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Governing International Rivers
Tun Myint
This important book employs the theory of polycentricity, a system with several centers as an analytical concept to explain the multilayered international environmental governance of river basins. It introduces a new methodological frame...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples
Edited by Randall S. Abate, Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner
Indigenous peoples occupy a unique niche within the climate justice movement, as many indigenous communities live subsistence lifestyles that are severely disrupted by the effects of climate change. Additionally, in many parts of the wor...eBook:Find out more$54.36
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Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Law
Edited by Yves Le Bouthillier, Miriam Alfie Cohen, Jose Juan Gonzalez Marquez, Albert Mumma, Susan Smith
This timely book explores the complex relationship between the alleviation of poverty and the protection of the environment. There is every reason to believe that these issues are in many ways interdependent. However this book demonstra...eBook:Find out more$53.56
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Comparative Ocean Governance
Robin Kundis Craig
Comparative Ocean Governance examines the world’s attempts to improve ocean governance through place-based management – marine protected areas, ocean zoning, marine spatial planning – and evaluates this growing trend in light of the adve...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Forests and Climate Change
Anthony Hall
Controlling deforestation, which is responsible for about one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, has become a major tool in the battle against global warming. An important new international initiative – Reduced Emissions fro...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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Public–Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development
Edited by Philipp Pattberg, Frank Biermann, Sander Chan, Ayşem Mert
The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg is remembered mainly for the promotion of a novel form of global governance: the so-called ‘partnerships for sustainable development’. This book provides a first authoritat...eBook:Find out more$41.56
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Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
Edited by Tania Bubela, E. Richard Gold
This fascinating study describes efforts to define and protect traditional knowledge and the associated issues of access to genetic resources, from the negotiation of the Convention on Biological Diversity to The Declaration on the Right...eBook:Find out more$50.36
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Economics, the Environment and Our Common Wealth
James K. Boyce
Comprising a decade’s worth of essays written since the publication of the author’s pathbreaking book, The Political Economy of the Environment (2002), this volume discusses a number of diverse environmental issues through an economist’s...eBook:Find out more$34.36
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Making Fishery Agreements Work
Geir Hønneland
Why do people obey the law? And why do states abide by their international commitments? These are among the questions raised in this important book. The setting is the Barents Sea, home to some of the most productive fishing grounds on t...eBook:Find out more$34.36
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Environmental Governance and Sustainability
Edited by Paul Martin, Li Zhiping, Tianbao Qin, Anél du Plessis, Yves Le Bouthillier, Angela Williams
This timely volume provides fascinating insights into emerging developments in the field of legal governance of the environment at a time when environmental governance is increasingly concerned with far more than legal doctrine.eBook:Find out more$59.96
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The Water–Energy Nexus in the American West
Edited by Douglas S. Kenney, Robert Wilkinson
The nexus between water and energy raises a set of public policy questions that go far beyond water and energy. Economic vitality and management of scarce and precious resources are at stake. This book contributes to the body of knowledg...eBook:Find out more$51.16
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Conservation, Biodiversity and International Law
Alexander Gillespie
This important and timely book provides a rigorous overview of the defining issues presently facing conservation at international level. The author provides detailed coverage of topics ranging from the classification of species right thr...eBook:Find out more$67.96