ilość książek w kategorii: 5714
German Agriculture in Transition: Society, Policies and Environment in a Changing Europe
ISBN: 9781349403899 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A much-needed contemporary analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy and Germany's role within it. The authors investigate the effect of reunification on German policy today, and ask whether she has acted as leader, partner or obstructor in the formation of policy. Their analysis includes social and environmental aspects, as well as the economic and political, with a special focus on the 'green agenda' in European agriculture.
A much-needed contemporary analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy and Germany's role within it. The authors investigate the effect of reunificatio...
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389,98 zł |
The Politics of Nuclear Energy in China
ISBN: 9781349310340 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the history and challengesof nuclear energy development in China, across five main areas: politics, economics, environment, technology transfer and the nuclear fuel cycle. It emphasizes the political challenges in developing a set of long-term national strategies to ensure speedy, safe and secure nuclear energy development."
Explores the history and challengesof nuclear energy development in China, across five main areas: politics, economics, environment, technology transf...
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389,98 zł |
Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments: Policy-Making and Multi-Level Interactions
ISBN: 9781349347865 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development.
This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governmen...
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194,97 zł |
Environmental Protest and the State in France
ISBN: 9781349431687 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the issues and strategies which have characterized the environmental campaigns mounted against recent controversial infrastructure projects in France. Focusing on the changing nature of policymaking in the Fifth Republic as a key factor in the organization of each protest, Graeme Hayes asks why some protests succeed where others fail, and how we should understand the relationship between states and social movements in general.
This book discusses the issues and strategies which have characterized the environmental campaigns mounted against recent controversial infrastructure...
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389,98 zł |
Social Exclusion and Inner City Europe: Regulating Urban Regeneration
ISBN: 9781349509874 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The searches by European Union major states for 'joined up' approaches to inner city regeneration are examined thematically through a focus on policy evolution since the mid-1970s. Key issues addressed include the physical, social, employment, and urban security agenda. The product of long-term research, drawing on extensive qualitative and quantitative sources at national level, backed by in-depth case study investigation of five large cities, the book assesses how contemporary urban rejuvenation is being regulated, including the increasing contribution of the European Union.
The searches by European Union major states for 'joined up' approaches to inner city regeneration are examined thematically through a focus on policy ...
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389,98 zł |
The Policy Process in International Environmental Governance
ISBN: 9781349327157 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book questionsthe practices in the policy processes of international institutions. It looks at the formal and informal practices that are routinely undertaken as part of the structure of international policy processes, and analyses how people behave and with what outcome for international environmental governance."
This book questionsthe practices in the policy processes of international institutions. It looks at the formal and informal practices that are routine...
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194,97 zł |
Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia
ISBN: 9781349338825 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Energy in Europe and Russia is in flux. This book presents a rich set of case studies for analyzing the complex and intertwined regional dynamics of multiple actors, levels, and policy fields in energy throughout Europe and Russia, with the aim of offering an alternative view to the prevalent geopolitical or neoliberal approaches.
Energy in Europe and Russia is in flux. This book presents a rich set of case studies for analyzing the complex and intertwined regional dynamics of m...
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389,98 zł |
Local Climate Governance in China: Hybrid Actors and Market Mechanisms
ISBN: 9781349337217 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the empirical analysis of the effectiveness of four provincial centres for the diffusion of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market mechanism for emission reductions, Miriam Schroder scrutinizes the strengths and weaknesses of hybrid actors' performance on the local Chinese carbon market."
Based on the empirical analysis of the effectiveness of four provincial centres for the diffusion of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market m...
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194,97 zł |
Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity: The Politics of Friends of the Earth International
ISBN: 9781349321261 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a distinctive environmentalism, which allows for the differences in context between regions and across the North-South divide.
Drawing from a rich mix of survey data, interviews, and access to internal meetings, Brian Doherty and Timothy Doyle show how FoEI has developed a dis...
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194,97 zł |
Tapping the Market: The Challenge of Institutional Reform in the Urban Water Sector
ISBN: 9781349408634 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies of state-owned water companies in Ghana, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. The growing public private partnership for urban water supply is analyzed, focussing on the concession contract model. The implications for meeting the water needs of the urban poor, for the regulatory role of the state and for state capacity building are also discussed.
This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies of state-owned water compan...
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389,98 zł |
Towards an Environment Research Agenda: A Second Selection of Papers
ISBN: 9781349399420 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second volume of papers in the topical area of environmental management. Arising from work done by the International Centre for the Environment at the University of Bath, the papers address inter-disciplinary environmental themes particularly from a business and management perspective.
This is the second volume of papers in the topical area of environmental management. Arising from work done by the International Centre for the Enviro...
