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“kathryn mutz”

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  • Justice and Natural Resources

    Concepts, Strategies, and Applications

    Edited by Kathryn Mutz, Gary Bryner, Douglas Kenney ...
    Just over two decades ago, research findings that environmentally hazardous facilities were more likely to be sited near poor and minority communities gave rise to the environmental justice movement. Yet inequitable distribution of the burdens of industrial facilities and pollution is only half of the problem; poor and minority communities are often denied the benefits of natural resources and can ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Ecosystem Services – Concept, Methods and Case Studies

    Edited by Karsten Grunewald, Olaf Bastian ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Nature provides us with many services seemingly for free: recharged groundwater, fertile soil and plant biomass created by photosynthesis. We human beings draw extensive benefits from these “ecosystem services,” or ES – food, water supply, recreation and protection from natural hazards. Major international studies, such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, have addressed the enormous role of ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Developing Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change

    Edited by E. Carina H. Keskitalo ...
    Mitigation will not be sufficient for us to avoid climate change and we will need to adapt to its consequences. This book targets the development of adaptation policy in European countries with different relations between central and regional/local government. ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Human - Wildlife Conflicts in Europe

    Fisheries and Fish-eating Vertebrates as a Model Case

    Edited by Reinhard A. Klenke, Irene Ring, Andreas Kranz, Niels Jepsen, Felix Rauschmayer, Klaus Henle ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is about conflicts between different stakeholder groups triggered by protected species that compete with humans for natural resources. It presents key ecological features of typical conflict species and mitigation strategies including technical mitigation, policy instruments and the design of participatory decision strategies involving relevant stakeholders. The book provides not only ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Changing Arctic Environment

    The Arctic Messenger

    by David P. Stone ...
    This accessible and engagingly written book describes how national and international scientific monitoring programmes brought to light our present understanding of Arctic environmental change, and how these research results were successfully used to achieve international legal actions to lessen some of the environmental impacts. David P. Stone was intimately involved in many of these scientific ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Water Governance in the Face of Global Change

    From Understanding to Transformation

    by Claudia Pahl-Wostl ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of multi-level water governance, developing a conceptual and analytical framework that captures the complexity of real water governance systems while also introducing different approaches to comparative analysis. Applications illustrate how the ostensibly conflicting goals of deriving general principles and of taking context-specific factors into ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

    Shaping Debates and Policies

    Edited by Manuela Fernández, Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Ivanna M. Penna, J.C. Gaillard, Michel Jaboyedoff ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The goal of this book is to explore disaster risk reduction (DRR), migration, climate change adaptation (CCA) and sustainable development linkages from a number of different geographical, social and natural science angles. Well-known scientists and practitioners present different perspectives regarding these inter-linkages from around the world, with theoretical discussions as well as field ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions

    European and Asian Experiences

    Edited by Derk Loorbach, Julia M. Wittmayer, Hideaki Shiroyama, Junichi Fujino, Satoru Mizuguchi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face. They do this by not repeating old patterns but by searching for new and innovative methods and instruments based on shared principles of a transitions approach. The book describes the quest of cities on two continents to accelerate and stimulate such ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Environmental Risk Mitigation

    Coaxing a Market in the Battery and Energy Supply and Storage Industry

    by Barbara Weiss, Michiyo Obi ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book presents an extensive review of the context and an analysis of the market for clean energy technologies, with batteries as the primary case study. The focus of this book is on clean energy technology and in particular, on renewable energy and portable, mobile and stationary battery and energy supply. The authors examine how effectively countries with large and advanced economies are ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Sustaining the World's Wetlands

    Setting Policy and Resolving Conflicts

    by Richard Smardon ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Wetlands throughout the world, including those described in this book are among the most sensitive and vulnerable ecosystems. They are critical habitats to the world’s migratory birds and a broad range of endangered mammal, reptile, amphibian, and plant species. They provide a broad range of flood storage, pollution control, water supply, ecotourism functions to indigenous peoples and country ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Soil Security for Ecosystem Management

    Mediterranean Soil Ecosystems 1

    Edited by Selim Kapur, Sabit Erşahin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The term "Soil Security" is used in the context of maintaining the quality and quantity of soil needed in order to ensure continuous supplies of food and fresh water for our society. Topics in this unique book on the management of soil sustainability in the Mediterranean region include: soil information, land degradation, land desertification, pedoenvironments, and the carbon cycle and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD