Environmental policy and protocols Books

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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"; "

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Book SynopsisNew analysis in the report Where is the Value in the Chain? Pathways out of Plastic Pollution provides key recommendations to policymakers on how to create a comprehensive approach to addressing plastic pollution and make informed decisions.

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Book SynopsisAcknowledging the impending worldwide catastrophe of rising seas in the twenty-first century, Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey outline the impacts on the United States' shoreline and argue that the only feasible response along much of the U.S. shoreline is an immediate and managed retreat.Trade Review“This is a compelling history of the near-future. Read it to understand the pressures that will shape our planet as the century wears on—and read it as a reminder that we must act now to keep things from getting worse than they must.” -- Bill McKibben, author of * Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? *“For decades the Pilkeys have been unafraid to provide straight talk about the reality of our tense relationship with the coast, whether it's the nature of our highly dynamic coastal landscape, the impacts of shoreline armoring, or the reality of climate change. Here they provide a clear-eyed and sober view of America's future with rapidly rising seas and how woefully unprepared we are for what very well might be our nation's biggest challenge.” -- Chad Nelsen, CEO, Surfrider Foundation"Sea Level Rise is written in direct, nontechnical language that’s absent of dramatic innuendo and is full of information and documentation regarding the anticipated effects of a rising sea level. Ignoring its message could have severe consequences." -- Barry Silverstein * Foreword Reviews *"Careful, thoughtful, conservative — and profoundly disturbing." -- Ben Steelman * Wilmington Star-News *"[Orrin Pilkey and Keith Pilkey] identify the legal, political and financial decisions required to cope with sea level rise as it threatens nearly every aspect of American life, including commerce and shipping, the military, tourism and the design and functioning of major cities. The sober assessment questions whether the recent trend toward building resilient coastal communities is even possible." -- Debbie Elliott * NPR *"[The] approach of highlighting specific communities allows the authors to effectively communicate that just as geographic regions may be differently impacted, as a function of their particular coastal morphology and through the effects of local geologic processes such as subsidence, different reactions may be generated within communities sharing specific regional cultures. . . . Recommended. All readers." -- J. Schoof * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue 1. Flee the Sea: Climate Refugees 2. The End of the Inupiat Way of Life 3. Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise: Sunny Day Flooding 4. Dirty Waters and Worried Minds: Health Concerns in an Age of Climate Change 5. The Front Line in the Battle: The U.S. Military 6. At-Risk Coastal Environments: Is Resilience Futile? 7. The Environmental Impact of Surging Seas: Life at the Edge 8. Inundated Infrastructure: Imperiled Energy Facilities 9. Coast Catastrophes: Cities on the Brink 10. Under Water: National Flood Insurance and Climate Gentrification 11. What You Can Do about Sea Level Rise Appendix A. Global Delta Population Displacement Potential by 2050 Appendix B. The Economic and Environmental Price of Holding the Shoreline Still with Hart Stablization Appendix C. Living with the Shore Book Series References Index

