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  • Comparative Environmental Law

    Edited by Tseming Yang, Anastasia Telesetsky, Sara K. Phillips ...
    Series series Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series
    Discussing the law in theory and in practice, Comparative Environmental Law identifies the ways in which regulatory systems converge or diverge, examining key developments in international legal frameworks from every continent.Expert contributors review different comparative approaches and examine how these can be applied to the study of environmental law. They outline environmental impact ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

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  • The Environment and International Relations

    by Kate O'Neill ...
    Series series Themes in International Relations
    The new edition of this exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of international relations and other social science disciplines can be used to analyse and address global environmental problems. Kate O'Neill develops an innovative historical and analytical framework for understanding global environmental issues, integrating insights from different ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Privatizing Water

    Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

    by Karen Bakker ...
    Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated—and contested—in large cities ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Margaret B. Holland, Yuta J. Masuda, Brian E. Robinson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and development across all major regions of the globe. The first section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land tenure security and ... Read more

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  • Our Extractive Age

    Expressions of Violence and Resistance

    Edited by Judith Shapiro, John-Andrew McNeish ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life.Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas we might not expect, such ... Read more

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  • Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics

    Edited by Melanie Pichler, Cornelia Staritz, Karin Küblböck, Christina Plank, Werner Raza, Fernando Ruiz Peyré ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    As demand for natural resources increases due to the rise in world population and living standards, conflicts over their access and control are becoming more prevalent. This book critically assesses different approaches to and conceptualizations of resource fairness and justice and applies them to the analysis of resource conflicts.Approaches addressed include cosmopolitan liberalism, political ... Read more

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  • Cities in a Globalizing World

    Global Report on Human Settlements

    by Un-Habitat ...
    'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • The History of Global Climate Governance

    by Joyeeta Gupta ...
    What has happened globally on the climate change issue? How have countries' positions differed over time, and why? How are problems and politics developing on an increasingly globalised planet, and can we find a solution? This book explores these questions and more, explaining the key underlying issues of the conflicts between international blocs. The negotiation history is systematically ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Regime of Obstruction

    How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy

    Edited by William K. Carroll ...
    Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding, but effective action.Regime of Obstruction aims to make visible the complex connections between corporate power and the extraction and use of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Investing in Water for a Green Economy

    Services, Infrastructure, Policies and Management

    Edited by Mike Young, Christine Esau ...
    In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world’s water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it. It focuses on current social and economic costs of water provision, needs and opportunities for investment and for improving its management. It describes the large array of water policy ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Litigating the Climate Emergency

    How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action

    Edited by César Rodríguez-Garavito ...
    Series series Globalization and Human Rights
    As the climate emergency intensifies, rights-based climate cases – litigation that is based on human rights law – are becoming an increasingly important tool for securing more ambitious climate action. This book is the first to offer a systematic analysis of the universe of these cases known as human rights and climate change (HRCC) cases. By combining theory, empirical documentation, and ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Water Law and Policy

    Edited by Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Andrew Allan, Sarah Hendry ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    Water plays a key role in addressing the most pressing global challenges of our time, including climate change adaptation, food and energy security, environmental sustainability and the promotion of peace and stability. This comprehensive handbook explores the pivotal place of law and policy in efforts to ensure that water enables positive responses to these challenges and provides a basis for ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD