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Taylor & Francis Ageing Wellbeing and Climate Change in the Arctic
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Taylor & Francis Adaptive Crossscalar Governance of Natural Resources
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Taylor & Francis Community Action and Climate Change
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Taylor & Francis Disasters and Social Resilience
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Taylor & Francis Urban Poverty and Climate Change
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Taylor & Francis Humanitarianism and Challenges of Cooperation
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Taylor & Francis Climate Change Governance in Chinese Cities
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Taylor & Francis Higher Education and Capacity Building in Africa
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Taylor & Francis Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa
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Taylor & Francis The New Humanitarians in International Practice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Climate Cultures in Europe and North America
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Governing Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis fully revised and expanded new edition provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and business actors to multilateral development banks, donors, and cities. The issue of global climate change has risen to the top of the international political agenda. Despite ongoing contestation about the science informing policy, the economic costs of action and the allocation of responsibility for addressing the issue within and between nations, it is clear that climate change will continue to be one of the most pressing and challenging issues facing humanity for many years to come. The book: Evaluates the role of states and non-state actors in governing climate change at multiple levels of political organization: local, national, and global Provides a discussion of theoretical debates on climate change governance, moving beyond analytical approaches focusTable of ContentsIntroduction: Governing Climate Change 1.Governing Climate Change: a brief history 2.Governance for whom?Equity, justice, and the politics of sustainable development 3.Between global and local: Governing climate change transnationally 4.Community and the governing of climate change 5.The private governance of climate change 6.Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to the Environmental
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological crises, the volume explores the potential of the environmental humanities for organizing humanistic research, opening up new forms of interdisciplinarity, and shaping public debate and policies on environmental issues.Sections cover: The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities Inequality and Environmental Justice Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory <Table of ContentsIntroduction: Planet, Species, Justice—and the Stories We Tell about Them Ursula K. Heise Part 1: The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth 1. The Anthropocene: Love It or Leave It Dale Jamieson 2. Domestication, Domesticated Landscapes, and Tropical Natures Susanna B. Hecht 3. "They Carry Life in Their Hair": Domestication and the African Diaspora Judith A. Carney 4. Domestication in a Post-Industrial World Libby Robin 5. Meals in the Age of Toxic Environments Yuki Masami 6. Hybrid Aversion: Wolves, Dogs, and the Humans Who Love to Keep Them Apart Emma Marris 7. Techno-Conservation in the Anthropocene: What Does It Mean to Save a Species? Ronald Sandler 8. Coloring Climates: Imagining a Geoengineered World Bronislaw Szerszynski 9. Utopia's Afterlife in the Anthropocene Anahid Nersessian Part 2: Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities 10. Renaissance Selfhood and Shakespeare's Comedy of the Commons Robert N. Watson 11. Multispecies Epidemiology and the Viral Subject Genese Marie Sodikoff 12. Encountering a More-than-Human World: Ethos and the Arts of Witness Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren 13. Loving the Native: Invasive Species and the Cultural Politics of Flourishing Jessica R. Cattelino 14. Artifacts and Habitats Dolly Jørgensen 15. Interspecies Diplomacy in Anthropocenic Waters: Performing an Ocean-Oriented Ontology Una Chaudhuri 16. The Anthropocene at Sea: Temporality, Paradox, Compression Stacy Alaimo Part 3: Inequality and Environmental Justice 17. Turning Over a New Leaf: Fanonian Humanism and Environmental Justice Jennifer Wenzel 18. Action-Research and Environmental Justice: Lessons from Guatemala’s Chixoy Dam Barbara Rose Johnston 19. Farming as Speculative Activity: The Ecological Basis of Farmers' Suicides in India Akhil Gupta 20. Ecological Security for Whom? The Politics of Flood Alleviation and Urban Environmental Justice in Jakarta, Indonesia Helga