Environmental policy and protocols

Legal and environmental concerns related to Indian law and tribal lands remain an understudied branch of both indigenous law and environmental law.

A brief foray into a moral thicket, exploring why we should protect nature despite tsunamis, malaria, bird flu, cancer, killer asteroids, and tofu.

Evidence of climate change, resource shortages and biodiversity loss is growing in significance year by year.

Hundreds of million tonnes of agricultural and food waste are produced each year around the world, most of which is just that, waste.

Spain is facing an increasingly difficult situation in terms of water stress.

The growth of the administrative state and legislative gridlock has placed the White House at the center of environmental policymaking.

Human activities are depleting ecosystems at an unprecedented rate.

Major environmental degradation is a serious problem for China as the country's economy continues to grow at a phenomenal pace.

This book demonstrates that a holistic approach to the bioeconomy is essential if it is to achieve its full potential in driving economic growth while simultaneously providing ecological, social and technological benefits.

National implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provisions has yielded enough challenges for providers and users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge alike.

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

In China, the weather has changed.

Green and Social Economy Finance is a compilation of chapters by experts, linking research and practice.

Sustainable Energy Development: A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach discusses sustainable energy development, the main path for achieving carbon neutrality, and the use of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in assessing energy transition in both operational and socio-political forms.

The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge and future research priorities is warranted.

"e;Change the system, not the climate"e; is a common slogan of climate change activists.

This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile.

Many governments in the developed world can now best be described as 'neuroliberal': having a combination of neoliberal principles with policy initiatives derived from insights in the behavioural sciences.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the role of fossil-based economies in the global energy transition toward sustainability.

This book, first published in 1982, takes the interaction between the domestic economy and the international trade in oil and, through the use of a consistent microeconomic framework, examines the conditions under which energy and related policies may or may not improve the performance of the U.

This book provides the first contemporary assessment of area-based conservation and its implications for nature and society.

In the age of climate change, the possibility that dramatic environmental transformations might cause the dislocation of millions of people has become not only a matter for scientific speculation or science-fiction narratives, but the object of strategic planning and military analysis.

This is the first book to address and review the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018.

This book establishes a framework for defining transboundary water cooperation and a methodology for evaluating its effectiveness, which will contribute to more effective and therefore successful cooperation processes.

This book examines emerging debates and questions around cycling to critically analyse and challenge dominant framings and prevalent conventions of 'good cycling'.

The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States.

This book provides a practical, functional comparison among various institutions, tools, implementation practices and norms in environmental law across legal cultures.

Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy.

The environment is one of the defining issues of our times, and it is closely linked to questions and dilemmas surrounding economic development.

Climate change poses a risk to business operations and to markets, and a poor business response to this risk can lead to reputational damage, or worse.

This book explores how public and private actors can interrelate to achieve also by means of law a sustainable development which is beneficial for the environment, society and the economy.

Failed attempts at producing ambitious global climate commitments and instruments have made it increasingly important for nation states to deliver climate policies.

Electronic waste, which includes everything from refrigerators to smartphones, is one of the world's fastest growing waste streams.

A reduction in the energy demand of buildings can make a major contribution to achieving national and international carbon reduction goals, in addition to addressing the interlinked issues of sustainable development, fuel poverty and fuel security.

As awareness of the commodification of food for profit at the expense of our health and the planet grows, this book foregrounds the communicative dimensions of resistance by food movements.

Over the past thirty years we have witnessed a demand for resources such as minerals, oil, and gas, which is only set to increase.

Why our economy is cheating the future-and what we can do about itThe world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises.

Originally published in 1987.

Experiments in geoengineering - intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate to reduce global warming - have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and innovation.

This book focuses on the impact of monetary policy and food price volatility and inflation in emerging and developing economies.

This book presents a comparative analysis of energy efficiency policies in developing countries.

This book highlights the increasing attention for climate engineering, a set of speculative technologies aimed to counter global warming.

Cities on a Finite Planet: Transformative responses to climate change shows how cities can combine high quality living conditions, resilience to climate change, disaster risk reduction and contributions to mitigation/low carbon development.

This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods in the short-, medium-, and long-term.

The WSPC Reference on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change provides a comprehensive and prominent reference of various highly authoritative volumes of long-term scientific value, for milestone concepts and theories.

As climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities the need to study its impact on human migration and population displacement has never been greater.