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Future Generations and International Law
ISBN: 9781853835032 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable development requires consideration of the quality of life that future generations will be able to enjoy, and as the adjustment to sustainable lifestyles gathers momentum, the rights of future generations and our responsibility for their wellbeing is becoming a central issue. In this, the first book to address this emerging area of international law, leading experts examine the legal and theoretical frameworks for representing and safeguarding the interests of future generations in current international treaties. This unique volume will be required reading for academics and...
Sustainable development requires consideration of the quality of life that future generations will be able to enjoy, and as the adjustment to sustaina...
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194,26 |
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ISO 14001: A Missed Opportunity for Sustainable Global Industrial Development
ISBN: 9781853835070 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ISO 14001 is the new international standard for environmental management systems. But what difference will it make to the environmental performance of companies that receive it? Will it do anything to further sustainable industrial development? This edition seeks to argue that it will not and further that it does not have a legitimate practice in discussions of sustainable industrial development.
ISO 14001 is the new international standard for environmental management systems. But what difference will it make to the environmental performance of...
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Blueprint 6: For a Sustainable Economy
ISBN: 9781853835155 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Blueprint for a Green Economy was published, its central message - that environmental problems have their roots in economic failures, served to change the direction of environmental policy. The goal of sustainable development was seen to be illusory unless an economic perspective was brought to bear on the issue. A decade on, two of the original authors, David Pearce and Ed Barbier, return to the original theme to see what has changed.
When Blueprint for a Green Economy was published, its central message - that environmental problems have their roots in economic failures, served to c...
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Dictionary of Environmental Economics
ISBN: 9781853835421 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a dictionary of environmental economics. Ranging from abatement to zonal travel cost method (ZTCM), this title includes over 1000 cross-referenced entries covering topics such as: environmental instruments for policy-making, techniques applied in environmental and natural resource economics, and major issues in environmental economics.
Offers a dictionary of environmental economics. Ranging from abatement to zonal travel cost method (ZTCM), this title includes over 1000 cross-referen...
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106,83 |
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Environmental Risk Management
ISBN: 9781853835988 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considers the developments in environmental risk management as they relate to commercial organizations, including risk transfer through insurance. This book looks at characterization of risks based on the hazard-pathway-receptor principles, emphasizing the importance of site specific factors.
Considers the developments in environmental risk management as they relate to commercial organizations, including risk transfer through insurance. Thi...
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558,65 |
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City-Region 2020: Integrated Planning for a Sustainable Environment
ISBN: 9781853836060 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region. It translates principles into practice for achieving the necessary balance to ensure a higher standard of living and safe environment. The text presents: a 25-year horizon for the evolution and restructuring of the urban system; a focus for linkages and synergies between economic, social and environmental sectors; technical scenarios for land use, energy and material flows; spatial scenarios for each area and settlement...
Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of t...
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City-Region 2020: Integrated Planning for a Sustainable Environment
ISBN: 9781853836077 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region. It translates principles into practice for achieving the necessary balance to ensure a higher standard of living and safe environment. The text presents: a 25-year horizon for the evolution and restructuring of the urban system; a focus for linkages and synergies between economic, social and environmental sectors; technical scenarios for land use, energy and material flows; spatial scenarios for each area and settlement...
Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of t...
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The Virtuous Spiral: A Guide to Sustainability for Ngos in International Development
ISBN: 9781853836107 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainability is crucial for all institutions involved in international development. This work offers practical guidance on how to achieve it.
Sustainability is crucial for all institutions involved in international development. This work offers practical guidance on how to achieve it.
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Sustainable Cities in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781853836190 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability with the pressing challenges facing some of the world's most underdeveloped areas. Various perspectives are brought to bear on issues from economics and theories of health through to the foundations of sustainability. All the key contemporary developments are dealt with; the growth in international law and agreements on controlling greenhouse gases; the effect of reforms in finance, governance and methods of appraisal on the areas of waste management; and the theoretical advances in the community development...
This text addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability with the pressing challenges facing some of the world's most under...
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The Earthscan Reader in Business and Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781853836596 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of business and sustainable development. It contains contributions on issues rapidly coming to dominate business strategy and organization, including: resource efficiency; clean production; life cycle analysis; social and environmental accountability; corporate reporting; and trade. The contributors include Paul Elkins, John Elkington, Amory Lovins, Landis Gabel, Frank Popoff, Martin Bennett, Peter James, Rob Gray, Simon Zadek, Sharon Beder and Ernst von Weizsaecker
A study of business and sustainable development. It contains contributions on issues rapidly coming to dominate business strategy and organization, in...
