Catálogo de libros: Política y protocolos medioambientales

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  • Living and Working With Snow, Ice and Seasons in the Modern Arctic
    This book describes everyday practices of life in changing Arctic winter conditions. The authors explore the contemporary and situated outdoor practices in different work settings in Finnish Lapland and investigate how, for example, tourism, reindeer herding, cattle breeding and urban snow management adapt to the physically limiting or enabling features of cold temperatures, sn...
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    196,04 €

  • Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme
    Franz W. Gatzweiler
    This book presents the background and context of an urban health issue, research findings, and recommendations for policy/decision-makers and action-takers. This book is a collection of policy briefs produced from research presented at the 16th Conference on Urban Health in Xiamen, China, during November 4-8, 2019, under the theme 'People Oriented Urbanisation: Transforming Cit...
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    135,67 €

  • The Politics of Environment
    Malcolm Slesser
    Originally published in 1972 and ahead of its time in many respects this book was the first to take a constructive approach to the problems facing the human race in the 20th Century.  ...
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    57,37 €

  • Capital and Ecology
    This volume studies the intersection of capital and ecology primarily in one of the most sensitive geographies of the world, the Eastern Himalayan region. ...
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    240,45 €

  • Global Norms in Local Contexts
    Melissa Schnyder
    This Brief discusses the translation of global environmental norms across local contexts in France. It provides a snapshot of how global-level environmental norms travel vertically across levels of governance, from the global to the local, and asks how global environmental norms are (re)interpreted by local-level actors and translated to a particular local context.Chapters focu...
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    54,65 €

  • From Fossil Fuels to Low Carbon Energy Transition
    Focusing on five key themes - hydrocarbons, electricity, mining, social license to operate, and arbitration/dispute resolution- via in-depth country and regional case studies, this book seeks to capture the contrasting and sometimes conflicting trends in energy governance in Latin America as it wrestles with a dependence on fossil fuels whilst shifting toward a low carbon futur...
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    133,98 €

  • Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change
    Christopher Shaw
    In this book Christopher Shaw analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisis for which liberalism has no answers.The language and symbolism we use to make sense of climate change arose in the post-World War II liberal institutions of the West. This language and symbolism, in neutralising the philo...
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    66,97 €

  • Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change
    Christopher Shaw
    This book analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisis for which liberalism has no answers. ...
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    241,46 €

  • Arctic Fever
    Anastasia Likhacheva
    This book explores the Arctic as a rapidly evolving phenomenon in international affairs of a rising number of stakeholders. For decades, Arctic studies used to be an affair of a relatively narrow group of experts from northern countries. This time is over due to a new Chinese Arctic policy, as well as growing regional interests from South Korea, Singapore, India and Japan. Cont...
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    169,38 €

  • The Toxic Ship
    Simone M. Müller
    Winner of the 2025 Hagley Prize for the Best Book in Business History from the Business History Conference and the Hagley LibraryWinner of the 2025 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award from the International Studies AssociationAn infamous voyage explores the hazardous waste trade and environmental justiceIn 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Phil...
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    38,17 €

  • Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in Bangladesh
    Md Rafiqul Islam
    This book explores the relationship between climate-change-induced migration and conflict in Bangladesh - one of the most ecologically fragile countries in the world. ...
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    241,16 €

  • Race and the Greening of Atlanta
    Christopher C Sellers
    Race and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta’s ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city’s variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political economies, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements: ...
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    44,29 €

  • Race and the Greening of Atlanta
    Christopher C Sellers
    Race and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta’s ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city’s variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political economies, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements: ...
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    164,74 €

  • The Politics of Invisibility
    Olga Kuchinskaya
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    33,95 €

  • Liquid Power
    Erik Swyngedouw
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    38,71 €

  • Energy Politics and Discourse in Canada
    Sibo Chen
    This book examines the discourse around the intricate economic, political, and ideological struggles underlying Canadian fuel extractivism. ...
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    88,58 €

  • Governance Quality, Fiscal Policy, and the Path to a Low-Carbon Future
    Ibrahim Nandom Yakubu
    Climate change has emerged as one of the most severe global threats in recent years, necessitating urgent interventions. The Paris Agreement on climate change and the United Nations through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have established ingenious targets for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, thus charting a path to a more ecologically friendly energy system. Energ...
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    314,57 €

