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The Politics of Environmental Discourse: Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process
ISBN: 9780198279693 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This path-breaking study looks at the nature of contemporary environmental politics, analyzing the emergence and sustenance of institutional perceptions of environmental problems. The book argues that a new perspective-- "ecological modernization," which stresses the opportunities of environmental policy for modernizing the economy and stimulating technological innovation--has come to replace the antagonistic debates of the 1970s.
This path-breaking study looks at the nature of contemporary environmental politics, analyzing the emergence and sustenance of institutional perceptio...
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621,10 |
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International Trade, Factor Movements, and the Environment
ISBN: 9780198290506 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a theoretical study of the relationship between international trade policies and environment policy, which has become a major theme in international policy disputes. Rauscher investigates whether free trade and globalizing markets are bad for the environment, or whether environmental policies can be used to improve international competitiveness. He also examines the political use of lax environmental regulation to help domestic producers.
This is a theoretical study of the relationship between international trade policies and environment policy, which has become a major theme in interna...
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969,09 |
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American Foreign Environmental Policy and the Power of the State
ISBN: 9780198292593 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an increasingly interdependent world, one marked by growing numbers of non-governmental organizations and international institutions, American Foreign Environmental Policy presents a powerful argument for the continued relevance of the state to our understanding of international relations. Drawing on detailed primary research, the author studies the key role central state officials have played in formulating American foreign environmental policy, and concludes that claims for the diminishing domestic-international divide and the erosion of state sovereignty are overstated. This study makes...
In an increasingly interdependent world, one marked by growing numbers of non-governmental organizations and international institutions, American Fore...
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312,53 |
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Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism: The Challenge of Difference for Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780198294856 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of "critical" pluralism, in both theory and practice. His timely and sophisticated study presents a challenge to both conventional pluralist thought and the practices of the major groups in the US environmental movement.
In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of "critica...
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818,30 |
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Managing the Chinese Environment
ISBN: 9780198296355 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together some of the world's leading experts to discuss various techniques of management and amelioration of environmental problems. Individual chapters look at issues such as energy, agriculture, water shortages, pollution, health, and environmental business opportunities. While this book shows that there is lots of room for optimism, it also indicates that many environmental problems remain intractable and some are worsening.
This book brings together some of the world's leading experts to discuss various techniques of management and amelioration of environmental problems. ...
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238,26 |
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Synthesis and Perspectives
ISBN: 9780198515715 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has emerged as one of the most exciting and dynamic areas in contemporary ecology. Increasing domination of ecosystems by humans is steadily transforming them into depauperate systems. How will this loss of biodiversity affect the functioning and stability of natural and managed ecosystems? This volume provides the first comprehensive and balanced coverage of recent empirical and theoretical research on this question. It reviews the evidence, provides bases for the resolution of the debate that has divided scientists on these...
The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has emerged as one of the most exciting and dynamic areas in contemporary ecology. Inc...
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349,66 |
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Biomass, Energy and Environment
ISBN: 9780198564362 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing countries are searching for alternate energy options which promote sustainable development and equity. Modernized bioenergy is shown as an option with potential to meet the rural needs of a large populous country like India, along with significant social, environmental, and economic benefits such as carbon-emission reduction and the promotion of biodiversity. This text uses India as a case study for biomass, energy and environment, which postgraduates and professionals in environmental sciences and energy development planning can use as a model for analyzing the potential for...
Developing countries are searching for alternate energy options which promote sustainable development and equity. Modernized bioenergy is shown as an ...
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679,10 |
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Marine Pollution
ISBN: 9780198792925 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The market leading textbook in marine pollution now in its fifth edition.
The problems of pollution in the seas worldwide are explained clearly, unemotionally, and authoritatively. This book is designed as an introductory textbook, but no particular knowledge is demanded of the reader; it can be used by engineers, economists, lawyers, or environmentalists who need to be informed about the effects of materials which are deliberately or accidentally discharged into the sea. The market leading textbook in marine pollution now in its fifth edition.
The problems of pollution in the seas worldwide are explained clearly, u... |
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317,13 |
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Energy... Beyond Oil
ISBN: 9780199209965 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the Earth's oil supply runs out, and the effects of climate change threaten nations and their populations, the search for carbon-neutral sources of energy becomes more important and increasingly urgent. This book focuses on solutions to the energy problem, and not just the problem itself. It describes the major energy-generation technologies currently under development, and provides an authoritative summary of the current status of each one. It stresses the need for a balanced portfolio of alternative energy technologies. Certain solutions will be more appropriate than others in particular...
As the Earth's oil supply runs out, and the effects of climate change threaten nations and their populations, the search for carbon-neutral sources of...
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358,93 |
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The Environment: Between Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780199240388 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book fills the gap between environmental philosophy and everyday environmental politics. Avner de-Shalit puts forward a radical political theory of environmental protection, which binds together being environmentally friendly with community, deliberative democracy, and socialism.
This book fills the gap between environmental philosophy and everyday environmental politics. Avner de-Shalit puts forward a radical political theory ...
