Environmental policy and protocols Books

Book SynopsisThis authoritative Encyclopedia provides an innovative approach to theory, reviews, applications and examples relevant to the basic concepts of water science and water management issues in order to facilitate better interdisciplinary cooperation.In light of the broadening field and study of water management, the expert contributors set the basis for a holistic approach to water science by examining the various technical, cross-disciplinary, socio-economic and policy extents. Using global case studies, elaborated in large European and global research and innovation projects, they illustrate how different approaches to modern water management issues can stem the flow of ongoing climate change and ecosystem collapse challenges to improve future decision-making and policies.Providing concise summaries and knowledge from both a theoretical and an applied viewpoint, this Encyclopedia will be an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and practitioners of water research policy and governance, agricultural and environmental economics, biodiversity, technology, and marine studies.Key Features: With over 85 entries written by experts in the field Uses clear and concise terminology for broader audience interest Uses case studies to illustrate water management issues and approaches Provides concise summaries of the most relevant accumulated knowledge on the subjects explored Illustrates examples to give useful context and background information on how experts approach various water related issues Trade Review‘I am delighted to recommend this Encyclopedia, which is a comprehensive and authoritative source of information on all aspects of water policy, economics and management. Phoebe Koundouri, a renowned water expert has assembled a team of distinguished contributors from diverse disciplines and regions of the world. The breadth and depth of this Encyclopedia covers not only classical subjects but also emerging and interdisciplinary subjects like ChatGPT, computational social science, policy and innovation financing, and their relationship to water.’ -- Dragan Savic, University of Exeter, UK and KWR Water Research Institute, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. A Review Of Water Related Lca Indicators (Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis, Victor Kouloumpis, Antonia Vyrkou, George Arampatzis) 2. Advances In Dynamical And Statistical Downscaling Of Global Climate Change Projections At Local Catchment Scale (Prodromos Zanis, Aristeidis K. Georgoulias, Dimitris Akritidis) 3. Advances In Limnological Research (José Galizia Tundisi) 4. Agricultural Policies And Water Management (Irene Blanco-Gutiérrez, Alberto Garrido) 5. Analysis And Evaluation Of Post-Fire Erosion And Flood Protection Techniques (George Papaioannou, Angelos Alamanos, Fotios Maris) 6. Applications Of Post-Fire Erosion And Flood Protection Techniques (George Papaioannou, Angelos Alamanos, Fotios Maris) 7. Approaches For Optimal Management Of Marine Protected Areas (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 8. Chatgpt And Water Management (Angelos Alamanos) 9. Clean Water And Sanitation For All: Sdg 6 Performance In Global, European, And Regional Level (Phoebe Koundouri, Angelos Plataniotis, Angelos Alamanos) 10. Communication Of Climate Change-Driven Impacts On Water Resources In Wet Regions: The Example Of Ireland (Hammond Antwi Sarpong, Alec Rolston, Suzanne Linnane, David Getty, Angelos Alamanos) 11. Computational Social Sciences In Human-Water Research (Jan Sodoge, Mariana Madruga De Brito) 12. Contemporary Drought Management Techniques To Reduce Crop Water Stress And Enhance Food Security In The Upper Blue Nile Region Of Ethiopia (Fahad Khan Khadim, Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Zoi Dokou) * 13. Cooperation In Transboundary River Basins: Challenges And Research (Modelling) Approaches (Jianshi Zhao) 14. Decisions For Water: The Crucial Role Of Environmental Management Control Systems (Edeltraud Guenther, Thomas Guenther, Samanthi Dijkstra-Silva) 15. Environmental Economics For Efficient Marine Protection: The Example Of The Baltic Sea (Antti Iho, Heini Ahtiainen) 16. Eu Policies And Innovation Financing Related To Water (Stella Tsani, Chrysoula Chitou) 17. Flood Insurance: Economic, Psychological, And Social-Justice Perspectives (Paul Hudson) 18. Freshwater Inflows To Bays And Estuaries (Paul A. Montagna) 19. Full Cost Of Water: Definition And Measurement (Antonio Massarutto) 20. Full Cost Of Water: Recovery And Incentives (Antonio Massarutto) 21. Future Challenges Of Water Resources Management (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 22. Gender And Water Security (Vishal Narain) 23. Governing Water In The Cities Of Global South (Gopa Samanta) 24. Groundwater: Our Secret Treasure To Be Secured For A Sustainable Future (Andreas Panagopoulos) 25. Hybrid Economic Models For Managing Integrated Water Resources Allocation As A Wicked Water Problem (Márcia Ma. G. Alcoforado De Moraes, Gerald N. Souza Da Silva, Marcelo Pereira Da Cunha & Ignacio Tavares) 26. Hydrological Hazards (The 4ms: Modelling, Monitoring, Management And Mitigation) (Lampros Vasiliades) 27. Hydrology In Water Management (Maria A. Mimikou) 28. Hydro-Politics And Hydro-Diplomacy: The Case Of South Asia (Tamanna Ashraf, Shlomi Dinar) 29. Ideology In National Water Policy (Richard Meissner, Jeroen Warner) 30. Individual Decision Making Under Flood Risk (Peter John Robinson, W. J. Wouter Botzen) 31. Integrated And Sustainable Water Resources Management: A Systems Theory Approach (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 32. Integrated And Sustainable Water Resources Management: Modelling (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 33. Integrated Water Resources Simulation And Management In Degrading Groundwater Systems In Mediterranean Rural Watersheds (Pantelis Sidiropoulos, Georgios A. Tziatzios, Aikaterini Lyra, Nikitas Mylopoulos, Athanasios Loukas) 34. Integrating Experimental Economics And Living Labs In Water Resource Management (Ebun Akinsete, Alina Velias, Phoebe Koundouri) 35. Large Hydro-Wind-Photovoltaic Hybrid Generation Systems (Pan Liu, Bo Ming, Qian Cheng) 36. Management Of Baltic Sea Eutrophication (Antti Iho, Heini Ahtiainen) 37. Megadroughts And Challenges For Water Resources Management (Angelos Alamanos) 38. Multi-Stakeholder Platforms In Water Resources Management (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 39. Nexus Ecosystems: A New Concept Rooted In Management Science (Svetlana Klessova, Sebastian Engell, Amel Attour) 40. On Identifying Innovative Planning And Management Decisions (Daniel P. Loucks) 41. Optimal Control Approaches To Water Management: Discussing Model Uncertainty (Phoebe Koundouri, Athanasios N. Yannacopoulos) 42. Optimization Applications In Water Resources Management (Angelos Alamanos, Jorge Andres Garcia) 43. Optimization In Water Resources Management (Angelos Alamanos, Jorge Andres Garcia) 44. Participation (Lucie Baudoin, Dror Etzion) 45. Policies And Investments For The Improvement Of Water Pollution Control: The Example Of China (Dan Dai) 46. Public Acceptability Of Water Supply Innovations (David Lewis Feldman) 47. Public Communication Of Water Scarcity From Water Supply Agencies (Hammond Antwi Sarpong, Alec Rolston, Suzanne Linnane, David Getty, Angelos Alamanos) 48. Rainwater Harvesting (Carlos Galvão, Ronaldo Mendes, Rodolfo L. B. Nóbrega) 49. Recurring Food And Energy Price Crises And The Growing Role Of Water (Claudia Ringler, Mark W. Rosegrant) 50. Reservoir Sedimentation As An Off-Site Effect Of Soil Erosion: Two Different Approaches For The Same Case Study (Konstantinos Kaffas) 51. Monitoring Sustainability Through The Lens Of Water Productivity, Resource Productivity And Eco-Innovation In The Eu-28 (Nikos Chatzistamoulou, Phoebe Koundouri) 52. Science-Supported Policies To Achieve Environmental Sustainability Under Crises (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 53. Sediment Transport And Reservoir Sedimentation (Vlassios Hrissanthou) 54. Sharing Of Transboundary Rivers And Making Peace (Ashok Swain) 55. Socio-Economic Consequences Of Water Trading: Reviewing The Evidence For Water Markets In Australia (Céline Nauges, Sarah Ann Wheeler) 56. Sociohydrology (Giuliano Di Baldassarre) 57. Stakeholder Engagement And Communication For Water Policy (Sadie Hundemer, Martha Monroe) 58. Sustainable Provision Of Drinking Water In The Context Of Circular Economy (Guillermo Donoso, Eduardo Leiva, María Molinos-Senante, Pablo Pastén, Daniela Rivera) 59. The Blue Acceleration In Human Use Of The Ocean (Jean Baptiste Jouffray, John Virdin) 60. The Environmental Impacts Of On-Site Domestic Wastewater Treatment Systems – Evaluating Embodied And Operational Life Cycle Performance (John Gallagher, Laurence Gill) * 61. The Evolving Economics Of Agricultural Water In The Western Usa (Richard E Howitt, Duncan Macewan) 62. The Role Of Groundwater In Adapting To Climate Crisis In Greece (Konstantinos Voudouris) 63. The Water Commons (Vishal Narain) 64. The Water-Energy Nexus As Sociotechnical System Under Uncertainty (Andreas Efstratiadis, Georgia-Konstantina Sakki) 65. Tradable Groundwater Permits In Agriculture (Dionysis Latinopoulos) 66. Transboundary Water Management (Robert G. Varady, Tamee R. Albrecht, Andrea K. Gerlak, Margaret O. Wilder) 67. Understanding The Wefe Nexus Paradigm: Principles And Challenges (Patricia Marcos-Garcia, Marco Pastori, Cesar Carmona-Moreno) 68. Unravelling The Unintended Consequences Of Water Interventions: Challenges Of Understanding Adoption Within Human-Water Systems And A Way Forward (Mohammad Faiz Alam, Dani Daniel, Soham Adla, Saket Pande) 69. Valuing European Biodiversity Ecosystems (Phoebe Koundouri, Conrad Landis, Angelos Plataniotis) 70. Water And Cities: Natural Solutions To The Urban Challenges (Zahra Kalantari, Carla Sofia Ferreira & Omid Rahmati) 71. Water And The Water Framework Directive (Alfonso Expósito And Julio Berbel) 72. Water Conservation In Agriculture: Economic And Policy Tools (Eva Iglesias, Paloma Esteve) 73. Water Crisis: Communication Technologies & Public Awareness Policies (Elpida Kolokytha) 74. Water Footprint And Its Monetization (Katherine L. Christ, Roger, L. Burritt) 75. Water Governance In Irrigated Farming Through The Social-Ecological Systems Framework: An Empirical Case In Ethiopia (Debella Deressa Bayissa, Michele Moretti, Joost Dessein, Gianluca Brunori) * 76. Water Innovation: Towards Smart And Resilient Water Systems And Services (Christos Makropoulos) 77. Water Management And Armed Conflict (Gül Özerol, Juliane Schillinger) 78. Water Management In Africa (Ebun Akinsete, Labode Popoola, Femi Oyeniyi) 79. Water Markets In California: Punching Below Its Weight (Kurt Schwabe, Mehdi Nemati) 80. Water Markets: Institutions, Issues, And Remedies (Hao Zhao, David Porter, Stephen Rassenti) 81. Water Policy In Water Scarce Countries: Insights From The Middle East (Mohamed Mostafa Mohamed And Mohamed Ibrahim Kizhisseri) 82. Water Quality Forecasting To Support Decision Making In The European Drinking Water Supply Sector (Ricardo Marroquin Paiz, Eleanor Jennings, Valerie Mccarthy) 83. Water Resources Management In Central Asia (Stefanos Xenarios) 84. Water Resources System Analysis For Addressing Growing Water Management Challenges (Taher Kahil) 85. Water Rights And Legal Pluralism (Vishal Narain) 86. Water Security In The Middle East And North Africa (Mena) Region (Hamed Assaf) Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Challenging the mainstream view of the environment as either threatening or valuable, this book considers how geographic knowledge can be applied to offer a more nuanced understanding. Framed within geopolitics and using a range of methodologies, the chapters encapsulate different approaches to demonstrate how selective forms of knowledge, measurement, and spatial focus both embody and stabilize power, shaping how people perceive and respond to changing features of human-environment interactions. With key case studies analyzed throughout, this will be a timely read for geography and environmental studies scholars. It will also be beneficial to those studying political science and regional studies, as well as those working in NGOs and think tanks. Contributors include: L. Acton, B. Blue, L.M. Campbell, S. Dalby, O. Evrard, C.A. Fox, N.J. Gray, M. Himley, C. Johnson, F. Lasserre, P. Le Billon, M. Mostafanezhad, S. O'Lear, L. Olman, B. Schneider, L. Shykora, C. Sneddon, J. Swann-Quinn, M. Tadaki, P.-L. Têtu, S.D. VanDeveerTrade Review'This book maps out new research terrain by showing how geopolitics has environmental dimensions that go well beyond the national state and international relations. The rich chapters present case studies that put flesh on the bones of the programmatic arguments of Shannon O'Lear.' --Noel Castree, Manchester University, UK and the University of Wollongong, Australia'A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics lays bare our assumptions about what we mean by environment and by geopolitics. O'Lear and her contributors give us the tools to make explicit the impacts of power, actors, and interests in shaping placed-based decision-making and policy (in)action.' --Geoff Dabelko, Ohio University, US'This book offers refreshing, new perspectives on environmental geopolitics that go far beyond established concerns with global environmental governance and local political ecology. In addition to shedding light on how politics influences the way we manage the environment, O'Lear and contributors reveal the myriad ways in which politics shapes how we understand and encounter the socio-natural world in which we live.' --Philip Steinberg, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Environmental geopolitics: an introduction to questions and research approaches 1 Shannon O’Lear PART I INTERPRETING AND MEASURING THE ENVIRONMENT 2 Getting the measure of nature: the inconspicuous geopolitics of environmental measurement 16 Brendon Blue and Marc Tadaki 3 Science, territory, and the geopolitics of high seas conservation 30 Noella J. Gray, Leslie Acton, and Lisa M. Campbell 4 The geopolitics of environmental global mapping services: an analysis of Global Forest Watch 44 Birgit Schneider and Lynda Olman PART II POWER, KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN–ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS 5 Conflicts, commodities and the environmental geopolitics of supply chains 59 Philippe Le Billon and Lauren Shykora 6 Underground geopolitics: science, race, and territory in Peru during the late nineteenth century 74 Matthew Himley 7 Local knowledges and environmental governance: making space for alternative futures in the Arctic circumpolar region and the Mekong River Basin 88 Coleen A. Fox and Christopher Sneddon PART III OVERCOMING SELECTIVE SPATIAL FOCUS 8 The geopolitics of transportation in the melting Arctic 105 Frédéric Lasserre and Pierre-Louis Têtu 9 Environmental geopolitics of rumor: the sociality of uncertainty during northern Thailand’s smoky season 121 Mary Mostafanezhad and Olivier Evrard 10 Digging deep: crossing scale in the Georgian mining industry 136 Jesse Swann-Quinn 11 Looking ahead: environmental geopolitics research 151 Shannon O’Lear, Simon Dalby, Corey Johnson, and Stacy D. VanDeveer Index 167

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised third edition offers comprehensive coverage of the economics of climate change and climate policy, and is a suitable guide for advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students. Topics discussed include the costs and benefits of adaptation and mitigation, discounting, uncertainty, equity, policy instruments, the second best, and international agreements.Key features: In-depth treatment of the economics of climate change Careful explanation of concepts and their application to climate policy Customizable integrated assessment model that illustrates all issues discussed Specific usage guidelines for each level of reader Companion website with data, quizzes, videos, and further reading Discussion of the latest developments in theory and policy Greater attention to policy and market imperfections than in the second edition. This book is an essential text for students in economics, climate change, and environmental policy, an excellent resource for researchers and practitioners, and a key text to support professors in their teaching.Trade Review‘Richard Tol is not only a leading researcher but also a gifted educator. His textbook Climate Economics has established itself as the leading textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It provides the reader with a thorough grounding in the economics of climate change written in an accessible style.’ -- David Maddison, University of Birmingham, UK‘This book is both a comprehensive course and a reference to the all-important economics of climate change. It does for climate economics what Julia Child did for French Cooking: make it accessible to the serious student.’ -- Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley, US‘Richard S.J. Tol has written a must-read book for anyone caring about the sustainable development of this planet. This book is a delightful guide full of important information for those of us who want to dedicate ourselves to climate economics, so that human society can develop in an environmentally friendly manner.’ -- Lin Bo Qiang, Xiamen University, China

