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This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation. It provides an informed primer on the politics of adaptation, a topic largely overlooked in the current scholarship and literature, and addresses...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-06-29
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This book explores climate change responsiveness policies for cities and discusses why they have been slow to gain traction despite having been on the international agenda for the last 30 years. The contributing role of cities in accentuating the effects of climate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-30
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies
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Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the world’s natural resources at unsustainable rates, even though these activities cause known harm to both people and ecosystems? Scientific knowledge and technological advances alone...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-09
Collection :
What is Politics
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Selected as one of The Progressive’s ‘Favourite Books of 2020’Wildness was once integral to our ancestors' lives as they struggled to survive in an unpredictable environment. Today, most of us live in relative stability insulated from the vicissitudes of nature....
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-04-03
Collection :
Environmental Futures
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What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-03-27
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There are considerable differences in environmental performance and outcomes across both democracies and autocracies, but there is little understanding of how levels of democracy and autocracy influence environmental performance. This book examines whether analysing the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-02-17
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Provides aspiring engineers with pertinent information and technological methodologies on how best to manage industry's modern-day environment concerns This book explains why industrial environmental management is important to human environmental interactions and...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2020-01-29
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Tackling one of the most controversial subjects of our time, one of the world's foremost environmental and petroleum engineers explores the potential causes and ramifications of global climate change. For too many years climate change (also referred to as global...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2019-12-02
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?The mining sector has been an integral part of economic development in many African countries. Although minerals have been exploited for decades in these countries, the benefits have not always been as visible. This has necessitated reforms including nationalisation of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-22
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This book exposes the barriers to inclusive and effective public policy making, which are the current decision making paradigm and commonly held ideas that reduce public policy problems to scientific and technical ones. Through both environmental policy and other...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-16
Collection :
Risk, Systems and Decisions
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This book is about how coast guards are becoming states’ foremost tool to manage changes occurring in ocean politics generally, and in the Arctic specifically. It looks at states’ rights at sea, changes occurring in the Arctic region, how coast guards are handling...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-04
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Palmöl ist das billigste und beliebteste Fett in der Lebensmittel- und Kosmetikbranche. Indonesien liefert 90 Prozent des weltweit gehandelten Palmöls, hinter dessen Anbau aber eine ökologische und soziale Katastrophe steht. Im Zuge der Rodung des indonesischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-09-25
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This book discusses various climate smart agro-technologies, their technical and economic feasibility across heterogeneous agro-climatic conditions, assessing farmers’ willingness to adopt those technologies, impact of climate smart technology in agricultural production...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-09-10
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A growing number of environmental groups focus on more sustainable practices in everyday life, from the development of new food systems, to community solar, to more sustainable fashion. No longer willing to take part in unsustainable practices and institutions, and not...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-14
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A growing number of environmental groups focus on more sustainable practices in everyday life, from the development of new food systems, to community solar, to more sustainable fashion. No longer willing to take part in unsustainable practices and institutions, and not...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-14
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The legitimacy of environmental policies is an issue of increasing concern for analysts. Ecological stakes are deemed to be global, but global public decisions are rare and implemented with difficulty. Dissensus prevails on environmental ethics and there is little...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-08-09
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This book examines the role of unauthorized water use in the American West (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) and the coming demand for water accountability. Arguing that status quo responses...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-08
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Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-09
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This book explains in depth the issues and challenges faced by rice farmers in India in relation to production and productivity, and the possible adaptation strategies to climate change.
Based on five years of groundbreaking research on emerging trends in cultivation...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-04
Collection :
India Studies in Business and Economics
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Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and on the global,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-05-20
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