Environment, transport and planning law: general

Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management.

A new phase is emerging in the relationship between energy and resource activities and the communities that are affected by them.

There are thousands of environmental analyses prepared each year to meet the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and similar programs.

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.

The feeling of optimism that followed the COP 21 Paris Conference on Climate Change requires concrete action and steadfast commitment to a process that raises a number of crucial challenges: technological, political, social, and economic.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the status and progress of China-ASEAN green development and examines the common development issues in China and ASEAN Member States (AMSs).

Regulation, Enforcement and Governance in Environmental Law is an updated edition of Richard Macrory's most influential writings.

This book contains an inclusive compilation of perspectives about the Arctic Ocean with contributions that extend from Indigenous residents and early career scientists to Foreign Ministers, involving perspectives across the spectrum of subnational-national-international jurisdictions.

This book brings together the findings of a multi-disciplinary and international research project on environmental crime in Europe, funded by the European Union (EU).

The first comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals since their launch in 2015.

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries.

This book explores the methods through which international law and its associated innovative global governance mechanisms can strengthen, foster and scale up the impacts of treaty regimes and international law on the ability to implement global governance mechanisms.

Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl explosion, disaster struck once again after a tsunami overwhelmed the considerable safety measures at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.

Es wird die Komplexität von Umweltverschmutzung und Gesundheitsbeeinträchtigung im Kontext von sozialer Indikation dargestellt.

This book provides climate students with the basic scientific background to climate change management.

Using first-person stories and approachable scientific reviews, this volume explores how zoos conduct and support science around the world.

Health on the Move 3: the Reviews, Volume 13 covers this important field of interdisciplinary study.

In der modernen Gesellschaft sind Entscheidungen, z.

In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the 'business case' for sustainability.

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.

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.

The eighth edition of the New Jersey Environmental Law Handbook has been thoroughly rewritten and updated.

This book provides an expert analysis of alternative investments routes and the investment strategies available to the major port players, and is a much-needed guide to expanding the investor base for private debt funding of projects from loan providers to bond investors.

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

This sociolegal study focuses on the political, legal and institutional problems and dilemmas of regulating land tenure.

Access to genetic resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS) has been promoted under the Convention on Biological Diversity, with the aim of combining biodiversity conservation goals with economic development.

Networks like cables and pipelines are essential for a functioning energy market.

Contemporary Climate Change Debates is an innovative new textbook which tackles some of the difficult questions raised by climate change.

Pollution, Politics, and International Law: Tankers at Sea is a compelling exploration of the global struggle to manage and protect the oceans in the face of economic ambitions and environmental crises.

Biomedical research is increasingly carried out in low- and middle-income countries.

The book sheds new light on the achievements, challenges and legal complexity of the EU as a global environmental actor.

In this innovative volume, the author addresses some important challenges related to the effective and equitable governance of marine protected areas (MPAs).

This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region.

This book argues that we should approach the relationship between climate change and security through the lens of ecosystem resilience.

This important and insightful book provides, for the first time, a broad presentation of ongoing research into public participation in landscape conservation, management and planning, following the 2000 European Landscape Convention which came into force in 2004.

This book explores the increasing concern over the extent to which those suffering from forced cross-border displacement as a result of environmental change are protected under international human rights law.

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.

As planet Earth continues to absorb unprecedented levels of anthropogenically induced environmental and climatic change, two similar academic schools of thought have emerged in recent years, both making sustained efforts to explain how and why this state of affairs has evolved.

Filled with tables, checklists, worksheets, and sample plans, Storm Water Discharges is a unique, nontechnical guide to the full spectrum of storm water issues.

Rios, utopias y movimientos sociales es una verdadera obra maestra.

This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water.

This volume provides a reference textbook and comprehensive compilation of multifaceted perspectives on the legal issues arising from the conservation and exploitation of non-human biological resources.

This landmark book focuses on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship and management, and on their role in struggles for the right to the city.