  • Governance Quality, Fiscal Policy, and the Path to a Low-Carbon Future
    Ibrahim Nandom Yakubu
    Climate change has emerged as one of the most severe global threats in recent years, necessitating urgent interventions. The Paris Agreement on climate change and the United Nations through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have established ingenious targets for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, thus charting a path to a more ecologically friendly energy system. Energ...
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    235,65 €

  • The River Chief System and An Ecological Initiative for Public Participation in China
    Tingting Wan / Yaguang Hao
    This book provides an alternative agenda to deepening the understanding of the River Chief System as a distinctive responsibility approach to solve water pollution and associated governance dilemmas. Insightful analysis is performed through in-depth studies of the origins of China’s River Chief System, responsibility mechanisms, governmental and civil river chiefs, formal and i...
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    48,65 €

  • The River Chief System and An Ecological Initiative for Public Participation in China
    Tingting Wan / Yaguang Hao
    This book provides an alternative agenda to deepening the understanding of the River Chief System as a distinctive responsibility approach to solve water pollution and associated governance dilemmas. Insightful analysis is performed through in-depth studies of the origins of China’s River Chief System, responsibility mechanisms, governmental and civil river chiefs, formal and i...
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    145,67 €

  • Rural Development for Sustainable Social-ecological Systems
    This book provides an overview of interdisciplinary approaches that have applied social science to research focused on issues around food, agriculture and natural resource management. The book demonstrates that those who work in rural sociology either as researchers or practitioners apply community development and participatory techniques to socio-environmental interaction. The...
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    204,81 €

  • Climate Justice in the Majority World
    This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live. ...
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    66,24 €

  • Climate Justice in the Majority World
    This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live. ...
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    240,74 €

  • Achieving Environmental Sustainability in the Sports Sector
    Ahmet Atalay / Biruta Švagždienė
    This book explores the previously overlooked negative environmental impact of the sports industry, with a particular emphasis on the carbon footprint of sports facilities and organizations. The authors provide a comprehensive assessment of sustainable development goals, economic, social, and environmental sustainability concepts. They reveal the significant negative effects tha...
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    48,64 €

  • Achieving Environmental Sustainability in the Sports Sector
    Ahmet Atalay / Biruta Švagždienė
    This book explores the previously overlooked negative environmental impact of the sports industry, with a particular emphasis on the carbon footprint of sports facilities and organizations. The authors provide a comprehensive assessment of sustainable development goals, economic, social, and environmental sustainability concepts. They reveal the significant negative effects tha...
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    60,93 €

  • Corporate Climate Action, Transnational Politics, and World Order
    Charlotte Hulme
    This book explores the origins and significance of the corporate climate action phenomenon, which has attracted increased attention in recent years. It examines how and why, during the 2010s, American, German, and Indian corporations spanning finance, technology, automotive, and energy-intensive industries adopted certain climate practices and converged around the idea that the...
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    144,59 €

  • Corporate Climate Action, Transnational Politics, and World Order
    Charlotte Hulme
    This book explores the origins and significance of the corporate climate action phenomenon, which has attracted increased attention in recent years. It examines how and why, during the 2010s, American, German, and Indian corporations spanning finance, technology, automotive, and energy-intensive industries adopted certain climate practices and converged around the idea that the...
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    48,09 €

  • Green and Social Economy Finance
    Karen Wendt
    This book provides insight in obtaining finance for green and social solutions and addresses the conceptualization of social and environmental finance. It identifies new products and approaches in business and investment, which aligns finance and investment with the Paris Agreement and needs and interests of society. ...
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    106,66 €

  • Research Methods for Environmental Studies
    Mark Kanazawa
    The methodological needs of environmental studies are unique in the breadth of research questions that can be posed, calling for a textbook that covers a broad swath of approaches to conducting research with potentially many different kinds of evidence.. ...
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    63,95 €

  • Research Methods for Environmental Studies
    Mark Kanazawa
    The methodological needs of environmental studies are unique in the breadth of research questions that can be posed, calling for a textbook that covers a broad swath of approaches to conducting research with potentially many different kinds of evidence.. ...
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    239,80 €