Catálogo de libros: Política y protocolos medioambientales

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  • Metanarrative and the Environment
    Stephen James Purdey
    To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions, climate change and more. In Metanarrative and the Environment, Stephen James Purdey argues that material approaches to the environmental crisis cannot succeed without the power of a new metanarrative. ...
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    88,61 €

  • Emission Trajectories and Mitigation Schemes for China
    Kai Fang / Qifeng Zhang / Yiqi Tang
    This book seeks to model the possible emission trajectories and identify the feasible mitigation schemes for China to meet its climate commitments to peak emissions by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2060. In line with these ambitions, China has taken a number of measures to improve energy efficiency and energy structure in recent years. ...
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    241,20 €

  • Water Quality, Assessment and Management in India
    This book presents up-to-date information on the status of water resources in India. It presents an assessment of the surface water and groundwater condition to help stakeholders take the necessary actions to control pollution and make the country’s water resources sustainable. The book addresses various topics, including forest-water interactions for governing water quality at...
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    136,73 €

  • Natural Resources and Society
    M. Kamraju / Mohd Akhter Ali
    'Natural Resources and Society: Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Humans and the Environment' is a study of the dynamic interplay between humans and the natural world. The book explores the complex relationship between human societies and the environment, examining how human actions can both impact and be influenced by natural resources.The book covers a broad rang...
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    196,10 €

  • Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine
    Eric D. U. Gutierrez
    This book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops in the global south. ...
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    240,81 €

  • The Corporatization and Environmental Sustainability of Australian Universities
    Hans Baer
    Analysing the juxtaposition of two trends in universities - corporatisation and environmental sustainability - this book explores how they are more contradictory than compatible. ...
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    240,96 €

  • Agrobiodiversity
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    43,37 €

  • Climate Action in Southern Africa
    Philani Moyo
    Using climate justice as an analytical tool, this volume examines the role of local mitigation and adaptation actions in Southern Africa. ...
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    240,97 €

  • Corporate Environmental Accountability in Nigeria
    Felix Moses Edoho
    This book examines the imperative role of global environmental governance, and the need to incorporate corporate environmental accountability and mechanisms for enforcement, to effectively address the global environmental crisis. ...
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    240,54 €

  • Visualising far-right environments
    Bernhard Forchtner
    This book examines the far right’s visual politics of nature, offering original case studies from around the world. ...
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    169,29 €

  • Greening Trade Remedies
    Pieter Van Vaerenbergh
    This book explores the role of trade remedies in liberalising environmental trade and discouraging environmentally harmful trade. As trade remedies can pose a significant obstacle to environmental trade, this book outlines how trade negotiators can implement restrictions on the application of trade remedies on environmental goods. It also assesses whether and how investigating ...
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    208,52 €

  • Engineering, Science, and Sustainability
    ISC 2022 is dedicated to the Niti Aayog policies to promote sustainability through exchange of ideas emerging out of the academia. ...
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    70,74 €

  • Extractive Bargains
    This book is the first to focus on state-led ’extractive bargains,’ designed to reach a social consensus on the extent of extractive activities, how they should be governed and their negative consequences mitigated. These state-led ’bargains’ have taken a number of different forms and offer varying degrees of promise in meeting environmental and social concerns. The book critic...
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    193,25 €

  • Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Gulf Monarchies
    Tobias Zumbraegel
    This book offers a new perspective about the Gulf Arab states entering a post-oil era by looking at the political factors behind the green transformation. It discusses the recent ’environmental enthusiasm’ in the oil- and gas-rich Gulf monarchies by asking how political power can be constituted through advocating environmental sustainability. While hydrocarbon-wealthy Gulf mona...
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    134,06 €

  • Water Conflicts and Resistance
    Venkatesh Dutta
    This book examines transboundary, regional and local water conflicts and resistance across river basins in South Asia. It discusses land and natural resource rights; resettlement of dam-displaced people; urban-rural conflicts over water allocation; peri-urbanisation, land use conflicts and water security; and resilience against water conflicts. ...
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    72,94 €

  • China’s Carbon-Energy Policy and Asia’s Energy Transition
    Akihisa Mori
    This book seeks to examine the impacts associated with China’s carbon-energy policy in Asia and how, coupled with the Belt and Road Initiative, these effects prompt foreign direct investments in coal power and exports of renewable energy technologies. ...
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    72,94 €

