Environmental policy and protocols Books
Ohio University Press Highland Sanctuary Environmental History in
Book SynopsisHighland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape itself. Conte’s study illuminates the debate over conservation, arguing that contingency and chance, the stuff of human history, have shaped forests in ways that rival the power of nature.Trade Review“This fascinating study deserves the attention of a wide variety of scholars and development experts. Highly recommended.” * Choice *“This is a notable addition to the environmental history of Tanzania. It is a work that neatly blends archival and field research, and the approach of the author is both sensitive and humane.” * American Historical Review *“Conte’s history is a solid one…His volume is a useful addition to the corpus of environmental case studies in East Africa.” * The International Journal of African Historical Studies *
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Ohio University Press The World beyond the Windshield
Book SynopsisFor better or worse, the view through a car’s windshield has redefined how we see the world around us.Trade Review“Although the contributors’ particular interests vary widely, these questions lend The World beyond the Windshield a cohesion that is rare and admirable among scholarly anthologies.... The World beyond the Windshield is a valuable and sometimes surprising contribution to the comparative social history of technology, the environment, and automotive transportation.” * Technology and Culture *“We accept that the coming of the automobile was a technological revolution, but we have not fully appreciated how it was a perceptual revolution as well. The essays in this wonderful volume not only provide a clear and graceful journey through various North American and European landscapes of automobility. They also reveal a fascinating and formative set of relations between designers and consumers. The World Beyond the Windshield is comparative history at its best.” * author of Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement *“Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller‘s anthology, The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe, marks the beginning of a new and much needed discourse on the subject (historical studies of the automotive landscape).…The essays in The World Beyond the Windshield are accessible and well researched.” * The Journal of Transport History *“Through analyses of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Needles Highway, and the Washington Beltway, as well as roads in Italy, Nazi Germany, the former East Germany, and postwar U.K., the authors document the transatlantic exchange of ideas about technology and environment. In the process, they also demonstrate how these ideas have been appropriated for national and transnationalistic ends.” * APADE, Indiana University *“(The World beyond the Windshield’s) contributions significantly extend our understanding of the processes through which 20th century highways were envisaged, designed, build, and used.” * Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Global Geschichte... *“A remarkably interesting account of how the various interests, priorities, and perceptions among both highway builders and users interacted in different historical contexts to produce the particular kinds of roads that we see today and so often take for granted.” * H-German *
£21.59
Ohio University Press The Game of Conservation
Book SynopsisThe Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat.Trade Review“The book’s expository prose style is in tune with its overall design: clarity and utility are foremost.… The Game of Conservation will be a valuable resource for any scholar of conservation, colonialism or international treaty making.” * Environment and History *“The Game of Conservation is a concise, well-researched, and nicely presented study of pioneering wildlife protection treaties from the first half of the twentieth century.… This study offers a valuable model for environmental historians seeking to provide accessible and insightful scholarship that transcends national boundaries.” * Environmental History *“An impressive and fresh approach to studying the environment in the twenty–first century.”“In an engaging style reminiscent of a mystery novel, Cioc relates the historical, political, sociological, and ecological stories behind the treaties.…Knowing the origins of animal protection efforts does much to explain the conservation problems these species still face.” * Choice *
£23.39
Ohio University Press Standing Our Ground
Book SynopsisStanding Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.Trade Review“What a magnificent book! The author skillfully weaves theoretical discussions into a fast-paced narrative. Standing Our Ground is well written, well researched, and on solid theoretical ground. The book offers a unique lens: coal is a highly masculinized world, and Barry opens up a view of women’s roles and activism inside this world, which is often closed to outsiders.”“Barry exposes the coal industry's harsh effects on working-class women in Appalachia, revealing the symbiosis between gender oppression and environmental destruction. No passive victims, the women she profiles have become leading advocates for alternative energy.” * Ms. Magazine *“Standing Our Ground will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in intersectional analyses of social and environmental problems…at a time when so much of the climate change discourse is focused on broad solutions at the level of global environmental policy, Barry’s book is a crucial look into the lives of individuals living day to day with the consequences of our lifestyle and policy choices.” * Environmental Values *“(Standing Our Ground) highlights negatively stereotyped working-class white and nonwhite women in a ‘gendered articulation’ that speaks to diverse issues of class and disenfranchisement at a ‘global crossroads’ in history.” * Choice *“Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal places the anti-mountaintop removal struggle squarely as a global issue with human and environmental costs. Barry successfully illustrates how local struggles in central Appalachia are indicative of a larger global movement for environmental justice.” * author of Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities *
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Duke University Press Environmentality
Book SynopsisAn investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ecology, and common property scholarship, explains why villagers in the Kumaon Himalaya have begun to conserve forests.Trade Review“Arun Agrawal achieves, in Environmentality, something of a breakthrough to new analytical territory where the binaries of state and society, structure and agency, public and private are transcended. He parlays the humble subject of community-based forestry and Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’ into the makings of an original and subtle analysis of modernity and nature.”—James C. Scott, Yale University“Arun Agrawal has written an amazing book that draws on a very-long-term case study to make general lessons. He analyzes the development of the mentality of citizens and officials related to the environment in a particular setting undergoing major shifts from centralization to a form of decentralization. All of us can take some important lessons from this book about how people’s mentalities change when they have power and knowledge to cope with a problem. That shift in knowledge and power took time and effort, but is one of the rare success stories of recent history.”—Elinor Ostrom, coeditor of Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems“Environmentality offers readers in the fields of anthropology, environmental studies, and history a useful and interesting case study. . . . Environmentality is an excellent piece of scholarship, and a valuable addition to the fields of environmental anthropology and history, as well as to the general literature on colonial and postcolonial India.” -- Sarah Strauss * American Anthropologist *"[A] particularly useful and timely piece of scholarship as it attempts to transgress what are often distant and diverse literatures. This book helps to shed light on the connections between environmental regulation, practice and subjectivity. And in that way, this book illustrates the complexity and connectivity of environmental conflicts and struggles that are often overlooked by more limited or constrained analytical approaches. The book is very clearly organized and well written. . . ." -- Michael Mascarenhas * Rural Sociology *"Interesting. . . . The strength of the book lies in its exploration of agency among the local populations and the serious treatment of the culture that environmental regulation affects. . . . This book offers an insightful critique of the assumptions that both the state and peasant resistance are monolithic . . . and provides a useful starting point to understand the phenomena of community forestry that governments are implementing around the world." -- Gregory Barton * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction: The Politics of Nature and the Making of Environmental Subjects 1 Part I: Power/Knowledge and the Creation of Forests 25 2. Forests of Statistics: Colonial Environmental Knowledges 32 3. Struggles over Kumaon's Forests, 1815–1916 65 Part II: A New Technology of Environmental Government: Politics, Institutions, and Subjectivities 87 4. Governmentalized Localities: The Dispersal of Regulation 101 5. Inside the Regulatory Community 127 6. Making Environmental Subjects: Intimate Government 164 7. Conclusion: The Analytics of Environmentality 201 Notes 231 Bibliography 279 Index 309
£98.60
Duke University Press Rivers by Design
Book SynopsisTraces the emergence of the mammoth US flood management system, which is overseen by the federal government but implemented in conjunction with state governments and local contractors and levee districts. This book shows how the system initially developed as a response to the demands of farmers and business elite in outlying territories.Trade Review“Bold in its interpretation, sweeping in its scope, and judicious in its style, Rivers by Design argues convincingly that federal flood control policy, which culminated in the Flood Control Act of 1936, ended comprehensive resource planning at the federal level. This is an exciting and original study.”—Donald J. Pisani, author of Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935“Karen M. O’Neill has produced a tour de force—a carefully researched and clearly written analysis of the tangled emergence of the U.S. flood-control system. Her powerful wake-up call to us all is how the federal government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, reengineered the nation’s rivers to promote local economic development at the expense of—rather than with a sensitivity to—environmental values.”—Norris Hundley Jr., author of The Great Thirst: Californians and Water–A History“Masterfully weaving historical details, Karen M. O’Neill traces the unanticipated expansion of the federal government’s role in ‘controlling’ the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers. In this era of rising hurricane-induced floodwaters, she offers deep insight into the tensions between local and national agencies, and between the state and private interests.”—Allan Schnaiberg, coauthor of Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community DevelopmentTable of ContentsTables and Maps ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxi I. Rivers and State Authority 1 1. Infrastructure Builds the State 3 2. The Founding Principles of River Development 13 II. Regional Competition and the Rise of the Flood Control Campaign 27 3. The Mississippi River: Becoming the Nation’s River 31 4. The Mississippi River: Resentment Leading to Civil War 43 5. The Mississippi River: Postwar Reunification, Postwar Aid 56 6. The Sacramento River: Miners versus Farmers 68 7. The Sacramento River: Capitalists Unify for Development 80 III. Redesigning Rivers in the National Interest 97 8. Federal Aid for the Mississippi and Sacramento Rivers 99 9. The Fully Designed River 128 10. A Nationwide Program for Flood Control 150 11. Rivers by Design 179 Appendix 1. Mississippi Valley River Improvement Conventions 187 Appendix 2. Mississippi River Levee Association, Executive Committee 197 Notes 199 Bibliography 243 Index 265
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Duke University Press Greening Brazil
