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  • Our Planet

    How much more can Earth take?

    by Jill Jäger ...
    Series series Sustainability Project
    For more than thirty years, scientists from various disciplines have warned that the constant increase in world population and exponential world economic growth are seriously threatening our ecosystems. The vision on which this book is based is of an ongoing, adaptable societal process which leads the world down the path towards sustainability. In this vision, the speed of global environmental ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Assessments of Regional and Global Environmental Risks

    Designing Processes for the Effective Use of Science in Decisionmaking

    Edited by Alexander E. Farrell, Jill Jäger ...
    As environmental challenges grow larger in scale and implications, it is increasingly important to apply the best scientific knowledge in the decisionmaking process. Editors Farrell and Jäger present environmental assessments as the bridge between the expert knowledge of scientists and engineers on the one hand and decisionmakers on the other. When done well, assessments have a positive impact on ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Politics of Climate Change

    A European Perspective

    Edited by Jill Jager, Timothy O'Riordan ...
    The Politics of Climate Change provides a critical analysis of the political, moral and legal response to climate change in the midst of significant socio-economic policy shifts. Evolving from original EC commissioned research, this book examines how climate change was put on the policy agenda, with the evolution of the United Nations Framework Convention and subsequent Conference of Parties.The ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Planet in 2050

    The Lund Discourse of the Future

    Edited by Jill Jäger, Sarah Cornell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    In 2050, the billions of people living on Earth have found a way to manage the planetary system effectively. Everyone has access to adequate food, shelter, and clean water. Human health is no longer considered outside of the health of the ecosystems in which people live. Ecological awareness is an integral part of education. People respond effectively to social and environmental hazards, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Challenges of a Changing Earth

    Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10–13 July 2001

    Edited by Will Steffen, Jill Jäger, David J. Carson, Clare Bradshaw ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume is based on plenary presentations from Challenges of a Changing Earth, a Global Change Open Science Conference held in Amsterdam, The Neth- lands, in July 2001. The meeting brought together about 1400 scientists from 105 co- tries around the world to describe, discuss and debate the latest scientific - derstanding of natural and human-driven changes to our planet. It examined the ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability

    Edited by Tamer Afifi, Jill Jäger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is one of the outputs of the conference on ‘Environmental Change, Forced Migration, and Social Vulnerability’ (EFMSV) held in Bonn in October 2008. Migration is one of the oldest adaptation measures of humanity. Indeed, without migration the multitude of civilizations and interactions between them – peaceful and otherwise – would be hard to imagine. The United Nations (UN)-led global ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Gender and Climate Change Financing

    Coming out of the margin

    by Mariama Williams ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    This book discusses the state of global climate change policy and the financing of climate resilient public infrastructure. It explains the sources of tensions and conflict between developing and developed countries with regard to global climate protection policies, and highlights the biases and asymmetries that may work against gender equality, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication.Gender ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • The Politics of Climate Change

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    "A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."—Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of AmericaSince it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. Reprinted many times since its publication, it remains the only work that looks in detail at the political issues posed by global warming. This new ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • 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

    $35.29 USD

  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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  • European Environmental Law

    by Veerle Heyvaert, Aleksandra Čavoški, Suzanne Kingston ...
    EU Environmental Law is a critical, comprehensive and engaging account of the essential and emerging issues in European environmental law and regulation today. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, the book delivers a thematic and contextual treatment of the subject for those taking courses in environmental law, environmental studies, regulation and public policy, and ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition

    A Declaration of Sustainability

    by Paul Hawken ...
    The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument—that business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability problems—is ... Read more

    $12.49 USD