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Book SynopsisWith the rapid destabilization, escalation and convergence of various environmental crises, global environmental politics is facing extreme turbulence. Tracing the causes, consequences and dangers of planetary turbulence, this essential book identifies the emerging opportunities to improve governance in environmental politics and transition the world order toward greater equity, justice and sustainability.Providing a comprehensive understanding of the nature and breadth of global environmental politics, leading scholars investigate the intersecting crisis events of this turbulent era. Chapters explore the political, environmental and economic issues surrounding growing inequality: soaring food and fuel prices; record numbers of migrants and refugees fleeing persecution and destitution; and the intensification of climate change. Finding the sources of turbulence to be overlapping and reinforcing, the book digs deeper into how various actors generate turbulence, looking closely at state sovereignty, civil society and societal organizations. Forward thinking, it reflects how different practices, conditions, lenses, and tools can create future avenues to imagine, facilitate, and actualize solutions for global sustainability during times of extreme turbulence.Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this insightful book will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars of environmental politics, policy, and governance; alongside policymakers and organizations looking to realize the Sustainable Development Goals.Trade Review‘A genuinely novel take on the broad nature of global environmental politics is a rare thing, but Dauvergne and Shipton have succeeded with gusto. Deploying the concept of turbulence – the sense of constant churn, multiple intersecting crises that never resolve but transform, disrupting lives in myriad ways – to great effect, this book provides an overarching framework for understanding how we might pursue sustainability in this context. It also details this in relation to a wide range of familiar and unfamiliar cases alike. All that is solid may be melting into air, but Dauvergne and Shipton help us guide our way through the turbulence.’ -- Matthew Paterson, University of Manchester, UK‘Dauvergne and Shipton’s remarkable volume brings together an amazing array of scholars who collectively provide a deep engagement with the unsettling forces at the root of overlapping global environmental crises, while also highlighting the opportunities that turbulence brings to transform our world for the better. It is a must read.’ -- Matthew Hoffmann, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: INTRODUCTION 1 Understanding environmental politics in a turbulent era 1 Leah Shipton and Peter Dauvergne PART I THE NATURE AND BREADTH OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL TURBULENCE 2 Turbulence, converging crises, and environmental justice 13 David Schlosberg 3 Plastic turbulence: illusions of containment, clean-up, and control, and the emergent promise of diverse economies 25 Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Jacob Hasselbalch, and Johannes Stripple 4 Rights, resilience, and water in turbulent times 37 Ekta Patel and Erika Weinthal 5 Promoting environmental rights in turbulent times: Latin America and the Escazú Agreement 49 Hayley Stevenson 6 Compound urban crises in global environmental politics 62 Marielle Papin, Linda Westman, Rachel Macrorie, Ahmad Shoaib Azizi, Michael Dede, Julie Greenwalt, Ibinabo Johnson, and Barbara Summers 7 Extractive industries and mineral resources: turbulence all around 75 Stacy D. VanDeveer, Hyeyoon Park, Yixian Sun, and Michele M. Betsill PART II ACTORS AS AGENTS OF TURBULENCE OR TRANSFORMATION 8 People power, disruption, and survival 91 Peter J. Jacques 9 State sovereignty, turbulence, and environmental disasters in global environmental politics 103 Susan Park 10 How philanthropic foundations fuel transformations and with what consequences for sustainable food systems 116 Agni Kalfagianni PART III PATHWAYS TO GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY IN A TURBULENT ERA 11 Thinking gender in times of crisis: reflecting on gender, turbulence, and global environmental politics 130 Nicole Detraz 12 Is technological turbulence sustainable? 142 Leslie Paul Thiele 13 Beyond islands of sustainability? Opportunities and challenges of jurisdictional approaches in tropical forest governance 156 Philip Schleifer 14 Advancing global environmental politics research through systems-oriented analysis 169 Henrik Selin 15 Turbulence and transition to healthy governance 184 D.G. Webster, Mark Axelrod, and Semra A. Aytur 16 Ratcheting-up through competition: global environmental governance in the era of rising geopolitical tensions between China and the West 197 Yixian Sun and Chuyu Liu CONCLUSION 17 Navigating turbulence for sustainability 211 Leah Shipton and Peter Dauvergne Index 224

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide provides readers with strategies for teaching Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in all its forms, whether through formal university programmes or in the form of short courses offered to professionals and practitioners. Featuring contributions from 39 university teachers and short course trainers, the centerpiece of the book is the suite of 37 recipes for teaching different aspects of EIA. This internationally relevant resource collectively embodies and applies the best practice principles for teaching EIA, developed through a two-year research project with input from a diverse group of international experts. It provides practical and innovative learning activities with complete instructions for successful delivery, and thus represents a truly comprehensive and up-to-date contribution to the field. This latest contribution to our Elgar Guides to Teaching series serves as both a basis for reflection upon curricula and teaching practices, and as a source of inspiration for learning activities that can be adopted and adapted for different contexts by EIA teachers and trainers. It will be a valuable resource to help both new and seasoned EIA educators expand their toolbox in order to teach EIA more effectively.Trade Review‘The authors set out to provide comprehensive coverage of theory of EIA teaching and a practical resource for teachers and trainers. I think they have achieved both. Definitely something for those involved in EIA teaching or training to have on their bookshelf.’ -- Samuel J Hayes, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal'A comprehensive resource for EIA training that bridges the scholar-practitioner model. Morrison-Saunders and Pope establish sound principles for EIA teaching and present a rich collection of hands-on teaching and learning activities drawn from leading EIA educators and trainers from across the globe. This one-of-a-kind resource is an essential toolkit for those engaged in the teaching and learning of EIA - both inside and outside academia.' -- Bram Noble, University of Saskatchewan, Canada'This is a pioneering publication on teaching EIA. It provides a most valuable resource to help those teaching university students or training practitioners to expand their toolbox to contribute more effectively. In addition to the core expertise of the authors, it builds on a wealth of contributions from EIA teachers from around the world with a focus on international best practice. A particular strength is the compendium of 37 teaching recipes; these provide a wonderful cookbook of clearly structured short examples and instructions for teaching activities that can be adapted to fit different teaching contexts worldwide.' -- John Glasson, Oxford Brookes University, UK'More than a teaching manual, this book summarises what EIA teachers around the world have learned. Angus Morrison-Saunders and Jenny Pope structured guidance on What to teach, How to teach and Key learning outcomes around a set of teaching ''principles'' and seasoned them with a menu of recipes. People teaching EIA in 17 countries - from young lecturers to retired professors and including me- contributed their ''recipes'' and shared their experience on engaging with students, fostering critical thinking, and ultimately using impact assessment as a tool towards a more sustainable future.' -- Luis E. Sánchez, University of São Paulo, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I OVERVIEW AND CONTEXT 1. Introduction: setting the scene PART II ABOUT EIA TEACHING 2. Generic EIA process and curriculum 3. Developing EIA teaching principles 4. EIA teaching principles: content 5. EIA teaching principles: pedagogy 6. EIA teaching principles: skills PART III EIA TEACHING RECIPES 7. EIA process recipes 8. Principles-focused recipes 9. Teaching EIA online 10. Epilogue References Index

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Book SynopsisA political scientist and an urban architect explore China's odyssey to become an ecological civilization and transform its massive, unsustainable, urbanization process into one that creates hundreds of eco-cities. The resulting From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions is the first book-length study combining analysis of politics and power, urban design and planning issues derived from the co-authors' interdisciplinary research, and on-site fieldwork from their political science and architectural area specialties. Begun in 1986, little-known policy actions have taken shape in the building of 285 eco-cities--and growing. What are the driving forces of these innovative developments? How is China going about converting its teeming urban areas into replicable and showcase cities? Can these new policy initiatives overcome the damage done to its air, waterways, and land, while significantly reducing public health dangers to its inhabitants? In searching for means for the People s Republic of China to take the next step from eco-cities to sustainable city-regions, the co-authors assess the potential success of China's present course and offer key recommendations for Chinese political leaders, urban planners, and citizen stakeholders to make the transition to a sustainable future for its people and the rest of the world. The primary market for this book will be eco-researchers, Asian studies scholars and teachers, eco- and urban architects, environmental and urban policy professionals, and advanced undergraduates in environmental and sustainability studies or sciences programs. The interdisciplinary reach and critical framework of analysis will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in Chinese ecological strides and seeking a critical assessment of its potential.Trade Review‘Overall, this book provides good insights into China’s sustainability effort, the development logic, and various controversies in China’s eco-park development. The various cases provide a vivid view of how Chinese cities search for their path in ecological modernization and the bumpy roads they experienced when attempting to transplant the sustainability concept into the local soil. It can be used as a textbook for under-graduates or graduates to understand sustainability debates and its operationalization process in different political-economic-societal contexts. It can also provide researchers on sustainability and eco-park development with rich information and provocative reflections on the global sustainability debate.’ -- Yawei Chen, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘This remarkable book brings a bold new vision to urban architectural design as an opportunity for informed collective activism over time.’ -- Robert J Koester, The Plan Journal‘This remarkable book brings a bold new vision to achieve highly-integrative systemic performance at the scale of the City-as-a-Hill and its surrounding rural partner land. No less, it provides the means for the ambitious sustainability interests of the Chinese party-state to achieve global recognition for becoming a social and environmentally integrated ecological civilization.’ -- Robert J. Koester, Ball State University, US'From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions by Ernest J. Yanarella and Richard S. Levine deserves to be widely read. General readers, China specialists, environmental scientists, and policy makers alike will gain insight into current sustainability concepts and practices around the world, be drawn into a case study approach to China's environmental challenges, and benefit from the well balanced analysis of China's efforts, complications, achievements, and failures to address those challenges through the creation of sustainable city-regions.' --Terry Bodenhorn, (Retired) Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Director of the Library, and Professor of Modern Chinese History, Shantou University, China 2010-2019'Yanarella and Levine bring a needed focus on the term ''eco-cities,'' taking it further to ''sustainable city-regions.'' They draw on their detailed knowledge of China's exploration of eco-cities as part of an ecological civilization. This book is an important assessment of a key aspect of transitioning to a sustainable future.' --Haydn Washington, author of What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: China’s Eco-cities and Bid to Become an Eco-Civilization 1. Theoretical Foundations of the Sustainable City-Region 2. Eco-city Development Strategy in Beijing and China’s Cities: Top-down/Bottom-up Dynamics 3. Suzhou, Wuxi and China’s Twenty-first Century Eco-city Program: From Austerity Ecology to Eco-scientific Plenty 4. New Kunming/Chenggong Eco-District: City Surrounding the Countryside? 5. Shantou: A Metropolitan Coastal Garden-City in the Making? 6. Beyond the Dongtan Debacle: Tianjin and Global Showcase Urban Sustainability Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely and comprehensive Handbook addresses how Chinese cities govern the environmental changes generated by fast economic growth and urbanisation. Outlining the relationship between the state, market, and society, this Handbook provides a systematic understanding of urban environmental governance in China.Exploring the context of changing urban environmental policies in China, leading international scholars highlight the arts of governance and governmentality through experimentation and discourse. Chapters investigate the political ecologies of eco-cities and conservation, urban waste management, and governance and sustainability transitions, as well as focusing on low-carbon innovations and green buildings. With a territorial perspective grounded in Chinese cities, contributors interrogate changing and complex state–market–society dynamics in urbanisation and urban environmental governance.With a thorough and systematic analysis of new environmental initiatives, practices, and impacts, this Handbook provides scholars, students, and policy researchers of environmental studies, politics, and East Asian studies with an exemplary selection of contemporary research on China’s urban environmental governance.Trade Review‘Nuanced in both description and analysis, this rich Handbook is a welcome resource for students of urban and environmental developments in China during its push towards “ecological civilisation”. It is broad in its empirical reach, presenting cases across urban and rural environments at various scales, and breaks new ground in its conceptual and methodological dimensions.’ -- Roger Keil, York University, Canada‘This outstanding collection provides a unique insight on the practices, rationalities, and outcomes of current urban environmental governance in the “Middle Kingdom”. The book foregrounds the tensions that emerge from the implementation of government-led discourses, and also engages with the emergence of a new urban technological sublime in environmental policy, alongside more conventional strategies for institutional change. This book is destined to become a classic and will surely be essential reading for any researchers and students grappling with the complexity of urban development and climate politics in China.’ -- Vanesa Castan Broto, Sheffield University, UK‘This timely edited collection examines how the ideology of “ecological civilisation” is reshaping urban environmental governance in China. Bringing together insightful case studies of a range of contemporary urban environmental problems, the collection shows how the Chinese state’s attempts to manage the socio-ecological challenges of urban entrepreneurialism amount to little more than temporary “fixes”.’ -- Andrew E.G. Jonas, University of Hull, UK‘This Handbook is an essential resource for anyone interested in environmental governance in China. It provides insightful analysis that will help both students and practitioners better understand how there is a wide range of environmental governance practices and political ecologies in China today!’ -- Genia Kostka, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvii 1 China’s urban environmental governance 1 Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu and Yining Liu PART I CONTEXTS, PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY CHANGES 2 China’s eco dreams and green reality 26 Austin Williams 3 Indigenous literary perspectives on green governance grassland management policies in China 41 Robin Visser 4 When an entrepreneurial government hammers out a plan for sustainable growth: a sustainable urban experiment story in China? 54 Yang Fu and Xiaoling Zhang 5 Resilient city planning and practices in China 69 Guofang Zhai and Yuwen Lu 6 The applicability of environmental governance theories to China 93 Xidong Cao and Li Yu PART II GOVERNMENTALITY: EXPERIMENTS AND DISCOURSES 7 Farmland preservation and watershed management in China: a perspective of local entrepreneurial leadership in the party-state mechanism 115 Shiuh-Shen Chien 8 Carbon governmentality in Chinese cities 128 Le-Yin Zhang 9 The politics of climate experimentalism in China 144 Kevin Lo 10 Climate transformation through experimental governance: the case of the low-carbon city pilot program in China 156 Zhilin Liu, Jie Wang and Yunzhu Chen 11 Urban sustainability experiments in China: plural approaches for transformation 169 Linjun Xie, Ali Cheshmehzangi, Mengqi Shao, Yuxi Zhang and Faith Chan 12 Eco and low-carbon, smart and sponge: potential and delusion in realising environmental benefits from sustainable city branding 186 Martin de Jong and Li Sun 13 Greening Chinese cities? Denaturalizing the ‘good’ of environmental discourses in China’s urban planning system 201 Jiang Xu and Mengzhu Zhang PART III POLITICAL ECOLOGIES: ECO-CITIES AND CONSERVATION 14 Eco-cities in China: national initiatives, local implementation and livelihood transitions 227 I-Chun Catherine Chang 15 Political ecologies of urban–rural conservation planning and resettlement 243 Jesse Rodenbiker 16 Negotiating urban sustainability on the ground: China’s greenway development as land politics 257 Calvin King Lam Chung and Jingya Dai PART IV WASTE MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE 17 China’s environmental governance transition: a new paradigm for waste management 272 Yuchen Yang, Will McDowall and Fangzhu Zhang 18 Towards an inclusive circular economy: wise-waste city network in China 291 Xin Tong 19 Sustainable waste management: the influences of government capacity in the greater China region 304 Natalie W.M. Wong, Lin Peng and Chin-chih Wang 20 From state entrepreneurialism to state-led ecological civilisation: changing dispositifs of governing e-waste metabolism and ‘cyborg’ urbanisation in China’s e-waste cities 323 Kun Wang, Junxi Qian and Shenjing He 21 Ecological civilization, anti-incineration activism and the rolling out of ‘compulsory waste-sorting’ programs in Chinese cities 340 Shih-yang Kao PART V LOW-CARBON ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITION 22 Green industry development and urban sustainability transitions in China’s latecomer cities: the case of Dezhou 355 Zhen Yu and David Gibbs 23 Green building in China: governance and promotion of sustainability 369 Yu Zhou and Tianchen Zhou 24 Urban transition governance in China’s new era of ecological civilization: opportunities and challenges 387 Ping Huang, Linda Westman and Xiyan Mao 25 Integrated transit and sustainable urban development: case studies of metro and HSR stations 403 Yun Song and Biyue Wang Index 417

