Environmental policy and protocols

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

Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding.

Published in 1999, this volume provides the first thorough analysis of the elements of sustainable public policy in a devolved Scotland.

This book analyses the political and economic causes, mechanisms and impacts of the industrial tree plantation boom in China.

This comprehensive handbook provides a detailed and unique overview of current thinking about marine governance in the context of global environmental change.

The Routledge International Handbook ofHigher Education for Sustainable Development gives a systematic and comprehensive overview of existing and upcoming research approaches for higher education for sustainable development.

Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity.

The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue.

This book explores lithium extraction in Chile as part of the global energy transition, unravelling the ontological, ecological, and economic dimensions behind this type of extractivism.

Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart.

This book explores the growing attention that sociology has started to give to environmental issues in terms of peace and social justice.

A textbook that introduces integrated, sustainable design of urban infrastructures, drawing on civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban planning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science.

China has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower.

The first volume on critical social and political studies of climate change for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

When natural gas was first discovered in Appalachia in the 19th century, its development as a fuel was rapid.

Originally published in 1981.

This book helps all those involved in international tourism develop the new skills, tools and investments required to protect irreplaceable global resources from the impacts of escalating tourism demand over the next 50 years.

The controversy aroused by the Supreme Court's decision on offshore mineral rights emphsizes the importance of the public domain in the workings of the Canadian constitution.

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

Originally published in 1988, reissued now with a new series introduction, Environmental Policy, Assessment and Communication, was the second in a trilogy of books to open the series Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences.

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse.

To keep the global average temperature from rising further than 2(deg)C, emissions must peak soon and then fall steeply.

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.

Two decades after the Brundtland Commission's Report "e;Our Common Future"e; adopted the concept of 'sustainable development', this book provides a renewal of the concept exploring the potential for new practices and fields for those involved in sustainability activity.

This book extends the framework of the climate-energy-land nexus to elucidate political, economic, social, and institutional factors and causal mechanisms that stringent climate targets bring about, rather than mitigate a disproportional heavy burden on the forest sector in Indonesia.

Bringing together scholarly research by climate experts working in different locations and social science disciplines, this book offers insights into how climate change is socially and culturally constructed.

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

Building resilience to the world's increasingly damaging environmental hazards has become a priority.

Water is becoming one of the world's most crucial concerns.

The Caribbean is a global biodiversity hotspot; half its resident bird species are found nowhere else, yet, a quarter are threatened with extinction.

To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit.

Sustainability Governance and Hierarchy provides a solid, theoretically and empirically grounded reflection on the concept of "e;sustainability governance"e;.

Building water resilience is the single biggest challenge in a changing global climate.

As the world considers how to deal with the impacts of a changing climate, it's vital that we understand the ways in which the United States' policymaking process addresses environmental issues.

Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector takes a fresh look at key terms and concepts around which energy research and policy are organised.

This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water.

Filling a void in academic and policy-relevant literature on the topic of the green economy in the Arabian Gulf, this edited volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the key themes and challenges relating to the green economy in the region, including in the energy and water sectors and the urban environment, as well as with respect to cross-cutting issues, such as labour, intellectual property and South-South cooperation.

This study addresses the many initiatives to decrease industrial pollution emitting from the Pechenganikel plant in the northwestern corner of Russia during the final years of the Soviet Union, and examines the wider implications for the state of pollution control in the Arctic today.

Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "e;The Earth Summit"e;, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.

With growing awareness of environmental deterioration, atmospheric pollution and resource depletion, the last several decades have brought increased attention and scrutiny to global consumption levels.

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

In recent years, the debate on the establishment of a new international agency on environmental protection - a 'World Environment Organization' - has gained substantial momentum.

Over the past decades, environmental problems have attracted enormous attention and public concern.

Psychological Perspectives on Walking provides a comprehensive overview of the benefits of walking and shows how we can encourage people to walk more based on psychological principles.

Most bonsai enthusiasts are familiar with the process of growing these miniature trees in soil, a method that dates back 2000 years.

The prospect of a transition to Net Zero by 2050 has profound implications for businesses in various industries worldwide.

Geopolitical changes combined with the increasing urgency of ambitious climate action have re-opened debates about justice and international climate policy.

The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years.

A ';smart, honest, and down-to-earth' (Elizabeth Kolbert) citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate.