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  • Wetland Science

    Perspectives From South Asia

    Edited by B. Anjan Kumar Prusty, Rachna Chandra, P. A. Azeez ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is an attempt to acknowledge the discipline ‘wetland science’ and to consolidate research findings, reviews and synthesis articles on different aspects of the wetlands in South Asia. The book presents 30 chapters by an international mix of experts in the field, who highlight and discuss diverse issues concerning wetlands in South Asia as case studies. The chapters are divided into ... Read more

    $281.99 CAD

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    Changing The Rules Of The Game

    by Polly Higgins ...
    Earth is our Business takes forward the argument of Polly Higgins’ first book, Eradicating Ecocide. This book proposes new Earth law, but it is also about something more than law: it advocates a new form of leadership which places the health and well-being of people and planet first. Polly Higgins shows how law can provide the tools and be a bridge to a new way of doing business. She argues, in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Green Governance

    Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons

    by Burns H. Weston, David Bollier ...
    The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we treat 'the environment' as its own separate realm, taking for granted prevailing but outmoded ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy

    Edited by Michael A. Livermore, Richard L. Revesz ...
    Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies. Through decades of research and innovation, institutions have developed in the United States, European Union, and other developed countries that examine and weigh policy alternatives as an aid to governmental decisionmaking. ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • The European Emission Trading System and Its Followers

    Comparative Analysis and Linking Perspectives

    by Simone Borghesi, Massimiliano Montini, Alessandra Barreca ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Transnational Climate Change Governance

    by Harriet Bulkeley, Michele M. Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Thomas Hale, Matthew J. Hoffmann, Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson, Charles Roger, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Liliana B. Andonova ...
    The world of climate politics is increasingly no longer confined to the activities of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the politics of climate change has been the emergence of new forms of transnational governance that cut across traditional state-based jurisdictions and operate across public and private divides. This book provides the first ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Successful Agricultural Innovation in Emerging Economies

    New Genetic Technologies for Global Food Production

    Edited by David J. Bennett, Richard C. Jennings ...
    World population is forecast to grow from 7 to 9 billion by 2050, 1 in 6 is already hungry and food production must increase by 70-100% if it is to feed this growing population. No single solution will solve this problem but recent developments in the genetic technologies of plant breeding can help to increase agricultural efficiencies and save people from hunger in a sustainable manner, ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Risk Governance of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations

    Edited by Michael Baram, Ortwin Renn, Preben Hempel Lindøe ...
    This book evaluates and compares risk regulation and safety management for offshore oil and gas operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway and Australia. It provides an interdisciplinary approach with legal, technological and sociological perspectives on efforts to assess and prevent major accidents and improve safety performance. Presented in three parts, it begins with a review ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Rule of Law for Nature

    New Dimensions and Ideas in Environmental Law

    Edited by Christina Voigt ...
    'Human laws must be reformulated to keep human activities in harmony with the unchanging and universal laws of nature.' This 1987 statement by the World Commission on Environment and Development has never been more relevant and urgent than it is today. Despite the many legal responses to various environmental problems, more greenhouse gases than ever before are being released into the atmosphere, ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and European Leadership

    A Sustainable Role for Europe?

    Edited by M.J. Grubb, J. Gupta ...
    Series Book 27 - Environment & Policy
    The issue of climate change is now widely recognised as one of the major challenges for mankind in the 21st century, not only because it may ultimately affect many areas of our environment, nature and human activity but also because its mitigation may have far reaching consequences for almost all sectors of the economy where energy conversion takes place. Although climate change is firmly ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Nuclear Energy

    Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era

    Edited by Behnam Taebi, Sabine Roeser ...
    Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international team of scholars focusing on the key issues ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Post-2020 Climate Action

    Global and Asian Perspectives

    Edited by Shinichiro Fujimori, Mikiko Kainuma, Toshihiko Masui ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book summarizes assessments of the Paris Agreement to provide an excellent introduction to this research field. The AIM/CGE (Asia-Pacific Integrated Modeling /Computable General Equilibrium) model, which is the core of AIM modeling framework, is used for the assessment.The first part focuses on global issues, presenting both short-term (a few decades) and long-term (century scale) assessments ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD