Transport is responsible for a growing share of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, emerging as an economic sector for which technical solutions have shown limited benefits and a shift to electric mobility is seen as an essential part of tackling both problems.
Transport is responsible for a growing share of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, emerging as an economic sector for which technical solutions have shown limited benefits and a shift to electric mobility is seen as an essential part of tackling both problems.
This book questions the use of salvage law as legal regulatory framework for the remuneration of environmental services in salvage operations, proposing that such services should be based on direct contracting between commercial salvors and coastal States.
Planning is at the heart of the response to many of the significant challenges of our time, from the climate and environmental crises to social and economic inequalities.
This book focuses on the experiences of tourists visiting nature-based destinations, exploring current knowledge and providing insights into conceptual issues through the use of empirical evidence from five continents.
This book focuses on the experiences of tourists visiting nature-based destinations, exploring current knowledge and providing insights into conceptual issues through the use of empirical evidence from five continents.
Safe mobility is clearly linked to transport sustainability, as fatalities and injuries resulting from people engaged with transport networks increasingly becomes a public health concern, relative to other health threats.
*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*Although widely criticised and hugely wasteful, The Common Agricultural Policy did at least afford British farmers a degree of support.
*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*Although widely criticised and hugely wasteful, The Common Agricultural Policy did at least afford British farmers a degree of support.
Safe mobility is clearly linked to transport sustainability, as fatalities and injuries resulting from people engaged with transport networks increasingly becomes a public health concern, relative to other health threats.
This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the degradation process of an ecosystem, drawing upon the Mar Menor as a case study to highlight the damage human pressure causes to the environment.
Drawing on the author's practical knowledge of British waste regulation law, this book contains a comprehensive account of relevant legislation plus a detailed interpretation of the statutory provisions and associated case law.
Drawing on the author's practical knowledge of British waste regulation law, this book contains a comprehensive account of relevant legislation plus a detailed interpretation of the statutory provisions and associated case law.
In the last 50 years marine conservation has grown from almost nothing to become a major topic of global activity involving many people and organisations.
In the last 50 years marine conservation has grown from almost nothing to become a major topic of global activity involving many people and organisations.
Since mining is a basic and essential industry supplying raw materials for medicines; building materials for homes, schools, hospitals, commerce, roads; fuels for heating and energy; metals for transportation (cars, aircraft and ships), machinery, communications infrastructure and other conveniences, it cannot be done away with as some extremist environmentalists would like.
In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett reads the Canadian canon against the grain, critiquing its popular representation of wetlands and proposing alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, and by entering into dialogue with American writers.
An authoritative update of forest tree biotechnology and genomics methodologies, this book covers procedures and accomplishments from basic biological science to applications.
Reflecting changes in the current health and safety landscape, Occupational Health and Safety Management: A Practical Approach, Third Edition includes examples and tools to facilitate development and implementation of a safety and health management approach.
This book addresses the issue of Indigenous peoples' participation in genetic resource access and benefit-sharing and associated traditional knowledge for self-determination.
This book focusses on the developing role that the city currently plays in dealing with the effects of climate change and the instruments that can be utilised to make them truly green.
The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since.
This book explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in environmental engineering, emphasizing the unique challenges and approaches required for the accurate modeling of physical phenomena.
This book traces the development-environment discourse in India and examines the multi-layered interaction between society and nature in the light of the role of the state, judiciary and the civil society.
This thoroughly revised edition of the New Jersey Environmental Law Handbook provides a comprehensive reference work that the reader can rely on for up-to-date and accurate information on New Jerseys environmental law.
The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since.
Written for a general audience that includes attorneys, land developers, businesses, and government officials, this completely updated edition provides a general overview of Washington's state and federal statutory and regulatory framework.
As procedures governing the rulemaking process have proliferated since the Administrative Procedure Act was enacted, the potential procedural pitfalls have multiplied.
CONTENIDOPresentaciónSiglas, abreviaturas y acrónimosPARTE INUEVAS TENDENCIAS DEL DERECHO DEL MEDIO AMBIENTEHacia un nuevo entendimiento de la revocatoria directa de las autorizaciones ambientales por razones distintas al incumplimientoParticipación ciudadana en la elaboración del Código de Aguas de la Provincia de MendozaHacia una política y regulación ambiental y de tenencia de la tierra prospectivas: vinculación e integración de la protección ambiental, la justicia social y la sostenibilidadEl interés legítimo como limitante para la tutela judicial ambientalEl bloque de constitucionalidad ambiental en PanamáResponsabilidad fiscal por incumplimiento en el seguimiento y control a la inversión forzosa derivada del licenciamientoLa protección del Bioma Amazónico desde una perspectiva transfronteriza con especial referencia a la Alerta por deforestación: vulneración de derechos humanos de la Federación Iberoamericana del OmbudspersonPARTE IIPERSPECTIVAS INNOVADORAS DEL DERECHO DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICOEl mercado voluntario de créditos de carbono en proyectos REDD+Justicia climática y paz territorial: razones para abordar la huella climática de la guerra en el marco de la justicia transicional en ColombiaPARTE IIICIUDADES SOSTENIBLES Y ORDENAMIENTO AMBIENTAL DEL TERRITORIOCiudades de quince minutos: aproximaciones teóricas a la re-definición del concepto de "ciudad sostenible"El ordenamiento territorial ambiental como herramienta para la búsqueda del desarrollo localCiudades ambientalistas que desafían a Estados.