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This updated second edition of the Advanced Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment offers an up-to-date exploration of the current theory and practice of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), a crucial tool for evaluating and mitigating the impacts of development projects on the environment. Angus Morrison-Saunders provides an overview of the key concepts, principles, and methodologies of EIA, with a focus on recent developments, emerging trends, and best practices in the field.Key Features: Fresh analyses of how environment and development intersect in EIA Exploration of the fundamental ideas promoted by the pioneers of EIA Revised content on international best practice EIA principles and how they apply today Reflections on the increasing need to adopt a holistic, sustainability-oriented approach to EIA. With accessible style, comprehensive coverage, and a practical approach, this book is an essential resource for students, scholars, and practitioners in environmental studies, environmental governance, policy and regulation, urban planning, and related fields who want to deepen their understanding of EIA.Trade Review‘This is a must-read for everyone interested in Environmental Impact Assessment. The author provides a clear and masterful overview of the fundamentals of EIA, that is relevant for those who are new to the field as well as for experienced practitioners and scholars who want to advance their understanding of its origins and development.’ -- Jos Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands‘Written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, this book will open up one's mind to the richness and complexity of EIA, drawing on insightful case studies and more than 350 references from the very early days of EIA to the most recent peer-reviewed journal publications.’ -- Alberto Fonseca, Federal University of Ouro Preto, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the second edition vii Preface to the first edition viii PART I OVERVIEW AND CONTEXT 1 Introduction: setting the scene 2 Forms of EIA 3 Back to the beginning – EIA and the National Environmental Policy Act 1969 (US) 4 A brief reflection on the goals and purpose of EIA PART II GENERIC EIA PROCESS COMPONENTS 5 EIA and decision-making 6 Screening and scoping 7 Prediction, assessment and mitigation 8 Review, approval decision and EIA follow-up PART III ABOUT DEVELOPMENT 9 Spectrum of development and design considerations 10 Alternatives and mitigation 9PART IV ABOUT ENVIRONMENT 11 Representing environment 12 Engaging with stakeholders PART V BRINGING DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT TOGETHER 13 Science, uncertainty and adaptive management in EIA 14 Holistic and cumulative impact assessment PART VI CLOSING REMARKS ON EIA 15 Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.The Advanced Introduction to Applied Green Criminology provides a comprehensive overview of interventions and practices that contribute to environmental protection. Topics include crime prevention, environmental regulation and law enforcement, environmental forensics, greening of criminal justice institutions, and social activism. Underpinning these topics is the notion of eco-justice, which focuses on environmental justice (humans), ecological justice (ecosystems) and species justice (non-human animals and plants). Key Features: Discusses practical ways to prevent and stop environmental crimes and harms Presents grounded examples and knowledge gained from years of experience and expertise reflecting a 'pracademic' orientation Provides insightful summaries of intervention practices This Advanced Introduction will be invaluable to practitioners, such as green criminologists, conservation scientists, and environmental lawyers and regulators, as well as academics and students interested in preventing, stopping, and deterring environmental crimes and harms.?Trade Review‘Advanced Introduction to Applied Green Criminology is a valuable synthesis of theoretical and philosophical underpinnings with practical approaches and applications. Distinguished Professor Rob White has expertly combined decades of research into a useful text that collates the diverse attempts to prevent and disrupt environmental crime. Furthermore, he offers insights to both academics and practitioners into other elements to consider when tackling environmental crimes and harms. A must read for anyone working in the field of the environment.’ -- Tanya Wyatt, Northumbria University, UK‘Reducing environmental harms is a universal human interest. Again, White offers wayfinding for those of us searching for deeper understanding of why and how green criminology can help smooth the science-to-action interface. He paints a vivid picture of the diversity of environmental harms and the tools criminology offers for positive and just change.’ -- Meredith L. Gore, University of Maryland, College Park, US

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.The Advanced Introduction to Applied Green Criminology provides a comprehensive overview of interventions and practices that contribute to environmental protection. Topics include crime prevention, environmental regulation and law enforcement, environmental forensics, greening of criminal justice institutions, and social activism. Underpinning these topics is the notion of eco-justice, which focuses on environmental justice (humans), ecological justice (ecosystems) and species justice (non-human animals and plants). Key Features: Discusses practical ways to prevent and stop environmental crimes and harms Presents grounded examples and knowledge gained from years of experience and expertise reflecting a 'pracademic' orientation Provides insightful summaries of intervention practices This Advanced Introduction will be invaluable to practitioners, such as green criminologists, conservation scientists, and environmental lawyers and regulators, as well as academics and students interested in preventing, stopping, and deterring environmental crimes and harms.?Trade Review‘Advanced Introduction to Applied Green Criminology is a valuable synthesis of theoretical and philosophical underpinnings with practical approaches and applications. Distinguished Professor Rob White has expertly combined decades of research into a useful text that collates the diverse attempts to prevent and disrupt environmental crime. Furthermore, he offers insights to both academics and practitioners into other elements to consider when tackling environmental crimes and harms. A must read for anyone working in the field of the environment.’ -- Tanya Wyatt, Northumbria University, UK‘Reducing environmental harms is a universal human interest. Again, White offers wayfinding for those of us searching for deeper understanding of why and how green criminology can help smooth the science-to-action interface. He paints a vivid picture of the diversity of environmental harms and the tools criminology offers for positive and just change.’ -- Meredith L. Gore, University of Maryland, College Park, US

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Book SynopsisInterlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals explores the complex relationships between the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by 193 United Nations Member States in 2015. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the interconnections between the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development and the five pillars of the SDGs: peace, people, planet, prosperity, and partnerships.>Covering a wide range of topics and themes, this timely book examines interlinkages at the thematic, regional, and country levels. Featuring case studies from across the globe, contributors explore the synergies and trade-offs among the SDGs using a variety of methodological approaches. Chapters also include examples of best practices and applications, demonstrating how interlinkages can be leveraged to achieve multiple SDGs simultaneously.>This book will be an essential resource for a diverse range of audiences, including students and scholars in the areas of climate action, gender equality, industry, innovation, and infrastructure, and sustainable cities and communities. It will also be beneficial for policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders in both the private and public sectors and civil society.Table of ContentsContents: Preface xi 1 Interlinkages and interactions among the Sustainable Development Goals 1 Ranjula Bali Swain and Yongyi Min 2 Decoupling and redistribution in realising the Sustainable Development Goals 16 Lin Lerpold and Örjan Sjöberg 3 Interactions within Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): the economic and environmental dimensions of SDG Indicator 14.7.1 37 Suyu Liu 4 Patterns of sustainability and policy coherence: some lessons learned from Sweden and global SDG follow-up 52 Viveka Palm 5 Quantitative approaches to explore synergies and trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 70 Prajal Pradhan and Anne Warchold 6 Network analysis of SDG interlinkages 94 Jonathan H. P. Dawes 7 An integrated approach to the Sustainable Development Goals from an interlinkage perspective: methodology, decision support tool and applications 129 Xin Zhou and Mustafa Moinuddin 8 Measuring global interlinkages between SDGs applying linear dimensionality reduction tools 163 Jean-Pierre Cling and Clément Delecourt 9 Improving data availability in Colombia to find interlinkages across the 2030 Agenda Karen Chavez Quintero and Natalia Alonso Ospina 189 10 Mainstreaming gender in environment goals across the SDG monitoring framework Sara Duerto Valero and Sharita Serrao 217 11 The gendered impacts of climate change: evidence from Asia Sara Duerto Valero and Sneha Kaul230 12 SDG interactions from a regional perspective: a case study from Sweden Anja Eliasson and Erik Grönlund 259 Index 279

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Book SynopsisGreenhouse gas concentrations are rapidly increasing and pathways to limit global warming require fundamental economic transitions. Green Deals in the Making addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with the implementation of Green Deals, in particular the use of market-based instruments.Expert contributors shed light on the complexities arising for the implementation of Green Deals in times of the context of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which puts considerable strains on national economies. Chapters present theory and empirical analysis of green pricing instruments and national experiences, assessing the critical issue of finance and recycling carbon tax revenue. The book concludes with an analysis of key issues relating to circular economy considerations and plastics in achieving Green Deal goals. A critical analysis of important topics is presented including green fiscal reform, carbon taxation and sustainable urbanism.This timely book will be of great interest to researchers, students and scholars interested in environmental policy, tax and law, as well as the industry sector, policy makers and government officials.Trade Review‘This volume of Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation collects some very instructive chapters highlighting the opportunities for implementing Green Deals. The authors cover a wide aspect of the prevailing challenges by analysing national experiences from all over the world. A special focus is given to different market-based instrument schemes applied in Europe.’ -- Stefan Ulrich Speck, European Environment Agency, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: Preface xi PART I GREEN DEALS AND COVID-19 RECOVERY 1 Environmental taxation from a European Union perspective, after the Covid-19 crisis 2 Alberto Comelli 2 Environmental and energy taxation in the context of the EU Green Deal and the recovery plan: the case of Spain 14 Álvaro Antón Antón PART II GREEN DEALS – CARBON PRICING INSTRUMENTS AND EXPERIENCES 3 Abatement in the EU ETS – evidence from Austria 29 Claudia Kettner and Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig 4 Implementing green deals in developing countries: the case of the Mexican pilot emissions trading scheme 46 Bahareh Ghafouri, Joseph Dellatte and Sven Rudolph 5 Environmental neutrality: redesigning EU VAT neutrality to support the implementation of the European Green Deal 62 Francesco Cannas and Matteo Fermeglia 6 Possibilities for a green fiscal reform in Brazil 80 Maria Carolina Maldonado Mendonça Kraljevic 7 A review of recent experiences with carbon taxation and revenue recycling – lessons for implementation in Eastern European countries 96 Mikael Skou Andersen 8 Sustainable urbanism, land value taxation and green deals 112 Paulo Carvalho PART III FINANCING GREEN DEALS 9 Green finance: contribution to climate policy, supporting factors and barriers 127 Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig and Angela Köppl 10 Greening South Africa’s economy through carbon tax revenue recycling 141 Ashley Baldwin and Lee-Ann Steenkamp PART IV GREEN DEALS: CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND PLASTICS 11 An analysis of the Brazilian experience of plastic recycling taxation 158 Lucas N. Holanda 12 Plastic free but no free trade? 170 Rodolfo Salassa Boix 13 Are plastic taxes environmental or fiscal measures? A legal analysis of the Italian and Spanish cases under the circular economy strategy 185 Marta Villaz Ezcurra and Marina Bisogno Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely and insightful book, Laura Maxim evaluates the use of socio-economic analysis (SEA) in the regulation of potentially carcinogenic, mutagenic, and toxic chemicals. Retracing the history of the use of cost-benefit analysis in chemical risk policies, this book presents contemporary discourse on the political success of SEA.Informed by empirical research, theoretical analysis, and professional experience in implementing EU Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), Maxim proposes a new form of risk regulation called ‘regulatory co-management’, of which SEA has become a convenient tool. Chapters outline the controversy surrounding cost-benefit analysis in the US, the history of chemical regulation in Europe since 1967, and the construction and institutionalization of the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) socio-economic guidelines. The book concludes by analyzing legal, political, and ethical criticisms of the role of SEA in the authorization of chemicals such as lead chromate, chromium trioxide, and sodium dichromate.With direct relevance to ongoing debates about the revision of EU chemicals policy, this unique book will be essential reading for practitioners of socio-economic analysis and stakeholders involved in REACH. It will also be beneficial to academics and students of environmental governance and regulation, European politics and policy, and industrial economics.Trade Review‘With over twenty years of expertise in the political ecology of chemical regulation, Laura Maxim performs a thorough investigation into the use of socio-economic analysis in the history of EU chemicals policy and regulation over the past 50 years. Comparing EU and US experiences, this unique and exciting book proposes an alternative methodological approach to counter the uncertainties and controversies surrounding cost-benefit analysis in chemicals regulation.’ -- Joan Martínez Alier, ICTA-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain‘This book is an eye-opener as to why both TSCA and REACH have failed to protect the public from demonstrated hazards in light of REACH’s requirement, and TSCA’s inaction, to take alternatives and substitutes into account. It is a failure of both the EU Commission and the EU’s regulators that they allowed the existing chemical products industry to control the dialogue about needed changes that the consideration of substitutes would have increasingly encouraged instead. The current activities focused on revising REACH should avoid the mistakes made in reauthorizing TSCA in 2016.’ -- Nicholas A. Ashford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: socio-economic analysis in chemical risk policies 2. Cost-benefit analysis, half of a century of controversy in the United States 3. Before REACH, socio-economic analysis in the “new and existing substances” regulation 4. From the White Paper to REACH: the hours-free journey of socio-economic analysis 5. The writing of ECHA’s socio-economic guidelines: construction of a space of common mental representations on a minefield 6. Institutionalization of cost-benefit analysis as a co-management tool: the activity of the Socio-Economic Assessment Committee 7. The status of socio-economic assessments in the authorisation and restriction dossiers: micro-grounds for compromise all along the implementation of REACH 8. Co-management contested: the controversy on the role of SEA in authorisation 9. Conclusion to Economics and Power in EU Chemicals Policy and Regulation References Index

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Book SynopsisThis definitive reference edition uniquely integrates urban planning, advanced computational, and government policy-making aspects, with a focus on disseminating the momentum of Smart Cities Research in the Gulf Region.

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Book SynopsisPlacemaking: People, Properties, Planning, delivers a cross-disciplinary critique of placemaking, an approach to the design and creation of new urban places, and the reshaping of old ones, that has become so pervasive that it forms the strapline' for the UK's Royal Town Planning Institute. Developing principally from planning and urban design, placemaking has swiftly become a new orthodoxy, a dominant paradigm. It seems to be all-encompassing, particularly at a time when towns and cities face new and large-scale challenges relating to climate change, sustainability, population movement and intensive capital regeneration.Higgins and Larkham alongside an expert team of contributors examine the experiences of placemaking, the quality of the places produced, and the experiences of those living and working in them?Placemaking: People, Properties, Planning contains a series of short, sharp chapters exploring a broad range of placemaking concepts and experie

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Book SynopsisThe Global Smart City: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age is a ground-breaking exploration of the transformative impact of smart cities in today's urban landscape. Through a comprehensive analysis of smart city projects, this study sheds light on the urban, economic, and competitive outcomes of integrating new technologies. Divided into two parts, this in-depth study provides fresh insights into the ongoing smart city debate. In Part 1, author Filippo Marchesani explores the internal implementation of smart city projects, analyzing digital implementation, the dimensions of smart cities, and the geographic factors influencing their adoption. Drawing on international contributions and primary research across various disciplines, such as digital technologies, architecture, economics, regional studies, and innovation, this section fills a crucial gap in the academic debate, offering a comprehensive theoretical and analytical foundation. Part 2 shifts focus to the urban, economic, and competitive outcomes of smart city initiatives, employing a multidisciplinary approach. It examines the tangible effects of these projects on the urban environment, economic landscape, and overall city attractiveness, utilizing real-world examples and data-driven methodologies. The Global Smart City: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age is essential reading for policymakers, urban planners, technologists, academics, and anyone interested in the dynamic changes unfolding in our cities and society. With his unique interdisciplinary perspective and wealth of research, Marchesani offers a comprehensive exploration of smart cities, empowering readers to embrace the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introducing and Understanding Smart Cities Part One. Internal Implementation of Smart City Ecosystems Chapter 2. Digital Implementation in the Smart City Ecosystem Chapter 3. Orchestrating the Implementation of the Smart City Chapter 4. Geographic Patterns in Smart City Implementation Part Two. Urban, Economic, and Competitive Outcomes of the Smart City Projects Chapter 5. Urban Environment in the Smart City Chapter 6. Economic and Business Environment in the Smart City Chapter 7. Urban Attractiveness and the Competitive Edge of the Smart City Chapter 8. Navigating the Smart Cities: Conclusions and Final Remarks

