Environmental policy and protocols

The main theme of this book is the adaptation process of the new EU member states from Central-Eastern Europe (Hungary and Poland) to the multi-level system of governance in public policy, particularly in the regional and environmental policy areas.

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

Coordinated, well-functioning institutions are crucial for tackling environmental challenges like climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, and resource overuse.

A comprehensive introduction to the IPCC as an institution, covering its origins, history, processes, participants, products, and influence.

In 1984, when this book was originally published the need to take forestry outside the forests and involve local people in tree growing was widely recognised.

Presto!

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, both the crisis of liberal democracy, as visible in, for example, the rise of far-right actors in Europe and the United States, and environmental crises, from declining biodiversity to climate change, are increasingly in the public spotlight.

Digitalizing Sustainability outlines why 'business as usual' isn't working and sets out five Transformational Forces which can be used to innovate and scale sustainability solutions using digital means.

This book examines the issue of environmental justice across 11short chapters, with the aim of creating a resilient society.

The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation.

"e;Human security"e; is an approach that rejects the traditional prioritization of state security, and instead identifies the individual as the primary referent of security.

This edited volume brings together critical research on climate change adaptation discourses, policies, and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

This new textbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to both the policy background and contemporary governance of forests in the United States.

This book is a unique introduction to the economic costs of nuclear power.

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy.

Environmental justice research and activism predominantly focus on openly conflictive situations; claims making is central.

Originally published in 1965, this case study of the beet sugar industry undertaken by George O.

Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability - both as a concept and as a political objective.

Contested Waste' examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the systemic injustices that underpin contemporary waste policies.

Does gender matter in global climate change?

The environment has not always been protected by law.

Half a century ago, many democratic states started to respond to environmental pressures that had arisen in the wake of rapid industrialization.

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.

This book is an intellectual contribution of policy scientists and researchers from different academic institutions in different parts of the world.

Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is a planned process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human wellbeing in deforested or degraded landscapes.

Ecological Methods by the late T.

Which new institutions do we need in order to trigger local- and global sustainable urban development?

This book takes an in-depth look at Covid-19-generated societal trends and develops scenarios for possible future directions of urban lifestyles.

Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a cohesive and definitive theorisation of the concept of the 'good farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of contemporary applications of good farming concepts, and new case studies, providing a springboard for future research.

This book explores interdisciplinary perspectives on socioecological challenges and offers innovative solutions at both a European and global level.

This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by the SDGs.

The European Union (EU) aims to put Europe on track toward a low-carbon economy.

The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy.

This book explores the key learning concepts for global leadership in the face of modern international health crises and argues the need for fundamental reform to governance paradigms, within the global security sphere and policymaking circles.

First published in 1987, Maritime Boundaries and Ocean Resources is a collection of essays which examines the political jurisdiction of ocean boundaries and the affects that this has on the world's oceans.

Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries.

Energy Communities explores core potential systemic benefits and costs in engaging consumers into communities, particularly relating to energy transition.

An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico's modern water management system.

Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of humanity and for the sake of other species.

Science during the Cold War has become a matter of lively interest within the historical research community, attracting the attention of scholars concerned with the history of science, the Cold War, and environmental history.

Forests are considered the lungs of the planet, as they consume and store carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

This volume explores the many and deep connections between the widespread rise of authoritarian leaders and populist politics in recent years, and the domain of environmental politics and governance - how environments are known, valued, and managed; for whose benefit; and with what outcomes.

In recent years, the concept of "e;peak oil"e;-the moment when global oil production peaks and a train of economic, social, and political catastrophes accompany its subsequent decline-has captured the imagination of a surprisingly large number of Americans, ordinary citizens as well as scholars, and created a quiet, yet intense underground movement.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of research on environmental policy and governance.

Aquaculture is increasingly complementing global fisheries and is relevant to ocean and freshwater health, biodiversity and food security, as well as coastal management, tourism and natural heritage.

This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps required for food security analysis.

This book is ground breaking in its study of business actors in climate and energy politics.

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