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Book SynopsisAcknowledging the impending worldwide catastrophe of rising seas in the twenty-first century, Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey outline the impacts on the United States' shoreline and argue that the only feasible response along much of the U.S. shoreline is an immediate and managed retreat.Trade Review“This is a compelling history of the near-future. Read it to understand the pressures that will shape our planet as the century wears on—and read it as a reminder that we must act now to keep things from getting worse than they must.” -- Bill McKibben, author of * Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? *“For decades the Pilkeys have been unafraid to provide straight talk about the reality of our tense relationship with the coast, whether it's the nature of our highly dynamic coastal landscape, the impacts of shoreline armoring, or the reality of climate change. Here they provide a clear-eyed and sober view of America's future with rapidly rising seas and how woefully unprepared we are for what very well might be our nation's biggest challenge.” -- Chad Nelsen, CEO, Surfrider Foundation"Sea Level Rise is written in direct, nontechnical language that’s absent of dramatic innuendo and is full of information and documentation regarding the anticipated effects of a rising sea level. Ignoring its message could have severe consequences." -- Barry Silverstein * Foreword Reviews *"Careful, thoughtful, conservative — and profoundly disturbing." -- Ben Steelman * Wilmington Star-News *"[Orrin Pilkey and Keith Pilkey] identify the legal, political and financial decisions required to cope with sea level rise as it threatens nearly every aspect of American life, including commerce and shipping, the military, tourism and the design and functioning of major cities. The sober assessment questions whether the recent trend toward building resilient coastal communities is even possible." -- Debbie Elliott * NPR *"[The] approach of highlighting specific communities allows the authors to effectively communicate that just as geographic regions may be differently impacted, as a function of their particular coastal morphology and through the effects of local geologic processes such as subsidence, different reactions may be generated within communities sharing specific regional cultures. . . . Recommended. All readers." -- J. Schoof * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue 1. Flee the Sea: Climate Refugees 2. The End of the Inupiat Way of Life 3. Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise: Sunny Day Flooding 4. Dirty Waters and Worried Minds: Health Concerns in an Age of Climate Change 5. The Front Line in the Battle: The U.S. Military 6. At-Risk Coastal Environments: Is Resilience Futile? 7. The Environmental Impact of Surging Seas: Life at the Edge 8. Inundated Infrastructure: Imperiled Energy Facilities 9. Coast Catastrophes: Cities on the Brink 10. Under Water: National Flood Insurance and Climate Gentrification 11. What You Can Do about Sea Level Rise Appendix A. Global Delta Population Displacement Potential by 2050 Appendix B. The Economic and Environmental Price of Holding the Shoreline Still with Hart Stablization Appendix C. Living with the Shore Book Series References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India-what he calls radiant infrastructures-creates environmental publics: groups of activists, scientists, and policy makers who use media to influence public opinion. In documentaries, lifestyle television shows, newspapers, and Bollywood films, and through other forms of media (including radiation-sensing technologies), these publics articulate contesting views about the relationships between modernity, wireless signals, and nuclear power. From testimonies of cancer patients who live close to cell towers to power plant operators working to contain information about radiation leaks and health risks, discussions in the media show how radiant infrastructures are at once harbingers of optimism about India's development and emitters of potentially carcinogenic radiation. In tracing these dynamics, Mukherjee expands understandings of the relationship between media and infrastructure and how people make sense of their everyday encounters with technology and the environment.Trade Review“With an inventive interdisciplinary approach and engaging literary style, Rahul Mukherjee presents the new concept and analytical device of radiant infrastructures. His book makes an important contribution to media and infrastructure studies by providing new understandings of infrastructure as a radiant system.” -- Jennifer Gabrys, author of * Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet *“Drawing on wide-ranging ethnographic and media research, Rahul Mukherjee has crafted an insightful account of what ‘radiant infrastructures’ like cell phone towers and nuclear reactors tell us about India's media ecology. Tracking environmental controversies surrounding new technologies, Mukherjee does a superb job of analyzing the role of media in shaping new cultures of uncertainty in countries like India. A major contribution to media studies, environmental studies, and critical infrastructure studies, this book is sure to inspire scholars interested in media technologies and politics in South Asia and beyond.” -- Aswin Punathambekar, author of * From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry *"Written in a lively and polemic style, the book is a compelling read. . . . Radiant Infrastructures skillfully cuts across and contributes to key debates on infrastructure, global media, postcolonialism, materiality, and global publics within media and communication studies, as well as to science and technology studies by outlining the role of media—broadly defined—in shaping scientific controversies, and it will be a compelling reading for a broad range of readers." -- Julia Velkova * Television & New Media *"The book is sophisticated in theory and thorough in fieldwork.… In a world of (post) COVID-19 where the cultures of uncertainty pervade, this book offers a timely intervention diving into the diffusive radiant infrastructures where the power dynamics emerge among the discourses." -- Yandong Li * Studies in South Asian Film & Media *"This extensive survey of media ecologies… opens up many more questions and possible avenues of future research endeavours that can investigate the larger international contexts within which these media narratives operate.… Building on this book, future researchers may seek to understand the reasons behind these international investments in the development of radiant infrastructures the ways in which global forces inform the local production of knowledge and uncertainty." -- Suryansu Guha * Journal of Environmental Media *"Because of its ambitious scope, the book will be useful to scholars and students interested in media and mediation, the environment and the Anthropocene, cinema and image politics, global development, and capitalist modernity, particularly the South Asian version of it. By eschewing easy answers and soft targets, Mukherjee boldly lines up the stakes in taking radiation-emitting infrastructures seriously. Modern South Asian life is directly enabled and affected by them. Radiant Infrastructures gives us a different starting point to work towards a more equitable experience with modernity in this and other parts of the world." -- Nusrat S. Chowdhury * BioScope *"The book’s energizing conceptualization of radiance puts it in conversation with the recent body of interdisciplinary scholarship around mediating energies, such as rare earth minerals, solar power, wind, carbon, and the sociotechnical relations generated by these energies. . . . This book will be compelling for a wide range of readers, as it offers an invaluable framework for thinking about environmental justice and critical infrastructure in Asia, from post-Fukushima Japan to China’s accelerated adoption of 5G cellular infrastructures and Southeast Asia’s energy crisis." -- Weixian Pan * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction. Radiant Energies and Environmental Controversies I 1. Debating Cell Towers 39 2. Contested Nuclear Imaginaries 70 3. Emissions 106 4. Exposures 138 5. Styling Advocacy: Activism and Citizenship 163 Conclusion 192 Notes 219 References 241 Index 259