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook offers a comprehensive outlook on global environmental politics, providing readers with an up-to-date view of a field of ever-increasing academic and public significance. Its critical perspective interrogates what is taken for granted in current institutions and social and power relations, highlighting the issues preventing meaningful change in the relationship between human societies and their biophysical underpinnings.Featuring contributions from over 60 established and emerging international scholars, the Handbook is organized into six thematic sections. It addresses theoretical approaches, contested notions, key issues, governance processes, mobilizations and emergent directions of inquiry, presenting a vital contemporary analysis of the major social science and political ecology debates over environmental questions.Scholars and students in the social sciences, in particular those studying politics and public policy, with an interest in the environment and climate change will find this Handbook to be essential reading. It will also be useful to academics in other disciplines related to ecology and environmental politics, as well as politicians and practitioners involved in green transition policies.Trade Review‘This terrific new Handbook is “critical” in multiple senses. First, it is critical of the tired and inadequate politics of global environmental summitry. Second, the established and emerging European scholars collected here demonstrate the rich and varied insights that a critical environmental politics can offer in the face of our multi-dimensional climate crisis. And finally, it is critical to the work of envisioning, strategizing, and building a more just future.’ -- John M. Meyer, California Polytechnic State University, Humboldt, US‘This magnificent Handbook shows how 21st century politics occupies the interstices of everyday life – from the digitised molecule to the spouse tax; from geopower to post-work. The editors are relational thinkers, well aware that the environment, so-called, is not the same as “nature”; rather, their title conveys an academic field subjecting itself to a reflexive process of decolonisation. This open textured epistemological stance owes much to the Frankfurt School's refusal of modernity. The spectrum of contested themes runs through debates over financialisation of nature, smart cities, genetic engineering, even a psychoanalysis of sustainability narratives! The call is for regulatory proposals and grassroots transitions sensitive to both feminist critique and to epistemic extractivism from Indigenous cultures. That said, the editors want to see discourse deconstruction replaced by a prefigurative politics, grounded in embodied practices. As they say, the task of critique is to make visible other ways of worlding.’ -- Ariel Salleh, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa‘This is an excellent collection of different schools of thought that offer critical insights to modern environmental politics. Useful for students and researchers alike.’ -- Giorgos Kallis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: what is critical environmental politics? 1 Luigi Pellizzoni, Emanuele Leonardi and Viviana Asara PART I THEORETICAL STRANDS 1 Critical theory: praxis and emancipation beyond the mastery of nature 23 Christoph Görg 2 Decolonial ecologies: beyond environmentalism 40 Malcom Ferdinand 3 Feminisms and the environment 58 Corinna Dengler and Birte Strunk 4 Marxism and ecology: an ongoing debate 71 Emanuele Leonardi and Salvo Torre PART II CONTESTED NOTIONS 5 Anthropocene 91 Marija Brajdić Vuković and Mladen Domazet 6 Buen Vivir 104 Philipp Altmann 7 Degrowth 116 Ekaterina Chertkovskaya 8 Limits 129 Erik Gómez-Baggethun 9 Sustainability: buying time for consumer capitalism 141 Ingolfur Blühdorn PART III KEY ISSUES 10 Agrarian development and food security: ecology, labour and crises 157 Maura Benegiamo 11 Bioeconomies 170 Kean Birch 12 Cities and the environment 181 Hug March 13 Climate justice and global politics 192 Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen and Oliver Hunt 14 The Common(s) 206 Angelos Varvarousis 15 The cultural political economy of research and innovation: meeting the problem of growth in the Anthropocene 217 David Tyfield 16 Disasters and catastrophes 232 Laura Centemeri and Isabella Tomassi 17 Energy politics and energy transition 245 Natalia Magnani, Dario Minervini and Ivano Scotti 18 Expertise, lay/local knowledge and the environment 257 Rolf Lidskog and Monika Berg 19 Extractivism and neo-extractivism 270 Maristella Svampa 20 Religion and ecology 282 Jens Koehrsen 21 Social metabolism 295 Dario Padovan, Osman Arrobbio and Alessandro Sciullo 22 Technological fixes: nonknowledge transfer and the risk of ignorance 308 Matthias Gross 23 The values of Nature 318 Clive L. Spash and Tone Smith PART IV GOVERNANCE 24 Democracy and democratisation 333 Marit Hammond 25 Environmental violence 347 Gloria Pessina 26 Environment-related human mobility 362 Eleonora Guadagno 27 Financialisation of nature 374 Tone Smith 28 Fossil fuels and state–industry relations: a case study in environmental non-compliance 388 Edwin A. Edou, Debra J. Davidson and Sydney Karbonik 29 Global environmental governance and the state 402 Alina Brad, Ulrich Brand and Etienne Schneider 30 Just transition: a conflict transformation approach 416 Damian McIlroy, Seán Brennan and John Barry 31 Sustainable welfare: urban areas and transformational action 431 Kajsa Emilsson and Max Koch PART V MOBILIZATIONS 32 Climate change consensus: a depoliticized deadlock 443 Erik Swyngedouw 33 Ecological mobilizations in the Global South 456 Pallav Das 34 Engaging the everyday: sustainability, practices, politics 468 Alice Dal Gobbo 35 Environmental movements 483 Viviana Asara 36 More-than-social movements: politics of matter, autonomy, alterontologies 505 Andrea Ghelfi and Dimitris Papadopoulos PART VI NEW DIRECTIONS 37 Decolonising environmental politics 521 Patrick Bresnihan and Naomi Millner 38 Digitalisation as promissory infrastructure for sustainability 540 Ingmar Lippert 39 Eco-feminism and the commons: the Feminization of Resistance in Latin America 554 Silvia Federici 40 Geopower: genealogies, territories and politics 564 Miriam Tola 41 Post-work and ecology 577 Luigi Pellizzoni 42 Transformative innovation 593 Andreas Novy, Nathan Barlow and Julia Fankhauser Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the wide variety of political aspects relating to oil resources and markets, The Politics of Oil provides an important and accessible introduction to topics such as the so-called 'resource curse?' oil rent, producer cartels, and international oil governance. Broadening the scope further, Dag Harald Claes also examines the role of oil in political conflicts.Divided thematically into three parts, this book discusses the exercise of political control over oil resources, their extraction, and the income from oil exports; the vagaries of oil market forces and political attempts to govern them; and finally, the complex role of oil in international, regional, and domestic conflicts. Drawing on a number of academic perspectives, including economics, political science, philosophy, history, geology, and more, the key debates surrounding oil are explored. These include the role of OPEC, the future of oil in the context of climate change, and the part oil has played in civil war and terrorism.Easily accessible, this introduction to the intertwined relationship between oil and political decisions and behaviour, is an essential tool for students of political science, economics, and energy related studies of all kinds. It is also valuable for policymakers, industry practitioners, and others interested in the oil business or governance seeking a comprehensive introduction to the subject.Trade Review‘The Politics of Oil is a fascinating and informative study of the evolution of the international oil industry. The work profits from the authors interdisciplinary approach, which draws heavily on a number of fields including but by no means limited to geology, engineering, economics, philosophy, history and political science. The chapters are filled with a wealth of valuable information and insights on many of the pressing issues of our time: From climate change and the potential producer response to the resurgence of Iranian ambitions in the Gulf. To my knowledge, this is the only work of its kind providing a bridge between political and economic approaches to complex geopolitical issues such as the resource curse. It is readily accessible to the general reader interested in oil and politics. All the chapters can serve as supplementary material to academic courses in energy economics geopolitics and energy transitions.’ -- Jennifer Considine, The Energy Journal'Dag Harald Claes has a unique knowledge of the politics, economics and (even more importantly from my point of view) the history of oil. He is one of the few who can blend together the three aspects in a simple and vibrant narrative. The Politics of Oil can be used as a reference in undergraduate classes, but will also be of interest for anybody dealing with the complexities of international energy and environmental politics.' --Paulo Garavini, European University Institute, Italy'This book masterfully discusses how governance, markets, and security come together in creating a nexus full of inspiration for scholars of International Political Economy. What does oil do to sovereignty? Is it a blessing or a curse? How long will OPEC still be in charge? And what does the future hold for the world s most important commodity against the backdrop of climate change? The Politics of Oil will be an invaluable resource for everyone seeking answers to these crucial questions.' --Andreas Goldthau, Royal Holloway University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Part I Resource Governance 1. Sovereignty and Ownership 2. Governing Oil Production 3. Oil Income– Blessing or Curse? -With Mads Motrøen Part II Market Control 4. Institutional Governance 5. Producer Governance 6. Opec Part III Political Conflict 7. Oil and the US Hegemony 8. Oil and Regional Security 9. Oil and Domestic Conflicts 10. Climate Change and the Future of Oil Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world‘s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.In this authoritative Advanced Introduction, Ken Conca expertly examines the fundamentals of water politics, covering poverty, health and livelihoods alongside key areas such as water law, the environment, international politics and the growing role of climate change in water governance.Key features include: analysis of water politics and policy grounded in law, politics, economics, and environmental management a detailed overview of not only research and scholarship in the field but also the perspectives and activities of the community of practice examination of the major areas of contention in current water policy, including pricing and privatization, large dams and contentious infrastructure, water and climate adaptation, cooperation and conflict in international river basins, and the food-water-energy nexus. This book provides essential reading for scholars and students of political science, public policy, environment studies, human geography and related social sciences, in addition to decision makers and policy makers in the water and environmental policy fields.Trade Review‘This book is a must read for those wanting to understand the importance of water. While water is life, Conca reminds us that it is also highly political. In demonstrating the political challenges for governing water, Conca surveys such topics as the food-water-energy nexus, water justice and rights, water pricing, climate change adaptation, and water conflict and cooperation. Conca draws out timely lessons for managing future water politics.’ -- Erika Weinthal, Duke University, North Carolina, US'It is always a special treat when scholars at the peak of their career take the time to reflect deeply on their passions. Such is the case here, where Prof. Ken Conca writes what is nominally a survey of the past, present, and future of water politics and governance, but more accurately is the expression of his 30 years of experience observing and participating in hydropolitical decision-making around the world. As a ''pracademic'' who ''in the room'' more often than not, Conca can write with detail and nuance about settings from the Mekong to Flint, Michigan, and of policy tipping points from the Dublin Principles (1992) to the World Commission on Dams (2000) to the forecasts of the 2030 Water Resources Group (2009), all of which inform his thoughtful and (thankfully) optimistic projections for the future.' -- Aaron T. Wolf, Oregon State University, US‘Advanced Introduction to Water Politics is a masterful and comprehensive tour of the multiple ways in which water is political. Drawing on decades of outstanding research, Conca goes way beyond de rigeur accounts of water as an issue of national security, to explain the everyday politics of water at diverse scales, sectors, and locations. Retrospective and prospective, human and nuanced, this is a volume that anyone interested in the politics of water must read.‘ -- Jon Barnett, University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. What makes water political? 2. Access to water 3. Water, food, and energy 4. The strange economics of water 5. Environmental dimensions 6. Governing Water: Legal and managerial frameworks 7. The international dimension: Conflict and cooperation 8. Water futures References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world‘s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.In this authoritative Advanced Introduction, Ken Conca expertly examines the fundamentals of water politics, covering poverty, health and livelihoods alongside key areas such as water law, the environment, international politics and the growing role of climate change in water governance.Key features include: analysis of water politics and policy grounded in law, politics, economics, and environmental management a detailed overview of not only research and scholarship in the field but also the perspectives and activities of the community of practice examination of the major areas of contention in current water policy, including pricing and privatization, large dams and contentious infrastructure, water and climate adaptation, cooperation and conflict in international river basins, and the food-water-energy nexus. This book provides essential reading for scholars and students of political science, public policy, environment studies, human geography and related social sciences, in addition to decision makers and policy makers in the water and environmental policy fields.Trade Review‘This book is a must read for those wanting to understand the importance of water. While water is life, Conca reminds us that it is also highly political. In demonstrating the political challenges for governing water, Conca surveys such topics as the food-water-energy nexus, water justice and rights, water pricing, climate change adaptation, and water conflict and cooperation. Conca draws out timely lessons for managing future water politics.’ -- Erika Weinthal, Duke University, North Carolina, US'It is always a special treat when scholars at the peak of their career take the time to reflect deeply on their passions. Such is the case here, where Prof. Ken Conca writes what is nominally a survey of the past, present, and future of water politics and governance, but more accurately is the expression of his 30 years of experience observing and participating in hydropolitical decision-making around the world. As a ''pracademic'' who ''in the room'' more often than not, Conca can write with detail and nuance about settings from the Mekong to Flint, Michigan, and of policy tipping points from the Dublin Principles (1992) to the World Commission on Dams (2000) to the forecasts of the 2030 Water Resources Group (2009), all of which inform his thoughtful and (thankfully) optimistic projections for the future.' -- Aaron T. Wolf, Oregon State University, US‘Advanced Introduction to Water Politics is a masterful and comprehensive tour of the multiple ways in which water is political. Drawing on decades of outstanding research, Conca goes way beyond de rigeur accounts of water as an issue of national security, to explain the everyday politics of water at diverse scales, sectors, and locations. Retrospective and prospective, human and nuanced, this is a volume that anyone interested in the politics of water must read.‘ -- Jon Barnett, University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. What makes water political? 2. Access to water 3. Water, food, and energy 4. The strange economics of water 5. Environmental dimensions 6. Governing Water: Legal and managerial frameworks 7. The international dimension: Conflict and cooperation 8. Water futures References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Professor Fikret Berkes provides a unique introduction to the social and interdisciplinary dimensions of biodiversity conservation. Examining a range of approaches, new ideas, controversies and debates, he demonstrates that biodiversity loss is not primarily a technical issue, but a social problem that operates in an economic, political and cultural context. Berkes concludes that conservation must be democratized in order to broaden its support base and build more inclusive constituencies for conservation.Key features include: focus on Indigenous peoples' rights, knowledge and practices discussion of commons governance, co-management and responsibility exploration of the history of conservation and the nature stewardship traditions a broad view of conservation that encompasses the well-being of humans as well as ecosystems Taking an interdisciplinary social science approach that includes conservation science concepts, this Advanced Introduction will benefit students of environmental studies, geography, ecology and conservation. It will also be a useful resource for conservation organizations.Trade Review‘[Berkes] is one of the key researchers and teachers of this transformation in conservation, which views people as integral parts of ecosystems, rather than merely as “managers” or “stressors… The book is small, concise, and easy to read… It is not a book of recipes, yet one can start learning how to cook from it… Berkes warns that community-based conservation should not be viewed as a panacea. Rather, flexible and adaptive options require a diversity of governance regimes, and community-based conservation is one of them.’ -- Zsolt Molnár, Conservation Biology‘This book is a well put together synthesis of community-based conservation theory and practice. It could be used both as a textbook for a class in community-based conservation as well as a manual for international conservation practitioners.’ -- Richard Smardon, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences'Fikret Berkes didn't invent the concept of community-based conservation, but he has been its most vigorous and high-profile academic advocate and analyst. His towering impact on the social science of conservation makes this masterful volume all the more essential. It is the indispensable guide for all aspects of conservation science in the remainder of the 21st century.' -- - David Barton Bray, Florida International University, US'Fikret Berkes has helped re-shape conservation. As a leading scholar and educator, he has influenced generations of conservation scholars and practitioners with foundational work on community-based conservation, diversity of ecological knowledge, adaptive management, resilience of social-ecological systems, and biocultural conservation. In his new book, Berkes distills these lessons into a clear and concise narrative that will be a fantastic resource for teachers, students, and anyone interested in understanding the wicked problems biocultural diversity faces and the diverse and dynamic solutions that are possible.' -- - Michael Gavin, Colorado State University, US'Fikret Berkes is internationally renowned for his research and writings in the areas of social-ecological systems and commons theory. This book is a brilliant distillation of research and thinking so far in the area of biodiversity conservation and all that it entails. Professor Berkes' analyses of the key aspects of community-based conservation are clear and elegant, supported by numerous examples from around the world. This is an extraordinary and insightful book that I recommend without hesitation.' -- - Nancy Turner, University of Victoria, Canada‘This is a clear and cogent review of a quiet revolution. It is a globally-important book about a specific type of conservation, one that builds from the specificities of communities and ecosystems. It makes clear that biodiversity loss is a social problem, and that participatory approaches can unlock citizen power. This book could help to save the planet from ecosystem collapse and climate crises. It points to optimism, so much is already working in community conservation. Now these social-ecological practices need to be spread to all countries and ecosystems.’ -- - Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Why community-based conservation? 2. Nature stewardship traditions, historical and contemporary 3. Can local development be made compatible with conservation? 4. Indigenous peoples: Local stewardship for global conservation 5. Multiple ways of knowing: Indigenous and local knowledge 6. No tragedy on the commons 7. Governance: Diverse, flexible, pluralistic 8. Synthesis and conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Professor Fikret Berkes provides a unique introduction to the social and interdisciplinary dimensions of biodiversity conservation. Examining a range of approaches, new ideas, controversies and debates, he demonstrates that biodiversity loss is not primarily a technical issue, but a social problem that operates in an economic, political and cultural context. Berkes concludes that conservation must be democratized in order to broaden its support base and build more inclusive constituencies for conservation.Key features include: focus on Indigenous peoples' rights, knowledge and practices discussion of commons governance, co-management and responsibility exploration of the history of conservation and the nature stewardship traditions a broad view of conservation that encompasses the well-being of humans as well as ecosystems Taking an interdisciplinary social science approach that includes conservation science concepts, this Advanced Introduction will benefit students of environmental studies, geography, ecology and conservation. It will also be a useful resource for conservation organizations.Trade Review‘[Berkes] is one of the key researchers and teachers of this transformation in conservation, which views people as integral parts of ecosystems, rather than merely as “managers” or “stressors… The book is small, concise, and easy to read… It is not a book of recipes, yet one can start learning how to cook from it… Berkes warns that community-based conservation should not be viewed as a panacea. Rather, flexible and adaptive options require a diversity of governance regimes, and community-based conservation is one of them.’ -- Zsolt Molnár, Conservation Biology‘This book is a well put together synthesis of community-based conservation theory and practice. It could be used both as a textbook for a class in community-based conservation as well as a manual for international conservation practitioners.’ -- Richard Smardon, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences'Fikret Berkes didn't invent the concept of community-based conservation, but he has been its most vigorous and high-profile academic advocate and analyst. His towering impact on the social science of conservation makes this masterful volume all the more essential. It is the indispensable guide for all aspects of conservation science in the remainder of the 21st century.' -- - David Barton Bray, Florida International University, US'Fikret Berkes has helped re-shape conservation. As a leading scholar and educator, he has influenced generations of conservation scholars and practitioners with foundational work on community-based conservation, diversity of ecological knowledge, adaptive management, resilience of social-ecological systems, and biocultural conservation. In his new book, Berkes distills these lessons into a clear and concise narrative that will be a fantastic resource for teachers, students, and anyone interested in understanding the wicked problems biocultural diversity faces and the diverse and dynamic solutions that are possible.' -- - Michael Gavin, Colorado State University, US'Fikret Berkes is internationally renowned for his research and writings in the areas of social-ecological systems and commons theory. This book is a brilliant distillation of research and thinking so far in the area of biodiversity conservation and all that it entails. Professor Berkes' analyses of the key aspects of community-based conservation are clear and elegant, supported by numerous examples from around the world. This is an extraordinary and insightful book that I recommend without hesitation.' -- - Nancy Turner, University of Victoria, Canada‘This is a clear and cogent review of a quiet revolution. It is a globally-important book about a specific type of conservation, one that builds from the specificities of communities and ecosystems. It makes clear that biodiversity loss is a social problem, and that participatory approaches can unlock citizen power. This book could help to save the planet from ecosystem collapse and climate crises. It points to optimism, so much is already working in community conservation. Now these social-ecological practices need to be spread to all countries and ecosystems.’ -- - Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Why community-based conservation? 2. Nature stewardship traditions, historical and contemporary 3. Can local development be made compatible with conservation? 4. Indigenous peoples: Local stewardship for global conservation 5. Multiple ways of knowing: Indigenous and local knowledge 6. No tragedy on the commons 7. Governance: Diverse, flexible, pluralistic 8. Synthesis and conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisA political scientist and an urban architect explore China's odyssey to become an ecological civilization and transform its massive, unsustainable, urbanization process into one that creates hundreds of eco-cities. The resulting From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions is the first book-length study combining analysis of politics and power, urban design and planning issues derived from the co-authors' interdisciplinary research, and on-site fieldwork from their political science and architectural area specialties. Begun in 1986, little-known policy actions have taken shape in the building of 285 eco-cities--and growing. What are the driving forces of these innovative developments? How is China going about converting its teeming urban areas into replicable and showcase cities? Can these new policy initiatives overcome the damage done to its air, waterways, and land, while significantly reducing public health dangers to its inhabitants? In searching for means for the People s Republic of China to take the next step from eco-cities to sustainable city-regions, the co-authors assess the potential success of China's present course and offer key recommendations for Chinese political leaders, urban planners, and citizen stakeholders to make the transition to a sustainable future for its people and the rest of the world. The primary market for this book will be eco-researchers, Asian studies scholars and teachers, eco- and urban architects, environmental and urban policy professionals, and advanced undergraduates in environmental and sustainability studies or sciences programs. The interdisciplinary reach and critical framework of analysis will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in Chinese ecological strides and seeking a critical assessment of its potential.Trade Review‘Overall, this book provides good insights into China’s sustainability effort, the development logic, and various controversies in China’s eco-park development. The various cases provide a vivid view of how Chinese cities search for their path in ecological modernization and the bumpy roads they experienced when attempting to transplant the sustainability concept into the local soil. It can be used as a textbook for under-graduates or graduates to understand sustainability debates and its operationalization process in different political-economic-societal contexts. It can also provide researchers on sustainability and eco-park development with rich information and provocative reflections on the global sustainability debate.’ -- Yawei Chen, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘This remarkable book brings a bold new vision to urban architectural design as an opportunity for informed collective activism over time.’ -- Robert J Koester, The Plan Journal‘This remarkable book brings a bold new vision to achieve highly-integrative systemic performance at the scale of the City-as-a-Hill and its surrounding rural partner land. No less, it provides the means for the ambitious sustainability interests of the Chinese party-state to achieve global recognition for becoming a social and environmentally integrated ecological civilization.’ -- Robert J. Koester, Ball State University, US'From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions by Ernest J. Yanarella and Richard S. Levine deserves to be widely read. General readers, China specialists, environmental scientists, and policy makers alike will gain insight into current sustainability concepts and practices around the world, be drawn into a case study approach to China's environmental challenges, and benefit from the well balanced analysis of China's efforts, complications, achievements, and failures to address those challenges through the creation of sustainable city-regions.' --Terry Bodenhorn, (Retired) Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Director of the Library, and Professor of Modern Chinese History, Shantou University, China 2010-2019'Yanarella and Levine bring a needed focus on the term ''eco-cities,'' taking it further to ''sustainable city-regions.'' They draw on their detailed knowledge of China's exploration of eco-cities as part of an ecological civilization. This book is an important assessment of a key aspect of transitioning to a sustainable future.' --Haydn Washington, author of What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: China’s Eco-cities and Bid to Become an Eco-Civilization 1. Theoretical Foundations of the Sustainable City-Region 2. Eco-city Development Strategy in Beijing and China’s Cities: Top-down/Bottom-up Dynamics 3. Suzhou, Wuxi and China’s Twenty-first Century Eco-city Program: From Austerity Ecology to Eco-scientific Plenty 4. New Kunming/Chenggong Eco-District: City Surrounding the Countryside? 5. Shantou: A Metropolitan Coastal Garden-City in the Making? 6. Beyond the Dongtan Debacle: Tianjin and Global Showcase Urban Sustainability Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSummarizing the current state of knowledge on the links between business and climate change, this timely Handbook analyzes how businesses contribute to and are affected by climate change, looking closely at their centrality in developing and deploying solutions to address this problem.Contributions from a global collection of scholars and practitioners explore a broad range of key industries’ impacts and responses to climate change, examining corporate strategy and leadership in the climate economy, functional perspectives and corporate practice, and climate finance. Chapters use diverse case studies to analyze climate-related business issues, including supply chain management, decarbonization, consumer decision-making, and climate-related financial investments. The Handbook delves deeper into how businesses perceive the issue of climate change, how they are affected by and engage with it, as well as the impact they have and what this impact costs. Forward-thinking, it concludes with reflections from the contributors on what the future holds for businesses and climate change.Covering matters relating to finance, economics, marketing, operations, strategy, leadership and communications, this interdisciplinary Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars in business management, sustainability and environmental studies, as well as to sustainability officers (and their staff) in corporations. Addressing, as it does, a wide range of climate-related issues from the corporate standpoint, it will also prove to be a useful resource for policymakers concerned with enabling solutions to climate change.Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Business and Climate Change 1 Anant K. Sundaram and Robert G. Hansen PART I THE BUSINESS CASE FOR CLIMATE CONCERNS 2 Business and climate change 8 Anant K. Sundaram 3 The end of combustion? 38 David Hone PART II KEY INDUSTRIES: IMPACT AND RESPONSE 4 Banks and climate change risk 58 Edwin Anderson, Ilya Khaykin, Alban Pyanet and Til Schuermann 5 The patchwork quilt: business complexities of decarbonizing the electric sector 89 Scott G. Fisher, Bruce A. Phillips and Mark W. Scovic 6 Implications of fully decarbonizing the electric industry for business: Icarus or Daedalus? 120 Bruce A. Phillips, Scott G. Fisher and Mark W. Scovic 7 Climate change and the insurance industry – risks and opportunities for transitioning to a resilient low carbon economy 145 Maryam Golnaraghi 8 Climate change and aviation 187 Vincent Etchebehere 9 Leaders and laggards: how have oil and gas companies responded to the energy transition? 208 Julia Hartmann, Andrew Inkpen and Kannan Ramaswamy PART III CORPORATE STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP IN THE CLIMATE ECONOMY 10 Climate change communication strategies 231 Paul Argenti, Posie Holmes and Marloes Smittenaar 11 Corporate strategy and climate change: a nonmarket approach to environmental advantage 251 Thomas C. Lawton and Carl J. Kock 12 Owens Corning: environmental footprint reduction as the foundation for building a net-positive future 271 Frank O’Brien-Bernini and Amanda Meehan 13 Climate preparedness for business resilience 294 Janet Peace and Kristiane Huber PART IV FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND CORPORATE PRACTICE 14 The equity value relevance of carbon emissions 326 Peter M. Clarkson, Jody Grewal and Gordon D. Richardson 15 Getting to 2050: transparency for setting and reaching supply chain climate goals 340 Suzanne Greene and Alexis Bateman 16 Commodity supply chain management and climate change: a case study of the palm oil industry 359 Yinjin Lee and Alexis Bateman 17 Carbon pricing 379 Robert G. Hansen 18 Shifting consumers’ decisions towards climate-friendly behavior 405 Rishad Habib and Katherine White PART V CLIMATE FINANCE 19 Mainstreaming climate action in public and private investments: mobilizing finance towards sustainable investments through the bond markets 430 Heike Reichelt, David P. Allen and Scott M. Cantor 20 Green bonds: investor, issuer and climate perspectives 458 Christa Clapp, Keith Lee and Anouk Brisebois 21 Cost of capital and climate risks 480 Gianfranco Gianfrate, Dirk Schoenmaker and Saara Wasama 22 ESG investing 503 Anant K. Sundaram PART VI THE FUTURE 23 Reflections on the future 526 Arranged and edited by Anant K. Sundaram and Robert G. Hansen Index

