Environmental Sociology
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Governance for Sustainable Development
Edited by William M. Lafferty
This book is an original study of the challenge of implementing sustainable development in Western democracies. It highlights the obstacles which sustainable development presents for strategic governance and critically examines how these...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development
Edited by Jan-Peter Voß, Dierk Bauknecht, René Kemp
This book deals with the issue of sustainable development in a novel and innovative way. It examines the governance implications of reflexive modernisation – the condition that societal development is endangered by its own side-effects. ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Amenities and Rural Development
Edited by Gary Paul Green, Steven C. Deller, David D. Marcouiller
Amenities and Rural Development explores the paradigmatic shift in how we view land resources and the potential for development in amenity-rich rural regions. Amenity-based growth can lead to several paths, based largely on proximity ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Whaling Diplomacy
Alexander Gillespie
Whaling Diplomacy is the only book that addresses all of the substantive issues relating to the conservation of whales through the International Whaling Commission (IWC). It covers the law, policy, science and philosophy at the heart o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Environmental Policy in Japan
Edited by Hidefumi Imura, Miranda A. Schreurs
The book introduces Japan’s environmental history, its key environmental regulations and the forces that have driven Japan to introduce these environmental regulations and programs. It also examines the various formal and informal instit...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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New Developments in Environmental Sociology
Edited by Michael R. Redclift, Graham Woodgate
This outstanding collection, which is a fully up to date companion to the title The Sociology of the Environment, published in 1995, represents a landmark in a field of academic research that is increasingly important for wider policy qu... -
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Sustainable Consumption
Edited by Dale Southerton, Heather Chappells, Bas Van Vliet
Sustainable Consumption is unique, not just in its inter-disciplinary and substantive subject matter (changing networks of utility consumption and production), but because it examines empirically the key theoretical debates underpinning ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Natural Hazards
Edited by Howard Kunreuther, Adam Rose
In this two-volume set the editors have brought together some of the most significant previously published papers by leading academics in this field. The Economics of Natural Hazards investigates the impact of natural disasters on nation... -
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Voluntary Approaches in Climate Policy
Edited by Andrea Baranzini, Philippe Thalmann
Voluntary approaches (VAs) are increasingly implemented in different countries as the main instrument in environmental policies. The authors focus on the economics of (VAs), their advantages and disadvantages and how they compare with ot... -
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Shrimp Farming and Mangrove Loss in Thailand
Edited by Edward B. Barbier, Suthawan Sathirathai
Through in-depth case studies of local communities in four distinct coastal areas in Southern Thailand, the authors are able to assess objectively the underlying economic causes, and consequences, of mangrove deforestation due to the exp...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Instruments of Pollution Control in an Imperfect World
Tingsong Jiang
In this book, Tingsong Jiang extensively discusses the wider issues of economic instruments of pollution control as well as paying specific attention to the control of carbon dioxide emissions in China. -
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Global Warming and the Asian Pacific
Edited by Ching-Cheng Chang, Robert Mendelsohn, Daigee Shaw
This unique book examines the problem of global warming from the perspective of Asian Pacific countries. The unprecedented economic and demographic growth over the past two decades has increased the importance of the Asian Pacific region...eBook:Find out more$40.00