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Book SynopsisIn Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India-what he calls radiant infrastructures-creates environmental publics: groups of activists, scientists, and policy makers who use media to influence public opinion. In documentaries, lifestyle television shows, newspapers, and Bollywood films, and through other forms of media (including radiation-sensing technologies), these publics articulate contesting views about the relationships between modernity, wireless signals, and nuclear power. From testimonies of cancer patients who live close to cell towers to power plant operators working to contain information about radiation leaks and health risks, discussions in the media show how radiant infrastructures are at once harbingers of optimism about India's development and emitters of potentially carcinogenic radiation. In tracing these dynamics, Mukherjee expands understandings of the relationship between media and infrastructure and how people make sense of their everyday encounters with technology and the environment.Trade Review“With an inventive interdisciplinary approach and engaging literary style, Rahul Mukherjee presents the new concept and analytical device of radiant infrastructures. His book makes an important contribution to media and infrastructure studies by providing new understandings of infrastructure as a radiant system.” -- Jennifer Gabrys, author of * Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet *“Drawing on wide-ranging ethnographic and media research, Rahul Mukherjee has crafted an insightful account of what ‘radiant infrastructures’ like cell phone towers and nuclear reactors tell us about India's media ecology. Tracking environmental controversies surrounding new technologies, Mukherjee does a superb job of analyzing the role of media in shaping new cultures of uncertainty in countries like India. A major contribution to media studies, environmental studies, and critical infrastructure studies, this book is sure to inspire scholars interested in media technologies and politics in South Asia and beyond.” -- Aswin Punathambekar, author of * From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry *"Written in a lively and polemic style, the book is a compelling read. . . . Radiant Infrastructures skillfully cuts across and contributes to key debates on infrastructure, global media, postcolonialism, materiality, and global publics within media and communication studies, as well as to science and technology studies by outlining the role of media—broadly defined—in shaping scientific controversies, and it will be a compelling reading for a broad range of readers." -- Julia Velkova * Television & New Media *"The book is sophisticated in theory and thorough in fieldwork.… In a world of (post) COVID-19 where the cultures of uncertainty pervade, this book offers a timely intervention diving into the diffusive radiant infrastructures where the power dynamics emerge among the discourses." -- Yandong Li * Studies in South Asian Film & Media *"This extensive survey of media ecologies… opens up many more questions and possible avenues of future research endeavours that can investigate the larger international contexts within which these media narratives operate.… Building on this book, future researchers may seek to understand the reasons behind these international investments in the development of radiant infrastructures the ways in which global forces inform the local production of knowledge and uncertainty." -- Suryansu Guha * Journal of Environmental Media *"Because of its ambitious scope, the book will be useful to scholars and students interested in media and mediation, the environment and the Anthropocene, cinema and image politics, global development, and capitalist modernity, particularly the South Asian version of it. By eschewing easy answers and soft targets, Mukherjee boldly lines up the stakes in taking radiation-emitting infrastructures seriously. Modern South Asian life is directly enabled and affected by them. Radiant Infrastructures gives us a different starting point to work towards a more equitable experience with modernity in this and other parts of the world." -- Nusrat S. Chowdhury * BioScope *"The book’s energizing conceptualization of radiance puts it in conversation with the recent body of interdisciplinary scholarship around mediating energies, such as rare earth minerals, solar power, wind, carbon, and the sociotechnical relations generated by these energies. . . . This book will be compelling for a wide range of readers, as it offers an invaluable framework for thinking about environmental justice and critical infrastructure in Asia, from post-Fukushima Japan to China’s accelerated adoption of 5G cellular infrastructures and Southeast Asia’s energy crisis." -- Weixian Pan * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction. Radiant Energies and Environmental Controversies I 1. Debating Cell Towers 39 2. Contested Nuclear Imaginaries 70 3. Emissions 106 4. Exposures 138 5. Styling Advocacy: Activism and Citizenship 163 Conclusion 192 Notes 219 References 241 Index 259