Leitner, Emma Colven, and Eric Sheppard 21. Our Ancestors’ Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene Kyle Powys Whyte 22. Collected Things with Names like Mother Corn: Native North American Speculative Fiction and Film Joni Adamson 23. The Stone Guests: Buen Vivir and Popular Environmentalisms in the Andes and Amazonia Jorge Marcone Part 4: Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory 24. Play It Again, Sam: Decline and Finishing in Environmental Narratives Richard White 25. Hubris and Humility in Environmental Thought Michelle Niemann 26. Losing Primeval Forests: Degradation Narratives in South Asia Kathleen D. Morrison 27. Multidirectional Eco-Memory in an Era of Extinction: Colonial Whaling and Indigenous Dispossession in Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance Rosanne Kennedy 28. The Caribbean's Agonizing Seashores: Tourism Resorts, Art, and the Future of the Region's Coastlines Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert 29. Bear Down: Resilience and Multispecies Ethology Brett Buchanan Part 5: Environmental Arts, Media, and Technologies 30. Contemporary Environmental Art James Nisbet 31. Slow Food, Low Tech: Environmental Narratives of Agribusiness and Its Alternatives Allison Carruth 32. Mattress Story: On Thing Power, Waste Management Rhetoric, and Francisco de Pájaro’s Trash Art Maite Zubiaurre 33. Touching the Senses: Environments and Technologies at the Movies Alexa Weik von Mossner 34. Climate, Design, and the Status of the Human: Obstacles and Opportunities for Architectural Scholarship in the Environmental Humanities Daniel A. Barber 35. Climate Visualizations: Making Data Experiential Heather Houser 36. Digital ? Environmental : Humanities Stéfan Sinclair and Stephanie Posthumus 37. From The Xenotext Christian Bök Part 6: The State of the Environmental Humanities 38. The Body and Environmental History in the Anthropocene Linda Nash 39. Material Ecocriticism and the Petro-Text Heather I. Sullivan 40. Fossil Freedoms: The Politics of Emancipation and the End of Oil Hannes Bergthaller 41. Scaling the Planetary Humanities: Environmental Globalization and the Arctic Sverker Sörlin 42. Some "F" Words for the Environmental Humanities: Feralities, Feminisms, Futurities Catriona Sandilands 43. Biocities: Urban Ecology and the Cultural Imagination Jon Christensen and Ursula K. Heise 44. Environmental Humanities: Notes Towards a Summary for Policymakers Greg Garrard 45. The Humanities after the Anthropocene Stephanie LeMenager
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy
Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of research on environmental policy and governance.The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy has a strong focus on new problem structures â a perspective that emphasizes the preconditions and processes of environmental policymaking â and a comparative approach that covers all levels of local, national, and global policymaking. The volume examines the different conditions under which environmental policymaking takes place in different regions of the world and tracks the theoretical, conceptual, and empirical developments that have been made in recent years. It also highlights emerging areas where new and/or additional research and reflection are warranted. Divided into four key parts, the accessible structure and the nature of the contributions allow the reader to quickly find a concise expert review on topics that are most likely to arise in the course of conducting research or developing policy, and to obtain a broad, reliable survey of what is presently known about the subject.The resulting compendium is an essential resource for students, scholars, and policymakers working in this vital field.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Climate Change Governance and Adaptation
Book SynopsisClimate change adaptation in South Asia is redefining the roles of different actors in the governance processes. The existing governance lack capacity, knowledge, and leadership skills to manage the uncertainties and challenges posed by climate change. This book aims to explain how the governance of climate change adaptation and mitigation is being shaped in the region and how climate change is impacting upon the governance of natural resources. Although the focus is on South Asia, the editors draw a wide range of contributions from northern and southern communities and across various agro-ecological contexts. Climate Change Governance and Adaptation: Case Studies from South Asia sees the changing climate not only as an environmental problem but as a societal challenge and discusses the governance challenges from an interdisciplinary social science perspective across different levels: local, state, and national. Discusses also the challenges and opportuniTable of Contents1. Governance of Climate Change: Issues and Challenges in South Asia 2. "A Disappearing" or a Resilient Ganga? Climate Change Perspectives from the Himalaya 3. Deliberative Governance on Vulnerability to Climate Change: Voices from Madhesi Farmers 4. Waste or Savior? Two Cases of Emerging Wastewater Irrigation in Urbanizing Kathmandu Valley 5. Climate Migration and Flood Related Disasters 6. Changing Social Capital in the Mountains and the Implications for Adaptation Interventions: An Exploratory Analysis with Case Studies from the Hindu Kush Himalaya 7. Enhancing Adaptive Capacity through Education: A Case Study of Rural Mountain Communities, Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya India 8. Governing National Actions for Global Climate Change Stabilization: Examples from India 9. Bridges and Barriers for Governance of Water Resources in South Asia—Insights from Brahmaputra Basin in India