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242,94 |
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Globalization and Integrated Area Development in European Cities
ISBN: 9780199241132 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contrary to common beliefs, economic globalization does not imply the end of social urban policy. This book argues that urban society and policy-makers have sufficient degrees of freedom available to decide on the social and economic future of deprived neighborhoods. Experiences from several European cities shwo that neighborhood-based redevelopment strategies offer a more promising future to urban populations than the global-market led slow movement that paralyzes urban policy today.
Contrary to common beliefs, economic globalization does not imply the end of social urban policy. This book argues that urban society and policy-maker...
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293,98 |
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Environmental Policy: Objectives, Instruments, and Implementation
ISBN: 9780199241361 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume addresses the practical issues that arise in applying economic instruments to environmental policy. It surveys the main concepts and tools--such as sustainability, biodiversity, and cost-benefit analysis--and analyzes the broad environmental policy agenda, including the global agreement on climate change and the narrow British context.
This volume addresses the practical issues that arise in applying economic instruments to environmental policy. It surveys the main concepts and tools...
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219,69 |
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Justice, Posterity, and the Environment
ISBN: 9780199245086 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In rich countries, environmental problems are seen as problems of prosperity; in poor countries, they are seen as problems of poverty. Lack of clean drinking water and insufficient sanitation affect the here and now, whereas environmental problems in rich countries seem more likely to harm posterity. This book addresses these issues, arguing that we have moral obligations to take account of the interests of future generations and that our main obligation is to bequeath to them a more decent society in which there is greater respect for basic human rights.
In rich countries, environmental problems are seen as problems of prosperity; in poor countries, they are seen as problems of poverty. Lack of clean d...
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261,50 |
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Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health
ISBN: 9780199246892 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the connections between reproductive health and culture, focusing on two broad questions: How does culture shape the ways in which reproductive events are associated with health outcomes? And to what extent does the notion of reproductive health have relevance in different circumstances and cultures?
This volume explores the connections between reproductive health and culture, focusing on two broad questions: How does culture shape the ways in whic...
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922,69 |
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Valuing Environmental Preferences: Theory and Practice of the Contingent Valuation Method in the Us, Eu, and Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780199248919 / Angielski / Miękka / 692 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) which asks what people would be willing to pay for an environmental good or attribute, or willing to accept for its loss. CVM is currently central to the assessment of environmental damage and has been the subject of considerable debate, especially in the case of the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. Aimed at specialists, this book contains specially commissioned papers from both sides of that debate, as well as from commentators who see it as an interesting experimental tool regardless of the question of...
This is a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) which asks what people would be willing to pay for an enviro...
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563,09 |
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Conflict, Consensus, and Rationality in Environmental Planning: An Institutional Discourse Approach
ISBN: 9780199255191 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does the way that those involved in policy planning talk affect environmental planning? Can negotiation be turned into consensus-building and deliberation? How do planners legitimate their activities through discourse, and what are the prospects of a rationality of sustainable development? Using a new institutionalist, theoretical framework, Yvonne Rydin tackles these key questions.
How does the way that those involved in policy planning talk affect environmental planning? Can negotiation be turned into consensus-building and deli...
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621,10 |
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Environmental Governance in Europe: An Ever Closer Ecological Union?
ISBN: 9780199257478 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last thirty years, the European Union has created a system of environmental governance in Europe. This work seeks to understand this new system of environmental governance both at the European level and at the level of member states. It argues that the system is multi-level, horizontally complex, evolving, and incomplete, and goes on to examine the extent of convergence and divergence in environmental policy among six member states: Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK.
Over the last thirty years, the European Union has created a system of environmental governance in Europe. This work seeks to understand this new syst...
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212,73 |
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Unsaturated Soil Mechanics - From Theory to Practice: Proceedings of the 6th Asia Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils (Guilin, China, 23-26 Octobe
ISBN: 9781138029217 / Angielski / Twarda / 924 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past decades advances have been made in the research and practice on unsaturated soil mechanics. In 2000 the first Asia-Pacific Conferences on Unsaturated Soils was organized in Singapore. Since then, four conferences have been held under the continued support of the Technical Committee on Unsaturated Soils (TC106) of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). The conferences provided an excellent forum for researchers and practitioners in the region and beyond to present the latest developments and to exchange ideas on the subjects related to... In the past decades advances have been made in the research and practice on unsaturated soil mechanics. In 2000 the first Asia-Pacific Conferences ... |
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1273,41 |
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The Indoor Radon Problem
ISBN: 9780231067485 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes the health hazards of radon, explains how to measure radon levels in the home, and offers advice on making one's home safe.
Describes the health hazards of radon, explains how to measure radon levels in the home, and offers advice on making one's home safe.
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453,68 |
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Saving the Mediterranean: The Politics of International Environmental Cooperation
ISBN: 9780231070126 / Angielski / Twarda / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the Mediterranean Action Plan from 1972 to 1987 as a successful international effort to coordinate the marine pollution control practices of the Mediterranean littoral countries through regional treaties, coordinated research and monitoring, integrated policies, and administrative and budge
Examines the Mediterranean Action Plan from 1972 to 1987 as a successful international effort to coordinate the marine pollution control practices of ...
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356,97 |
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