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFitzpatrick and Spialek have illuminated how social ties, location, and race have influenced every aspect of the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Harvey. Based on more than 300 interviews, extensive fieldwork, and a reflexive stance, their penetrating and sympathetic book is an essential read for students, scholars, and disaster managers who want to know about the daily realities of recovery. -- Daniel Aldrich, author of Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster RecoveryFitzpatrick and Spialek unpack the intersecting and overlapping dimensions of spatial and social disparities and how they are magnified when natural disasters strike. They tell more than the individual stories of heartache, destruction, recovery, resiliency, and hope that unfold in the aftermath of disaster. They tell these stories from the perspectives of place and in so doing provide a framework for understanding how space, place and identity shape the collective and individual experiences of disaster. -- Stephen Zavestoski, co-editor of Incomplete Streets: Processes, Practices and PossibilitiesArmed with an excellently synthesized set of surveys and interviews from residents on the Texas Gulf Coast after Hurricane Harvey, Fitzpatrick and Spialek delve deep into how place and race intersect to contribute to unequal post-disaster trajectories. They skillfully intertwine how individuals and communities marshal social capital through the multi-faceted and frustrating recovery process. Vivid vignettes animate the book, and speak to foundational social scientific questions about how communities come together in the wake of disasters. -- Kevin T. Smiley, author of Market Cities, People Cities: The Shape of Our Urban Future

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFitzpatrick and Spialek have illuminated how social ties, location, and race have influenced every aspect of the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Harvey. Based on more than 300 interviews, extensive fieldwork, and a reflexive stance, their penetrating and sympathetic book is an essential read for students, scholars, and disaster managers who want to know about the daily realities of recovery. -- Daniel Aldrich, author of Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster RecoveryFitzpatrick and Spialek unpack the intersecting and overlapping dimensions of spatial and social disparities and how they are magnified when natural disasters strike. They tell more than the individual stories of heartache, destruction, recovery, resiliency, and hope that unfold in the aftermath of disaster. They tell these stories from the perspectives of place and in so doing provide a framework for understanding how space, place and identity shape the collective and individual experiences of disaster. -- Stephen Zavestoski, co-editor of Incomplete Streets: Processes, Practices and PossibilitiesArmed with an excellently synthesized set of surveys and interviews from residents on the Texas Gulf Coast after Hurricane Harvey, Fitzpatrick and Spialek delve deep into how place and race intersect to contribute to unequal post-disaster trajectories. They skillfully intertwine how individuals and communities marshal social capital through the multi-faceted and frustrating recovery process. Vivid vignettes animate the book, and speak to foundational social scientific questions about how communities come together in the wake of disasters. -- Kevin T. Smiley, author of Market Cities, People Cities: The Shape of Our Urban Future

