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Environmental Values
ISBN: 9780415145084 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We live in a world confronted by mounting environmental problems; increasing global deforestation and desertification, loss of species diversity, pollution and global warming. In everyday life people mourn the loss of valued landscapes and urban spaces. Underlying these problems are conflicting priorities and values. Yet dominant approaches to policy-making seem ill-equipped to capture the various ways in which the environment matters to us. Environmental Values introduces readers to these issues by presenting, and then challenging, two dominant approaches to... We live in a world confronted by mounting environmental problems; increasing global deforestation and desertification, loss of species diversity, p... |
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930,57 |
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Environment and Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415145114 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concern over the environment and what people are doing to it has put important questions on the moral and political agenda. One that is often asked in the West is whether we do indeed face a terminal environmental catastrophe in the foreseeable future. Less dramatic but still serious threats to the attractiveness and sustaining powers of the world in which we live are also important considerations. This book provides an accessible introduction to the radical challenges that environmentalism poses to concepts that have become almost second nature in the modern world, including: the ideas of...
Concern over the environment and what people are doing to it has put important questions on the moral and political agenda. One that is often asked in...
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186,06 |
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Managing Environmental Pollution
ISBN: 9780415145145 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting a comprehensive introduction to the nature of pollution, this text looks at its impacts on the environment, and the practical options and regulatory frameworks for pollution control. Sources of pollution, regulatory controls - including the role of authorities and precautionary and polluter pays principles - technological solutions, management and mitigation techniques and assessment tools, are examined in each key area: air, freshwater and marine pollution, contaminated land and radioactive substances. Illustrated with a range of case examples from the UK, Europe and worldwide,...
Presenting a comprehensive introduction to the nature of pollution, this text looks at its impacts on the environment, and the practical options and r...
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881,59 |
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Managing Environmental Pollution
ISBN: 9780415145152 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents an introduction to the nature of pollution, its impacts on the environment, and the practical options and regulatory frameworks for pollution control. Sources of pollution, regulatory controls - including the role of authorities and precautionary and polluter pays principles - technological solutions, management and mitigation techniques and assessment tools, are examined in each key area: air, freshwater, and marine pollution, contaminated land and radioactive substances. Illustrated with a wide range of case examples from the UK, Europe and worldwide, this book offers an up-to-date...
Presents an introduction to the nature of pollution, its impacts on the environment, and the practical options and regulatory frameworks for pollution...
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254,64 |
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Environmental Change : The Evolving Ecosphere
ISBN: 9780415145213 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents an introductory exploration of past, present and future change in the environment. The author introduces the interdependent parts of the natural environment - ecological, geological and cosmic - and the dynamic nature of the environmental system. The book examines human-environment interaction, and biological and physical evidence and causes of environmental change over a range of timescales. Exploring rates and directions of change, Huggett postulates an unending adaption of the ecosphere and its parts to ever-changing circumstances, including those triggered by human...
This volume presents an introductory exploration of past, present and future change in the environment. The author introduces the interdependent parts...
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279,12 |
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Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment
ISBN: 9780415146982 / Angielski / Twarda / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are:
Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolifi... |
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538,76 |
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Environmental Management in Practice: Vol 1 : Instruments for Environmental Management
ISBN: 9780415149068 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These three volumes feature research and practical applications in the field of environmental management. Spanning the main aspects of environmental management - instruments, compartments, sectors and ecosystems, this work contains over 60 contributions from specialists in each field. This volume focuses on the instruments and tools currently available to the environmental manager. The second volume (Compartments, Stressors and Sectors) deals with the problems that occur in the three compartments of the environment: air, water and soil. The third volume (Managing the Ecosystem) focuses on...
These three volumes feature research and practical applications in the field of environmental management. Spanning the main aspects of environmental m...
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1591,76 |
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Argument in the Greenhouse: The International Economics of Controlling Global Warming
ISBN: 9780415149099 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can greenhouse gases be controlled and reduced? Will it be in time?
This book adds a significant new contribution to the crucial climate change/global warming debate. Incorporating the key political and legal considerations into real world' applied economic analysis, the authors provide a unique focus on the wider political economy of the problem. All the key issues of controlling climate change (costs, timing and degree of stabilisation, ecological taxt reform, developing countries, and evolution of international agreements), are placed firmly within the current legal and... How can greenhouse gases be controlled and reduced? Will it be in time?
This book adds a significant new contribution to the crucial climate chang... |
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166,48 |
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Ecology and Development in the Third World
ISBN: 9780415151924 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An up-to-date introduction to the nature of ecological degradation, this book covers major environment issues and their management in the light of ozone depletion, global warming and subsequent policy changes. The text stresses the importance of an integrated approach, applying technical, social, economic and political solutions to environmental problems.
An up-to-date introduction to the nature of ecological degradation, this book covers major environment issues and their management in the light of ozo...
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112,60 |
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Health Ecology: Health, Culture and Human-Environment Interaction
ISBN: 9780415154468 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction to examining health from a human ecological perspective. Bringing together a variety of approaches from different perspectives and different locations, the contributors examine the various dimensions of health ecology in a human ecology framework, examining how local, regional and global factors impinge upon the health and environment of individuals, communities and the globe. Experts from human ecology, public health and policy, sociology, anthropology and geography, draw on a range of global examples - spanning Australia, Japan, Spain, Belgium and North America - to examine...
An introduction to examining health from a human ecological perspective. Bringing together a variety of approaches from different perspectives and dif...