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Taylor & Francis Joint FactFinding in Urban Planning and
Book SynopsisThe days of rationalist scientific management and deference to official data are behind us. The credibility of experts and the information they provide are regularly challenged; officials are routinely provided with conflicting sets of facts as they plan and make decisions; and decision makers and stakeholders alike are largely skeptical that technical information will adequately account for the various interests and concerns and lead to the right outcomes. They struggle to reconcile technical information with other forms of knowledge, and differing interests, priorities and perspectives. Issues like climate change are complicating matters even further, as scientists and technicians must increasingly acknowledge the uncertainty and potential fallibility of their findings, and highlight the dynamic nature of the systems they are explaining.This book examines how groups looking to plan and make decisions in any number of areas can wade through the imperfect and often contradictTable of ContentsForeword , Introduction Theory and Practice of Joint Fact-Finding 1. Joint Fact-Finding and Collaborative Adaptive Management 2. Humble Inquiry: The Practice of "Joint Fact Finding" 3. Role of Science in Environmental Dispute Resolution 4. Science and Policy: Better Decisions through Join Fact-Finding and Collaboration 5. Implications of JFF to Science–Policy Interface 6. Emerging Practice for Adaptive Governance 7. Energy Policy Cases 8. Nuclear Power Joint Fact-Finding 9. Environmental Cases 10. Water Resource Cases 11. Joint fact-finding in Japan 12. Joint fact-finding in Netherlands/Europe 13. Conclusion Cover image kindly provided by Dr. Peter Adler
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Taylor & Francis Explaining Risk Analysis
Book SynopsisRisk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications. Rather, it is widely used to assess and manage a plethora of hazards that threaten dire implications. However, too few people actually understand what risk analysis can help us accomplish and, even among experts, knowledge is often limited to one or two applications. Explaining Risk Analysis frames risk analysis as a holistic planning process aimed at making better risk-informed decisions and emphasizing the connections between the parts. This framework requires an understanding of basic terms, including explanations of why there is no universal agreement about what risk means, much less risk assessment, risk management and risk analysis. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, the book illustrates the ways in which risk analysis can help lead to better decisions in a variety of scenarios, including the destruction of chemical weapons, management of nuclear waste and the response to passenger rail threats. The book demonstrates how the risk analysis process and the data, models and processes used in risk analysis will clarify, rather than obfuscate, decision-makersâ options.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk assessment, risk management, public health, environmental science, environmental economics and environmental psychology.Trade Review"Michael Greenberg’s masterpiece book Explaining Risk Analysis is written in coherent terms, while guided by the Gestalt-holistic thinking. This combination makes the richness and complexity of risk analysis comprehensive to a broad readership. It is a gift to all of us—students, practitioners and scholars--in this ever-challenging and expanding field." – Yacov Haimes, Lawrence Quarles Professor of Engineering, University of Virginia, former President of the Society for Risk Analysis, USA"Michael Greenberg, one of the world’s foremost risk analysis scholars, authors, and practitioners, has written a delightful, thoroughly engaging and accessible introduction to the field of risk analysis, showing how it works, why it matters, and how individuals, organizations, and governments can apply risk assessment and risk management to make the world a better place. The tools introduced and vividly illustrated here with compelling case studies can help to make sense of, and to resolve with sanity and insight, some of the most contentious debates of our time. These include discussions of environmental