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Book SynopsisA critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another. How do social justice and sustainability connect? What does sustainability mean and, most importantly, how can we achieve it with justice? This volume tackles these questions, placing social justice and interdisciplinary approaches at the center of efforts for a more sustainable world. Contributors present empirical case studies that illustrate how sustainability can take place without contributing to social inequality. From indigenous land rights, climate conflict, militarization and urban drought resilience, the book offers examples of ways in which sustainability and social justice strengthen one another. Through an understanding of history, diverse cultural traditions, and complexity in reTrade ReviewSzes concept of & situated sustainability draws on environmental justice and the environmental humanities to offer a new way of thinking about sustainability that is both more flexible and more rigorous than previous conceptions. Specifically, this book both argues for and demonstrates a far more comprehensive and unanticipated way of thinking about sustainability in an era of environmental crisis. -- Laura Pulido,author of Environmentalism and Economic Justice and Black, Brown, Yellow and Left

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Book SynopsisPresents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well as offering practical tools for solving environmental problems. Haenn, Wilk, and Harnish pose the most urgent questions of environmental protection: How are environmental problems mediated by cultural values? What are the environmental effects of urbanization? When do environmentalists' goals and actions conflict with those of indigenous peoples? How can we assess the impact of environmentally correct businesses? They also cover the fundamental topics of population growth, large scale development, biodiversity conservation, sustainable environmental management, indigenous groups, consumptioTrade Review"The Environment in Anthropology reads like a 'Greatest Hits' of environmental anthropology in recent years. I have taught many of these authors and concepts due to their engaging tone and critical edge; it is empowering to have them all collected here, in a volume structured for conceptual and chronological clarity, without foreclosing on the creativity of this field, still so much under construction. This volume stands as an assemblage of excellent work that invites further contributions. It showcases the range of epistemic approaches and contexts from which what we might call new environmental anthropology is currently emerging." -- Rebecca Hardin,University of Michigan"Provides the theoretical refinements and ethnographic illustrations necessary for students to grasp the local and the global complexities of environmental anthropology in the 21st century. This text is pedagogically sophisticated, facilitating cognitive development by engaging students in a cultural critique of dominant Western ideologies and institutions and challenging them to consider their individual options for not only a sustainable future, but a more meaningful life." -- Barbara J. Dilly,Creighton University

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Book SynopsisA critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another. How do social justice and sustainability connect? What does sustainability mean and, most importantly, how can we achieve it with justice? This volume tackles these questions, placing social justice and interdisciplinary approaches at the center of efforts for a more sustainable world. Contributors present empirical case studies that illustrate how sustainability can take place without contributing to social inequality. From indigenous land rights, climate conflict, militarization and urban drought resilience, the book offers examples of ways in which sustainability and social justice strengthen one another. Through an understanding of history, diverse cultural traditions, and complexity in reTrade ReviewSzes concept of & situated sustainability draws on environmental justice and the environmental humanities to offer a new way of thinking about sustainability that is both more flexible and more rigorous than previous conceptions. Specifically, this book both argues for and demonstrates a far more comprehensive and unanticipated way of thinking about sustainability in an era of environmental crisis. -- Laura Pulido,author of Environmentalism and Economic Justice and Black, Brown, Yellow and Left

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Book SynopsisIn Water Policy Reform in Southern Alberta, B. Timothy Heinmiller looks at how and why these (and other) reforms were adopted after nearly a century of stasis on water policy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1 Water Scarcity and Water Governance in Southern Alberta Chapter 2 The Advocacy Coalition Framework Chapter 3 Water Policy in Southern Alberta: From 'Hard' to 'Softer' Chapter 4 Advocacy Coalitions in the Alberta Water Policy Subsystem Chapter 5 Coalition Power Resources Chapter 6 Water Management for Irrigation Use Chapter 7 The Water Act Chapter 8 The SSRB Water Management Plan Chapter 9 Conclusion Appendix A: Measuring Policy Core Beliefs Using Qualitative Content Analysis Bibliography

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