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194,97 zł |
Natural Resources and Social Conflict: Towards Critical Environmental Security
ISBN: 9781349334209 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together international scholars reflecting on the theory and practice of international security, human security, natural resources and environmental change. It contributes by 'centring the margins' and privileging alternative conceptions and understandings of environmental (in)security.
This volume brings together international scholars reflecting on the theory and practice of international security, human security, natural resources ...
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194,97 zł |
Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose
ISBN: 9781853837432 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With over half a million copies of Earth in the Balance sold, this timely re-issue benefits from a major new Foreword. It is a powerful and passionate analysis of the most crucial and far reaching issues confronting humanity. 'When I wrote this book, terms like global warming and greenhouse gases seemed exotic, unfamiliar, and unimportant to the lives of ordinary Americans. That has changed dramatically - except for those who still want to pretend that no one cares. There is a powerful awareness of the danger, and a widespread determination that we must not and will not leave our...
With over half a million copies of Earth in the Balance sold, this timely re-issue benefits from a major new Foreword. It is a powerful and passionate...
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188,18 zł |
Smart Growth Entrepreneurs: Partners in Urban Sustainability
ISBN: 9783319410265 / Angielski / Twarda / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices. Cities across the world are trying to manage their population and economic growth by implementing the design principles of Smart Growth and New Urbanism, developing green buildings that are compact, mixed-use, and in close proximity to transit services. How do innovators, governments, and markets interact in this planning and development process? The book profiles...
This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coale...
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350,98 zł |
Gender and the Environment
ISBN: 9780745663838 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now and into the future. Each are damaging to the earth, but they also negatively impact human lives, especially those of women. Despite these important links, to date very little consideration has been given to the role of gender in global environmental politics and policy-making.
This timely and insightful book explains why gender matters to the environment. In it, Nicole Detraz examines contemporary debates around population,... Climate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now a...
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90,98 zł |
Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia
ISBN: 9781137564627 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the political ecology of the Ecuadorian petro-state since the turn of the century and contextualizes state-civil society relations in contemporary Ecuador to produce an analysis of oil and Revolution in twenty-first century Latin America. Ecuador s recent history is marked by changes in state-citizen relations: the election of political firebrand, Rafael Correa; a new constitution recognizing the value of pluriculturality and nature s rights; and new rules for distributing state oil revenues. One of the most emblematic projects at this time is the Correa administration... This book addresses the political ecology of the Ecuadorian petro-state since the turn of the century and contextualizes state-civil society relati... |
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389,98 zł |
Pleasant Valley Lost
ISBN: 9781944715045 / Angielski / Twarda / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set amid the turbulent times of the late 1960s, Pleasant Valley Lost chronicles the last days of a family dairy farm condemned to destruction by a federal dam project. As the family struggles to find a new home and build their future, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moves into Pleasant Valley, ruthlessly destroying a community and its history. Pleasant Valley Lost is based on the true story surrounding the author's childhood farm. Originally part of the estate of Pennsylvania's fifth governor, the farm had been in the Swope family since 1939 and was located in one of... Set amid the turbulent times of the late 1960s, Pleasant Valley Lost chronicles the last days of a family dairy farm condemned to destructio... |
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144,05 zł |
Democratic Ideals and the Politicization of Nature: The Roving Life of a Feral Citizen
ISBN: 9781349435739 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democratic Ideals and the Politization of Nature introduces the feral citizen as a response to a perceived need to revitalize the disruptive, critical, and exploratory nature of democratic culture. By learning from the traditions of aimless walking and by embracing a consciously feral method of political engagement, radically-democratic citizens can prompt political moments that create conditions where the primacy of the political can be performed, realized and defended. Ultimately, this book seeks not to solve the problems and paradoxes of democracy but to assist in unleashing and...
Democratic Ideals and the Politization of Nature introduces the feral citizen as a response to a perceived need to revitalize the disruptive, critical...
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389,98 zł |
Ecological Masculinities: Re-Conceptualising Modern Western Men and Masculinities in the Anthropocene
ISBN: 9781138719910 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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686,78 zł |
Real Green: Sustainability After the End of Nature
ISBN: 9781138249554 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What would a sustainable society look like? How could it be achieved? By challenging conventional wisdom about the ecological crisis and reframing the traditional values of green politics "Real Green; Sustainability after the End of Nature" offers new answers to the key questions of the environmental debate. In this ground-breaking and challenging work Manuel Arias-Maldonado convincingly argues that, since nature has now been transformed into a part of the human environment, it can be seen to no longer exist. Ecological problems thus become an inevitable and normal feature of our relationship...
What would a sustainable society look like? How could it be achieved? By challenging conventional wisdom about the ecological crisis and reframing the...
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162,74 zł |