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Book SynopsisForeword by Ian GoughThis seminal book addresses the critical and urgent question of ‘what makes welfare states sustainable?’ in the era of climate change. Expert authors challenge traditional perspectives on questions of sustainability which have focused on population ageing, global economic turbulence and on containing current and future public social spending.The chapters present new empirical evidence in the form of in-depth comparative country studies from across Europe, offering an insight into how political actors, social partners and civil society organisations in countries associated with different welfare models address questions of sustainability and the extent to which they balance social, ecological and economic considerations. The editors conclude by mapping out ways in which welfare states can address these increasingly urgent and complex issues and facilitate an eco-social transition towards true sustainability.This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of comparative social policy, environmental politics and policy and climate change. Highlighting the political and structural challenges European societies face in the transition to low carbon economies, this book will also be beneficial for policymakers and practitioners in these areas.Trade Review‘When people talk about “social welfare” they are usually referring to public subsidies that are meant to reduce poverty and inequality in society. When people talk about “sustainability” they are usually talking about ecological programs that are meant to address issues like climate change and environmental degradation. Towards Sustainable Welfare States in Europe brings these two very basic issues together in a unique and remarkable way. This important book convincingly argues that environmental sustainability and social justice are intimately intertwined and if we are to have a sustainable future, these complex issues need to be addressed simultaneously. It also shows how different European states have attempted to address the inherent tensions found at the junctures between these fundamental issues.’ -- Sven H. Steinmo, University of Colorado, Boulder, US‘Climate change poses complex policy dilemmas for mature welfare states. This book provides a lucid discussion of the issues at stake and an insightful analysis of how they are being tackled by four European countries and the EU. A must read for understanding the multidimensional nature of what has become the greatest challenge for our future well-being and the planet's survival.’ -- Maurizio Ferrera, University of Milan, Italy‘This edited book should be applauded for insisting that environmental issues are racing up the agenda and must gain pride of place in future thinking. In particular, global heating and the climate crisis pose an existential threat to contemporary economic, social and political systems – including welfare states in the global North. It is remarkable that this book is one of very few within the field of social policy to recognise this fact.' -- From the preface by Ian GoughTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv Ian Gough PART I RETHINKING WELFARE STATE SUSTAINABILITY 1 Welfare state sustainability in the 21st century 2 Mi Ah Schoyen, Bjørn Hvinden and Merethe Dotterud Leiren 2 Sustainable development and sustainable welfare: a changing international agenda 28 Bjørn Hvinden, Mi Ah Schoyen and Merethe Dotterud Leiren PART II QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS OF THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ECO-SOCIAL TRANSITION 3 Attitudes towards climate change and economic inequality: a cross-national comparative study 53 Kristian Heggebø and Bjørn Hvinden 4 Integrating environmental issues within party manifestos: exploring trends across European welfare states 80 Judith Derndorfer, Roman Hoffmann and Hendrik Theine PART III ECO-SOCIAL POLICYMAKING (POLITICS AND POLICY) AT NATIONAL LEVEL 5 Partially institutionalized eco-social policymaking in Germany 109 Mi Ah Schoyen, Max Koch and Marianne Takle 6 Bottom-up pressures, institutional hurdles and political concerns: the long path towards an ‘eco-welfare state’ in Italy 131 Marcello Natili, Angelica Puricelli and Matteo Jessoula 7 The Norwegian sustainability paradox: leader abroad, laggard at home 153 Mi Ah Schoyen and Marianne Takle 8 The United Kingdom: a merging climate and sustainability agenda 175 Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Marianne Takle PART IV EUROPE AS A DRIVER FOR THE ECO-SOCIAL AGENDA? 9 Towards an EU eco-social agenda? From Europe 2020 to the European Green Deal 199 Sebastiano Sabato, Matteo Mandelli and Matteo Jessoula 10 Eco-social mobilization at the supranational level? The case of ‘The Right to Energy for All Europeans’ coalition 220 Matteo Jessoula and Matteo Mandelli PART V CONCLUSIONS 11 Sustainable European welfare states: the way forward 241 Bjørn Hvinden, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Mi Ah Schoyen Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the important role of education in both pursuing and implementing sustainable development, this timely Handbook highlights how teaching methods at schools and universities can impact the future. It looks at ways not only to inform students about matters related to sustainable development, but also to empower them to adopt behaviours and actions that lead to more sustainable lifestyles.Chapters from an international team of contributors present and analyse experiences of different learning processes and methods, showcasing the impact of curriculum-related issues and teacher training. Using different pedagogical approaches, case studies and interdisciplinary initiatives, the Handbook explores a broad range of technological approaches and tools to foster better teaching and learning for sustainable development. It provides key insights into the implementation of teaching initiatives in helping to promote sustainable development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.This Handbook will be crucial reading for those investigating curriculum policies and issues, and looking to enhance students’ understanding of sustainability in schools and universities.Trade 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 SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.We face many important global environmental problems today, including climate change, biodiversity destruction, and environmental health issues. Key among the tools we have to understand and solve these problems is research. This Research Agenda argues for a transdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental management to provide better understanding and outcomes leading to practical solutions.By describing the key strategies needed to overcome common global environmental challenges and to undertake successful interdisciplinary environmental research, this Research Agenda demonstrates the possibilities for successful transdisciplinary environmental research. A series of case studies shows how this transdisciplinary approach to research has improved understandings of environmental problems and their potential solutions. Discussing the types of participation required and the difficulties of incorporating diverse groups into research projects, this Research Agenda provides lessons in how to successfully undertake transdisciplinary research in order to meet these challenges. A Research Agenda for Environmental Management provides invaluable insights for interdisciplinary researchers in all fields affected by environmental management as well as students and scholars engaged in environmental research looking for ways to successfully integrate transdisciplinary approaches into their work.Contributors include: J. Abrams, D.B. Agusdinata, G. Alonso-Yanez, B. Barnett, N. Basiliko, K. Calvert, D. Córdoba, T. de Souza, M. del Carmen Fragoso Medina, J.L. Dunn, A. Eastmond, D.J. Flaspohler, K. Floress, V.S. Gagnon, A. Giang, H.S. Gorman, R.B. Guerrero, K.E. Halvorsen, R.M. Handler, M.A. Hanif, R.J. Heffron, J. Heyman, L. House-Peters, A. Kantamneni, J.L. Knowlton, R.A. LaFave, J. Licata, H.K. Lukosch, E.E. Mata-Zayas, R. Medeiros, M.A. Mesa-Jurado, D. Minakata, A. Mirchi, C. Moseley, T. Moya Mose, T.H. Mwampamba, C.J.V. Navarrete, E.A. Nielsen, M. Ohira, E. Ortega, J.A. Perlinger, E.C. Pischke, E.W. Prehoda, V.D.P. Risso, J.C. Sacramento-Rivero, M. Samimi, D. Sanchez, C. Schelly, T.L. Selfa, R. Shwom, R.V. Sidortsov, B. Tarekegne, G. Tchobanoglous, N.R. Urban, L.P. Volkow, S. Walker, D. Watkins, R.L. WinklerTrade Review'In the new edited volume: A Research Agenda for Environmental Management, edited by Kathlen Halvorsen, Chelsea Schelley, Robert Handler, Erin C. Pischke, and Jessie Knowlton, we have a much needed accessible and useable handbook on how to do transdisciplinary and collaborative research in the era of climate change, which presents never-before faced challenges in environmental management. Authors do a splendid job of providing case studies on how to further expand our understanding and implementation of TD research to address the wicked problems of our time. This edited volume is accessible and useful for those looking to expand their use and understanding of TD methods and approaches.' --Gabrielle Roesch McNally, Climate Hubs, US Department of AgricultureTable of ContentsContents: Part I Introduction to transdisciplinarity in environmental management research 1. Introduction: a research agenda for environmental management through transdisciplinary, social science-rich environmental governance research Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Jessie L. Knowlton, Chelsea Schelly, Robert M. Handler and Erin C. Pischke 2. Governing sustainability and environmental management: what, why, and how? Erin C. Pischke, Robert M. Handler and Jessie L. Knowlton 3. Power within and beyond the state: understanding how power relations shape environmental management Jesse Abrams, Diana Córdoba, Roman V. Sidortsov, Chelsea Schelly and Hugh S. Gorman Part II Integrating diverse sectors and disciplines into transdisciplinary environmental management research 4. Integrating across sectors and disciplines: transdisciplinary teamwork challenges and strategies Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Jessie L. Knowlton, Robert M. Handler, Chelsea Schelly and Erin C. Pischke 5. Transdisciplinary research teams: broadening the scope of who participates in research Erin C. Pischke, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Tuyeni Heita Mwampamba, Lily House-Peters, Amarella Eastmond, Lucía Pérez Volkow, Mayra del Carmen Fragoso Medina and Marcella Ohira 6. Administrative roles in environmental governance research: scientists incorporating policymakers Robert A. LaFave and Jennifer L. Dunn 7. Incorporating community: opportunities and challenges in community-engaged research Abhilash Kantamneni, Richelle L. Winkler and Kirby Calvert 8. Crossing boundaries: cross-national, transdisciplinary research and teamwork Erin C. Pischke, Amarella Eastmond and Gabriela Alonso-Yanez Part III Case studies of transdisciplinary, social science-rich environmental management research 9. Policy, science, and transdisciplinary research: when will it be safe to eat as much fish as desired? Hugh S. Gorman, Valoree S. Gagnon, Amanda Giang, Judith A. Perlinger and Noel R. Urban 10. Lessons from the transdisciplinary, international BIOPIRE project Jennifer L. Dunn, Jessie L. Knowlton, Robert M. Handler, Erin C. Pischke, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, M. Azahara Mesa-Jurado, Theresa L. Selfa, David J. Flaspohler, Julian Licata, Ena E. Mata-Zayas, Rodrigo Medeiros, Cassandra Moseley, Erik A. Nielsen, Valentin D Picasso Risso, Julio C. Sacramento-Rivero, Tatiana de Souza, Cesar J. VazquezNavarrete and Nathan Basiliko 11. Applying transdisciplinary research to enhance low-to-moderate income households’ access to community solar Brad Barnett, Emily W. Prehoda, Abhilash Kantamneni, Richelle Winkler and Chelsea Schelly 12. In search for common ground: energy justice perspectives in global fossil fuel extraction Roman V. Sidortsov, Raphael J. Heffron, Tedd Moya Mose, Chelsea Schelly and Bethel Tarekegne 13. Understanding household conservation, climate change, and the food-energy-water nexus from a transdisciplinary perspective David Watkins, Rachael Shwom, Chelsea Schelly, Datu B. Agusdinata, Kristin Floress and Kathleen E. Halvorsen 14. A role-playing game development for supporting interventions to reduce household greenhouse gas emissions: transdisciplinary pathways and challenges Datu B. Agusdinata, Muhammad A. Hanif, Heide K. Lukosch, and Excel Ortega 15. Community implementation of potable reuse of treated wastewater Ali Mirchi, Josiah Heyman, George Tchobanoglous, Daisuke Minakata, Shane Walker, Maryam Samimi, R. Brian Guerrero, Diego Sanchez, Robert Handler Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book explores the evolution of ecology and how scientific advances enable the redesign of Protected Areas (PA), guided by area-specific ecological values and objectives. It argues that transitions towards science-informed integrated PA systems could contribute to safeguarding the persistence of biodiversity and socio-ecological systems.Valentina Dinica proposes a conceptual framework to integrate the ecological and tourism aspects of PA regulation, assisting decision-makers to develop contextually effective regulatory instruments that avoid over-/under-regulating tourism, given the PA’s ecological profiles. The framework is applied to comparatively evaluate the ecological representativeness and regulations of PA networks in New Zealand, Tasmania and Hawaii. The empirical chapters also discuss gaps and (mis-)alignments between ecology and tourism regulations, displaying outdated scientific paradigms. The book proposes a new approach to classifying PAs, to better balance human–nature relationships.This book will be of interest to students and academics in public policy, law, ecology, environmental studies, sustainability sciences, tourism studies, political science and history of science.Trade Review‘This book provides a unique and valuable contribution in the important area of the regulation of Protected Area management, including tourism. It adopts an historical view on the creation and management of protected areas, in order to understand the philosophies and attitudes towards these societal creations. It applies a broad framework to analyze the current regulatory regime in three example areas: New Zealand, Tasmania and Hawaii. This book makes a unique case of moving from ecological values to regulation. The book takes a global view with comprehensive reviews of relevant global conventions, treaties and policies and their possible impacts on management and regulation. This book should be useful to anyone involved in understanding the development and application of values into Protected Area laws and regulations.’ -- Paul F. J. Eagles, University of Waterloo, Canada‘The development and application of the SERPAT framework introduced in this timely book provides parties with a rigorous approach for managing Protected Areas. In stressing the proportionality principle – that policy responses must be effective but reasonable – the book provides a realistic guide for policies designed to protect ecological values while enabling human-centric enjoyment of nature.’ -- Arthur Grimes, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandTable of ContentsContents: PART I REGULATIONS AND SCIENCE FOR PROTECTED AREAS AND TOURISM 1. Ecological challenges and Protected Areas 1.1 Ecological pressures 1.2 Protected Areas – protected environment? 1.3 The book’s aim and conceptual framework 1.4 The structure of the book 2. Key concepts: frameworks, values, regulations and science 2.1 Frameworks as theoretical constructs 2.2 Eco-values and eco-objectives 2.3 Conceptualisations of regulations 2.4 Science: contested philosophies 3. Protected Areas before 1960 3.1 The era of natural history, reserves and hunting 3.2 The era of tourism, parks and early ecology 3.3 Summary and concluding reflections 4. Spectra for the ecological regulation of Protected Areas 4.1 Shifts in scientific paradigms: implications for Protected Areas’ design and management 4.2 A spectrum of ecological values for Protected Areas 4.3 Ecological objectives 4.4 Concluding reflections 5. Spectra for tourism regulations in Protected Areas 5.1 Tourism access principles 5.2 Concession allocation methods for tourism businesses 5.3 Environmental regulation strategies for Protected Area target groups 5.4 Types of concession contract designs 5.5 Conclusion 5.6 Appendix: brief critical reviews of frameworks for tourism management PART II CASE STUDIES AND INTEGRATED REFLECTIONS 6. New Zealand 6.1 Ecological challenges and Protected Areas 6.2 Ecological references and scientific paradigms in legal-policy frameworks 6.3 Tourism regulation in the Westland National Park 6.4 Conclusion 7. Tasmania, Australia 7.1 Ecological challenges and Protected Areas 7.2 Ecological references and scientific paradigms in legal-policy frameworks 7.3 Tourism regulations applicable to the Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park 7.4 Concluding reflections 8. Hawaii, United States of America 8.1 Ecological challenges 8.2 The Protected Area system, ecological rationales and scientific paradigms 8.3 Tourism regulations in State Protected Areas 8.4 The ecological representativeness of Protected Areas and concluding reflections 9. Protected Areas in transition 9.1 Summary of key findings and integrated reflections 9.2 PA redesign in a changing climate 9.3 Alternatives to Protected Area designations 9.4 A research agenda References