Book SynopsisTraces Brazil's complex environmental politics as they have unfolded over time, from their mid-twentieth-century conservationist beginnings to the contemporary development of a distinctive 'socio-environmentalism' which seeks to address ecological destruction and social injustice simultaneously.Trade Review“Greening Brazil is an extremely interesting, insightful, and important book. It is important precisely because it fills a huge gap in outsiders’ understanding of Brazil’s internal politics on environmental issues, providing insights into an often misunderstood country whose environmental performance has truly global implications.”—J. Timmons Roberts, coauthor of Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America“Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck have vast and complementary direct experiences with environmental reform in Brazil, and their long-term commitment to following these issues has clearly paid off in their analysis of the country’s long, rich, and distinctive reform history.”—Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz“Greening Brazil is a superb analysis of the growth of the Brazilian environmental movement since the 1950s. The authors bring to the task a sophisticated understanding of Brazilian politics and a deep knowledge of international trends in environmental politics. Greening Brazil is the most satisfying account yet written of any environmental movement outside of Europe and the United States.” -- Angus Wright * Latin American Politics and Society *“Greening Brazil is a vital contribution for readers interested in the development of social environmentalism in Brazil, as well as the recent rise in environmental politics in Brazil and Latin America. Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret Keck . . . produce a persuasive view of the social, institutional, and governmental interactions that have shaped governance of the environmental movement and politics in Brazil. . . . It should be seen as a pioneering book in the field, hopefully encouraging more research on the subject.” -- Isabel DiVanna * Canadian Journal of History *“Greening Brazil, a breakthrough book, makes an outstanding contribution to this puzzle. It demonstrates how small agencies in low salience issue areas confronting powerful detractors survive, expand and make a difference. Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret Keck persuasively argue that extensive interpersonal and professional networks carefully cultivated by key leaders, along with their finely honed discernment over which battles to fight and how to fight them, are the key explanatory factors. . . . Moreover, the book is a vivid example of how to advance knowledge, informed by theory, on the real workings of Latin American institutions beyond deductive analyses of pathologies in institutional design followed by prescriptions on how to fix them.” -- Eduardo Silva * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsList of Tables viii Preface ix List of Acronyms and Organizations xv Introduction 1 1. Building Environmental Institutions: National Environmental Politics and Policy 23 2. National Environmental Activism: The Changing Terms of Engagement 63 3. From Protest to Project: The Third Wave of Environmental Activism 97 4. Amazonia 140 5. From Pollution Control to Sustainable Cities 186 Conclusion 223 Appendix: List of Interviews 231 Notes 239 Bibliography 249 Index 273
£25.19
Duke University Press In the Shadows of the State
Book SynopsisAn argument that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they seek to help, based on extensive ethnographic research in eastern India.Trade Review“In the Shadows of the State is a fine and unusual study of indigenous politics, culture, and activism, which will be of interest to students of India as well as of the cultural politics of indigeneity elsewhere in the world. Alpa Shah provides a robust and non-sentimental ethnography of the realities and contradictions of tribal life, and a powerful critique of the practices of the state, NGOs, and the highly vocal middle-class activists who promote preservation of both natural resources and pristine tribal life.”—Thomas Blom Hansen, co-editor of States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State“In the Shadows of the State is an important, original, thoughtful, and beautifully written book. I have no doubt that it will be considered the single most important account we have of state-society relations in Jharkhand. It is also a remarkably erudite and properly critical account of the production and use of ‘indigeneity’ and ‘development’ as social constructions that can contribute to the domination of poor rural Jharkhandis. Its significance ranges far beyond India.”—Stuart Corbridge, co-author of Jharkhand: Environment, Development, Ethnicity“Alpa Shah’s book is an engaged and exceptionally lively account of the intersection between the ‘everyday state’ and the people of one of India’s most marginalized ‘Tribal’ areas. A major contribution to the regional literature, her sometimes counterintuitive, often sobering, but always compelling analysis richly deserves the attention of anyone interested in the politics of indigeneity and its uneasy relationship with class politics and with left-wing activism.”—Jonathan Parry, London School of Economics“Alpa Shah’s In the shadows of the state is both… thought provoking and… highly accessible…. Shah’s work presents a valuable contribution to discussions surrounding the relationship between rural adivasi communities and the deep sources of inequality and misrepresentation which continue to affect their lives…. [A]n important work.” -- Ketan Alder * Contemporary South Asia *“This work is a powerful critique of those who speak in the name of the poor Adivasis in Jharkhand but use them only as a means for advancing their own interests; whether it is the ‘developmental state’ or the indigenous rights activists or political parties. In its meticulous research, the book explores the dangers of ’culture-making’ in the name of the indigenous population. The study provides much insight for those who are interested in questions regarding the nature and functioning of the Indian state, caste system and indigenous rights activism as well for the Left movement in India.” -- M. Muneer * Journal of Contemporary Asia *“In the Shadows of the State is a simple, engaging, and beautifully written book that makes a significant and original contribution to the global literature on the politics and practice of indigeneity, and to the rich body of critical geographical and anthropological research on tribal life and politics in Jharkhand and eastern India. It should be required reading for all scholars and activists committed to resolving the awkward relationship between indigeneity and indigence.” -- Haripriya Rangan * Journal of Asian Studies *“A brilliant ethnography…. Shah has succeeded in bringing a place, its people and their social and political relations to life. It is a pleasure to read, and an example of the possibility of skillful and expressive writing immersed in the texture of everyday life to enhance academic analysis.” -- Colin McFarlane * Environment and Planning D *“Shah uses eight years of field experience among the Munda in the recently independent (2000) state of Jharkhand to demonstrate the limitations of identity politics in the liberation of the rural poor and marginalized in India. . . . Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries.” -- B. Tavakolian * Choice *“Throughout the book aspirations, desires, and frustrations are all expressed by respondents in ways that do not fit the ways tribal communities are viewed by many of their external supporters. This is uncomfortable territory for many scholars and activists, yet the author forces readers to rethink their own positions and the choices we all make in our work. This is an outstanding book of importance for its content and the challenges it sets out to its readers.” -- Duncan McDuie-Ra * Asian Studies Review * "A must-read for those interested in the politics of indigenous rights activism and its intersection with issues of governance and the environment." -- Brian Dudley * Agriculture and Human Values *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Prologue 1 1. The Dark Side of Indigeneity 9 2. Not Just Ghosts: Democracy as Sacral Polity 36 3. Shadowy Practices: Development as Corruption 66 4. Dangerous Silhouettes: Elephants, Sacrifice, and Alcohol 99 5. Night Escape: Eco-incarceration, Purity, and Sex 130 6. The Terror Within: Revolution against the State? 162 Epilogue: Arcadian Spaces beyond the Shadows of the State 184 Glossary of Terms 191 Notes 193 Bibliography 237 Index 265
£25.19
University of Pittsburgh Press Nature and the Iron Curtain
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Danube Empire
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Fordham University Press Gasoline Dreams
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Imre Szeman | vii Introduction | 1 1 Petroculture | 13 2 Big, Oily Dreams | 49 3 Attachment | 77 4 Quilting Point | 107 5 Petrotemporality | 139 6 Scenarios | 169 7 Excess | 185 8 The Beach | 211 Afterword by Mark Simpson | 239 Acknowledgments | 243 Notes | 247 Bibliography | 253
£48.60
Fordham University Press Our Shared Storm A Novel of Five Climate Futures
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: One Story, Five Worlds | vii SSP2: Politics Is Personal | 1 SSP5: Too Fast to Fail | 45 SSP4: A Storm for Some | 85 SSP3: Hot Planet, Dirty Peace | 129 SSP1: If We Can Do This, We Can Do Asteroids! | 169 Afterword: Speculative Fiction, Climate Fiction, and Post-Normal Fiction | 207 Acknowledgments | 227 Works Cited | 229
£52.20
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Ethics and Global Environmental Policy
Book SynopsisThis collection of provocative essays re-evaluates the worldâs failed policy responses to climate change, in the process demonstrating how cosmopolitan ethics can inform global environmental governance.Trade ReviewWe've had 20 years of government-level conferences at Kyoto, Copenhagen and Cancun, but greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. Taking a cosmopolitan approach to climate change in this excellent and timely book, Paul Harris and his contributors argue that citizen action is an essential complement to state action. The challenging, unsettling and absolutely vital argument of these high-quality essays is that distance makes no moral difference in our globalised world; individual high emitters have a duty to reduce their emissions, wherever they are. --- Andrew Dobson, Keele, University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and Climate Change Policy Paul G. Harris 2. Climate Justice as Globalized Responsibility: Mitigation, Adaptation and Avoiding Harm to Others Steve Vanderheiden 3. Climate Change and the Cosmopolitan Responsibility of Individuals: Policy Vanguards Nigel Dower 4. Individual Responsibility and Voluntary Action on Climate Change: Activating Agency Jennifer Kent 5. Cosmopolitan Solutions ‘From Below’: Climate Change, International Law and the Capitalist Challenge Romain Felli 6. Sharing the Burdens of Climate Change: Environmental Justice and Qualified Cosmopolitanism Michael W. Howard 7. Cosmopolitanism and Hegemony: The United States and Climate Change Robert Paehlke 8. Overcoming the Planetary Prisoners’ Dilemma: Cosmopolitan Ethos and Pluralist Cooperation Philip S. Golub and Jean-Paul Maréchal 9. Cosmopolitan Diplomacy and the Climate Change Regime: Moving Beyond International Doctrine Paul G. Harris Index
£99.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Making Fishery Agreements Work PostAgreement
Book SynopsisNorway and Russia manage these fish resources together, in what appears to be a successful exception to the rule of failed fisheries management: stocks are in good shape, institutional cooperation is expanding and takes place in a constructive atmosphere.Trade ReviewEnvironmental governance is not just a matter of laying down clear rules and regulations and then finding ways to enforce them. Developing the idea of ''post-agreement bargaining'' and drawing on his exceptional knowledge of the world-class fisheries of the Barents Sea, Geir Honneland illuminates the ongoing processes of interpretation, mutual accommodation, and adjustment to changing circumstances that play an essential role in making environmental regimes work. --Oran Young, University of California, Santa BarbaraFishing vessels plying the cold waters of the Barents Sea provide the empirical basis for this extraordinary effort to answer the question of what it takes for people and their governments to make and stick to agreements and follow the rules. Based on years of study of arrangements between Norway and the Soviet Union/Russia and interviews with the captains of the fishing ships that seek cod and other species in the far north, Honneland brings findings and theory from many disciplines to the question. In so doing he offers a powerful argument about how post-agreement bargaining at both state and individual levels contributes to compliance and hence sustainable fisheries. --Bonnie McCay, Rutgers UniversityIn Making Fishery Agreements Work, Geir Honneland extends his reputation as a leading scholar on Norwegian/Russian fisheries relationships. His new contribution focuses on the complicated and hard to track post-bargaining processes that can be used to improve compliance over time in situations with large power differentials. Well grounded in compliance theory and common property resource management, Honneland's interviews and personal observations capture the empirical motivations that underlie compliance in joint Barent's Sea fisheries. --David Fluharty, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Common-pool Resource Management and Compliance with International Commitments 3. Fisheries Management in the Barents Sea 4. Post-agreement Bargaining at State Level 5. Post-agreement Bargaining at Individual Level 6. Conclusions References Index
£79.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economics of Climate Change and Environmental
