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  • Crime, Violence, and Global Warming

    de John Crank, Linda Jacoby ...
    Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity. Conflict over natural resources can escalate to state and non-state actors, resulting in wars, asymmetrical warfare, and terrorism. Crank and Jacoby apply criminological theory to each aspect of this complicated web, helping readers to evaluate conflicting claims about global warming ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

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  • Toxic Loopholes

    Failures and Future Prospects for Environmental Law

    de Craig Collins ...
    The EPA was established to enforce the environmental laws Congress enacted during the 1970s. Yet today lethal toxins still permeate our environment, causing widespread illness and even death. Toxic Loopholes investigates these laws, and the agency charged with their enforcement, to explain why they have failed to arrest the nation's rising environmental crime wave and clean up the country's land, ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing

    Lessons from the San-Hoodia Case

    Edición de Rachel Wynberg, Doris Schroeder, Roger Chennells ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing is the first in-depth account of the Hoodia bioprospecting case and use of San traditional knowledge, placing it in the global context of indigenous peoples’ rights, consent and benefit-sharing. It is unique as the first interdisciplinary analysis of consent and benefit sharing in which philosophers apply their minds to questions of justice in the ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Beyond Environmental Law

    Policy Proposals for a Better Environmental Future

    Edición de Alyson C. Flournoy, David M. Driesen ...
    This book offers a vision for the third generation of environmental law designed to enhance its ability to protect our environment. The book presents two core proposals, an Environmental Legacy Act to preserve a defined environmental legacy for future generations and an Environmental Competition Statute to spark movement to new clean technologies. The first proposal would require, for the first ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Urban Transport Crisis in Emerging Economies

    Edición de Dorina Pojani, Dominic Stead ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This edited volume discuses urban transport issues, policies, and initiatives in twelve of the world’s major emerging economies – Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam - countries with large populations that have recently experienced large changes in urban structure, motorization and all the associated social, economic, and ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Security Risks and Conflict Reduction in Africa

    A Case Study of Farmer-Herder Conflicts over Natural Resources in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Burkina Faso 1960–2000

    de Charlène Cabot ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Millions of people are already affected by weather-related shocks every year in West Africa and climate change is highly likely to increase these threats. In the wake of climate change, rising temperatures, increasingly irregular rainfall and more frequent natural hazards will endanger the ways of life of vulnerable population groups in this region and destabilize their human security. A surge in ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Stakeholders and Scientists

    Achieving Implementable Solutions to Energy and Environmental Issues

    Edición de Joanna Burger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Nation and the World must move forward with development of a range of energy sources and savings, all with attendant environmental problems. Solving these problems, and those remaining from past energy-related activities, will require iteration, inclusion, and collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, including U.S., State and local governmental agencies, Tribal Nations, scientists, ... Leer más

    $98.09 USD

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

    Shaping Debates and Policies

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Environmental Enforcement: Civil and Criminal

    de Daniel Riesel ...
    This book, by one of the nation's first environmental prosecutors, is a detailed guide to environmental enforcement for members of the regulated community and their counsel. Environmental Enforcement: Civil and Criminal explains the potential consequences of enforcement actions and discusses procedures to follow to minimize exposure.Topics include: how to conduct an environmental self-audit; civil ... Leer más

    $658.99 USD

  • Justice to Future Generations and the Environment

    de H.P. Visser 't Hooft ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The analysis of justice between generations proposed in this book is based first of all on a critical reading of Rawls' theory of justice, but it also pays attention to the existential and cultural context of our intuitions about intergenerational equity. Although the desire for justice supplies an independent reason for action, the unprecedented character of the context in which that reason must ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Physics of Societal Issues

    Calculations on National Security, Environment, and Energy

    de David Hafemeister ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book provides the reader with essential tools needed to analyze complex societal issues and demonstrates the transition from physics to modern-day laws and treaties. This second edition features new equation-oriented material and extensive data sets drawing upon current information from experts in their fields. Problems to challenge the reader and extend discussion are presented on three ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Introduction to Energy

    Resources, Technology, and Society

    de Edward S. Cassedy, Peter Z. Grossman ...
    Given the potential disruption of climate change, understanding energy issues and technologies is more important than ever if societies are to make informed choices on policy. Now in its third edition, Introduction to Energy explores the crucial issues connected to modern energy technology and its uses. Fully updated to respond to the substantial developments in the energy sector, the book expands ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD