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    The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio

    This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference.Consuming Cities examines this impact using case studies from around the world including: the USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, China, India, ... Read more

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    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society .This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a fragmented world - a world of nation states, regulators, domestic and international law and political contests ... Read more

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  • Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation

    Key Issues

    Series series Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
    Environmental Sociology and Social Transformation demonstrates how sociological theory and research are critical for understanding the social drivers of global environmental destruction and the conditions for transformative change.Written by two professors of sociology who are deeply involved in the international community of environmental sociology, Magnus Boström and Rolf Lidskog argue that we ... Read more

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  • Governing the Air

    The Dynamics of Science, Policy, and Citizen Interaction

    Edited by Rolf Lidskog, Goran Sundqvist ...
    Series series Politics, Science, and the Environment
    Experts offer theoretical and empirical analyses that view the regulation of transboundary air pollution as a dynamic process.Governing the Air looks at the regulation of air pollution not as a static procedure of enactment and agreement but as a dynamic process that reflects the shifting interrelationships of science, policy, and citizens. Taking transboundary air pollution in Europe as its ... Read more

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    The objective of this book is to broadly illustrate the key aspects of water governance, mapping the spectrum of decision-making from techno-centric and eco-centric approaches, to hybrid concepts and people-centric approaches. Topics covered include the challenges for water-governance models, the polycentric model, the integration challenge, water in the decision-making hierarchy, and the rise of ... Read more

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