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930,57 |
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Health Ecology: Health, Culture and Human-Environment Interaction
ISBN: 9780415154475 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking study offers new challenges to those teaching, studying or developing strategies and policies in health and the environment.Bringing together a variety of approaches from different perspectives and different locations, the contributors examine the various dimensions of health ecology in a human ecology framework, examining how local, regional and global factors impinge upon the health and environment of individuals, communities and the globe.
This ground-breaking study offers new challenges to those teaching, studying or developing strategies and policies in health and the environment.Bring...
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274,23 |
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Agendas for Sustainability: Environment and Development Into the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780415154918 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agendas and Sustainability considers the processes used for devising global environment and development agendas and provides practical suggestions for their future development and influence. A collaboration of the latest research from the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Earth Council, the book presents similarities and differences in problem definition, objectives, principles, priorities and actions across eleven of the major agendas put forward for environment and development after Rio.
Points of divergence and areas of common ground are investigated for over 30... Agendas and Sustainability considers the processes used for devising global environment and development agendas and provides practical sugges...
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881,59 |
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Environmentalism and the Mass Media: The North/South Divide
ISBN: 9780415155045 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The mass media in different countries reflects dominant concerns of contemporary societies. Ideas of environmentalism' are often broad and imprecise, holding neither meaning nor currency.
Environmentalism and Mass Media sheds new light on the diverse ideas of environmentalism', the way environmental ideas circulate, and public reaction to environmental concerns conveyed by the media. Drawing on unique interviews with journalists, media pictures, and public opinion surveys in both UK and India, the authors outline the differing cultural, religious and political contexts against... The mass media in different countries reflects dominant concerns of contemporary societies. Ideas of environmentalism' are often broad and imprecise, ...
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Environmentalism and the Mass Media: The North/South Divide
ISBN: 9780415155052 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The mass media in different countries reflects dominant concerns of contemporary societies. Ideas of environmentalism are often broad and imprecise, holding neither meaning or currency. This volume discusses the diverse ideas of environmentalism, the way environmental ideas circulate, and public reaction to environmental concerns conveyed by the media. Drawing on interviews with journalists, media pictures, and public opinion surveys in both UK and India, the authors outline the differing cultural, religious and political contexts against which world views form present an interesting picture...
The mass media in different countries reflects dominant concerns of contemporary societies. Ideas of environmentalism are often broad and imprecise, h...
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279,12 |
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Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean : Processes and Perspectives from the Past and Present
ISBN: 9780415156868 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume reviews both physical and social aspects of this region, in relation to its environment. The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlement and land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape. It has been at the centre of vast empires since before Roman times, and is still frequently affected by volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. It is characterized and set apart from other areas by the presence of the Mediterranean Sea and its current environmental problems can have social and economic impacts for, or...
This volume reviews both physical and social aspects of this region, in relation to its environment. The Mediterranean has been subject to changing hu...
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1126,48 |
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Environmental Assessment in Practice
ISBN: 9780415156912 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume aims to identify, predict and evaluate the potential biological, physical, social and health effects effects of a project on its surrounding environment. The book explains what constitutes good practice in applying environmental assessment as an environmental management tool. A wide range of international case studies are used by the authors to demonstrate how the different methods, techniques and disciplines of environmental assessment can be used in practice. The authors address the key concepts for environmental assessment procedures: methods for using E.A.; techniques for...
This volume aims to identify, predict and evaluate the potential biological, physical, social and health effects effects of a project on its surroundi...
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279,12 |
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Deregulation in the European Union : Environmental Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415156943 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the late 1970s, the European Union (EU) has seen an immense growth in regulatory measures aimed at environmental protection. In more recent years, this regulatory activity has come under increasing criticism. This has coincided with a more general disenchantment with regulation, resulting in a wave of deregulation initiatives. These initially focused on privatization and market liberalization in various industries (economic deregulation), but subsequently have also been applied to environmental policy itself.
Since the late 1970s, the European Union (EU) has seen an immense growth in regulatory measures aimed at environmental protection. In more recent year...
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881,59 |
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New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the Eu
ISBN: 9780415156967 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate over new forms of environmental regulation in the European Union.
The conclusions draw attention to critical aspects of instrument design, as well as the difficulty of accommodating national policy diversity without contravening EU and international trade rules. Drawing on critical research and practical experience, this book presents a number of recommendations for improving the next generation of environmental policies and explores comparisons between the search for new... New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate over new forms of environmental regulation...
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636,71 |
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Global Competition and EU Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9780415156981 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global Competition and EU Environmental Policy is the first book to examine the relationship between economic competitiveness and environmental protection in European Union policy.
A wide range of international case studies addresses key agreements and policies, including those dealing with ozone layer protection, pesticide exports, shipping climate change, agriculture, development assistance, and the environmental dimension of GATT/WTO. Global Competition and EU Environmental Policy is the first book to examine the relationship between economic competitiveness and environment...
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881,59 |
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Tourism, Development and Growth : The Challenge of Sustainability
ISBN: 9780415160018 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Distinguishing between sustainable development and sustainable tourism, this text examines whether and in what form tourism can contribute to sustainable development and growth. Focusing on different types of tourism appropriate to particular situations, the contributors draw on examples from around the world - Canada, USA, Spain, Belgium, UK, Australia - to explore issues concerning tourism's contribution to economic, social, political and environmental advancement of developing countries, and the challenges to, and importance of, tourism in industrialized nations.
Distinguishing between sustainable development and sustainable tourism, this text examines whether and in what form tourism can contribute to sustaina...
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