justice, land use, climate change, responses to terrorism and saner and more effective individual, organizational, and governmental planning under risk and uncertainty. This lucid and fun exposition will benefit not only students, teachers, and practitioners of risk analysis, but also policy analysts and decision-makers who want to manage risks, uncertainties, complexities, and conflicts more effectively." – Tony Cox, Editor-in-Chief of Risk Analysis: An International Journal, and University of Colorado, USATable of Contents1. Risk Analysis: A Start Part I. Basics 2. Risk Assessment 3. Risk Management Part II. Cases 4. Destroying Chemical Weapons 5. Environmental Justice6. Critical Passenger Rail Infrastructure 7. Fresh Water, Land Use, and Global Climate Change 8. Biological TerrorismPart III. Supplements 9. Risk Analysis and Disaster Science Fiction 10. Risk Analysis Online and on Paper 11. Externally Imposed Challenges for Risk Analysis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Development in
Book SynopsisIn the present global context, some countries still face many challenges to bringing about inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable development. Simultaneously, the stakes of survival are rising, as climate change exacerbates both environmental and social ills. Asia as a region is particularly vulnerable, as it is densely populated and includes both developed and developing countries.The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Development in Asia seeks to examine these issues in depth. Presenting a comprehensive literature review, as well as numerous case studies, this book examines sustainable development from economic and social perspectives, as well as from an environmental viewpoint. Divided into seven parts, the topics addressed include: Environmental challenges Energy dependence and transition Economic justice Social welfare Sustainable governance <Table of Contents Introduction 1. Introduction to Sustainable Development in Asia, Darrin Magee Section One: Framework for Understanding Sustainable Development 2. Framework for Understanding Sustainable Development, Sara Hsu Section Two: Environmental Challenges in Asian Countries 3.Air Pollution and Its Threat to Public Health in Asia, Lee Liu and Li Liu 4. Environmental Challenges in Asia, Debashis Chakraborty and Sacchidananda Mukherjee 5. Singapore’s Environmental Policy, Seck Tan 6. Climate Change and Water Scarcity: Growing risks for agricultural based economies in South Asia, Farzad Taheripour, Thomas W. Hertel, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, Sebnem Sahin, Anil Markandya and Bijon Kumer Mitra and Vivek Prasad Section Three: Energy Dependence and Transition in Asia 7. Energy Situation in Asia, Reiji Takeishi 8. Evaluating Indicators of Energy Security for Sustainable Development in Asia, Helen Cabalu and Yixiao Zhou 9. Energy Systems and Low-Carbon Policies in East Asia, Soocheol Lee 10. The Asian Urban Energy System, Peter Marcotullio Section Four: Economic Justice in Asia 11. The Evolution of China’s Pay Inequality during the Transitional Period, Wenjie Zhang 12. Income Inequality and Welfare in Korea and Taiwan, Eunju Chi 13. Infrastructure Gap in South Asia, Dan Biller, Luis Andrés and Matías Herrera Dappe 14. Poverty, Inequality and Public Health in Indonesia, Riyana Miranti 15. Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia, Simi Mehta, Vikash Kumar and Rattan Lal Section Five: Social Welfare in Asian Nations 16. Development of Social Welfare in Indonesia: The Rise of Conditional Cash Transfer, Edi Suharto 17. Social Spending in Korea, Selim Elekdag, Dulani Seneviratne and Edda Zoli 18. Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Singapore, Levan Lim and Thana Thaver 19. Why Does Asia Need Well-Functioning Pension Systems? Donghyun Park and Gemma Estrada 20. Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) for Sustainable and Inclusive Development in Asia, John Fien and Rupert Maclean Section Six: Sustainable Governance in Asia 21. Corporate Social Responsibility in Vietnam, Neda Trifkovic, Thomas Markussen and John Rand 22. Sustainable Development Initiatives at the Local Government Level in Malaysia, Ashiru Bello, Ahmadu Bello and Ainul Jaria Maidin 23. Regional Governance for Environmental Sustainability in Asia in the Context of Sustainable Development, Mark Elder 24. Renewable Energy and New Developmentalism in East Asia, Christopher Dent Section Seven: Asia’s Sustainable Development Policy 25. Strategic Environmental Assessment as a Policy Framework for Sustainable Development in Asia, Dennis Victor 26. Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship: The Heart of Borneo paradox and its implications on green economic transformation in Asia, Choy Yee Keong 27. China’s Green GDP and Environmental Accounting, Yu-Wai Vic Li 28. Legal Solutions to Air Pollution Control in Malaysia, Maizatun Mustafa 29. Regulating Trans-boundary Haze in Southeast Asia, Lahiru S. Wijedasa, Zeehan Jaafar, Mary Rose C. Posa and Janice S.H. Lee 30. Energy Security Performance in Japan, Ken’ichi Matsumoto 31. Transformations for Sustainable Development in the Asia and the Pacific, Hitomi Rankine, Kareff Limocon Rafisura, José A. Puppim de Oliveira and Fundação Getulio Vargas