Book SynopsisRobert N. Stavins has been one of the most influential voices inenvironmental economics and policy over the past two decades. The26 essays in this book, written by Professor Stavins and his co-authorsover the period 2000â2011, originally appeared in a diverse set ofleading, scholarly periodicals, and are collected here for the first time.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Robert N. Stavins PART I OVERVIEW 1. Robert N. Stavins (2011), ‘The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled after 100 Years’ 2. Robert W. Hahn, Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins (2003), ‘Environmental Regulation in the 1990s: A Retrospective Analysis’ 3. Forest L. Reinhardt, Robert N. Stavins and Richard H.K. Vietor (2008), ‘Corporate Social Responsibility through an Economic Lens’ PART II METHODS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ANALYSIS 4. Robert N. Stavins, Alexander F. Wagner and Gernot Wagner (2003), ‘Interpreting Sustainability in Economic Terms: Dynamic Efficiency Plus Intergenerational Equity’ 5. Lawrence H. Goulder and Robert N. Stavins (2002), ‘An Eye on the Future: How Economists’ Controversial Practice of Discounting Really Affects the Evaluation of Environmental Policies’ 6. Lori S. Bennear, Robert N. Stavins and Alexander F. Wagner (2005), ‘Using Revealed Preferences to Infer Environmental Benefits: Evidence from Recreational Fishing Licenses’ 7. Judson Jaffe and Robert N. Stavins (2007), ‘On the Value of Formal Assessment of Uncertainty in Regulatory Analysis’ PART III ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INSTRUMENTS 8. Robert N. Stavins (2006), ‘Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation’ 9. Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins (2003), ‘Cost Heterogeneity and the Potential Savings from Market-Based Policies’ 10. Robert W. Hahn and Robert N. Stavins (2011), ‘The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance’ 11. Lori Snyder Bennear and Robert N. Stavins (2007), ‘Second-Best Theory and the Use of Multiple Policy Instruments’ PART IV ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE 12. Adam B. Jaffe, Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins (2002), ‘Environmental Policy and Technological Change’ 13. Adam B. Jaffe, Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins (2005), ‘A Tale of Two Market Failures: Technology and Environmental Policy’ 14. Lori D. Snyder, Nolan H. Miller and Robert N. Stavins (2003), ‘The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing’ 15. Richard G. Newell, Adam B. Jaffe and Robert N. Stavins (2006), ‘The Effects of Economic and Policy Incentives on Carbon Mitigation Technologies’ PART V NATURAL RESOURCE AND ECONOMICS: LAND AND WATER 16. Ruben N. Lubowski, Andrew J. Plantinga and Robert N. Stavins (2008), ‘What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions’ 17. Robin Cross, Andrew J. Plantinga and Robert N. Stavins (2011), ‘What is the Value of Terroir?’ 18. Sheila M. Olmstead, W. Michael Hanemann and Robert N. Stavins (2007), ‘Water Demand under Alternative Price Structures’ PART VI DOMESTIC CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY 19. Robert N. Stavins (2008), ‘Addressing Climate Change with a Comprehensive US Cap-and-Trade System’ 20. Lawrence H. Goulder and Robert N. Stavins (2011), ‘Challenges from State-Federal Interactions in US Climate Change Policy’ 21. Ruben N. Lubowski, Andrew J. Plantinga and Robert N. Stavins (2006), ‘Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks: Econometric Estimation of the Carbon Sequestration Supply Function’ 22. Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins (2000), ‘Climate Change and Forest Sinks: Factors Affecting the Costs of Carbon Sequestration’ PART VII INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY 23. Joseph E. Aldy, Scott Barrett and Robert N. Stavins (2003), ‘Thirteen Plus One: A Comparison of Global Climate Policy Architectures’ 24. Robert N. Stavins (2005), ‘Beyond Kyoto: Getting Serious about Climate Change’ 25. Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins (2006), ‘An International Policy Architecture for the Post-Kyoto Era’ 26. Judson Jaffe, Matthew Ranson and Robert N. Stavins (2009), ‘Linking Tradable Permit Systems: A Key Element of Emerging International Climate Policy Architecture’
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Politics of Environmental Policy in Russia
Book SynopsisThis path-breaking book will be of enormous interest to scholars, researchers and students focusing on comparative environmental policy and politics, contemporary public policy in Russia, and international politics.Trade Review‘A fresh and up-to-date discussion of Russia’s manifold environmental crises, using the results of an elite survey and a framework based on the civil society literature. I believe this is the best treatment of its subject that is presently available and, given Russia’s enormous territorial extent, it is a study that has important implications for everyone who has any concern for the future of Planet Earth.’ -- Stephen White, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Civil Society, Environment and Russian Politics Post-1991 2. Russia’s Environmental Challenges and their Management 3. Environmental Civil Society through Russian Eyes: Stakeholder Views 4. Case Studies and their Insights into Civil Society Growth: Lake Baikal, Chelyabinsk and Genetically Modified Food 5. Interpreting Civil Society: Challenges, Change and Environmental Significance 6. Conclusions: The Bad, the Good and the Uncertain Appendix A: Summary of Survey Findings Appendix B: Questionnaire – Decision Making on Environmental and Natural Resource Issues References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental
Book SynopsisIn the current era of globalisation, national governments are increasingly exposed to international influences that present new constraints and opportunities for domestic environmental policies.Trade ReviewThis is undoubtedly a useful collection of essays for environmental policy-makers and anyone interested in the relationship between national government and transnational forces. . . the collection brings together some interesting perspectives and should prove a useful complement to the existing political sociology of the environment. - -- International Sociology - Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: OVERVIEW 1. Globalisation and National Environmental Policy: Update and Overview Frank Wijen, Kees Zoeteman, Jan Pieters and Paul van Seters 2. Environmental Policy Stringency and Foreign Direct Investment Margarita Kalamova and Nick Johnstone 3. Collaboration of National Governments and Global Corporations in Environmental Management Kees Zoeteman and Eric Harkink 4. Globalisation, Sustainable Development, and Environmental Policies in Developing Countries Hans Opschoor PART II: NATIONAL POLICIES IN A GLOBALISED WORLD 5. Globalisation and National Incentives for Protecting Environmental Goods: Types of Goods, Trade Effects, and International Collective Action Problems Alkuin Kölliker 6. National Environmental Policies and Multilateral Trade Rules Marion Jansen and Alexander Keck 7. Towards an Effective Eco-Innovation Policy in a Globalised Setting René Kemp, Luc Soete and Rifka Weehuizen 8. Standards and the Internationalisation of Environmental Practices and Policies Jan Pieters 9. Globalisation and Crop-Protection Policy Joost van Kasteren 10. Overcoming Limitations of National Governments to Mitigate Global Environmental Distortions Kees Zoeteman and Wouter Kersten PART III: NATIONAL INFLUENCE IN SUPRANATIONAL FORUMS 11. Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the United States David Vogel, Michael Toffel, Diahanna Post and Nazli Uludere Aragon 12. The Dispersion of Authority in the European Union and its Impact on Environmental Legislation Ludwig Krämer 13. Different Countries, Different Strategies: ‘Green’ Member States Influencing EU Climate Policy Sietske Veenman and Duncan Liefferink 14. Mutual Recognition in the Testing of Chemicals through the OECD Rob Visser 15. Strategies to Prevent Illegal Logging Saskia Ozinga and Hannah Mowat 16. Financing Global Public Goods: Responding to Global Environmental Challenges Pedro Conceição and Inge Kaul 17. Globalisation and Environmental Policy Design Konrad von Moltke 18. Governments and Policy Networks: Chances, Risks, and a Missing Strategy Charlotte Streck and Eleni Dellas 19. Globalisation and Environmental Stewardship: A Global Governance Perspective Daniel Esty and Maria Ivanova PART IV: PUBLIC-PRIVATE INTERACTIONS 20. Partnerships for Sustainable Development in a Globalised World: A Reflection on Market-Oriented and Policy-Oriented Partnerships Pieter Glasbergen 21. Overcoming the Limitations of Environmental Law in a Globalised World Jonathan Verschuuren 22. Business Drivers of Sustainable Development: The Role and Influence of the WBCSD, a Global Business Network Björn Stigson and Margaret Flaherty 23. The Influence of Non-Governmental Environmental Organisations on EU Policies John Hontelez 24. The Role of Citizen-Consumers in Globalising Environmental Politics Gert Spaargaren and Arthur Mol 25. Trading with Carbon: A Global Response to a Global Challenge Moritz von Unger and Thiago Chagas Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Multilevel Environmental Governance
Book SynopsisThe literature on Multi-level governance (MLG), an approach that explicitly looks at the system of the many interacting authority structures at work in the global political economy, has grown significantly over the last decade. The authors in this volume examine how multilevel governance (MLG) systems address climate change and water policy.Table of ContentsContents: PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE 1. Introduction Inger Weibust 2. Too Many Levels or Just About Right? Multilevel Governance and Environmental Performance Daniel J. Fiorino PART II: MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE OF WATER RESOURCES 3. Subsidiarity as a ‘Scaling Device’ in Environmental Governance: The Case of the European Union David Benson and Andrew Jordan 4. Multilevel Governance and the Politics of Environmental Water Recoveries B. Timothy Heinmiller 5. Playing a Zero Sum Game: Sharing Water between Jurisdictions in Federations Inger Weibust PART III: MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION 6. Climate Governance in the European Union Multi-level System: The Role of the Cities Kristine Kern 7. Bottom-up versus Top-down: The Evolving American Climate Policy Odyssey Barry G. Rabe 8. Institutional Strength, Intergovernmental Relations, and National Climate Policy Coordination: Australia and Canada Compared David Gordon and Douglas Macdonald 9. Allocating Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Amongst Sectors and Jurisdictions in Federated Systems: The European Union, Germany and Canada Douglas Macdonald PART IV: FINDINGS ON EFFECTIVENESS AND GOVERNANCE PATTERNS 10. Ensuring the Effectiveness of European Union Environmental Law: From Supranational Lawmaking to Multilevel Enforcement Marc Pallemaerts 11. What is Multilevel Environmental Governance? When Does It Work? Inger Weibust Index
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Willamette River Greenways Navigating the
Book SynopsisDrawing on the author's experience as a paddler and as the leader of an environmental nonprofit working to protect the Willamette River, this book illustrates what it is like to travel the Willamette River Greenway. It also provides an account of how the State of Oregon and other entities fail to protect the river's water quality and habitat.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Rethinking Nature Relations
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘So many environmental problems stem from seeing humans as distinct from nature. This perceptive book critically interrogates the nature-human divide, encouraging us to move beyond binary thinking as a route to environmental wellbeing. All who wrestle with humanity’s place on Earth and the intellectual foundations of environmentalism will benefit from this careful and clear-eyed book.’ -- Paul Wapner, American University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: rethinking nature relations beyond binaries 2. Classification and dichotomy 3. Deconstructing understandings of nature 4. Nature and use as multi-locality: neither urban nor rural 5. Nature as multi-use: neither productivism nor landscape 6. Nature use as multi-identity: neither leisure nor work 7. Nature and nature use as multi-interest: neither wilderness nor conflict-free 8. Possibilities for understanding and continuing land-use culture 9. Implications for conceptions of management and planning: beyond a private and common property contradiction 10. Conclusion: we were never Western References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Law Governance and Planetary
Book SynopsisTrade Review'The planetary boundaries concept provides an ideal framework for connecting science with law at the global level. This book explores this connection in great detail, from our undeniable need for limits and the fundamental concepts of ethics, justice and governance to the comprehensive assessment of the legal implications of each of the individual boundaries.' -- - Will Steffen, The Australian National University'Co-edited by Duncan French and Louis Kotz - two of the foremost scholars in the field of environmental law in the era of the Anthropocene - this Research Handbook is the first comprehensive attempt to investigate, from a legal perspective, the human dimensions of scientific concepts of planetary boundaries. The book brings together a fascinating series of contributions from some of the leading legal thinkers in the field. At a time when raging fires and other ''unprecedented'' environmental disasters are providing increasing evidence of the consequences of failing to respect planetary limits, this book is a timely and important reminder of the contribution that can be made by law in ensuring that humanity and our environment remain within the planet's ''safe operating space''.' -- -- Jacqueline Peel, University of Melbourne, Australia'If international environmental law is to stay relevant in the face of overwhelming evidence of its inability to address the galloping environmental harms humanity is witnessing, it needs to embrace a fundamental reset of its premises, conceptual pillars, and governance models. Such a reset requires imagination -- imagination that is outrageous in its ambition and fuelled by outrage. This Research Handbook, edited by two of the finest international environmental law scholars of our time, Duncan French and Louis Kotz, is a work of such outrageous imagination. It challenges legal boundaries in its quest to protect planetary ones, and in so doing takes us closer to law and governance fit for environmental purpose.' -- - Lavanya Rajamani, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xi Preface xii 1 Staying within the planet’s ‘safe operating space’? Law and the planetary boundaries 1 Louis J. Kotzé and Duncan French PART I LEGAL, ETHICAL AND GOVERNANCE DIMENSIONS OF THE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES 2 Exploring the planetary boundaries and environmental law: historical development, interactions and synergies 21 Alice Bleby, Cameron Holley and Ben Milligan 3 Governing the complexity of planetary boundaries: a state-of-the-art analysis of social science scholarship 45 Rakhyun E. Kim and Louis J. Kotzé 4 Planetary boundaries, planetary ethics and climate justice in the Anthropocene 65 Sam Adelman 5 Science, law and planetary uncertainty 84 Lynda Collins 6 Planetary boundaries intra muros : cities and the Anthropocene 103 Helmut Philipp Aust and Janne E. Nijman PART II INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES 7 Planetary boundaries and regime interaction in international law 125 Dario Piselli and Harro van Asselt 8 Changing role of law-making in responding to planetary boundaries? 147 Giovanna M. Frisso and Elizabeth A. Kirk 9 International law, planetary boundaries and teleconnections 167 Ellen Hey 10 Compliance with planetary boundaries in international law 183 Jonas Ebbesson 11 Exploring the planetary boundaries’ wasteland: international law and the advent of the Molysmocene 203 Michael Hennessy Picard and Olivier Barsalou PART III PLANETARY BOUNDARIES AND THE LAW 12 Loss of biosphere integrity (biodiversity loss and extinctions) 221 Han Somsen and Arie Trouwborst 13 Climate change 245 Jonathan Verschuuren 14 Stratospheric ozone depletion 260 Louise du Toit 15 Atmospheric aerosol loading 277 Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli and Emily Webster 16 Ocean acidification 294 Tim Stephens 17 Nitrogen and phosphorus flows to the biosphere and oceans 309 Daniela Diz 18 Freshwater consumption and the global hydrological cycle 324 Nathan John Cooper 19 Land system change 342 Karen Morrow 20 Chemical pollution (and the release of novel entities) 363 Tiina Paloniitty, Chukwukpee Nzegwu and Duncan French Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Teaching and Learning for Sustainable