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340,00 |
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Agricultural Expansion and Tropical Deforestation: International Trade, Poverty and Land Use
ISBN: 9781853836657 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation. Academics, policy-makers and the public are all tempted by simplistic solutions to complex problems. In order to establish the true causal factors involved in this critical area of environmental decline, the authors of this study present case studies ranging over three continents. Utilizing statistics, it is shown that the focus of analysis of deforestation must be applied as much to the misguided policies of national and regional authorities as to the forces of trade and...
There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation. Academics, policy-makers and...
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Agricultural Expansion and Tropical Deforestation : International Trade, Poverty and Land Use
ISBN: 9781853836664 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation. Academics, policy-makers and the public are all tempted by simplistic solutions to complex problems.
There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation. Academics, policy-makers and...
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Ecological Economics : Political Economics for Social and Environmental Development
ISBN: 9781853836855 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecological economics seeks to socially construct a political economics which will deal successfully with environmental problems and make the individual more visible in economic analysis. The author describes the principles, strategies and instruments of social change for key players - governmental agencies, business corporations, environmental and religious organizations and universities - and underlines their responsibilities in the market economy.
Ecological economics seeks to socially construct a political economics which will deal successfully with environmental problems and make the individua...
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Economic Instruments for Environmental Management: A Worldwide Compendium of Case Studies
ISBN: 9781853836909 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents the results of a three-year collaborative effort involving research institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Case studies demonstrate the diversity of environmental problems to which a variety of economic instruments can be applied - air and water pollution, packaging, deforestation, over-grazing, wildlife. They also show what is needed for them to work successfully and the pitfalls to avoid in introducing them, providing guidance for future applications. Written to be accessible to non-economists, the book offers source material for students and academic...
This volume presents the results of a three-year collaborative effort involving research institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Case ...
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Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge
ISBN: 9781853836985 / Angielski / Miękka / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical manual demonstrates how to arrive at equitable and successful arrangements over access to, and the commercial development of, genetic resources. Despite much discussion at the international policy level relating to the use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge, to date there has been no such guide on integrating concepts into practice. Many different parties have stakes in the commercial use of biodiversity, from local communities and indigenous peoples to resource managers, NGOs, research institutes and universities, industry and national governments.
This practical manual demonstrates how to arrive at equitable and successful arrangements over access to, and the commercial development of, genetic r...
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301,14 |
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Sharing Nature's Interest : Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability
ISBN: 9781853837388 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints of activities, lifestyles, organizations and regions. Case studies illustrate its effectiveness at national, organizational, individual and product levels.
Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small...
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Sharing Nature's Interest: Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability
ISBN: 9781853837395 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints of activities, lifestyles, organizations and regions. Case studies illustrate its effectiveness at national, organizational, individual and product levels.
Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small...
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Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-Colonial Era
ISBN: 9781853837494 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of the enduring influence of the colonial legacy on attitudes about relationships between people and nature in countries that were once part of the British Empire, either at the periphery or the centre. Colonial annexation and government were accompanied by the colonization and exploitation of nature, both for production and even in the name of conservation. At the start of the 21st century, the conservation of nature is still of vital importance in these countries, but what should this conservation look like? What ideas can it be based upon? This work argues that there is a...
An exploration of the enduring influence of the colonial legacy on attitudes about relationships between people and nature in countries that were once...
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Dynamics and Diversity: Soil Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in Africa
ISBN: 9781853838194 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and to livelihoods. Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion of the population of Africa. Contrary to many claims, soil fertility is improved and managed successfully by small-scale farmers there. Careful studies from a widely different areas reveal how closely bound up soil management is with a whole complex of social, cultural and ecological factors - requiring a far more subtly tuned approach in development policy and practice. This work is a study of how the context of livelihood systems has to inform...
Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and to livelihoods. Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion o...
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Measuring Sustainability: Learning from Doing
ISBN: 9781853838439 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents practical advice on how to develop measurements that will work in real-life development contexts. The book describes and analyzes how to derive, validate and apply indicators in the course of an actual development project - in this case, the Mediterranean Action Plan.
This text presents practical advice on how to develop measurements that will work in real-life development contexts. The book describes and analyzes h...
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