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democratization and Memories of Violence
Book SynopsisEthnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of accommodation or assimilation. However, institutional explanations don't tell the whole story, as individuals and communities also protest, using emotionally compelling narratives about past wrongs to justify their claims for new rights protections. Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador examines how ethnic minority communities use memories of state and paramilitary violence to shame states into cooperating with minority cultural agendas such as the right to mother tongue education. Shaming and claiming is a social movement tactic that binds historic violence to contemporary citizenship. Combining theory with empirics, the book accounts for how democratization shapes citizen experiences of interest representation and how memorialization procTrade Review"From its main question, to its principal lines of argumentation, to its selection of empirical cases, Democratization and Memories of Violence is an important contribution to comparative politics. It demonstrates with uncommon skill how communities across nations and time use the memories of violence to elicit responses from the state and the conditions under which this type of mobilization proves successful." — Omar G. Encarnación, Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, USA"Mneesha Gellman’s Democratization and Memories of Violence brilliantly moves among social movement theory, memory studies, and the strictures of political science to demonstrate how marginalized communities around the world do "shaming and claiming" so states recognize and at times heeding their demands. In doing so, Gellman herself exercises the best of what students of memory and social movements bring to the table: she gives voice to some of the most voiceless of Mexico, El Salvador and Turkey, she makes visible and absolutely politically relevant those who are conventionally rendered less visible. Gellman’s work is instructive for memory and comparative democratization debates across quite distinct global regions." — Katherine Hite, Professor of Political Science, Frederick Ferris Thompson Chair, Vassar College, USA"This book is an excellent resource and contributes greatly to ongoing conversations in the humanities and social sciences on social memory, politics of memory, the relation of ethnic minorities to the state, indigeneity and identity formation, social movements, democracy and democratic transitions—and more." — Ellen Moodie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USATable of Contents1. Why Communities Shame and Claim 2. Memory, Violence, and Shaming and Claiming in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico 3. The Fight for Triqui Autonomy in San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, Mexico 4. Turkey: Memory, "Mountain Turks," and the Politics of Turkification 5. Armenians and the "G" Word in Turkey 6. Nahuas in El Salvador: Negating "Pupusas" But Eating Them Too 7. Cultural Erosion: Fragile Lenca Persistence in Morazán, El Salvador 8. Dynamics of Shaming and Claiming in Comparative Perspective 9. Conclusion: Memory Matters in Shaming and Claiming
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Cambridge University Press Conducting Research on Global Environmental AgreementMaking
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Cambridge University Press The Circular Bioeconomy
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Cambridge University Press The Circular Bioeconomy
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Cambridge University Press Addressing the Grand Challenges of Planetary Governance
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Cambridge University Press The Politics and Governance of Decarbonization
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Cambridge University Press The Metamorphosis of the Amazon
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Cambridge University Press Adaptive Governance to Manage Human Mobility and Natural Resource Stress
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Cambridge University Press The Truth About Energy
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Cambridge University Press Climate Politics
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Cambridge University Press Learning for Environmental Governance
Book SynopsisLearning helps to govern the environment and adapt proactively to complex and emerging environmental issues. This Element synthesizes insights from academic and applied research on learning to inform both research and practice. It helps better understand, diagnose, and support learning and more adaptive responses to environmental problems.