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This is a Handbook that focuses on two key aspects of our daily lives: sustainability and education. They are presented in a way which develops a sense of internalisation and ownership as the ever-increasing links between the two aspects are fleshed out. The Handbook is well organised and utilises a diverse array of case studies from different regions and continents and a tapestry of different methodologies. This adds to the richness of the work, as it manages to engage the reader with a pragmatic approach to re-orient existing educational practices towards sustainability. The Handbook is a welcome addition to the growing literature on sustainability and education, and offers more than just a glimmer of hope that sustainability can be achieved through education - it offers an actual path.‘Table of ContentsContents: Preface xii Introduction to the Handbook on Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development 1 Walter Leal Filho and Amanda Lange Salvia PART I TEACHING PRACTICES 1 International service-learning as a driver for sustainability competencies development 10 María Olga Bernaldo and Gonzalo Fernández-Sánchez 2 Information science and informational sustainability: a discipline in construction 29 Marli Dias de Souza Pinto and Genilson Geraldo 3 Insights into early childhood students’ interconnected learning in relation to education for sustainability through creative approaches and hermeneutics in higher education 41 Diane Boyd and Naomi McLeod 4 ‘Bad Plastics – Oceans Free of Plastic’: the role of education 62 Elisabete Linhares and Bento Cavadas 5 Sustainable higher education institutions: promoting a holistic approach 75 Usha Iyer-Raniga and Karishma Kashyap 6 Student-led sustainability actions at Latin American universities: a case study from Chile 93 Claudia Mac-lean, Isabella Villanueva and Jean Hug. 7 Understanding recycling behavior in the university: a case study from Southern Chile 109 Rodrigo Vargas-Gaete, Paula Guarda-Saavedra and Javiera Eskuche 8 Sustainability in Finnish craft education: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda as a frame for an overview 121 Niina Väänänen and Sinikka Pöllönen 9 Infusing education for sustainable development (ESD) into curricula: teacher educators’ experiences within the School of Education at The University of the West Indies, Jamaica 133 Carmel Roofe, Therese Ferguson, Carol Hordatt Gentles, Sharon Bramwell-Lalor, Loraine D. Cook, Aldrin E. Sweeney, Canute Thompson and Everton Cummings 10 Teaching leadership skills to sustainability professionals 152 R. Bruce Hull, David P. Robertson, and Michael Mortimer 11 Sustainability goals, mental health and violence: convergent dialogues in research and higher education 163 Sonia Regina da Cal Seixas and João Luiz de Moraes Hoeffel 12 The Sustainable Development Goals in the context of university extension projects: the Brazilian case of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) 179 Luan Santos, Victória Fernandes da Silva, Isabella Arlochi de Oliveira and Bruno Neves Amado 13 Teachers’ training as a way of increasing sustainable traditional livelihoods in the coastal region of Paraty, Brazil 196 Marina Alves Novaes e Cruz, Ana Claudia Campuzano Martinez, Cecilia Maria Marafelli, Katherine Cilae Benedict, Maria Inês Rocha de S., Leonardo Esteves de Freitas and Edmundo Gallo 14 Field notes: teaching sustainable business to environmental scientists 208 Diana Watts PART II INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES 15 Innovations in curriculum and pedagogy in education for sustainable development 219 Hock Lye Koh and Su Yean Teh 16 Digital storytelling as OER-enabled pedagogy: sustainable teaching in a digital world 238 Daniel Otto 17 Addressing the SDGs through an integrated model of collaborative education 252 Wendy Stubbs, Susie S.Y. Ho, Jessica K. Abbonizio, Stathi Paxinos and Joannette J. (Annette) Bos 18 Measuring transformative learning for sustainability in higher education: application of an augmented Learning Activities Survey 272 Elizabeth Sidiropoulos 19 The need to build the concept of environment within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals 290 Rocío Jiménez-Fontana, Esther García-González and Antonio Navarrete 20 Interdisciplinary training for the transformation of teaching in the context of sustainability 306 Osvaldo Luiz Gonçalves Quelhas, Sergio Luiz Braga França, Marcelo Jasmim Meiriño, Gilson Brito Alves Lima, Luís Perez Zotes and Nicholas Van-Erven Ludolf 21 Extra-curricular activities as a way of teaching sustainability 323 Gert-Olof Boström, Katarina Winka and Katarzyna Wolanik Boström 22 Fostering empathy towards effective sustainability teaching: from the Food Sustainability Index educational toolkit to a new pedagogical model 335 Sonia Massari, Francesca Allievi and Francesca Recanati 23 Making economics relevant: incorporating sustainability 350 Madhavi Venkatesan 24 Towards sustainability as a frame of mind in higher education: thinking about sustainability rhizomatically 366 Dzintra Iliško 25 Implementing a green co-learning center to support sustainable campus development 376 Cahyono Agus, Nur Aini Iswati Hasanah, Aqmal Nur Jihad, Pita Asih Bekti Cahyanti, Muhammad Sulaiman, and Suratman 26 An exploration of interdisciplinary settings as intellectual spaces for sustainability in higher education 389 Rudi W. Pretorius 27 Stepping toward a sense of place: a choreography of natural and social science 406 Michael-Anne Noble, Hilary Leighton and Ann Dale 28 Preserving sustainability: activating the ecological university through collective food practice 418 Monica Dantas, Sherif Goubran and Nadra Wagdy 29 Taday’s agrofestive calendar – Ecuador: a methodology for creating a sustainability experience with a dialogue of knowledge approach 435 María Fernanda Acosta Altamirano, Verónica Gabriela Tacuri Albarracín and Erika Gabriela Araujo P.rez 30 Free online spaces for learning and awareness in the sustainability field: the Universidade da Coruña (Spain) project 445 María Alló, Carmen Gago-Cortés, Ángeles Longarela-Ares and Estefanía Mourelle 31 Sustainability in the workplace and the theory of planned behaviour: norms and identity predict environmentally friendly intentions 462 Dennis Nigbur, Ana Fernández, Sharon Coen, Anke Franz and Ian Hocking 32 Challenges in sustainability teaching 473 Walter Leal Filho Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Understanding Marine Changes
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Through 13 chapters, the editors and authors of this book are to be congratulated in showcasing not only Finnish research into marine social and natural sciences but also including information in adjacent Baltic waters as well as theories and concepts which are relevant worldwide. The chapters show the importance of integrated research linked to marine and coastal management and governance.’ -- Mike Elliott, University of Hull, UK‘This volume offers an impressive array of case studies demonstrating how different disciplines, and different community voices, can work in dialogue to illuminate the complexity of “wicked” environmental problems – and how they may be remediated. A rich and stimulating read for scholars, artists and activists concerned with the world’s oceans.’ -- Jane Costlow, Bates College, US‘This is a rare case of transdisciplinary study that deals with so-called wicked environmental problems i.e. those, where the stakeholders represent different systems of values, and natural sciences can’t give the full picture. Reaching for art, traditional knowledge and the new field of “marine social sciences” permits us to present the complexity of situations that we are all going to face with climate change.’ -- Jan Marcin Węsławski, Institute of Oceanology PAN, PolandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: towards holistic knowledge of marine environmental changes 1 Nina Tynkkynen, Savitri Jetoo, Jaana Kouri, Silja Laine and Anna Törnroos PART I INTERDISCIPLINARITY OF CONCEPTS AND METHODS 2 Climate change scenarios and future legal challenges: the northern seas experiment 22 Viljam Engström and Michel Rouleau-Dick 3 The anti-landscapes of the Arctic: understanding circumpolar sea–land relationships from a Lacanian perspective 43 Chenru Xue PART II INTERDISCIPLINARITY WITHIN AND BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS 4 Environmental heritage for sustainability 67 Nina Tynkkynen, Jaana Kouri, Silja Laine, Otto Latva, Tuomas Räsänen and Kirsi Sonck-Rautio 5 ‘Everything is protected now, but who protects the local people?’: local ecological knowledge of Kihnu Island 86 Raivo Kalle, Anatole Danto, Renata Sõukand and Andrea Pieroni 6 The anatomy of complex marine problems: a case study of decision-making on archipelagic aquaculture 106 Henrik Ringbom, Magnus Hellström, Christian Pansch, Nina Tynkkynen and Anna Törnroos PART III CO-CREATING ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE 7 Sea and me: creative writing as a research method in the co-creation of environmental heritage 136 Jaana Kouri and Savitri Jetoo 8 Many voices and tipping point: two case studies of art and science collaborations as processes of knowledge production 154 Laura Hellsten and Frank Berger 9 Creative environmental relationships enhance resilience: sensobiographic walks at Kokemäenjoki river 175 Inkeri Aula PART IV ENGAGING WITH THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLD 10 Hydro-sociality: life by the North Water in High Arctic Greenland 197 Kirsten Hastrup 11 Art of navigating shifting salinities and shorelines 210 Taru Elfving 12 The concept of plasticology 228 Agnieszka Dąbrowska 13 Marine plastic waste: new technologies for plastic waste minimization 246 Małgorzata Rusińska, Anna Woźna and Michał Rybka Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Land Water Air and Freedom
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘In what may serve as a capstone to his distinguished career, Joan Martínez-Alier gives us both a monument to environmental justice scholarship and a practical guide to roughly 500 environmental justice campaigns over the last two centuries. Land, Water, Air and Freedom makes a strong case that one of the characteristics of our age is a worldwide environmental justice movement. It is gathering pace, but often in the shadows and out of plain sight, because it is most vigorous on the remote commodity frontiers of the industrial economy – where oil drilling, copper mining, or timber felling take place. This book makes clear both the most fundamental feature of the industrial economy – entropy – and the determination of grandmothers, sharecroppers, housewives, fisherfolk, mineworkers, and many others, to resist. It belongs on the shelf of everyone concerned with environmental justice, environmental politics, environmental sociology, environmental history, or the state of their planet.’ -- J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University, US‘With Land, Water, Air and Freedom Joan Martínez-Alier, one of the pioneers of ecological economics and political ecology, emerges with his team as the premier cartographer of environmental conflicts worldwide. This highly accomplished book is many things at once: a vivid account of a lifetime’s intellectual and political journey, a monumental compendium of ecological struggles, and an inspiring ontological reframing of the economy beyond growth, based on the pluriverse of modes of life and languages of valuation embodied in the incredible global ferment of popular praxes against industrial extraction. Other worlds and futures are possible – indeed, they are underway. This book is bound to become an indispensable resource for those committed to the profound socioecological transitions demanded from our troubling time.’ -- Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, US‘This book is the last door of a trilogy, as the author states, that opens a passage from the nearest to the remotest ecologies of the world transformed into commodity frontiers. It forcefully proves that environmental justice movements are at the same time movements for life and freedom. Joan Martínez-Alier's activism and solidarity-based work in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is to a large extent comparable to what Marx achieved in the second half of the 19th century. Both trace the transformations unfolded by the commodity form: Marx's trilogy built a socio-historical critique of political economy, revealed class conflict as a social distribution and valuation conflict, and recognized the class struggle for social justice. Martínez-Alier's trilogy has built an ecological critique of economics, revealed ecological distribution and valuation conflicts, and recognized the world-movements for environmental justice.’ -- Zehra Tasdemir Yasin, University of Ankara, Turkey‘Twenty years after the publication of the now classic The Environmentalism of the Poor, Joan Martínez-Alier, the most outstanding environmental justice scholar of our time has gifted humanity with a new book: Land, Water, Air and Freedom - The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice. With emphasis on the political force that aspires to bring social justice through environmental struggles, this tour de force is a product of many decades of Joan's deep commitment to environmental justice through the scholar-activist method of work.’ -- Saturnino M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands‘Land, Water, Air and Freedom is a tour de force, deftly weaving together insights from decades of research on ecological distribution conflicts and the global environmental justice movement. Spanning an impressive range of regions and issues, Professor Martínez-Alier's inspiring research sheds light on the complex power relations and socio-ecological processes surrounding environmental justice struggles. This vital book challenges dominant economic paradigms, identifies alternative pathways toward wellbeing, sustainability, and justice, and offers important tools for activism.’ -- Alice Mah, University of Glasgow, UK‘Drawing on a treasure trove of cases from the acclaimed EJ Atlas, renowned ecological economist Joan Marti´nez-Alier has produced a breathtaking study of ecological distribution conflicts around the world. This book will fundamentally transform our thinking and actions concerning environmental justice in the 21st century.’ -- David N. Pellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction: comparative political ecology – the EJAtlas, geographical and thematic perspectives 2 Japan: toxic archipelago 3 The Philippines: extractivism and violence 4 Women environmental defenders killed around the world 5 Taiwan’s environmental movement 6 China: political ecology with Chinese characteristics – limits to eco-compensation (with Dr Juan Liu) 7 The Arctic, a growing commodity extraction frontier, with Ksenija Hanaček 8 India: Odisha, one of the states which are victims of “extractivism” 9 India: Kerala and Tamil Nadu 10 The world anti-nuclear movement since the 1970s 11 Biodiversity conservation: “militarized conservation” vs “convivial conservation” 12 East Africa: Kenya and Tanzania, wildlife and human livelihoods 13 South East Africa: Madagascar and Mozambique; transnationals and BINGOs 14 Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea: “we thought it was oil but it was blood” 15 Sand mining for metallic minerals: a new commodity frontier, with Arpita Bisht 16 Blockadia and climate justice: LFFU movements 17 The Andean countries and Southern Cone 18 Mesoamerica and the Caribbean: from Zacatecas to Neo Zapatismo 19 Brazil and the Guianas: iron ores, tailings dams and land conflicts 20 Working-class environmentalism 21 Agrarian justice and human ecology 22 Religious groups as environmental activists 23 The Iberian Peninsula: transboundary conflicts 24 The United States: the cradle of environmental justice against environmental racism 25 Indigenous revival and resistance around the world 26 Preciosities vs bulk commodities in ecologically unequal trade 27 Corporate social irresponsibility and systematic lack of environmental liability 28 Environmental activism, uncertain risks and post-normal science 29 Population and resources: feminism and neo-Malthusianism, with Eduard Masjuan 30 Conclusion: is there a global environmental justice movement? 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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Transformation of Environmental Law and Gove
Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge book considers the functional inseparability of risk and innovation within the context of environmental law and governance. Analysing both âhardâ and âsoftâ innovation, the book argues that approaches to socio-ecological risk require innovation in order for society and the environment to become more resilient.Trade Review‘Sindico, Switzer and Qin's prescient volume brings answers to some of the most crucial questions in law, and indeed, in society today. In a comprehensive analysis spanning topics from food and agriculture, to climate change and energy, it demonstrates the importance of understanding the connections between socio-ecological risk, legal innovation and ecological and societal resilience. It should have a place on the bookshelf of all legal scholars.’ -- Elizabeth Kirk, University of Lincoln, UK‘In the face of ongoing and emerging environmental pressures, the foundations of environmental law are rapidly changing, with new actors and new forms of regulation challenging existing preconceptions of how environmental law works. This book offers a timely look into the forces of risk, innovation and resilience underpinning and reflecting these changes. Sindico, Switzer and Qin have successfully brought together a diverse cast of established and early career scholars to shed new light on the dynamic evolution of environmental law.’ -- Harro van Asselt, University of Eastern Finland‘Never has environmental law been more paradoxical; the need for it so obvious whilst its impact seemingly less notable. Society is grappling not only with a wide range of challenges, across multiple sectors but how it confronts them is also changing. As the contributors to this book reveal, searching for answers and new ways of doing things is essential, whilst underlining the continual challenges of human folly. This collection opens up the conversation, revealing new insights and explores some of the ongoing problems.’ -- Duncan French, University of Lincoln, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Risk, innovation and resilience: moving towards mutual supportiveness 2 Francesco Sindico, Stephanie Switzer and Qin Tianbao PART II INNOVATION 2 Fracking and environmental law for sustainability: an era of global ecological risks and the imperative of legal transformations 15 Patryck de Araújo Ayala and Mariana Carvalho Victor Coelho PART III RISK 3 Innovating societal response to radiation risk: insights from the Fukushima Safecast case 34 Anna Berti Suman 4 Drug pollution from manufacturing, antimicrobial resistance and the importation of pharmaceutical active ingredients from third countries. The European drug safety regime under scrutiny: key legal and institutional aspects, challenges and opportunities 51 Elodie Le Gal PART IV RESILIENCE 5 Evaluating community resilience in promoting ecological and social justice in groundwater governance: lessons from India 75 Stellina Jolly 6 Strengthening the role of traditional leaders for effective local community participation in environmental management in Malawi 93 Gift Dorothy Makanje PART V CLIMATE CHANGE 7 Integrating climate change into impact assessments: key design elements 112 Meinhard Doelle 8 ‘Innovation’ and the law in state reports on climate change action 130 He Xiangbai and Alexander Zahar 9 Climate change law and colonialism: the rights of nature and a hypothetical case for bison person in Canada 148 Laura S. Lynes PART VI ENERGY 10 Community renewable energy for sustainable development 168 Richard Ottinger, Tom Bourgeois, Robert Habermann and Achinthi Vithanage PART VII FRESHWATER 11 The construction of the Três Marias dam and the absence of public policies for the arrival of the waters in the municipality of Morada Nova de Minas in Brazil 190 Mônica Thaís Souza Ribeiro, Izabela Zanotelli Collares and Danuta R. N. de Souza Calazans PART VIII BIODIVERSITY AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND LAND, FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 12 Blockchain technology for food security? Resilience potential and risk identification for the Multilateral System of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture 207 Thomas Gils and Christine Frison 13 Synthetic biology and international environmental law: time to move from definition to regulation 226 David Leary PART IX OCEANS 14 Climate proofing ocean governance: a journey through unchartered waters 245 Simone Borg PART X HUMAN RIGHTS 15 A new frontier in human rights law: the proposed third international covenant on the right of human beings to the environment 266 Michel Prieur and Mohamed Ali Mekouar PART XI LITIGATION 16 Resilience and access to climate justice 285 Morgan Eleanor Harris Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Rethinking Environmental Security
Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book explores how the global ecological crisis profoundly challenges conventional meanings of environmental security and raises important questions about how states and other institutions now face the future.Trade Review‘This extraordinarily comprehensive book provides an ontological and political reworking of one of the master concepts in International Relations – security – to help us grasp the multiple dangers and anxieties associated with the unsustainable trajectory of global capitalist societies in the Anthropocene. Simultaneously critical and visionary, this unique account pushes us to see environmental security as less about environmental and social protection and more about world making.’ -- Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia‘Simon Dalby has long been a thorn in the side of business-as-usual approaches to ecology, security, and planetary futures. In Rethinking Environmental Security, he demonstrates that existing practices cannot create security—not for the planet, not for its people, and not for a political-economic system premised on climate stability and ever-expanding fossil fuel use. Dalby shows that the firepower destabilizing the international system is not military might, but the extractivist logic of the world’s energy economy. Climate stationarity is dead—and promises to take with it much of the thinking about security, territoriality and risk that brought us to this point. Dalby reminds us that nothing will change until our understanding of security wakes up to the politics of the Anthropocene.’ -- Ken Conca, American University, US‘Simon Dalby has been at the forefront of efforts to rethink “security”, “environmental security” and the discipline of International Relations for almost three decades. Rethinking Environmental Security is a lucid and important addition to this body of work, framed around the claim that, in a world of both war and climate change, humanity needs to develop ways of controlling firepower in all its forms.’ -- Jan Selby, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to Rethinking Environmental Security 1. Realism, firepower and insecurity 2. Sustainable development/environmental insecurity 3. Geostory: deep time and history 4. The geopolitics of colonizing nature 5. Global security/environmental conflict 6. Catastrophic and existential risks 7. Whole earth security: an engineered world 8. Environmental peacebuilding Conclusion References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Chinas Climate Policy
£85.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Teaching Environmental Justice
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Sustainability Policy
Book SynopsisA complete guide to sustainability policy at the federal, state, and local levels Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy is a fundamental guide for public sector professionals new to sustainability policy development, implementation, strategy, and practice. Featuring detailed cases highlighting innovative sustainability initiatives, this book explores the elements that constitute effective policy, and the factors that can help or hinder implementation and adoption. Readers gain insight into policies in effect at the federal, state, and local levels, in the areas of water, energy, material use, and waste management, and the reasons why local policies are often the most innovative and successful. Discussion surrounding monitoring and measurement addresses the lack of standardization, as well as the government''s critical role in leading the field toward generally accepted sustainability metrics, while outlining the reasons why certain policTable of ContentsPreface: The Role of Government in the Transition to a Sustainable Economy vii Acknowledgments xv Chapter 1 What is Sustainability Management? 1 Chapter 2 Why We Need Sustainability Public Policy 21 Chapter 3 Policy Levers for Sustainability: The Federal Level 45 Chapter 4 Policy Levers for Sustainability: The State Level 83 Chapter 5 Policy Levers for Sustainability: The Local Level 123 Chapter 6 Sustainability Measurement and Metrics 161 Chapter 7 The Politics of Sustainability 187 Chapter 8 Conclusion 217 References 227 About the Authors 263 Index 267
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Globalization and Environment Reader