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Book SynopsisThis important book focuses on how newly emerging institutions for future generations can contribute to tackling large scale global environmental problems, such as threats to biodiversity and climate change. It is especially timely given the new global impetus for decarbonisation, as well as the huge growth of climate litigation and climate protest movements, often led by young people.Global environmental crises and reactions against short-term thinking have spawned new institutions aimed at giving a voice to future generations in policy-making, such as dedicated commissioners. This book looks at why we need such institutions using approaches from ethics, human rights, sustainable development, intergenerational justice and administrative law. How to design such institutions to maximise their effectiveness, operating principles for such institutions, and case studies from around the world are canvassed. A range of reform proposals are also explored, including mainstreaming future generations’ voices in parliamentary processes, commissioners for future generations, human rights-based bodies and deliberative assemblies.This collection brings together philosophers, political and social scientists, lawyers and practitioners. It provides both an introduction to the field and a scholarly in-depth set of studies. It will appeal to academics, policymakers and civil society.Trade Review‘Short-termism in policymaking is usually lamented as inexorable. We prioritize short-term policy outcomes, we often hear, because future generations are powerless. Giving Future Generations a Voice shows that it need not be so. Gathering specialists from various fields, it explores a range of institutions, from ombudspersons to citizens’ assemblies to sustainable development institutions, to better reflect future interests in present policies. It is an indispensable collection for anyone wishing to learn what grounds such institutions and how to make them work.’ -- Iñigo González Ricoy, University of Barcelona, Spain

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Book SynopsisThis expanded and updated Research Handbook delivers an authoritative and in-depth guide to the conceptual foundations of environmental law. It offers a nuanced reflection on the underlying principles by exploring issues such as human rights, constitutional rights, sustainable development and environmental impact assessment within the context of environmental law.Perceptive contributions examine the emerging roles played by a range of concepts, values and objectives in environmental governance. The nature of these emerging concepts and their relationship with traditional rights and duties, which are typically reactive in nature, is of particular significance. New and revised chapters thoroughly examine the concepts at the heart of environmental law including sustainability, protection and climate change law. This second edition further illuminates key aspects of environmental governance through the lens of their underlying dimensions: the form, structure and language of international, regional and national instruments; the function of norms, objectives and standards; and the relevance of economic analysis and of integrated policy formulation.This discerning new edition will be an ideal read for all students and researchers in environmental law and governance. Furthermore, it will be essential reading and a valuable resource for policymakers, legal drafters and those wanting to understand the foundations of the modern environmental legal system.Table of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 The jurisprudential structure of environmental law 2 Douglas Fisher 2 A normative approach to environmental governance: sustainability at the apex of environmental law 23 Klaus Bosselmann 3 From protection to restoration: a challenge for environmental governance 45 Afshin Akhtar-Khavari and Anastasia Telesetsky 4 Transnational environmental law: the birth of a contemporary analytical perspective 71 Caiphas B. Soyapi and Louis Kotzé 5 Economic approaches to environmental governance: a principled analysis 94 Michael Faure 6 Human rights and the environment: a tale of ambivalence and hope 123 Anna Grear 7 A constitutional human right to a healthy environment 141 Nicholas Bryner 8 Rights of nature: a critique 164 Peter Burdon and Claire Williams PART II THE DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL LAW REGIME 9 The development of international environmental law by the International Court of Justice 184 Tim Stephens 10 The relative normativity of international environmental law 205 Niko Soininen and Seita Romppanen 11 The principle of sustainable development as a legal norm 228 Jonathan Verschuuren 12 The concept of the common heritage of mankind 252 Prue Taylor PART III CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS 13 Environmental policy integration: the importance of balance and trade-offs 277 Jørgen K. Knudsen and William M. Lafferty 14 The role played by policy objectives in environmental law 301 Chris McGrath 15 The functions of rights of property in environmental law 318 David Grinlinton 16 Environmental impact assessment: ‘setting the law ablaze’ 339 Elizabeth Fisher 17 The precautionary principle in environmental governance 361 Annecoos Wiersema 18 The status of environmental principles in environmental law 381 Eloise Scotford 19 The conceptual foundations of climate change law 406 Benoit Mayer 20 The judicial development of ecologically sustainable development 427 Brian J. Preston Index

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Book Synopsis'This book fills an important gap in the environmental governance literature, addressing governance at a lower level of abstraction than other texts and examining how it plays out in relation to specific modes and instruments of governing. It also contributes towards governance theory-building efforts through the development of an empirically relevant analytical framework. In so doing it provides a firm underpinning for assessing whether, to what extent and in what ways there has been a transition from government towards governance in environmental policy.'- Neil Gunningham, Australian National University'Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this book provides an overview of the introduction, development, and use of new policy instruments and new modes of environmental governance in the European context, taking into account both national and European Union experiences. This is a welcome addition to the field!'- Miranda Schreurs, Environmental Policy Research Centre and Free University of Berlin, GermanyEuropean governance has witnessed dramatic changes in recent decades. By assessing the use of 'new' environmental policy instruments in European Union countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, this timely book analyses whether traditional forms of top-down government have given way to less hierarchical governance instruments, which rely strongly on societal self-steering and/or market forces. The authors provide important new theoretical insights as well as fresh empirical detail on why, and in what form, these instruments are being adopted within and across different levels of governance, along with analysis of the often-overlooked interactions between the instrument types.Providing important new theoretical insights into the governance debate by combining institutionalist and policy learning/transfer approaches, this book will be invaluable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The analytical insights as well as a thorough empirical assessment of the use of environmental policy instruments in practice will prove essential for environmental policy specialists/practitioners.Contents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Environmental Policy: From Government to Governance? Part II: Context 2. Governing by Policy Instruments: Theories and Analytical Concepts 3. Changing Institutional Contexts for the Use of Policy Instruments Part III: Governing by New Instruments 4. Governing by Informational Means 5. Governing by Voluntary Means 6. Governing by Eco-taxes 7. Governing by Emissions Trading Part IV: Emerging Patterns of Governing 8. Changing Patterns of Environmental Policy Instrument Use 9. Out with the 'Old' and in with the 'New'? Governing with Policy Instruments Bibliography IndexTrade ReviewThis path-breaking book, written by three well known experts, makes an extremely valuable contribution to the study of ''new'' environmental policy instruments as well as to much wider theoretical debates about governance, policy innovation, learning and transfer. Drawing on an unrivaled comparative empirical study of five different jurisdictions, it manages to make many new points about issues that many of us thought had already been settled. --Martin Janicke, Free University of Berlin, and former deputy chair, German Advisory Council on the Environment, GermanyMuch more than a study of environmental policy instruments, this book ranges widely and authoritatively over the ''government to governance'' debate, theories of policy change, regulation, policy transfer, and policy learning. Its lessons and conclusions are relevant and timely well beyond the European context of its case studies and it will be essential reading for public policy scholars everywhere for some time to come. --Jeremy Rayner, University of Saskatchewan, CanadaThis book represents a very rare achievement in that it combines detailed and up-to-the-minute empirical analysis of environmental policy over the past four decades, with a sophisticated discussion and critique of current theoretical issues in comparative and policy studies generally. It unfolds with a keen eye towards understanding the temporal dimensions of policy dynamics both in the specific policy field examined but also in terms of testing key analytical concepts. Taken as a whole it provides the most detailed empirical assessment to date of the general ''government to governance'' hypothesis, with significant implications for policy and governance studies in general. --Michael Howlett, Simon Fraser University, Canada and National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Environmental Policy: From Government to Governance? Part II: Context 2. Governing by Policy Instruments: Theories and Analytical Concepts 3. Changing Institutional Contexts for the Use of Policy Instruments Part III: Governing by New Instruments 4. Governing by Informational Means 5. Governing by Voluntary Means 6. Governing by Eco-taxes 7. Governing by Emissions Trading Part IV: Emerging Patterns of Governing 8. Changing Patterns of Environmental Policy Instrument Use 9. Out with the ‘Old’ and in with the ‘New’? Governing with Policy Instruments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis guide covers how to reach tenure through service, research, and teaching while empowering your graduate students and maintaining balance between your career and personal life. Sundar A. Christopher uses his own experience and hypothetical situations to illustrate best practices in goal setting, developing leadership amid institutional politics, and ways to benefit those you mentor. With a strong focus on research and tenure application and an inclusive point of view, this guide will be a key companion in many a professors’ development.