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Cambridge University Press Learning for Environmental Governance
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Deep Time
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Cambridge University Press American Grasslands
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Cambridge University Press Environmental Expertise
Book SynopsisAn important goal of environmental research is to inform policy and decision making. However, environmental experts working at the interface between science, policy and society face complex challenges, including how to identify sources of disagreement over environmental issues, communicate uncertainties and limitations of knowledge, and tackle controversial topics such as genetic modification and the use of biofuels. This book discusses the problems environmental experts encounter in the interaction between knowledge, society, and policy on both a practical and conceptual level. Key findings from social science research are illustrated with a range of case studies, from fisheries to fracking. The book offers guidance on how to tackle these challenges, equipping readers with tools to better understand the diversity of environmental knowledge and its role in complex environmental issues. Written by leading natural and social scientists, this text provides an essential resource for students, scientists and professionals working at the science-policy interface.Trade Review'The novel perspectives in this book, as well as its cases and conceptual advances, will come as a welcome resource for those interested in understanding the controversies around the use of environmental expertise. Equally, it will be welcomed by environmental scientists seeking to navigate the shoals of practicing and representing science on the one hand, and effective communication and making a difference in the world on the other.' Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan'This book is important and timely. There has never before been such great need for evidence to underpin environmental policy, and yet there is also a growing appreciation among researchers of the complexities and risks associated with engaging with the policy community. The book is rooted in the latest theoretical understandings from social science, explained in an accessible way, and it very quickly moves from theory to practice, showing how these insights can inform how environmental scientists work around controversial topics. The use of in-depth case studies complements the widespread use of helpful examples throughout the text. I have found reading this book both inspiring and instructive, and believe that many researchers will benefit considerably from reading it. I will certainly be recommending it to colleagues.' Mark Reed, Newcastle University'The principal authors have done a very smart and novel job with this book, bringing together insights from environmental science, policy studies, science studies and the philosophy of science in a thoroughly practical way. The book should really help practitioners appreciate ways to handle the complexities of environmental policy-making in contexts of uncertainty, conflicting beliefs and competing societal values.' Steve Yearley, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsList of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: the plight of the environmental scientist Willem Halffman, Esther Turnhout and Willemijn Tuinstra; 2. What is science? (And why does this matter?) Willem Halffman; 3. Frames: beyond facts versus values Willem Halffman; Case A. Framing climate change Mike Hulme; 4. Science, politics and the public in knowledge controversies Esther Turnhout and Thomas Gieryn; Case B. What does 'climategate' tell us about public knowledge controversies? Silke Beck; Case C. Whose deficit anyway? Institutional misunderstanding of fracking sceptical publics Laurence Williams and Phil Macnaghten; 5. The limits to knowledge Willemijn Tuinstra, Ad Ragas and Willem Halffman; Case D. Angry bulbs Ad Ragas and Marga Jacobs; 6. Usable knowledge: science, policy and society Willemijn Tuinstra, Willem Halffman and Esther Turnhout; Case E. Expertise for European fisheries policy Willem Halffman and Martin Pastoors; 7. Interdisciplinarity and the challenge of knowledge integration Esther Turnhout; Case F. Knowledge integration in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Clark Miller; Case G. Integrated assessment for long-range transboundary air pollution Willemijn Tuinstra; 8. Lay expertise Esther Turnhout and Katja Neves; Case H. Lay expertise and botanical science: a case of dynamic interdependencies in biodiversity conservation Katja Neves; Case I. The Loweswater Care Project Claire Waterton; 9. Environmental Experts at the science-policy-society interface Esther Turnhout; Case J. Group Think and whistle blowers in CO2 capture and storage Heleen de Coninck; 10. Environmental knowledge in democracy Esther Turnhout, Willem Halffman and Willemijn Tuinstra; 11. Conclusion: science, reason and the environment Willem Halffman, Willemijn Tuinstra and Esther Turnhout; Inde
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Deep Time
Book SynopsisThis Element provides a systematization of 'the politics of deep time' as a novel lens of planetary politics by demonstrating why deep-time interactions render the politics of deep time essential and explaining the politics of deep time using representative cases. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Deep time as a novel lens of planetary politics; 2. The why: Deep-time interactions; 3. The how: Politicization of deep time; 4. The what: Explicating the politics of deep time; 5. A conceptual framework of the politics of deep time; References.