Book SynopsisThe Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting-edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can be made compatible with sustainable development.Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction: The Globalization and Environment Debate 1J. Timmons Roberts and Peter Newell Part I Going Global 21 Introduction 23 1 The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? (2007) 27Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill 2 Address at the Closing Ceremony of the Eighth and Final Meeting of the World Commission on Environment and Development and the Tokyo Declaration (1987) 43Gro Harlem Brundtland 3 Foxes in Charge of the Chickens (1993) 51Nicholas Hildyard 4 Can the Environment Survive the Global Economy? (1997) 63Edward Goldsmith 5 Ecological Modernization and the Global Economy (2002) 77Arthur P. J. Mol 6 Environment and Globalization: Five Propositions (2010) 94Adil Najam, David Runnalls, and Mark Halle Part II The Nature of Globalization – Cases and Trends in Globalization 109 Introduction 111 7 The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital (1997) 117Robert Costanza, Ralph d’Arge, Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O’Neill, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Marjan Van den Belt, and Paul Sutton 8 Sustainability and Markets: On the Neoclassical Model of Environmental Economics (1997) 134Michael Jacobs 9 Crafting the Next Generation of Market-Based Environmental Tools (1997) 148Jeremy B. Hockenstein, Robert N. Stavins, and Bradley W. Whitehead 10 Climate Fraud and Carbon Colonialism: The New Trade in Greenhouse Gases (2004) 162Heidi Bachram 11 The Business of Sustainable Development (1992) 177Stephen Schmidheney 12 The “Commons” versus the “Commodity”: Alter-globalization, Anti-privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South (2007) 187Karen Bakker Part III Explaining the Relationship between Globalization and the Environment 211 Introduction 213 13 Peril or Prosperity? Mapping Worldviews of Global Environmental Change (2011) 219Jennifer Clapp and Peter Dauvergne 14 Introduction to World Development Report, 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Global Economy (2003) 233World Bank 15 The Political Ecology of Globalization (2012) 247Peter Newell 16 Institutions for the Earth: Promoting International Environmental Protection (1992) 262Marc A. Levy, Peter M. Haas, and Robert O. Keohane Part IV Governing Globalization and the Environment 279 Introduction 281 17 Trading Up and Governing Across: Transnational Governance and Environmental Protection (1997) 285David Vogel 18 The WTO and the Undermining of Global Environmental Governance (2000) 294Ken Conca 19 Private Environmental Governance and International Relations: Exploring the Links (2003) 299Robert Falkner 20 Managing Multinationals: The Governance of Investment for the Environment (2001) 309Peter Newell 21 Reforming Global Environmental Governance: The Case for a United Nations Environment Organisation (UNEO) (2012) 323Frank Biermann Part V Can Globalization be Greened? 333 Introduction 335 22 Whose Common Future: Reclaiming the Commons (1994) 341The Ecologist 23 Resisting ‘Globalisation-from-above’ Through ‘Globalisation-from-below’ (1997) 362Richard Falk 24 Picking the Wrong Fight: Why Attacks on the World Trade Organization Pose the Real Threat to National Environmental and Public Health Protection (2005) 371Alasdair R. Young 25 What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (2010) 379Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster 26 Pathways of Human Development and Carbon Emissions Embodied in Trade (2012) 396Julia K. Steinberger, J. Timmons Roberts, Glen P. Peters, and Giovanni Baiocchi 27 Introduction to Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication (2012) 406United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 28 Critique of the Green Economy: Toward Social and Environmental Equity (2012) 422Barbara Unmüßig, Wolfgang Sachs, and Thomas Fatheuer Index 439
£28.45
Temple University Press,U.S. Mobilizing Science
Book SynopsisExplores the rise of a fresh kind of social movement - one that attempts to empower citizens through the use of expert scientific research. This title advances theories of social movements, development, and science and technology studies by examining how these fields intersect in cases around the globe.Trade Review “Mobilizing Science offers a sharp and focused analysis of the complicated relationship between scientists and lay-people in grassroots movements aimed at influencing policies on issues that have a strong technical component. McCormick grounds her arguments in two detailed cases that are extremely different in their overall contexts. Yet she is able to identify similar mechanisms at work, which have useful distinctions that are helpful in thinking about these types of movements more generally.”—William Gamson, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Media Research and Action Project at Boston College Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Democratizing Science Movements: Conditions for Success and Failure 2. The Environmental Breast Cancer Movement and the Scientific Basis for Contestation 3. Dam Impacts and Anti-dam Protest 4. Government Institutions and Corporate Interests: Instigating Movement Challenge 5. Democratizing Science 6. Democratizing Science as a Mechanismof Co-optation 7. Long- Term Struggles and Uncertain Futures 8. A Case for Making Science Accountable Contributors Appendix References Index
£53.55
Temple University Press,U.S. Refounding Environmental Ethics
Book SynopsisExplains environmental pragmatism and shows how to apply it to real world issuesTrade Review"Minteer's new book lives up to its title: Refounding Environmental Ethics. [Minteer] builds his search for environmental values on a firm foundation in social science, which is essential to his pragmatist approach. He builds on Dewey's conception of democracy to deepen and broaden the intellectual base for environmental pragmatism, supporting a pluralistic way to determine and pursue environmental values, and he intertwines his argument with case studies and real situations. [This] book will be especially useful for environmental ethics classes designed for environmental studies or environmental policy students." -Bryan G. Norton,Distinguished Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Foundations Old and New 2 Democracy and Environmental Ethics: A Justi'cation 3 The Public and Its Environmental Problems 4 Intrinsic Value for Pragmatists 5 Natural Piety, Environmental Ethics, and Sustainability 6 Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics: A Pragmatic Reconciliation 7 Pluralism, Contextualism, and Natural Resource Management: Getting Empirical in Environmental Ethics 8 A Practical Ethics for Ecologists and Biodiversity Managers (with James P. Collins) 9 Conservation after Preservation References Index
£64.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Refounding Environmental Ethics
Book SynopsisExplains environmental pragmatism and shows how to apply it to real world issuesTrade Review"Minteer's new book lives up to its title: Refounding Environmental Ethics. [Minteer] builds his search for environmental values on a firm foundation in social science, which is essential to his pragmatist approach. He builds on Dewey's conception of democracy to deepen and broaden the intellectual base for environmental pragmatism, supporting a pluralistic way to determine and pursue environmental values, and he intertwines his argument with case studies and real situations. [This] book will be especially useful for environmental ethics classes designed for environmental studies or environmental policy students." -Bryan G. Norton,Distinguished Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Foundations Old and New 2 Democracy and Environmental Ethics: A Justi'cation 3 The Public and Its Environmental Problems 4 Intrinsic Value for Pragmatists 5 Natural Piety, Environmental Ethics, and Sustainability 6 Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics: A Pragmatic Reconciliation 7 Pluralism, Contextualism, and Natural Resource Management: Getting Empirical in Environmental Ethics 8 A Practical Ethics for Ecologists and Biodiversity Managers (with James P. Collins) 9 Conservation after Preservation References Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Sustainable Failures
Book SynopsisExamines environmental policy from a sociological perspective, showing how our petro-dependency causes unprecedented environmental damage and threatens our democracyTrade Review"Cable looks into why we have had powerful laws that regulate specific impacts on high profile issues while topics tangentially related to our dependence on a petroleum-based economy fall into the 'don't bother me now' category of our collective attention and action... In addition to being an able researcher, Cable is a gifted storyteller... she dedicates most of her work to a broad and deep 'what's wrong with this picture' description of where we are and how we got here... This book puts the blame for our mess right where it belongs - on us as a society." Sustainability, August 2012 "Cable offers a sweeping analysis of how humans live outside their means, fostering a false duality between society and biosphere with decidedly unsustainable technological and petroleum energy dependence... Written for a broad audience, the work deftly combines a jargon-free sociological lens on human behavior with biophysical science questions of sustainability. Recommended." - Choice "Cable, an experienced and thoughtful environmental sociologist, in her latest book takes on important and difficult issues surrounding the development, implementation, and especially efficacy of environmental policy...This short and accessible book...[i]s well organized, interesting and clearly written. In addition to the broader arguments that run through the book, there are many well-chosen examples of particular environmental problems, events, and legislation that keep the book grounded and engaged with issues that are likely familiar to most undergraduates... [T]his work is nonetheless also worthy of being read by established scholars, since it presents analyses that are relevant to a variety of debates among researchers." - Contemporary Sociology, May 2014Table of ContentsPreface PART I Rationale for Sustainable Environmental Policy 1 The Shape of Sustainable Environmental Policy2 Modes of Human Subsistence, Environmental Impacts, and Environmental Policies3 The Poisoning of the Biosphere: The Petro-dependent Mode of SubsistencePART Il The United States: Prototype Petro-dependent Society 4 Petro-dependent Environmental Policies5 Violations of Ecological Principles: Resource Depletion and Pollution6 Living in the State of Denial: Conflict and the Contamination of Workplaces, Communities, and Citizens7 Broken Promises: Environmental Injustices8 Petro-dependent Obstacles to Sustainable Policies: The Corporate State and Its Institutional and Cultural ReflectionsPART III Environmental Policy in the Petro-dependent Empire9 International Environmental Policymaking10 Global Environmental Problems: Overpopulation, Peak Oil, and Climate Change11 Sustaining Unsustainability: The Transnational Corporate StatePART IV And So . . . 12 Once There Was a Planet in the Way Galaxy. . . APPENDIX Websites and Mission Statements: NGO Partners for the Global Plan of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based ActivitiesReferencesIndex
£68.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Sustainable Failures
Book SynopsisExamines environmental policy from a sociological perspective, showing how our petro-dependency causes unprecedented environmental damage and threatens our democracyTrade Review"Cable looks into why we have had powerful laws that regulate specific impacts on high profile issues while topics tangentially related to our dependence on a petroleum-based economy fall into the 'don't bother me now' category of our collective attention and action... In addition to being an able researcher, Cable is a gifted storyteller... she dedicates most of her work to a broad and deep 'what's wrong with this picture' description of where we are and how we got here... This book puts the blame for our mess right where it belongs - on us as a society." Sustainability, August 2012 "Cable offers a sweeping analysis of how humans live outside their means, fostering a false duality between society and biosphere with decidedly unsustainable technological and petroleum energy dependence... Written for a broad audience, the work deftly combines a jargon-free sociological lens on human behavior with biophysical science questions of sustainability. Recommended." - ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface PART I Rationale for Sustainable Environmental Policy 1 The Shape of Sustainable Environmental Policy2 Modes of Human Subsistence, Environmental Impacts, and Environmental Policies3 The Poisoning of the Biosphere: The Petro-dependent Mode of SubsistencePART Il The United States: Prototype Petro-dependent Society 4 Petro-dependent Environmental Policies5 Violations of Ecological Principles: Resource Depletion and Pollution6 Living in the State of Denial: Conflict and the Contamination of Workplaces, Communities, and Citizens7 Broken Promises: Environmental Injustices8 Petro-dependent Obstacles to Sustainable Policies: The Corporate State and Its Institutional and Cultural ReflectionsPART III Environmental Policy in the Petro-dependent Empire9 International Environmental Policymaking10 Global Environmental Problems: Overpopulation, Peak Oil, and Climate Change11 Sustaining Unsustainability: The Transnational Corporate StatePART IV And So . . . 12 Once There Was a Planet in the Way Galaxy. . . APPENDIX Websites and Mission Statements: NGO Partners for the Global Plan of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based ActivitiesReferencesIndex
£22.49
Temple University Press,U.S. Where Rivers Meet the Sea