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Book SynopsisThis second volume focuses on treatment technologies that are commonly applied at hazardous waste sites and site characterization. Environmental engineers are responsible for cradle-to-grave handling and management of a hazardous waste. To fulfil this responsibility, a practicing engineer needs to apply their knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations; environmental audits; toxicology; site characterization; and treatment processes to transform the hazardous waste site to a condition where it cannot cause adverse effect to human health and the environment. Volume I of this series covered the regulatory landscape, basic environmental chemistry principles, fate and transport of contaminants, toxicology, and risk assessment. This second volume focuses on treatment technologies that are commonly applied at hazardous waste sites and site characterization. It covers physicochemical processes (air stripping, adsorption, ion exchange, and reverse osmosis), incineration, stabilization and solidification, biological treatment, and land disposal. Numerous solved examples provide a step-by-step approach to apply these technologies in real-life situations. The two volumes combined present a clear roadmap to the reader to integrate these topics in practice.

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Book SynopsisResidues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect; academic scholarship often reflects this same segmented approach. Yet, in chemical substances we encounter phenomena that are at once voluminous and miniscule, singular and ubiquitous, regulated yet unruly. Inspired by recent studies of materiality and infrastructures, we introduce “residual materialism” as a framework for attending to the socio-material properties of chemicals and their world-making powers. Tracking residues through time, space, and understanding helps us see how the past has been built into our present chemical environments and future-oriented regulatory systems, why contaminants seem to always evade control, and why the Anthropocene is as inextricably harnessed to the synthesis of carbon into new molecules as it is driven by carbon’s combustion.Trade Review"Residues shows how the chemicals we systematically ignore are powerful agents shaping our environmental future. A compelling argument for putting forgotten materials front and center in environmental research and politics." — Evan Hepler-Smith, Duke University "This erudite and accessible book presents a novel theoretical framing that draws on examples from a multiplicity of intriguing case studies from across the globe. Residues is distinguished by its collaborative authorship and multi-disciplinary and multinational scope, seeking to change how scholars in a range of disciplines study chemicals."— Sara Shostak, author of Exposed Science "Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation."— American Sociological Association - Environmental Sociology NewsletterTable of ContentsPreface List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 1. Residues Properties 2. Legacy 3. Accretion 4. Apprehension 5. Residual Materialism Bibliography Authors' Biographies

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Book SynopsisResidues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect; academic scholarship often reflects this same segmented approach. Yet, in chemical substances we encounter phenomena that are at once voluminous and miniscule, singular and ubiquitous, regulated yet unruly. Inspired by recent studies of materiality and infrastructures, we introduce “residual materialism” as a framework for attending to the socio-material properties of chemicals and their world-making powers. Tracking residues through time, space, and understanding helps us see how the past has been built into our present chemical environments and future-oriented regulatory systems, why contaminants seem to always evade control, and why the Anthropocene is as inextricably harnessed to the synthesis of carbon into new molecules as it is driven by carbon’s combustion.Trade Review"Residues shows how the chemicals we systematically ignore are powerful agents shaping our environmental future. A compelling argument for putting forgotten materials front and center in environmental research and politics." — Evan Hepler-Smith, Duke University "This erudite and accessible book presents a novel theoretical framing that draws on examples from a multiplicity of intriguing case studies from across the globe. Residues is distinguished by its collaborative authorship and multi-disciplinary and multinational scope, seeking to change how scholars in a range of disciplines study chemicals."— Sara Shostak, author of Exposed Science "Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation."— American Sociological Association - Environmental Sociology NewsletterTable of ContentsPreface List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 1. Residues Properties 2. Legacy 3. Accretion 4. Apprehension 5. Residual Materialism Bibliography Authors' Biographies

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Book SynopsisOver half the world’s population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. However, disaster risk is also of great interest to corporations, financiers, and investors. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. It is about how cities live and profit from the threat of sinkholes, garbage, and fire. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks. Notably, capitalist city-building results in the physical transformation of nature. This necessitates risk management strategies –such as insurance, environmental assessments, and technocratic mitigation plans. As such capitalists redistribute risk relying on short-term fixes to disaster risk rather than address long-term vulnerabilities. Trade Review"Fu offers a theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis of how disaster capitalism and unsustainable urban development transforms environmental bads into economically valuable goods. These transformations have devastating consequences, further exacerbating social and environmental inequities in a highly urbanized and warming world. Risky Cities is essential reading for anyone with interests in urban political economy, environmental social science, and global studies." -- Andrew Jorgenson * Professor of Sociology, Boston College *"I see Risky Cities becoming the landmark work on how ‘everyday’ urban risks are produced and then commodified—and what we might do to arrest this process." -- Tim Haney * Board of Governors Research Chair in Resilience & Sustainability, Mount Royal University, Calgary *"Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. It is about how cities live and profit from the threat of sinkholes, garbage, and fire. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks. Notably, capitalist city-building results in the physical transformation of nature." * ASA Environmental Sociology Section Newsletter *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Living with Disaster & Capitalism Chapter 2: Sinkholes and the Risky Foundations of Cities Chapter 3: The Logistical Nightmare of Trash & Urban Nature Chapter 4: Fire, the Wildland-Urban Interface, and Feedback Loops Chapter 5: Assessing and Managing Risk Conclusion: Regenerative Urbanism References Index

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Book SynopsisOver half the world’s population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. However, disaster risk is also of great interest to corporations, financiers, and investors. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. It is about how cities live and profit from the threat of sinkholes, garbage, and fire. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks. Notably, capitalist city-building results in the physical transformation of nature. This necessitates risk management strategies –such as insurance, environmental assessments, and technocratic mitigation plans. As such capitalists redistribute risk relying on short-term fixes to disaster risk rather than address long-term vulnerabilities. Trade Review"Fu offers a theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis of how disaster capitalism and unsustainable urban development transforms environmental bads into economically valuable goods. These transformations have devastating consequences, further exacerbating social and environmental inequities in a highly urbanized and warming world. Risky Cities is essential reading for anyone with interests in urban political economy, environmental social science, and global studies." -- Andrew Jorgenson * Professor of Sociology, Boston College *"I see Risky Cities becoming the landmark work on how ‘everyday’ urban risks are produced and then commodified—and what we might do to arrest this process." -- Tim Haney * Board of Governors Research Chair in Resilience & Sustainability, Mount Royal University, Calgary *"Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. It is about how cities live and profit from the threat of sinkholes, garbage, and fire. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks. Notably, capitalist city-building results in the physical transformation of nature." * ASA Environmental Sociology Section Newsletter *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Living with Disaster & Capitalism Chapter 2: Sinkholes and the Risky Foundations of Cities Chapter 3: The Logistical Nightmare of Trash & Urban Nature Chapter 4: Fire, the Wildland-Urban Interface, and Feedback Loops Chapter 5: Assessing and Managing Risk Conclusion: Regenerative Urbanism References Index

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Book SynopsisAs the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities devise alternatives to the systems that are doing so much harm to the planet and people? Sociologists Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizbeth Kallman offer a clear, accessible volume that demonstrates the ways that communities adapt in the face of crises and explains that sociology can help us understand how and why they do this challenging work. Tackling neoliberalism head-on, these communities are making big changes by crafting distributive and regenerative systems that depart from capitalist approaches. The vivid case studies presented range from activist water protectors to hemp farmers to renewable energy cooperatives led by Indigenous peoples and nations. Alongside these studies, Malin and Kallman present incisive critiques of colonialism, extractive capitalism, and neoliberalism, while demonstrating how sociology’s own disciplinary traditions have been complicit with those ideologies—and must expand beyond them. Showing that it is possible to challenge social inequality and environmental degradation by refusing to continue business-as-usual, Building Something Better offers both a call to action and a dose of hope in a time of crises.Trade Review"In Building Something Better, Malin and Kallman provide a sophisticated and nuanced explanation of the persistent and inequitable nature of environmental crises, and they introduce us to a compelling array of social movements working to create more just, sustainable communities."— Jill Harrison, author of From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies "This brave volume posits an environmental sociology that stands in for all of sociology to press for collective well-being. The authors support those who bridge the gap between scholarship and activism, and their wonderful case studies of community activism, many involving Indigenous people, merge the gritty world of organizing and with the thoughtful ideas of social science. It’s a delight to read and an important vehicle for change." — Phil Brown, Northeastern University "In Building Something Better, Malin and Kallman provide a sophisticated and nuanced explanation of the persistent and inequitable nature of environmental crises, and they introduce us to a compelling array of social movements working to create more just, sustainable communities."— Jill Harrison, author of From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies "Especially timely and germane in light of today's political, cultural, and environmental driven instabilities, Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change is a seminal, informative, and accessibly organized and presented study that is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library environmental economic policy collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists." — John Taylor, Midwest Book Review "This brave volume posits an environmental sociology that stands in for all of sociology to press for collective well-being. The authors support those who bridge the gap between scholarship and activism, and their wonderful case studies of community activism, many involving Indigenous people, merge the gritty world of organizing and with the thoughtful ideas of social science. It’s a delight to read and an important vehicle for change." — Phil Brown, Northeastern UniversityTable of ContentsPart I: Where We’re At And Why 1 Introduction 2 A People’s Sociology 3 Failing People and the Planet: Neoliberal Economics and the Erasure of Difference Part II: Building Better Worlds 4 Human Beings, Not Humans Buying: Trends in Modern Environmentalism, and How Communities Are Reimagining Collectives 5 Democratizing the Commons by Building Communities 6 More than the Market: Practicing Social and Ecological Regeneration 7 Conclusion: Building Something Better Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAs the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities devise alternatives to the systems that are doing so much harm to the planet and people? Sociologists Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizbeth Kallman offer a clear, accessible volume that demonstrates the ways that communities adapt in the face of crises and explains that sociology can help us understand how and why they do this challenging work. Tackling neoliberalism head-on, these communities are making big changes by crafting distributive and regenerative systems that depart from capitalist approaches. The vivid case studies presented range from activist water protectors to hemp farmers to renewable energy cooperatives led by Indigenous peoples and nations. Alongside these studies, Malin and Kallman present incisive critiques of colonialism, extractive capitalism, and neoliberalism, while demonstrating how sociology’s own disciplinary traditions have been complicit with those ideologies—and must expand beyond them. Showing that it is possible to challenge social inequality and environmental degradation by refusing to continue business-as-usual, Building Something Better offers both a call to action and a dose of hope in a time of crises.Trade Review"In Building Something Better, Malin and Kallman provide a sophisticated and nuanced explanation of the persistent and inequitable nature of environmental crises, and they introduce us to a compelling array of social movements working to create more just, sustainable communities." -- Jill Harrison * author of From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies *"This brave volume posits an environmental sociology that stands in for all of sociology to press for collective well-being. The authors support those who bridge the gap between scholarship and activism, and their wonderful case studies of community activism, many involving Indigenous people, merge the gritty world of organizing and with the thoughtful ideas of social science. It’s a delight to read and an important vehicle for change." -- Phil Brown * Northeastern University *"In Building Something Better, Malin and Kallman provide a sophisticated and nuanced explanation of the persistent and inequitable nature of environmental crises, and they introduce us to a compelling array of social movements working to create more just, sustainable communities." -- Jill Harrison * author of From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies *"This brave volume posits an environmental sociology that stands in for all of sociology to press for collective well-being. The authors support those who bridge the gap between scholarship and activism, and their wonderful case studies of community activism, many involving Indigenous people, merge the gritty world of organizing and with the thoughtful ideas of social science. It’s a delight to read and an important vehicle for change." -- Phil Brown * Northeastern University *"Especially timely and germane in light of today's political, cultural, and environmental driven instabilities, Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change is a seminal, informative, and accessibly organized and presented study that is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library environmental economic policy collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists." -- John Taylor * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsPart I: Where We’re At And Why1 Introduction2 A People’s Sociology3 Failing People and the Planet: Neoliberal Economics and the Erasure of DifferencePart II: Building Better Worlds4 Human Beings, Not Humans Buying: Trends in Modern Environmentalism, and How Communities Are Reimagining Collectives5 Democratizing the Commons by Building Communities6 More than the Market: Practicing Social and Ecological Regeneration7 Conclusion: Building Something BetterAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the middle of the twentieth century, governments ignored the negative effects of large-scale infrastructure projects. In recent decades, many democratic countries have continued to use dams to promote growth, but have also introduced accompanying programs to alleviate these harmful consequences of dams for local people, to reduce poverty, and to promote participatory governance. This type of dam building undoubtedly represents a step forward in responsible governing. But have these policies really worked? Flooded provides insights into the little-known effects of these approaches through a close examination of Brazil’s Belo Monte hydroelectric facility. After three decades of controversy over damming the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, the dam was completed in 2019 under the left-of-center Workers’ Party, becoming the world’s fourth largest. Billions of dollars for social welfare programs accompanied construction. Nonetheless, the dam brought extensive social, political, and environmental upheaval to the region. The population soared, cost of living skyrocketed, violence spiked, pollution increased, and already overextended education and healthcare systems were strained. Nearly 40,000 people were displaced and ecosystems were significantly disrupted. Klein tells the stories of dam-affected communities, including activists, social movements, non-governmental organizations, and public defenders and public prosecutors. He details how these groups, as well as government officials and representatives from private companies, negotiated the upheaval through protests, participating in public forums for deliberation, using legal mechanisms to push for protections for the most vulnerable, and engaging in myriad other civic spaces. Flooded provides a rich ethnographic account of democracy and development in the making. In the midst of today’s climate crisis, this book showcases the challenges and opportunities of meeting increasing demands for energy in equitable ways.Trade Review"Flooded addresses the overarching question of how developing states can build critical infrastructure in a way that respects local rights and grants significant participation to those affected by the project." -- Kathryn Hochstetler * co-author of Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society *"Flooded compellingly shows the dilemmas of 'democratic development' and the challenges posed by the increasing demand for energy at a time of climate crisis. Klein offers a thought-provoking and engaging narrative that highlights the ambivalences and contradictions of progressive governments." -- Pablo Lapegna * author of Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina *"Flooded addresses the overarching question of how developing states can build critical infrastructure in a way that respects local rights and grants significant participation to those affected by the project." -- Kathryn Hochstetler * co-author of Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society *"Flooded compellingly shows the dilemmas of 'democratic development' and the challenges posed by the increasing demand for energy at a time of climate crisis. Klein offers a thought-provoking and engaging narrative that highlights the ambivalences and contradictions of progressive governments." -- Pablo Lapegna * author of Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movemen *Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction Part I: Hydropower, Resistance, and the State1 Dams and Development 2 Booms, Busts, and Collective Mobilization along the Transamazon 3 Democratic Developmentalism Part II: An Ethnography of Dam Building4 The Living Process5 The Fight for Recognition 6 The Law, Activism, and Legitimacy Conclusion AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisGarbage in the Garden State is the only book to examine the history of waste management in New Jersey. The state has played a pioneering role in the overall trajectory of waste management in the US. Howell's book is unique in the way that it places the contemporary challenges of waste management into their proper historical context – for instance, why does the system for recycling seem to work so poorly? Why do we have so many landfills in New Jersey, but also simultaneously not enough landfills or incinerators? Howell acknowledges that New Jersey is sometimes imagined, particularly by non-New Jerseyans, as a giant garbage dump for New York and Philadelphia. But every place has had to struggle with the challenges of waste management. New Jersey's trash history is in fact more interesting and more important than most. New Jersey’s waste history includes intensive planning, deep-seated political conflict, organized crime, and literally every level of state and federal judiciary. It is a colorful history, to say the least, and one that includes a number of firsts with regard to recycling, comprehensive planning, and the challenging economics of trash. Trade Review"Garbage in the Garden State shines a light on a topic that has not received substantial attention. Reinforced by excellent research and an indisputable understanding of waste policy, Howell reveals the Garden State as the center of discussions and debates on the solid waste issue for years and an innovator in a number of ways.” -- Martin V. Melosi * author of The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present *Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Origins of Waste Management Planning in New Jersey 3 Planning, Siting, Operating, and Financing Landfills 4 Recycle or Incinerate? 5 Limits to the System 6 Conclusions and Looking Forward Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, the contributors discuss some of the most remarkable global warming effects in Argentina and examine policies that Latin American countries could follow to achieve their individual climate goals. Climate change is one of the most pressing issues today. However, after many years of climate negotiations, the world has failed to introduce a common global policy. Differences in countries' climate agendas have led to unsuccessful efforts. Countries willing to pursue a climate policy have sought alternative strategies to mitigate and adapt to global warming's consequences within their jurisdiction. In this context, Latin American countries' role in shaping the regional climate agenda is yet to be explored. The book covers some papers from the well-received "First Workshop on Environmental Economics and Energy" in Argentina. Using data from Argentina, the contributors analyze the effects of global warming on agricultural yields and the impact of extreme weather on human health. From a global perspective, the contributors also describe the interactions between a reduction in carbon emissions, carbon emissions intensity, and economic growth; the role that trade policies can play to reduce carbon emissions; and the paradoxes that arise from promoting renewable energies in the region. The contributors also address the relationship between sustainability and economic growth; the private sector's role in shaping policies and providing sustainable solutions; and the Latin American challenges for the next generation. The book will be of interest to policy-makers, academics, researchers, and professionals worldwide working in climate change impacts and policy. It will also appeal to a general audience interested in climate change economics, its consequences, and the steps that countries in Latin America can take to move forward.Trade Review“Readers who are not trained in quantitative research will benefit from the book because the explanations and interpretations provided by the authors are comprehensible and, in most cases, also plausible. … The book provides valuable insights and demonstrates that convincing findings on the Global South … . Social scientists trained in qualitative research will be motivated to use these findings as a starting point … .” (Sören Scholvin, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Issue 112, 2021)Table of ContentsChapter 1) IntroductionChapter 2) The impact of extreme temperatures on mortality risks in Argentina – by Christian Garcia and Mariano Javier RabassaChapter 3) Mitigation and adaptation processes in crop yields. The case of soybeans in Argentina - by Hildegart Ahumada and Magdalena CornejoChapter 4) Beyond the Question “Is there Carbon Decoupling": Decoupling Rankings - by Mariana Conte GrandChapter 5) How could trade liberalization on environmental goods and services reduce CO2 Emissions? Decomposing Scale, Technique and Composition effects in a CGE approach - by María Priscila Ramos and Omar Osvaldo Chisari.Chapter 6) Carbon taxes and renewable energy: a discussion about the Green paradox - by María Elisa Belfiori.Chapter 7) Climate change and sustainable development goals - by María Eugenia Di Paola.Chapter 8) Climate change and Argentina: policy issues - by Carlos Gentile, Maria Elisa Belfiori and Mariano Javier Rabassa.Chapter 9) Concluding remarks - by Maria Elisa Belfiori and Mariano Javier Rabassa

