Science, Technology, and New Challenges to Ocean Law
ISBN: 9789004299603 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science, Technology, and New Challenges to Ocean Law offers fresh perspectives on a set of vital issues in the field of ocean law and policy. Since the early period of the industrial revolution, successive waves of revolutionary scientific discoveries and technological innovations have intensified the global population's exploitation of ocean and coastal resources. In this volume, several leading authorities in the field address major dimensions of the interface of science, technology and ocean law--both historically and in current-day perspective--and emergent challenges in legal...
Science, Technology, and New Challenges to Ocean Law offers fresh perspectives on a set of vital issues in the field of ocean law and policy. S...
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China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation: Sectoral Analysis
ISBN: 9789811007354 / Angielski / Miękka / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China s carbon mitigation policies also has significant impacts on the on-going international climate change negotiations. Therefore, both policy- makers and decision-makers in China and other countries can benefit from studying the challenges and opportunities in China s energy development."
This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study h...
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194,97 zł |
The European Emission Trading System and Its Followers: Comparative Analysis and Linking Perspectives
ISBN: 9783319311852 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ETS has truly represented a prototype for the other ETSs established around the world and to investigate the current perspectives for linking them in the future.Through the years, the EU ETS has...
Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of ...
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Transboundary Water Cooperation in Europe: A Successful Multidimensional Regime?
ISBN: 9789004320949 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Transboundary Water Cooperation in Europe, Gotz Reichert analyzes the multidimensional regime for the protection and management of European transboundary freshwater resources that is composed of international water law, the water law of the European Union, and domestic water legislation. Accordingly, qualitative and quantitative aspects regarding surface waters and groundwater are to be managed in an integrated manner to achieve "good water status" of rivers, lakes and aquifers. To this end, "international river basin management plans" provided for by the EU Water Framework...
In Transboundary Water Cooperation in Europe, Gotz Reichert analyzes the multidimensional regime for the protection and management of European ...
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366,17 zł |
Marine Protected Areas in International Law: An Arctic Perspective
ISBN: 9789004254725 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marine Protected Areas in International law - an Arctic perspective, introduces and analyzes the legal rights and obligations of states under international law, using Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a tool to protect marine biodiversity. The fragile Arctic marine environment is under growing pressure from climate change and the prospect of increasing human activity affecting previously untouched areas. The conservation of Arctic marine biodiversity is a pressing and global concern, not least because the melting of sea ice will have widespread effects. By analyzing regional cooperation...
Marine Protected Areas in International law - an Arctic perspective, introduces and analyzes the legal rights and obligations of states under i...
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Environmental Risk Mitigation: Coaxing a Market in the Battery and Energy Supply and Storage Industry
ISBN: 9783319339566 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an extensive review of the context and an analysis of the market for clean energy technologies, with batteries as the primary case study. The focus of this book is on clean energy technology and in particular, on renewable energy and portable, mobile and stationary battery and energy supply. The authors examine how effectively countries with large and advanced economies are building and coaxing the markets needed to effectively mitigate environmental risk. The analysis takes a country-level perspective of some of the largest and most technologically advanced economies in...
This book presents an extensive review of the context and an analysis of the market for clean energy technologies, with batteries as the primary case ...
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The IMLI Manual on International Maritime Law Volume III: Marine Environmental Law and Maritime Security Law
ISBN: 9780199683949 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This three-volume Manual on International Maritime Law presents a systematic analysis of the history and contemporary development of international maritime law by leading contributors from across the world. Prepared in cooperation with the International Maritime Law Institute, the International Maritime Organization's research and training institute, this a uniquely comprehensive study of this fundamental area of international law.
Volume III is devoted to The Marine Environmental Law and Maritime Security Law. The first part of Volume III deals in depth with the issues of most... This three-volume Manual on International Maritime Law presents a systematic analysis of the history and contemporary development of internat...
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936,37 zł |
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Ipbes): Meeting the Challenge of Biodiversity Conservation and Governance
ISBN: 9781138121256 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 was the outcome of a long process of setting biodiversity issues at the top of the global environmental agenda. With contributions from more than a dozen well-renowned researchers in political science, law and sociology, this book analyzes IPBES functioning and challenges in terms of the knowledge selection process and actors involved. The book reveals that, through its conceptual framework, IPBES... Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity ... |
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Ecological Political Economy and the Socio-Ecological Crisis
ISBN: 9783319400891 / Angielski / Twarda / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critically synthesising a range of disparate literatures and debates, this book asks what is at stake in mounting a decisive response to the socio-ecological crisis - a crisis of humanity s relationship with the rest of nature that places social life as we know it in jeopardy. Martin Craig proposes that political economists within and beyond the field of political ecology make an indispensable contribution to the diagnosis of this crisis and the formulation of prescriptions for its resolution. In a wide-ranging yet concise exposition, he assess the fraught relationship between capitalist... Critically synthesising a range of disparate literatures and debates, this book asks what is at stake in mounting a decisive response to the socio-... |
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Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China
ISBN: 9781349488025 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society.