Book SynopsisA creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing lawTrade Review"This book is a fascinating and passionate ethnography of 'popular activism in local symbolic spaces' of Salvador, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina... [V]aluable for its comparative ethnographic account of how activists struggle with other non-state actors and state authorities regarding water in two port cities... [Kane's] ethnography tells a story that is passionate, insightful and moving, revealing the difficulties and contradictions that environmental movements face when confronting entrenched and powerful actors." - Journal of Latin American Studies, November 2013 "This is an important interdisciplinary work that uses a place-based approach to examine human relationships with water in the context of globalisation... [T]he detailed explorations of the human propensity to continue to engage in devastating practices with water, and whether social and environmental justice movements can do anything about these practices is insightful...[W]hat Kane has to say is worthwhile; she illuminates the struggles that lay people face in getting juridical institutions to implement the law to protect waters in a precautionary manner." - Environmental Politics "[A]n engagingly-written ethnography on the legal and cultural dimensions of water... Kane's analyses shine when they are grounded in the cultural history of place... Many of the issues, current and long-standing, that she examines find bedrock in these histories that give the stories their uniqueness of place in a globally connected world. The few words here cannot capture the thoughtful cultural analyses that occur throughout this book. The images provided by the author add welcomed dimension to the stories told." - Contemporary Sociology, May 2014Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1 IntroductionPART I Salvador da Bahia, Brazil2 Sense and Science at the Lake of Dark Waters3 Dune Shenanigans and Rebellious Festival Memories4 Of Sewage, Sacrifice, and Sacred SpringsCoda: The Assassination of Antonio Conceição ReisPART II Buenos Aires, Argentina5 Water History, Water Activism6 Iconic Bridges of la Boca and Madero (Dereliction as Opportunity)7 Neighbors Fight to Reverse Eco-Blind Engineering in Tigre Delta8 Convergent Protest from the Provinces: Hydroelectricity + Gold Mining = Water Predation9 ConclusionGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex
£60.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Where Rivers Meet the Sea
Book SynopsisA creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing lawTrade Review"This book is a fascinating and passionate ethnography of 'popular activism in local symbolic spaces' of Salvador, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina... [V]aluable for its comparative ethnographic account of how activists struggle with other non-state actors and state authorities regarding water in two port cities... [Kane's] ethnography tells a story that is passionate, insightful and moving, revealing the difficulties and contradictions that environmental movements face when confronting entrenched and powerful actors." - Journal of Latin American Studies, November 2013 "This is an important interdisciplinary work that uses a place-based approach to examine human relationships with water in the context of globalisation... [T]he detailed explorations of the human propensity to continue to engage in devastating practices with water, and whether social and environmental justice movements can do anything about these practices is insightful...[W]hat Kane has to say is worthwhile; she illuminates the struggles that lay people face in getting juridical institutions to implement the law to protect waters in a precautionary manner." - Environmental Politics "[A]n engagingly-written ethnography on the legal and cultural dimensions of water... Kane's analyses shine when they are grounded in the cultural history of place... Many of the issues, current and long-standing, that she examines find bedrock in these histories that give the stories their uniqueness of place in a globally connected world. The few words here cannot capture the thoughtful cultural analyses that occur throughout this book. The images provided by the author add welcomed dimension to the stories told." - Contemporary Sociology, May 2014Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1 IntroductionPART I Salvador da Bahia, Brazil2 Sense and Science at the Lake of Dark Waters3 Dune Shenanigans and Rebellious Festival Memories4 Of Sewage, Sacrifice, and Sacred SpringsCoda: The Assassination of Antonio Conceição ReisPART II Buenos Aires, Argentina5 Water History, Water Activism6 Iconic Bridges of la Boca and Madero (Dereliction as Opportunity)7 Neighbors Fight to Reverse Eco-Blind Engineering in Tigre Delta8 Convergent Protest from the Provinces: Hydroelectricity + Gold Mining = Water Predation9 ConclusionGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Sinking Chicago
Book Synopsis In Sinking Chicago, Harold Platt shows how people responded to climate change in one American city over a hundred-and-fifty-year period. During a long dry spell before 1945, city residents lost sight of the connections between land use, flood control, and water quality. Then, a combination of suburban sprawl and a wet period of extreme weather events created damaging runoff surges that sank Chicago and contaminated drinking supplies with raw sewage. Chicagoans had to learn how to remake a city built on a prairie wetland. They organized a grassroots movement to protect the six river watersheds in the semi-sacred forest preserves from being turned into open sewers, like the Chicago River. The politics of outdoor recreation clashed with the politics of water management. Platt charts a growing constituency of citizens who fought a corrupt political machine to reclaim the region’s waterways and Lake Michigan as a single eco-system. Environmentalists contested poliTrade Review"Platt has written the first study of the effects of long-term climate change on the American city of Chicago. It is an important undertaking, and the author is fit for the task.... Platt’s fine study, then, is a model for how other historians might write the history of ongoing climate change—with a critical eye toward crafting policies that will help people weather the storm."--American Historical Review
£69.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Sinking Chicago
Book Synopsis In Sinking Chicago, Harold Platt shows how people responded to climate change in one American city over a hundred-and-fifty-year period. During a long dry spell before 1945, city residents lost sight of the connections between land use, flood control, and water quality. Then, a combination of suburban sprawl and a wet period of extreme weather events created damaging runoff surges that sank Chicago and contaminated drinking supplies with raw sewage. Chicagoans had to learn how to remake a city built on a prairie wetland. They organized a grassroots movement to protect the six river watersheds in the semi-sacred forest preserves from being turned into open sewers, like the Chicago River. The politics of outdoor recreation clashed with the politics of water management. Platt charts a growing constituency of citizens who fought a corrupt political machine to reclaim the region’s waterways and Lake Michigan as a single eco-system. Environmentalists contested poliTrade Review"Platt has written the first study of the effects of long-term climate change on the American city of Chicago. It is an important undertaking, and the author is fit for the task.... Platt’s fine study, then, is a model for how other historians might write the history of ongoing climate change—with a critical eye toward crafting policies that will help people weather the storm."--American Historical Review
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. Who Really Makes Environmental Policy
Book SynopsisThe United States Congress appears to be in perpetual gridlock on environmental policy, notes Sara Rinfret, editor of the significant collection, Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? As she and her contributors explain, however, most environmental policy is not made in the halls of Congress. Instead, it is created by agency experts in federal environmental agencies and it is implemented at the state level. These individuals have been delegated the authority to interpret vague congressional legislation and write rulesand these rules carry the same weight as congressional law. Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? brings together top scholars to provide an explanation of rulemaking processes and regulatory policy, and to show why this context is important for U.S. environmental policy. Illustrative case studies about oil and gas regulations in Colorado and the regulation of coal ash disposal in southeastern states apply theory to practice. Ultimately, the essays in this volume advanTrade Review“Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? offers a new take on U.S. environmental policy with an unusual but essential focus on the regulatory process and analysis of how regulation works. Rinfret assembles essays from well-established and respected political scientists and newer scholars with unique perspectives to offer a fresh and original examination of environmental rulemaking via diverse case studies. Her book offers a thorough and clear introduction to the often obscure world of regulatory decision making, including such matters as inspections and enforcement of rules that rarely receive attention.” —Michael Kraft, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public and Environmental Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy“Anyone who reads Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? will gain a clear understanding of the importance of the regulatory process, from promulgating a regulation to ensuring its enforcement. Concise explanations of what regulations are and who is involved lay the foundation for the book. Written by prominent scholars in the environmental field, this book contains engaging examples that illustrate how politics, litigation, and federalism may confound or accelerate policies, including studies of the Endangered Species Act, oil and gas regulation in Colorado, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s involvement in coal ash management. A highly recommended gem of a book for anyone who wants to learn more about environmental policy.” —Denise Scheberle, Clinical Teaching Professor at the University of Colorado–Denver, and author of Industrial Disasters and Environmental Policy: Stories of Villains, Heroes, and the Rest of Us
£73.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Who Really Makes Environmental Policy
Book SynopsisThe United States Congress appears to be in perpetual gridlock on environmental policy, notes Sara Rinfret, editor of the significant collection, Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? As she and her contributors explain, however, most environmental policy is not made in the halls of Congress. Instead, it is created by agency experts in federal environmental agencies and it is implemented at the state level. These individuals have been delegated the authority to interpret vague congressional legislation and write rulesand these rules carry the same weight as congressional law. Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? brings together top scholars to provide an explanation of rulemaking processes and regulatory policy, and to show why this context is important for U.S. environmental policy. Illustrative case studies about oil and gas regulations in Colorado and the regulation of coal ash disposal in southeastern states apply theory to practice. Ultimately, the essays in this volume advanTrade Review“Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? offers a new take on U.S. environmental policy with an unusual but essential focus on the regulatory process and analysis of how regulation works. Rinfret assembles essays from well-established and respected political scientists and newer scholars with unique perspectives to offer a fresh and original examination of environmental rulemaking via diverse case studies. Her book offers a thorough and clear introduction to the often obscure world of regulatory decision making, including such matters as inspections and enforcement of rules that rarely receive attention.” —Michael Kraft, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public and Environmental Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy“Anyone who reads Who Really Makes Environmental Policy? will gain a clear understanding of the importance of the regulatory process, from promulgating a regulation to ensuring its enforcement. Concise explanations of what regulations are and who is involved lay the foundation for the book. Written by prominent scholars in the environmental field, this book contains engaging examples that illustrate how politics, litigation, and federalism may confound or accelerate policies, including studies of the Endangered Species Act, oil and gas regulation in Colorado, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s involvement in coal ash management. A highly recommended gem of a book for anyone who wants to learn more about environmental policy.” —Denise Scheberle, Clinical Teaching Professor at the University of Colorado–Denver, and author of Industrial Disasters and Environmental Policy: Stories of Villains, Heroes, and the Rest of Us
£21.59
University of Toronto Press Climate Change Policy in North America
