Environment, transport and planning law: general

This interdisciplinary and in-depth critical analysis of REDD+ offers perspectives on its enforcement under international law.

In this book the author examines the illegal wildlife trade from multiple perspectives: the historical context, the impact on the environment, the scope of the problem internationally, the sociocultural demand for illegal products, the legal efforts to combat it, and several case studies from inside the trade.

This book models price behaviour and forecasts prices in the dry bulk shipping market, a major component of the world shipping industry.

Public Security in Federal Polities is the first systematic and methodical study to bring together the fields of security studies and comparative federalism.

Efforts to teach students pursuing graduate degrees in urban and regional planning are often frustrated by the "e;case books"e; that have been prepared for use by law professors teaching similar courses.

This book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity - of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993.

This book addresses the production practices employed in the production of food animals and animal products that enable marketers to sell a variety of products to meet consumer demand.

Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning examines the practices and policies linking transportation, land use and environmental planning needed to achieve a healthy environment, thriving economy, and more equitable and inclusive society.

Mediterranean irrigation is diverse due to, among other factors, the relative importance of water in the economy of each country, varied levels of aridity, heterogeneous levels economic, social and technological levels of development, and differences in political and social organization.

This title was first published in 2002.

Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Land Law is all about, Beginning Land Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.

This book addresses the need for deeper understanding of regulatory and policy regimes around the world in relation to the use of water for the production of 'unconventional' hydrocarbons, including shale gas, coal bed methane and tight oil, through hydraulic fracturing.

Rechte – Pflichten – Rechtsfolgen – technische GrundlagenDer Leitfaden vermittelt den Vermessungsfachleuten die gesetzlichen Grundlagen und rechtlichen Folgen ihrer Tätigkeit, macht aber auch Juristen mit der technischen Disziplin des Vermessungs- und Katasterwesens vertraut.

This book presents case studies on the human rights performance of state-owned enterprises from four Latin American and three European countries, as well as foreign investments by Chinese state-owned enterprises on these continents.

This study makes sense of how the media report on climate change and how this influences science and policy decision-making.

What are the potentially negative consequences of an undeniably good public policy?

This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Explores the significance of the Anthropocene for environmental politics, analysing political concepts in view of contemporary environmental challenges.

This impressive collection of original essays explores the relationship between social conflict and the environment - a topic that has received little attention within criminology.

The fields of Critical Disability Studies and Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect?

On the 11th of March 2011, an earthquake registering 9.

Die alliierten Kunstrestitutionsprogramme der ersten Nachkriegsjahre sind bislang kaum untersucht worden.

Enriches our understanding of how individuals, groups, and institutions can effectively cooperate to govern shared spaces and resources.

This book analyses animal creativity in order to unsettle the dominant assumptions that underpin current ideas of authorship and ownership in intellectual property.

This book critically explores the legal tools, concepts, principles and instruments, as well as cross-cutting issues, that comprise the field of international environmental law.

Originally published in 2004.

Big Data Analytics in Cyber-Physical Systems: Machine Learning for the Internet of Things examines sensor signal processing, IoT gateways, optimization and decision-making, intelligent mobility, and implementation of machine learning algorithms in embedded systems.

This book presents a socio-criminological study of environmental crime in the global South.

This volume unravels the underlying power relations that are masked in the present discourse of ecological sustainability and conflicts over natural resources.

This book presents a novel examination of transboundary water governance, drawing on global case studies and applying new theoretical approaches.

There is growing acceptance that the progress delivered under the Millennium Development Goal target for drinking water and sanitation has been inequitable.

This book draws on the experiences of the indigenous movement in Myanmar to explore how the local construction of indigenous identities connects communities to global mechanisms for addressing human rights and environmental issues.

Consider the Consequences of Bringing a Chemical to MarketProduct Stewardship: Life Cycle Analysis and the Environment explores the regulatory and scientific aspects of the life-cycle consequences of bringing a chemical to market.

This book seeks to better understand how International Environmental Law regimes evolve.

As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance.

This fifth volume in the series comprises ten contributions written by an expert team of academics and practitioners.

Based on the lifelong experiences of two authors as supervisors and teachers, the Fourth Edition of this bestseller provides up-to-date information for newly promoted or management-aspiring professionals and engineers in the fields of environmental health, occupational health and safety, water and wastewater treatment, public health, and many others.

This book provides original critical insights into climate politics and new directions for society''s response, for researchers, advanced students and policy makers.

This volume presents the viewpoints of academics, food lawyers, industry and consumer representatives as well as those of EU policymakers on the first ten years of activity of one of the most prominent European agencies.

This book presents the history of, and current approaches to, farmer-breeder collaboration in plant breeding, situating this work in the context of sustainable food systems, as well as national and international policy and law regimes.

Most scholars attribute systemic causes of food insecurity to poverty, human overpopulation, lack of farmland, and expansion of biofuel programs.

This book is an attempt to acknowledge the discipline 'wetland science' and to consolidate research findings, reviews and synthesis articles on different aspects of the wetlands in South Asia.

This book provides a range of perspectives on some of the most pressing contemporary challenges in EU environmental law and governance from some of today's leading European environmental academics and practitioners.

El tomo I del Tratado de Derecho de Aguas, Derecho de aguas colombiano para el siglo XXI es resultado del trabajo del Grupo de Investigación en Derecho del Medio Ambiente de la Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Electric Vehicles for Smart Cities: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities uniquely examines different approaches to electric vehicle deployment in the context of smart cities.