Environmental policy and protocols

The success of the entire food supply chain depends on the prosperity of farms and local communities.

Economic development in Asia is associated with expanding urbanism, overconsumption, and a steep growth in living standards.

This book examines the nexus between conservation, land conflicts, and sustainable tourism approaches in Southern Africa, with a focus on equity, access, restitution, and redistribution.

This timely collection surveys and critiques studies of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy since the mid-1990s.

This report was undertaken on local, regional, state and federal levels in the United States to analyse the impact residuals have on environmental quality and to emphasise the need for Residuals- Environmental quality management (REQM).

The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations.

El objetivo principal de este texto es presentar, de una forma rigurosa y cuantitativa, los fundamentos necesarios para el diseño de los equipos de control de la contaminación atmosférica.

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species.

At the global level, international actors have repeatedly expressed their desire to end hunger and food insecurity.

To whom do the Earth's riches belongall of mankind, the nations in which those riches are found, or individuals?

This title was first published in 2003.

In the wake of the Clean Air Amendments of 1970 in the United States, sources of emissions could be held accountable for the degradation of air quality in the local environment.

Food is a massive industry and the many key players involved have very different interests.

This book explores the methods through which international law and its associated innovative global governance mechanisms can strengthen, foster and scale up the impacts of treaty regimes and international law on the ability to implement global governance mechanisms.

Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News, and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary environmental communication book that takes a distinctive approach by connecting how media and culture depict and explain endangered species with how policymakers and natural resource managers can or do respond to these challenges in practical terms.

The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American politics.

Canada has over-promised and under-delivered on climate change, setting weak goals and allowing carve-outs, exceptions, and exemptions to undermine its climate policies.

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.

Pioneers, Leaders and Followers in Multilevel and Polycentric Climate Governance focuses on pioneers, leaders and followers as central drivers for international climate change governance innovations.

Of all the outputs of forests, water may be the most important.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing transnational climate movement.

The use and management of forests in the United States, especially the public owned ones, have been the focus of considerable controversy.

Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments.

The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth.

We are currently facing significant challenges in environmental management that must be addressed to maintain the health of our planet and our population.

This book looks at migration in contemporary society and its interrelations with development.

Low carbon technology transfer to developing countries has been both a lynchpin of, and a key stumbling block to a global deal on climate change.

Many people in the United States are exposed to styrene.

Playing with Fire chronicles the ongoing struggle facing Louisiana families trying to live and work against the backdrop of corrupt politicians and corporate greed.

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

This volume provides a reference textbook and comprehensive compilation of multifaceted perspectives on the legal issues arising from the conservation and exploitation of non-human biological resources.

A seminal shift has taken place in the world of investing.

This book comes at a time when the world is confronted by one of the greatest challenges-the problem of environmental degradation.

Rural Geographies provides a critical, contemporary and accessible introduction to rural change by using geographical ideas to understand current issues affecting the countryside.

This book identifies four key forms of air pollution: indoor, urban, regional and global.

Climate change creates unprecedented problems of intergenerational justice.

This book critically assesses the role of agrobiodiversity in school gardens and its contribution to diversifying diets, promoting healthy eating habits and improving nutrition among schoolchildren as well as other benefits relating to climate change adaptation, ecoliteracy and greening school spaces.

These 50 full-color tear-out posters feature original artwork that conveys the urgent need to take action to combat climate change.

Environmental research has driven landmark improvements that led to the protection of human and ecosystem health.

This book presents a new System Dynamics model (the ERRE model), a novel stock and flow consistent global impact assessment model designed by the authors to address the financial risks emerging from the interaction between economic growth and environmental limits under the presence of shocks.

Arising out of human-environment interaction, sustainability problems resist disciplinary categories and simple solutions.

This book provides a conceptual, historical and contemporary context to the relationships between gender, religion and cities.

Originally published in 1972 and ahead of its time in many respects this book was the first to take a constructive approach to the problems facing the human race in the 20th Century.

Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives.

This book provides a historical and analytical account of changes in the seafood supply chain in Britain from the mid-twentieth century to the present, looking at the impact of various types of governance.

Energy is crucial to the functioning of any human society and central to understanding East Asia's 'economic miracle'.

This book discusses political controversies involved in global biodiversity policy, and the practical opportunities that are opened up in solving them through increased citizen participation and democratic deliberation.

Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world.