Environment and Sustainability Books

New and Published Books – Page 2

11. Climate Change Negotiations

    A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating Multilateral Cooperation

    Edited by Gunnar Sjöstedt, Ariel Macaspac Penetrante

    As the Kyoto Protocol limps along without the participation of the US and Australia, on-going climate negotiations are plagued by competing national and business interests that are creating stumbling blocks to success. Climate Change Negotiations: A Guide to Resolving Disputes and Facilitating...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
12. Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

    Edited by Robert Vale, Brenda Vale

    According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth’s capacity to supply humanity’s needs. This is an unsustainable position. This book does not focus on the problem but on the solution, by showing what it is like to live within a fair earth share...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
13. Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure

    The Case of PROPER in Indonesia

    By Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman, Jorge H. Garcia, Thomas Sterner

    Series: Environment for Development

    This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution...

    Published March 26th 2013 by RFF Press
14. Food Policy in the United States

    An Introduction

    By Parke Wilde

    Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

    This book offers a broad introduction to food policies in the United States. Real-world controversies and debates motivate the book’s attention to economic principles, policy analysis, nutrition science and contemporary data sources. It assumes that the reader's concern is not just the economic...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
15. Adapting to Sea Level Rise in the Coastal Zone

    Law and Policy Considerations

    By Chad J. McGuire

    Comprehensive, but not overly technical, this book provides a legal-policy framework to the discussion of how coastal managers can best approach the problem of sea level rise. It identifies legal barriers and offers proposed solutions to mitigate the impact of those barriers. The book introduces...

    Published March 25th 2013 by CRC Press
16. Water Quality Policy and Management in Asia

    Edited by Cecilia Tortajada

    Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

    Asia's 48 countries have an estimated 1.757 billion urban population and 2.4 billion people in rural areas (or approximately 60 per cent of the global population). Divided into central, eastern, southern, south-eastern and western regions, the continent is also extremely heterogeneous in terms of...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
17. Economic Growth and Sustainable Development

    By Peter Hess

    Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics

    Economic growth, reflected in increases in national output per capita, makes possible an improved material standard of living. Sustainable development, popularly and concisely defined as ‘meeting the needs of the present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
18. Transferable Groundwater Rights

    Integrating Hydrogeology, Law and Economics

    By Andreas N. Charalambous

    Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

    The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently. Groundwater would achieve its economic value, by switching from the high volume-low value irrigation, which is...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
19. Emissions, Pollutants and Environmental Policy in China

    Designing a National Emissions Trading System

    By Bo Miao

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    As the world's biggest polluter, the environmental challenges that China faces in controlling its airborne emissions are crucial, not only to its own population in terms of tackling the severe domestic air pollution, but also to the planet as it faces calls from the international community to...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
20. Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition

    Edited by Robert G. Watts

    Discussing today’s hottest topics relating to climate change, including adapting to climate change and geo-engineering to mitigate the effects of change, this book takes on the tough questions of what to do and offers real solutions to the practical problems caused by radical changes in the earth’s...

    Published March 21st 2013 by CRC Press