This book studies the extent to which nuclear safety issues have contributed towards the stagnation of nuclear power development around the world, and accounts for differences in safety regulations in different countries.
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.
The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building pioneers a new era of climate change governance, performing the foundational job of clarifying what is meant by the often ad-hoc, one-off, uncoordinated, ineffective and unsustainable practices of the past decade described as 'capacity building' to address climate change.
More than ever before the changing environmental and political landscape in the Arctic requires stability and foreseeability based on resilient common norms.
Acclaimed as the standard reference work on the law relating to time charters, this new edition provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, accessible and useful both to shipping lawyers and to shipowners, charterers, P&I Clubs and other insurers.
The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending.
Sustainability and food production represent a major challenge to society, with both consumption and supply sides posing practical and ethical dilemmas.
At a time when Europeans across the continent are focused on the EU's future direction, this book provides an important contribution to the current debate.
International Encyclopaedia of Environmental Laws have occupied the centre: stage among all efforts towards global environmental protection and consecration.
During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts.
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 book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources.
In the context of the current financial crisis, and at a time of deep global change, growing attention is paid to the global norms and ethical values that could underpin future global policy.
The volume serves as an important mile-stone in the process called "e;second track"e; dialogue and cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian academics on crucial shared problems, the resolution of which is vital to the peace process.
Examining international water allocation policies in different parts of the world, this book suggests that they can be used as a platform to induce cooperation over larger political issues, ultimately settling conflicts.
El sector del transporte se enfrenta en la actualidad a retos de gran calado, entre ellos, el de seguir avanzando en el proceso de liberalización, con la consiguiente sujeción plena al Derecho de la Competencia, y de asimilar la profunda transformación a consecuencia de la irrupción de la innovación tecnológica y de la automatización en este ámbito.
Das Kulturgüterschutzrecht ist angesichts seiner historischen und künstlerischen Bezüge ein hochinteressantes Rechtsgebiet, dessen Komplexität zahlreiche juristisch spannende Fragestellungen aufwirft.
This book unveils the myriad streams of ecocentric thoughts that have been flowing through the human mind - in indigenous communities, in the wisdom of philosophers, in the creative expressions of poets and writers - sometimes latent, but sometimes more explicit.
El presente analisis, tiene como principal objetivo, el estudio de la labor jurisdiccional desarrollada por el Segundo Tribunal Ambiental de Santiago durante el ano 2021, el cual se encuentra estructurado en un aspecto formal previo y luego, en un analisis de fondo respecto a los criterios, caracteristicas y recurrencias advertidas en los veinticinco casos de reclamacion judicial resenadosen las fichas jurisprudenciales acompanadas al Anexo del presente documento, para finalizar con una conclusion general en relacion a la forma de resolver los casos sometidos a su conocimiento.
This treatise is an outgrowth of a series of seminars and tutorials on selected legal aspects of geology that were offered to several generations of undergraduate students at Lawrence University.
This book conducts an examination of the international legal regime of the continental shelf through the lens of international relations (IR), with a primary focus on global governance theory.
Das Buch dokumentiert den Ladenburger Diskurs "Umweltstaat", einem von der Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung veranstalteten wissenschaftlichen Gespräch aus dem Themenbereich "Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Mensch, Umwelt und Technik".
This book showcases new empirical findings on the conceptualization, design, and evaluation of land management interventions and addresses two crucial aspects: how and under which conditions such interventions are responsible, and how such interventions can be supported by smart technologies.
Forensic Forestry: A Guidebook for Foresters on the Witness Stand is a one-of-a-kind, hands-on resource for those forestry and land use professionals called upon to work on legal cases and testify in court.
Logistics Transportation Systems compiles multiple topics on transportation logistics systems from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives, providing detailed examples of real-world logistics workflows.
Originally published in 1984, this book provides a survey of the shipping rules adopted under the auspices of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) during the latter part of the 20th Century.
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.