  • Water and Public Policy in India
    Deepti Acharya
    This book explores the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of Right to Water and analyzes its values in the context of water policy frameworks of the union governments in India. It uses a qualitative approach and combines critical hermeneutics with critical content analysis to introduce a new water policy framework. ...
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    73,20 €

  • The Political Ecology of Austerity
    The book explores the scholarly and political debates surrounding the environmental dimension of austerity policies that has thus far escaped academic, policy and media attention. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of social and political sciences, environmental studies, urban studies and political ecology. ...
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    73,29 €

  • The Governance of Agriculture in Post-Brexit UK
    This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of Brexit on British agriculture and associated areas, discussing the Common Agricultural Policy and the Agriculture Act 2020. ...
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    73,35 €

  • Flash Floods in Vietnam
    Le Hung / Le Huy Ba / Thai Van Nam
    This book discusses the threats and impacts of flash floods in Vietnam on environmental, human, and socio-economic resources, and covers monitoring, forecasting, warning, urgent action plans, and prevention solutions. While the work focuses on cases in Vietnam, it is applicable to many regions in the world that experience flash flooding as a common occurrence. Through data coll...
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    135,91 €

  • European Foreign Policy in a Decarbonising World
    Dennis Tänzler / Emily Wright / Sebastian Oberthür
    This book sheds light on the future of the European Union’s external relations under decarbonisation. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of European environmental and climate policy, climate diplomacy, energy policy, foreign policy and climate/energy geopolitics. ...
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    73,46 €

  • German Radioactive Waste
    Robert Rybski
    This book presents the universal issue of radioactive waste management from the perspective of the German legal system, analysing how lawmakers have responded to the problem of nuclear waste over the course of the last seventy years. In this book, Robert Rybski unwraps and explains the perplexing legal and social issues related to radioactive waste. He takes readers through the...
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    35,91 €

  • Environmental Risk Communication in China
    Fanxu Zeng / Jia Dai
    From a media-centered perspective, this book systematically discusses the communication process of typical environmental risk issues, and the complex interaction among multiple actors, including the public, media, experts and government in contemporary China. ...
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    70,23 €

  • Governing Climate Change in Southeast Asia
    This volume showcases the diversity of the politics and practices of climate change governance across Southeast Asia. Drawing on case studies from all Southeast Asian countries, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners dealing with climate change and environmental governance. ...
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    73,09 €

  • International Comparative Perspectives on the Treatment of 'Urban Diseases'
    Lu Xiaocheng
    With an integration of theories, comparative and empirical studies, this book aims to find a treatment for Beijing’s 'urban diseases' and coordinate a low-carbon development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China. Unprecedented industrialization and unconventional urbanization caused a series of 'urban diseases' for developing cities across the globe. By summarizing...
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    72,71 €

  • Phyto and Microbial Remediation of Heavy Metals and Radionuclides in the Environment
    Djaber Tazdaït / Rym Salah-Tazdaït
    This book examines the role that bioremediation can play in the detoxification of soil, water, and air to improve environmental and human health, with a specific focus on heavy metals and radionuclides.Environmental pollution, whether by natural or human causes, with industrial activities being a key player, is a challenge facing all nations across the world. While treatment ha...
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    35,97 €

  • Environment and Sustainable Development
    Manish K. Verma
    This volume provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between environment and sustainable development in society from an interdisciplinary perspective. ...
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    72,60 €

  • ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF GREEN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA
    Zhiqing Li / ZHIQING LI & LANJUN YANG / Lanjun Yang
    China has promised to achieve carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. To achieve this goal, the country must implement necessary reforms and focus on innovation in areas of economics and finance. This book explores main challenges that China may face in achieving green and low-carbon development, analyzes green and low-carbon related issues from the economic persp...
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    166,46 €

  • The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
    Robert C. Brears
    This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy. Despite rising demand for water, energy and food globally, the governance of water-energy-food sectors has generally remained separate with limited attention placed on the interactions that ...
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    217,69 €

  • TEMPORARY
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of forces shaping urban renewal and the sustainable and inclusive transformation of contemporary cities. It discusses temporariness and uncertainty of citizenship, participation, and inclusion, as well as the energy and digital transformation, merging different perspectives, such as the social, philosophical, economic, and architectural...
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    228,58 €