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the underexposed political dimensions of bioeconomy promotion. Who wins and who loses? How are institutions being shaped, and by whom? Drawing from experiences since the earlier days of biofuels promotion, it explores in unprecedented detail the global drive away from fossil fuels and towards a biomass-based economy.Multipurpose agriculture gains ever more traction as countries create new bio-based value chains – or, rather, value webs. Governance, in this regard, proves to be key for steering developments towards inclusive agri-food-biomass systems instead of fueling just a handful of “flex crops” ridden with social equity and other environmental issues.Based on a rich global-level analysis of bioeconomy promotion and three in-depth case studies of key emerging economies (Brazil, India and Indonesia), the book also innovatively examines sustainability politics in Global South democracies.Ultimately, this book is about finding the politics for a fairer bioeconomy in the years and decades to come.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Political Dimensions of the Bioeconomy.- Part I: Biofuels and the Emergence of a Bioeconomy World.- 2. The Contested Sustainability of Biofuels in a North-South Context.- 3. Governance: Solving or Reproducing Inequalities.- 4. International Bioeconomy Governance: Unveiling the Initial Patterns.- Part II: Biofuel Governance in Emerging Countries.- 5. Brazil Between Bioeconomy Barons and Grassroots Agroecology.- 6. India’s Bioeconomy and the Ambition over “Wastelands”.- 7. Bioeconomy in the Oil Palm Republic of Indonesia.- 8. Bioeconomy Lessons from Biofuel Policies in Emerging Countries.- 9. The Politics for a Fairer Bioeconomy.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the relationship between natural resource management, sustainable development, and governance with case studies from India and other places covering disaster risk reduction, conflict resolution, capacity building, climate change adaptation and resilience, citizen engagement and ecological conservation. Though the studies focus mostly on cases in India, the volume discusses how governance can be employed to help develop and implement sustainable practices globally through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework. Readers will learn how to integrate concepts of resource management, sustainable development, and governance to improve human resilience to global environmental change, and to assess the proper development approaches to assist economically stressed and resource-deprived individuals. The book will be of use to graduate students and academics, policy makers, planners, and nonprofits.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Resource Management, Sustainable Development and Governance: Introduction and Overview.- Chapter 2. Bruce Mitchell: Professional Career and Contributions.- Chapter 3. Early and Modern Paradigms in Natural Resource Management: Global and Indian Experiences.- Chapter 4. Approaching the Collaborative ‘Turn’ in Water Governance: A Critical Re-Appraisal.- Chapter 5. Disaster Risk Governance and Management: An Asian Perspective.- Chapter 6. Reshaping Natural Resource Management in China.- Chapter 7. Regional Sustainable Development and Natural Resource Decision-Making in India: Methods and Implications.- Chapter 8. Rethinking Resettlement as a Development Opportunity: Need for Good Practices.- Chapter 9. Will the Water Revolution be Decentralized? Investigating the ‘Downscale’ and ‘Upscale’ Challenges of Urban Rainwater Harvesting.- Chapter 10. Rethinking Capacity Building in Water Governance: Factors Influencing Risk Interpretation and Decision-Making in Delhi.- Chapter 11. Regional Environmental Governance: An Analytical Framework for Conservation of Natural Resource Area.- Chapter 12. Groundwater Sustainability in Haryana: Challenges to Governance.- Chapter 13. Wetland Resources in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam: Characteristics, Use and Sustainable Development.- Chapter 14. Impact of Physical Factors on Transboundary Water Management and Governance in the Kosi Basin.- Chapter 15. Governance and Management of Teesta River Water Resources: A Geopolitical Appraisal.- Chapter 16. Governance Issues for Sustainable Water Management in Rapti River Basin, Uttar Pradesh.- Chapter 17. Social Transformation, Ecosystem Services and Resource Sustainability in Nepal Hills.- Chapter 18. Determinants of Land Use Dynamics and its Ecological Implications in India: A State Level Analysis.- Chapter 19. Land Use Change and its Impact on Ecosystem Services: Food, Livelihood, and Health Security in Kumaon Himalayas.- Chapter 20. Impact of Land Use Change on Livelihood Options: A Case Study of Upper Pasolgad Watershed, Uttarakhand.- Chapter 21. Rural Livelihood and Women: Glimpses from An Indian Tribal Village.- Chapter 22. Land Degradation and Agricultural Sustainability in Kendujhar District, Odisha.- Chapter 23. Diversification of Agriculture through Medicinal Plants in Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh.- Chapter 24. Recent Sanitation Challenges and Policy Options in Developing Countries.- Chapter 25. Solid Waste Management for Environmental Sustainability in India.- Chapter 26. Social Impact Assessment of Indian Water and Allied Policies and Programs.- Chapter 27. Challenges and Opportunities towards Management of Solid Wastes in Indian Cities: Beyond the Rhetoric of Convenience.- Chapter 28. Natural Resource Evaluation for Ecotourism and Geotourism Destination in Hong Kong.- Chapter 29. Climate Change Knowledge: Comparison of People and Scientists Perception in Shimla District, Himachal Pradesh.- Chapter 30. Climate Change Modeling for Ecosystem Services: A Method for Sustainable Development in Western Himalayan District.- Chapter 31. Urban Sustainability and Governance in Delhi Metropolitan Region.- Chapter 32. Investigating the Variability in Sanitation and Sustainability Issues: Evidence from Resettlement Colonies of Delhi.- Chapter 33. Water Governance in Thiruvananthapuram City, Kerala: Existing Practices and Alternative Paradigms.- Chapter 34. Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha: People’s Attitude Towards its Conservation.- Chapter 35. Socio-Economic Development in Highway Corridor Zone of Bihar: A Case Study of Kuchai Kot-Muzaffarpur Section.- Chapter 36. Sustainable Resource Governance: Lessons for the Future.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a detailed yet succinct overview of sustainable finance, with a specific focus on its origins, its policy focus and the practitioner dimension. With fossil fuel companies still attracting investment and subsidy across the world, the book describes how we can reverse these incentives, using the power of finance to tackle the climate and ecological crises. The world of finance is moving beyond the era of ethical investment and into a future where all financial companies will have to report the climate impact of their investments. This is the first stage towards full-scale ESG reporting (Environmental, Social and Governance). Since financial reporting depends on information provided by companies who receive investment, this has huge implications for non-financial reporting by all large companies. The timeline for these legal changes is short for what will be a transformation of financial accounting and investment. The book also covers the related issues of climate finance and the role of central and public banks in funding the transition to sustainability, and how we can ensure accountability for countries bearing the brunt of the impact from those with the largest responsibility for historic emissions. This book will enable those working in these fields to update their knowledge and skills, and brings together the author’s practical experience as an MEP with her academic insight as the first professor of green economics.Table of Contents1. Why Sustainable Finance? Why Now?.- 2. What Puts the Sustainable into Sustainable Finance.- 3. The Chequered History of Climate Finance.- 4. Sustainable Finance: The Policy Framework.- 5. Measuring and Reporting Sustainability Impacts.- 6. The Role for Central and Public Banks.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book brings together 16 specially commissioned chapters drawn from a range of different professional-practitioner and academic global perspectives on the importance of the relationship between people and green and blue spaces. It focuses on issues surrounding the importance of natural environments on public health and wellbeing, and the environmental, cultural, and social importance of green and blue spaces that can result through responsible and sustainable adaptive management processes. It explores how the Covid-19 pandemic forced reconsiderations of our relationship with these natural spaces and highlights the important impact of the pace of climate change. While not pretending to have the answers, the stimulating and imaginative contributions embrace rich perspectives drawn from backgrounds as diverse as heritage studies, tourism, conservation, geography, policy formulation, public health, environmental health, research methods, history, literature, art, and theology. Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Contributors Chapter 1: People and Places Matter: From Theory to Practice. Introduction. Niall Finneran & Denise Hewlett with Richard Clarke Chapter 2: What does the Global Biodiversity Framework mean for protected and conserved areas? Nigel Dudley Chapter 3: Landscapes of the Romantic Sublime: the legacy of nineteenth-century artistic visions and contributions to the development of the management of natural heritage. Niall Finneran Chapter 4: Islandscapes: tourism, Covid, climate change and challenges to natural landscapes. A Caribbean perspective and view from Barbados. Niall Finneran & Tara Inniss Chapter 5: Managing heritage landscapes of cultural value: a view from the National Trust portfolio in Purbeck, southern England. Tracey Churcher & Niall Finneran Chapter 6: Between high and low tide. Participatory approaches to managing England’s coastal and riverine natural and cultural heritage: a case study from the CITIZAN initiative. Oliver Hutchinson & Niall Finneran Chapter 7: Managing a UNESCO World Heritage Site in a Post-Colonial, Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Destination. The Case of the Haitian National History Park. Jocelyn Belfort, Hugues Séraphin & Godson Lubrun Chapter 8: Sustainable project management of green spaces, protected and conserved areas – opportunities and challenges. Malgorzata Radomska, Richard Clarke & Denise Hewlett Chapter 9: (Re)connecting with Nature: Exploring Nature Based Interventions for Psychological Health and Wellbeing. Debra Gray, Denise Hewlett, Julie Hammon & Stephanie Aburrow Chapter 10: Significant Spaces: Exploring the Health and Wellbeing Impacts of Natural Environments. Denise Hewlett, Debra Gray, Richard Gunton, Tom Munro, Sheela Agarwal, Martin Breed, Chris Skelly, Philip Weinstein, Ainara Terradillos, Natalia Lavrushkina & Danny Byrne Chapter 11: Judaism and Engagements with Nature: theology and practice. Christina Welch & Neil Amswych Chapter 12: Islam and Engagements with Nature; theology and practice. Christina Welch & Fahima B. Rahman Chapter 13: What Have we Learned from the Impact of the Pandemic on our Relationship with Nature? The Importance of Views from Home. Marco Garrido-Cumbrera & Olta Braçe Chapter 14: Impacts and Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Protected and Conserved Area Management. Mitali Sharma, Mariana Napolitano Ferreira, Rachel Golden Kroner & Mohammed K. S. Pasha Chapter 15: Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas Post Pandemic: the English Context. Denise Hewlett, Richard Gunton, Debra Gray, Ainara Terradillos, Sheela Agarwal, Natalia Lavrushkina & Danny Byrne Chapter 16: Climate Change - Protected Areas as a Tool to Address a Global Crisis. Zachary J. Cannizzo, Elise Belle, Risa Smith, Tom Mommsen Chapter 17: The Virtual Wild: Exploring the Intersection of Virtual Reality and Natural Environments. Simone Grassini & Eleanor Ratcliffe

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Book SynopsisPalmöl ist das billigste und beliebteste Fett in der Lebensmittel- und Kosmetikbranche. Indonesien liefert 90 Prozent des weltweit gehandelten Palmöls, hinter dessen Anbau aber eine ökologische und soziale Katastrophe steht. Im Zuge der Rodung des indonesischen Regenwaldes zugunsten des Palmöl-Geschäfts kippt zum einen das globale Klima. Zum anderen werden Indigene und Kleinfarmer von ihrem Land vertrieben. Der „Runde Tisch für nachhaltiges Palmöl“ (RSPO) wurde 2004 auf Sumatra etabliert, um die genannten Probleme zu lösen. Die Studie untersucht im Rahmen der Global-Governance-Forschung die Gründe für das Scheitern des RSPO und zeigt die Grenzen und Möglichkeiten von Private Policy Networks in der globalen Umweltpolitik auf: Verantwortlich sind „Transnationale Unternehmen“ (TNUs) und andere dominierende Akteure im Palmöl-Geschäft, aber auch schwache staatliche Rahmenbedingungen.Table of ContentsGrundlagen der Global-Governance-Perspektive.- Internationale Beziehungen.- Der RSPO in Indonesien im Global-Governance-Prozess.- Erklärung des Scheiterns des RSPO in Indonesien.- Government versus Governance.

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Book SynopsisZiel der Arbeit von Veit Ebermann ist es, den Entwicklungsprozess von staatlichen Klimaanpassungsstrategien auf Länderebene besser zu verstehen und somit das Politikergebnis und das Handeln der Akteure nachzuvollziehen. Am Beispiel des Landes Niedersachsens zeigt er auf, wie diese den politischen Prozess gestalten, steuern und beeinflussen. Im Fokus stehen die Problembeschreibung, die Politikkoordination, die Partizipation von nicht-staatlichen Akteuren und der Parteienwettbewerb als bedeutender Referenzpunkt der parteipolitischen Akteure im Party-Government-System. Der Autor weist nach, dass Machtaspekte bei der Strategieentwicklung eine zentrale Rolle spielen.Table of ContentsKlimaanpassungspolitik und staatliche Anpassungsstrategien.- Regierungspolitik zwischen Macht- und Gestaltungsrationalität.- Policy-zentrierte Ethnographie und qualitativ-interpretative Prozessanalyse.- Strategieentwicklung auf Länderebene.- Gestaltung und Steuerung der Strategieentwicklung.- Macht- und Gestaltungsfunktionen von pluralistischen Regierungsgremien.

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