Over the last decade, the world has increasingly grappled with the complex linkages emerging between efforts to combat climate change and to protect human rights around the world.
This book will address concepts and techniques for preparation and disposal of low- (LLW) and intermediate-level (ILW) radioactive waste from the nuclear industry, the weapons industry, university labs, research institutes, and from the commercial industry.
The consequences of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species in non-native ecosystems is an area of growing interest for international policymakers and regulators.
This book is an introduction to the challenges of independent regulation, a new governance institution introduced in developing economies in the wake of liberalization, to perform the role of a surrogate for competitive markets.
Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation - improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials - since the earliest plant domestications.
This book provides an in depth, yet understandable description of the ecological, socioeconomic, and other parts of the natural environment that may be affected.
Legal frameworks to ''reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation'' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on protections and benefits for indigenous peoples and forest communities.
In this objective, practical and authoritative introductory text the author reveals how the fundamental principles of the human-animal relationship drive the development of animal law.
The theoretical arguments for environmental taxes and other types of economic instruments for environmental protection have been discussed extensively in the literature.
Until now, an approach to land use management planning that not only addresses economic issues, but also environmental concerns and health issues of land use has been lacking.
Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 was the outcome of a long process of setting biodiversity issues at the top of the global environmental agenda.
Esta publicaciónse da como resultadodeuna convocatoriael grupode Investigaciónen Derecho del Medio Ambientede la UniversidadExternado de Colombia, apoyadopor expertos nacionalesy extranjerosen materia, en el estudio sobre la eficacia, la vigenciay las perspectivasdel CNRN; en el cual se recogen los artículoselaborados por doctrinantes invitados, la mayoría de los cuales fueron presentadosen las , realizadaspor la Universidad Externado deColombia.
Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this context is yet to be defined.
The demand on local government to do more with less by improving operations, increasing productivity, and making better and more informed decisions increases constantly.
This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts.
South Africa is widely recognised as a middle-income, industrialised nation, but it also ranks amongst the most unequal countries in the world in terms of its income distribution and human development.
This book draws lessons and conclusions, based on the methodology outlined in the author's previous book, Water as a Catalyst for Peace (Routledge, 2013), and further charts the course to a more practical framework for achieving regional stability and justice.