Book SynopsisWhile no supranational institutions exist to govern climate change in North America, a system of cooperation among a diverse range of actors and institutions is currently emerging. Given the range of interests that influence climate policy across political boundaries, can these distinct parts be integrated into a coherent, and ultimately resilient system of regional climate cooperation?Climate Change Policy in North America is the first book to examine how cooperation respecting climate change can emerge within decentralized governance arrangements. Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines provide in-depth case studies of climate cooperation initiatives – such as emissions trading, energy cooperation, climate finance, carbon accounting and international trade – as well as analysis of the institutional, political, and economic conditions that influence climate policy integration.Table of ContentsIllustrations Tables Acronyms Chapter 1: Designing Integration: The System of Climate Change Governance in North America Debora VanNijnatten (Wilfrid Laurier University, Political Science) and Neil Craik (University of Waterloo, director of the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development) Chapter 2: Supply and Demand for a North American Climate Regime Isabel Studer (Tecnologico de Monterrey, director of the Global Institute for Sustainability) Chapter 3: Building on Sub-Federal Climate Strategies: The Challenges of Regionalism Barry G. Rabe (Gerald Ford School of Public Policy) Chapter 4: Standards Diffusion: The Quieter Side of North American Climate Policy Cooperation Debora VanNijnatten (Wilfrid Laurier University, Political Science) Chapter 5: Deploying the Smart Grid Across Borders in North America Ian H. Rowlands (University of Waterloo, Environment and Resource Studies) Chapter 6: New Approaches to Climate Mitigation: Collaborative Strategies for Developing Renewable Energy in North America Jose Etcheverry (York University, Environmental Studies) Chapter 7: Climate Financing in a North American Context Clare Demerse (Pembina Institute, Director of Federal Policy) and Sandra Guzman (Director of the Air and Energy program of the Mexican Center of Environmental Law) Chapter 8: Regional Climate Policy Facilitation: The Role of the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation Neil Craik (University of Waterloo, director of the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development) Chapter 9: Design Issues for Linking Carbon Markets Brian C. Murray (Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment), Peter T. Maniloff (Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment) and Jonas Monast (Duke University, School of Law) Chapter 10: Developing Integrated Carbon Accounting Systems Steven B. Young (University of Waterloo, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development) and Clint L. Abbott (University of Victoria, Centre for Global Studies) Chapter 11: Trade Rules, Dispute Settlement, and Barriers to Regional Climate Cooperation Andrew Green (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law) Chapter 12: Conclusion Neil Craik (University of Waterloo, director of the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development) and Debora VanNijnatten (Wilfrid Laurier University) Appendix A List of Contributors
£29.70
University of Toronto Press Growing a Sustainable City
Book SynopsisUrban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment. These objectives connect to many cities’ broader goal of sustainability, but tensions among stakeholders have started to emerge in cities as urban agriculture is incorporated into the policymaking framework.Growing a Sustainable City? offers a critical analysis of the development of urban agriculture policies and their role in making post-industrial cities more sustainable. Christina Rosan and Hamil Pearsall’s intriguing and illuminating case study of Philadelphia reveals how growing in the city has become a symbol of urban economic revitalization, sustainability, and increasingly gentrification. Their comprehensive research includes interviews with urban farmers, gardeners, and city officials, and reveals that the transition to sustainability is marked by a series of tensions along race, class,Trade Review"This book is a solid contribution to this growing field and will be informative to those interested in the topic of urban farming, especially anybody working in public policy who intends to implement programs in their own city." -- John Harner, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs * The AAG Review of Books, Spring '19 *"The book supports the following idea: urban agriculture is a city planning challenge for land use and who gets to access it. A key take-away is that urban agriculture is not merely a contemporary food systems trend, but an under-developed mechanism for city sustainability. The authors conclude with helpful suggestions on how city planners and organizers might better integrate urban food production into social and environmental sustainability city planning." -- Alana N. Chriest, Ohio State University * Agriculture and Human Values no 36 *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: The Garden in the Urban Imaginary Chapter 2. Since the 1800s? A Historical Case Study of Urban Agriculture Chapter 3. Urban Agriculture as a Way towards a Better, Brighter Future Chapter 4. A New Generation of Growers Chapter 5. The Reality of Growing in the City Chapter 6. The Politics of Urban Agriculture Chapter 7: Conclusion
£21.84
University of Toronto Press Water Resources of Canada
Book SynopsisThoughtful people everywhere, but particularly in North America, are disturbed by the increasing number and seriousness of the problems associated with water resources. The Royal Society of Canada, impressed by the gravity of this situation, and by the multi-disciplinary nature of the specialized knowledge needed to cope with it, chose Water Resources as the main theme for its 1966 annual meeting. The topic has been broadly interpreted here: most of the papers were presented by the Science Section of the Society but contributions from all its Sections are included, covering political, historical and sociological aspects of the problem in addition to the physical, biological and even mathematical aspects. The contents comprise twenty-three essays, grouped into six parts under self-explanatory headings—"Pros and Cons of Canadian Water Export"; "Water, an Indispensable Resource"; "The St. Lawrence, Then and Now"; "The Great Lakes: Unique Features and Peculiar Problems"; "
£25.19
University of Toronto Press Democratic Illusion
Book SynopsisThe theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations. While deliberative processes are being adopted in an increasing number of cases, decision-making power remains mostly in the hands of traditional elites.In Democratic Illusion, Genevieve Fuji Johnson examines four representative examples: participatory budgeting in the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, Deliberative Polling by Nova Scotia Power Incorporated, a national consultation process by the Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization, and public consultations embedded in the development of official languages policies in Nunavut. In each case, measures that appeared to empower the public failed to challenge the status quo approach to either formulating or implementing policy.Illuminating a critical gap between deliberative democratic tTrade Review‘In this volume Fuji Johnson deftly navigates the choppy waters between cynicism and criticism… The book is a valuable addition to both the literature on deliberative democracy and public policy and it should be read by any scholar concerned about the state of Canadian democracy.’ -- David Moscrop * Canadian Journal of Political Science vol 51:01:2018 *Table of Contents1. The Hope for and Illusion of Deliberative Democracy 2. Participatory Budgeting and the Toronto Community Housing Corporation 3. Deliberative Polling and Nova Scotia Power Incorporated 4. National Consultations and the Nuclear Waste Management Organization 5. Embedded Policy Consultations and Nunavut's Official Languages 6. Contextual Complexity and the Importance of Deliberative Democracy Epilogue. Interpretive Case-Study Research, Its Challenges and Rewards
£41.65
University of Toronto Press Climate Change Policy in North America
Book SynopsisClimate Change Policy in North America is the first book to examine how cooperation respecting climate change can emerge within decentralized governance arrangements.Table of ContentsIllustrations Tables Acronyms Chapter 1: Designing Integration: The System of Climate Change Governance in North America Debora VanNijnatten (Wilfrid Laurier University, Political Science) and Neil Craik (University of Waterloo, director of the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development) Chapter 2: Supply and Demand for a North American Climate Regime Isabel Studer (Tecnologico de Monterrey, director of the Global Institute for Sustainability) Chapter 3: Building on Sub-Federal Climate Strategies: The Challenges of Regionalism Barry G. Rabe (Gerald Ford School of Public Policy) Chapter 4: Standards Diffusion: The Quieter Side of North American Climate Policy Cooperation Debora VanNijnatten (Wilfrid Laurier University, Political Science) Chapter 5: Deploying the Smart Grid Across Borders in North America Ian H. Rowlands (University of Waterloo, Environment and Resource Studies) Chapter 6: New Approaches to Climate Mitigation: Collaborative Strategies for Developing Renewable Energy in North America Jose Etcheverry (York University, Environmental Studies) Chapter 7: Climate Financing in a North American Context Clare Demerse (Pembina Institute, Director of Federal Policy) and Sandra Guzman (Director of the Air and Energy program of the Mexican Center of Environmental Law) Chapter 8: Regional Climate Policy Facilitation: The Role of the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation Neil Craik (University of Waterloo, director of the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development) Chapter 9: Design Issues for Linking Carbon Markets Brian C. Murray (Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment), Peter T. Maniloff (Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment) and Jonas Monast (Duke University, School of Law) Chapter 10: Developing Integrated Carbon Accounting Systems Steven B. Young (University of Waterloo, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development) and Clint L. Abbott (University of Victoria, Centre for Global Studies) Chapter 11: Trade Rules, Dispute Settlement, and Barriers to Regional Climate Cooperation Andrew Green (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law) Chapter 12: Conclusion Neil Craik (University of Waterloo, director of the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development) and Debora VanNijnatten (Wilfrid Laurier University) Appendix A List of Contributors
£54.90
Bristol University Press Reframing Global Social Policy
Book SynopsisChristopher Deeming and Paul Smyth, together with internationally renowned contributors, illustrate how the merging of `social investment' and `inclusive growth and development' agendas, together with the environmental imperative of `sustainability', is forging an important new social policy framework and shaping a new global development agenda.Trade Review“What is particularly interesting about this book is the way in which its diverse contributions are all evidence for new perspectives emerging from within current social and economic policy: the new evolving out of the old rather than coming from elsewhere to replace it, and at the same time being genuinely new.” Citizen’s Income"Gathering excellent contributors, this edited volume is a must read for students of social policy interested in inclusive growth and social investment." Daniel Béland, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy ?"A stimulating read encompassing timely and important topics such as inclusive growth and social investment – and with a global perspective." Bent Greve, Roskilde University, DenmarkTable of ContentsIntroduction and overview ~ Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth Part I: Theoretical frameworks Social investment, inclusive growth that is sustainable and the new global social policy ~ Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth Taking social investment seriously in developed economies ~ Anton Hemerijck Making growth inclusive: perspectives on the role of social policy in developing economies ~ Sarah Cook The challenges of inclusive growth for the developmental welfare state ~ Huck-ju Kwon Part II: Policy applications Measuring and monitoring inclusive growth in developing and advanced economies: multiple definitions, open questions and some constructive proposals ~ Stephan Klasen Towards an employment strategy of inclusive growth ~ Günther Schmid Active labour market policies for an inclusive growth ~ Giuliano Bonoli Education and skills for inclusive growth ~ Marius R. Busemeyer Inclusive growth and social investments over the life course ~ Jon Kvist Inclusive economic growth for health equity: in search of the elusive evidence ~ Guillem López Casasnovas and Laia Maynou Social protection, social investment and inclusive development ~ James Midgley Social politics puzzling: governance for inclusive growth and social investment ~ Jane Jenson Limits to Growth revisited ~ Tim Jackson and Robin Webster Towards a new global social policy framework? ~ Paul Smyth and Christopher Deeming
£77.39
Bristol University Press Rethinking Sustainable Cities
Book SynopsisMakes a significant contribution to the sustainable urbanisation agenda through authoritative interventions contextualising, assessing and explaining the relevance and importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere; that they be accessible, green and fair.Trade Review"This timely and lively book builds on several empirical examples to help with the challenges that planners, policy makers, professors and students face in making words like 'green' or 'sustainable' understandable and approachable." Garth Myers, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, USA“Using three themes of accessibility, greenness and fairness, this excellent short book provides a highly readable and timely overview of current debates about sustainable cities.” Debby Potts, Urban Futures Research Domain, Geography Department, King's College London?“A timely and fresh perspective on what sustainable development means for contemporary urbanization, discussing which sustainability actions can be truly transformative.” Vanesa Castan Broto, University College London“Essential reading, of value to a wide range of audiences, addresses the most urgent and prominent urban challenges of our time.” John Flint, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsForeword ~ Julio Dávila; Introduction: Sustainable cities in sustainable societies ~ David Simon; Changing ideas and practices for making cities fair ~ Susan Parnell; Green cities: from tokenism to incrementalism and transformation ~ David Simon; Accessible cities: from urban density to multidimensional access ~ James Waters; Conclusions and implications ~ David Simon and Henrietta Palmer.
£11.99
