Fuel Taxes and the Poor: The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy
ISBN: 9781138184237 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, and improve local urban environment. As such, higher gasoline taxes could prove to be a fundamental part of any climate action plan. However, they have been resisted by powerful lobbies that have persuaded people that increased fuel taxation would be regressive. Reporting on examples of over two...
Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy...
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271,23 zł |
International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability
ISBN: 9781138848702 / Angielski / Twarda / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability provides a clear and concise insight into the relationship between the institutions that govern foreign investment, sustainable development and the rules and regulations that administer natural resources. In this book, several leading experts explore different perspectives in how investment and natural resources come together to achieve sustainable development in developing countries with examples from water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mineral, agriculture, and carbon trading. Despite varying perspectives, it... International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability provides a clear and concise insight into the relationship between the ... |
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756,45 zł |
Crime, Violence, and Global Warming
ISBN: 9781138167865 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 and to analyze evidence of the current and potential impact of climate change on conflict and crime. Beginning with an overview of the science of global warming, the authors move on to the...
Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity. Conflict over natural resou...
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939,05 zł |
Water and the Law: Towards Sustainability
ISBN: 9781783479610 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water and the Law examines the critical relationship between law and the management of water resources in the context of ensuring environmental sustainability. It highlights the central importance of integrated water resources management and cooperation in achieving sustainability. The book considers two broad themes: how law can contribute to the sustainability of water itself and how the law's regulation of water can contribute to the sustainability of life - both human life as well as that of other species in their natural environment.
Water and the Law examines the critical relationship between law and the management of water resources in the context of ensuring environmental sustai...
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235,86 zł |
Energy Law in South Africa
ISBN: 9789041161611 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice concerning energy resources and production in South Africa. The book describes the administrative organization, regulatory framework, and relevant case law pertaining to the development, application, and use of such forms of energy as electricity, gas, petroleum, and coal, with attention as needed to the pervasive legal effects of competition law, environmental law, and tax law. A general introduction covers the geography of... Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal prac... |
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648,28 zł |
Energy Law in the United States of America
ISBN: 9789041166432 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice concerning energy resources and production in the United States of America . The book describes the administrative organization, regulatory framework, and relevant case law pertaining to the development, application, and use of such forms of energy as electricity, gas, petroleum, and coal, with attention as needed to the pervasive legal effects of competition law, environmental law, and tax law.
A general introduction covers the... Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice...
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720,95 zł |
Understanding Joint Operating Agreements
ISBN: 9781780684116 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) is widely used in the petroleum industry as a contractual framework for joint ventures across different continents and standards. The first part of this book deals with considerations prior to entering into a JOA, such as compliance with bribery laws; standards, practices and procedures across the petroleum industry; and enforceability of JOAs and understanding decommissioning obligations. The second part focuses on key clauses within any JOA covering topics including health and safety considerations; liability and insurance; and control of operations and...
The Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) is widely used in the petroleum industry as a contractual framework for joint ventures across different continents...
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779,79 zł |
Turkey and the Eu: Energy, Transport and Competition Policies
ISBN: 9789077644379 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent developments both in Turkey and its immediate neighborhood have brought into sharp focus Turkey's pivotal role in a region that has become increasingly challenging to the EU. These developments, for example, have prompted Ankara to declare more of an independent course of action both domestically and regionally and hasten into a d tente with Russia. As a result, considerations of Turkey's European future have been eclipsed by concerns about Ankara's preference to aspire to being an independent regional power. Along with those about Turkey's orientation, time-honored existential...
Recent developments both in Turkey and its immediate neighborhood have brought into sharp focus Turkey's pivotal role in a region that has become incr...
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483,25 zł |
The Legal Regime of Offshore Oil Rigs in International Law
ISBN: 9781138253933 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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260,80 zł |
State Aid and the Energy Sector
ISBN: 9781509913688 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important new work offers a comprehensive and compelling account of State Aid law and policy and its application to the energy sector. Clearly structured and offering meticulous detail and robust analysis, it is required reading for all practitioners in the field. The volume explores general questions from the definition of State Aid, to its application in member states by national courts. It also examines questions of procedure, questions of compatibility and State Aid and the EEA. Written by a team of leading practitioners in the field, it is an invaluable tool for lawyers,...
This important new work offers a comprehensive and compelling account of State Aid law and policy and its application to the energy sector. Clearly st...
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991,22 zł |
Energy Law in Sweden
ISBN: 9789041185495 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice concerning energy resources and production in Sweden. The book describes the administrative organization, regulatory framework, and relevant case law pertaining to the development, application, and use of such forms of energy as electricity, gas, petroleum, and coal, with attention as needed to the pervasive legal effects of competition law, environmental law, and tax law.
A general introduction covers the geography... Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and le... |
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484,75 zł |
The Politics and Economics of Eastern Mediterranean Gas
ISBN: 9789077644577 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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395,39 zł |
International Watercourses Law in the Nile River Basin: Three States at a Crossroads
ISBN: 9781138573116 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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250,36 zł |
Public Water Policies: The Ultimate Weapons of Social Control
ISBN: 9781641433006 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although water is nature's most important molecule; its regulation and management are the most challenging public policy issues. This book provides an interdisciplinary view of water policies worldwide and critically analyzes the consequences of water policies around the world, many that are not only overlooked, but that have never been considered.
Although water is nature's most important molecule; its regulation and management are the most challenging public policy issues. This book provides an...
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439,32 zł |
The Southwest Under Stress: National Resource Development Issues in a Regional Setting
ISBN: 9781138471979 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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912,96 zł |
The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity
ISBN: 9781138474505 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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626,03 zł |
Energy, Governance and Sustainability
ISBN: 9781788116831 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book makes an original and in-depth contribution to the debate about how to transform our energy governance systems into ones that support a fair, safe and sustainable society. It combines perspectives from leading scholars to provide a global outlook on alternative approaches to energy governance and innovative experiences. Taken as a whole, it offers a unique overview of some of the innovative and novel ways in which law can support the shift to sustainable and equitable energy systems. The first section lays the conceptual and theoretical foundations for alternative...
This timely book makes an original and in-depth contribution to the debate about how to transform our energy governance systems into ones that support...
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224,88 zł |
Human Rights and Natural Resources: An Appraisal
ISBN: 9780198795667 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the role human rights can play in the regulation of natural resource management, this book shines light on the duties of states and private actors when exploiting natural resources and the procedural rights of affected citizens.
Examining the role human rights can play in the regulation of natural resource management, this book shines light on the duties of states and private ...
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512,89 zł |
Biodiversity and Nature Protection Law
ISBN: 9781783474240 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law is a landmark reference work, providing definitive and comprehensive coverage of this dynamic field. Each volume probes the key elements of law, the essential concepts, and the latest research through concise, structured entries written by international experts. Each entry includes an extensive bibliography as a starting point for further reading. The mix of authoritative commentary and insightful discussion will make this an essential tool for research and teaching, as well as a valuable resource for professionals and policymakers. The...
The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law is a landmark reference work, providing definitive and comprehensive coverage of this dynamic field. Each ...
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1180,67 zł |
Sustaining Natural Resources in a Changing Environment
ISBN: 9781138361706 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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704,29 zł |