstrating that current policies and political and socioeconomic dynamics in the four countries are risking the forest's resilience.

This book provides an analysis of the recent governance of the Amazon in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia with a particular focus on deforestation processes, demonstrating that current policies and political and socioeconomic dynamics in the four countries are risking the forest's resilience.

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.

Now in a fully updated edition, this invaluable reference work is a fundamental resource for scholars, students, conservationists, and citizens interested in Americas national park system.

This book provides a quantitative and qualitative overview of the overall impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the capacity of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS countries) to reshape global climate governance and explore areas for mutual cooperation.

This book provides a quantitative and qualitative overview of the overall impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the capacity of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS countries) to reshape global climate governance and explore areas for mutual cooperation.

First Published in 1992, Choosing Our Future presents a personal but highly rigorous account of the environmental problems facing us and of the ways in which they can be tackled.

The renewable and alternative energy markets and energy policy have evolved rapidly in recent years.

Household hazardous waste (HHW) is a topic that affects every individual and community given the nearly universal use, storage, and disposal of chemical consumer products.

The book 'Economic Trends and Sustainable Environmental Assessment' attempts to x-ray the economic and socioeconomic activities, and cultural or behavioural aspects from the concept of sustainability by employing several related research scenarios spanning the micro-, meso-, and macro-level approaches.

First Published in 1992, Choosing Our Future presents a personal but highly rigorous account of the environmental problems facing us and of the ways in which they can be tackled.

This book considers the global question of climate change from local perspectives in the context of Central Africa.

This book critically examines the driving forces, discourses, and conflicts surrounding Chinese investments in overseas farmland, with a specific focus on Australia.

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalization and sustainability.

Uses knowledge of complex systems to analyze critical transitions in large political orders.

Connections between resources and migration operate as a complex adaptive system rather than being premised in linear, causal mechanisms.

Connections between resources and migration operate as a complex adaptive system rather than being premised in linear, causal mechanisms.

Este libro presenta los resultados del proyecto de investigación Actores, prácticas y sentidos de la participación local en Bogotá, propuesto por la línea 'Gobierno, gestión local y ciudadanía' del Grupo de Investigación de la Maestría en Gestión Urbana (Gi_MGU) de la Universidad Piloto de Colombia (UPC).

Recientemente se comprobó que el hielo del Ártico podría llegar a desaparecer mucho antes de la mitad de este siglo por el aumento de la temperatura de la tierra.

Vihreä politiikka on Osmo Soininvaaran terävä, hauska ja perusteellinen selvitys vihreästä politiikasta.

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are interventions to protect, restore, and sustainably manage natural or modified ecosystems to support both biodiversity and human well-being.