This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpre...
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Climate Justice and Human Rights
ISBN: 9781137022806 / Angielski / Twarda / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster. The author assesses how this state of affairs might be reversed and the societal relevance of universal human rights rejuvenated. It explores how freedom from want, war, persecution and fear of ecological catastrophe might be better secured in the future through a democratic reorganization... This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peop... |
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Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South
ISBN: 9781137473530 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience, exploring the emerging connections, contradictions and tensions between them in cities of the Global South. The contributors use case studies from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine the institutional governance of resilience and environmentally just practice, everyday bottom-up attempts to achieve resilience and environmental justice, and co-produced governance. The book presents inequalities, injustices and power relationships in the multidimensionality of urban life, and approaches social... This book examines the relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience, exploring the emerging connections, contradictions and tens... |
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The Legal Status of the Caspian Sea: Current Challenges and Prospects for Future Development
ISBN: 9783662523636 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Disaster Forensics: Understanding Root Cause and Complex Causality
ISBN: 9783319418476 / Angielski / Twarda / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It opens the black box of disasters by presenting `forensic analysis approaches' to disasters, thereby revealing the complex causality that characterizes them and explaining how and why hazards do, or do not, become disasters.
It opens the black box of disasters by presenting `forensic analysis approaches' to disasters, thereby revealing the complex causality that characteri...
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Legitimacy in International Society: Japan's Reaction to Global Wildlife Preservation
ISBN: 9781349513734 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Legitimacy in International Society addresses collective legitimization of emergent norms at international meetings and its effect on state behaviour. Drawing mainly on constructivist approaches in International Relations and social psychology, Isao Miyaoka discusses the international and domestic sources of legitimacy and the basic conditions under which collective legitimization matters for norm adoption. Three case studies examine Japan's responses to wildlife preservationist norms against high seas driftnet fishing, scientific whaling and international trade in African elephant ivory.
Legitimacy in International Society addresses collective legitimization of emergent norms at international meetings and its effect on state behaviour....
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Mendel's Ark: Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction
ISBN: 9789401777636 / Angielski / Miękka / 99 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The degree to which we engage collectively with both the prosaic and the fantastic aspects of biotechnological conservation will shape the boundaries and ethics of our desire to restore lost worlds.
The degree to which we engage collectively with both the prosaic and the fantastic aspects of biotechnological conservation will shape the boundaries ...
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The Politics of Contaminated Sites Management: Institutional Regime Change and Actors' Mode of Participation in the Environmental Management of the Bo
ISBN: 9783319364513 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Large-Scale Conservation in the Common Interest
ISBN: 9783319354835 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many people working toward sustainability recognize the important role of conservation but are inadequately prepared to deal with the large spatial, temporal and complexity scales that are involved in large-scale conservation efforts.
Many people working toward sustainability recognize the important role of conservation but are inadequately prepared to deal with the large spatial, t...
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Environment and Welfare: Towards a Green Social Policy
ISBN: 9781349661565 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social policies of the future will have to be Green. As environmental problems multiply, and as welfare reform becomes more vital, so the debate concerning ecological social policies grows in importance. Environment and Welfare provides that review and so will be essential reading for all those interested in the welfare policies of the future.
Social policies of the future will have to be Green. As environmental problems multiply, and as welfare reform becomes more vital, so the debate conce...
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Evolution of Dam Policies: Evidence from the Big Hydropower States
ISBN: 9783662508428 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World Commission on Dams (WCD) report (2000) Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making set a landmark in the ongoing controversy over large dams. Now that more than ten years have passed, one has to realize that the WCD norms matter. However, their real chance of becoming implemented relies on whether their core values, strategic priorities and guidelines are accepted by national decision-makers and are translated into official policies and practices. The book s major concern is whether the big hydropower states have improved their standards for environment and... The World Commission on Dams (WCD) report (2000) Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making set a landmark in the ongoing controvers... |
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908,59 zł |