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Oxford University Press, Canada Introduction to Environmental Assessment
Book SynopsisThis practical, step-by-step introduction to environmental assessment examines EA tools, procedures, and methodology while taking into account both physical and human environments. With its interdisciplinary approach and extensive Canadian case studies, this text exposes students to EA at work in the real world.Trade ReviewConcise, relevant and well organized. This book is both approachable and thorough, a rare combination. It is definitely an improvement over an already good text in my opinion." * Ian Spooner, Acadia University *Established from the first edition as a solid guide to environmental assessment, this text has improved with each edition, and with the fourth edition (and added section on the federal Impact Assessment Act) it is up-to-date." * Thom Meredith, McGill University *Table of ContentsList of Boxes, Boxed Features, Figures, and Tables Preface Acknowledgements 1. Aims and Objectives of Environmental Assessment Introduction Environmental Assessment The EA Process Purpose and Objectives of EA Who's Who in the EA Process Getting the Big Picture Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 2. Environmental Assessment in Canada Overview of Environmental Assessment in Canada Provincial EA Systems Northern EA Origins and Development of EA in Canada Continuous Learning Process Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 3. Pre-project Planning and Public Engagement Introduction Roles and Responsibilities Project Need and Consideration of Alternatives Public Engagement Project Description Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 4. Determining the Need for Assessment Screening Screening Approaches Level of Assessment Required Screening and the Precautionary Principle Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 5. Scoping and Baseline Assessment Scoping Baseline Assessment Knowledge to Support Baseline Assessments Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 6. Impact Prediction and Characterization Impact Prediction Change and Project Effects What to Predict How to Predict Characterizing Predicted Impacts Addressing Uncertainty Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 7. Managing Project Impacts Impact Management Mitigation Hierarchy Checklist for Management Prescriptions Adaptive Management Creating and Enhancing Positive Impacts Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 8. Significance Determination Impact Significance Measurement and Meaning: Components of Significance Approaches to Significance Determination Key Principles for Determining Significance Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 9. Follow-Up and Monitoring Follow-Up Rationale for Post-decision Monitoring Effective Follow-Up and Monitoring Monitoring Methods and Techniques Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 10. Indigenous Consultation and Engagement Indigenous Engagement Duty to Consult Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems Enduring Challenges to Indigenous Engagement Toward Meaningful Indigenous Engagement in EA Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 11. Cumulative Effects Assessment Cumulative Effects Assessing Cumulative Environmental Effects Regional Assessment Basic Science Components of a CEA Framework Governance for Cumulative Effects Management Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 12. Strategic Environmental Assessment Higher-Order Assessment Defining Strategic EA Origins and Evolution Foundational Principles of Strategic EA SEA Benefits SEA Design Enduring Challenges Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 13. Professional Practice and Ethics Professional Practice Ethical Conduct Key Terms Review Questions and Exercises References 14. Environmental Assessment Prospects References Glossary Index
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MIT Press Ltd The Meat Question
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MIT Press Ltd Extraction Empire Sourcing the Scales Systems and
Book SynopsisHow Canada became an empire in its own right and how Canadian life came to be mediated through mineral extraction.Extraction is the process and practice that defines Canada, at home and abroad. Of the nearly 20,000 mining projects in the world from Africa to Latin America, more than half are Canadian operated. Not only does the mining economy employ close to 400,000 people in Canada, it contributed $57 billion CAD to Canada's GDP in 2014 alone. Globally, more than 75 percent of the world's mining firms are based in Canada. The scale of these statistics naturally extends the logic of Canada's historical legacy as state, nation, and now as global resource empire. Canada, once a far-flung northern outpost of the British Empire, has become an empire in its own right. This book examines both the historic and contemporary Canadian culture of extraction, with essays, interviews, archival material, and multimedia visualizations. The essayists and interviewees—who include
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MIT Press Ltd Taming the Sun Innovations to Harness Solar
Book SynopsisHow solar could spark a clean-energy transition through transformative innovation—creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems.Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless—every hour the sun beams down more energy than the world uses in a year. But in Taming the Sun, energy expert Varun Sivaram warns that the world is not yet equipped to harness erratic sunshine to meet most of its energy needs. And if solar's current surge peters out, prospects for replacing fossil fuels and averting catastrophic climate change will dim.Innovation can brighten those prospects, Sivaram explains, drawing on firsthand experience and original research spanning science, business, and government. Financial innovation is already enticing deep-pocketed investors to fund solar projects around the world, from t
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MIT Press Ltd Novacene
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University of Washington Press Border Landscapes
Book SynopsisExamines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha in political contexts. Drawing on anthropological debates on the state in Southeast Asia, this book shows how people live in a state of negotiated boundaries - political, social, and ecological.Trade Review"The way that Sturgeon brings both social and ecological data to bear on her research situates the book squarely in the burgeoning field of political ecology. But Border Landscapes is an exemplar of how this approach can be productive in answering questions that go well beyond environmental politics." * Canadian Geographers *"This is a highly interesting and multi-layered study. . . . based on diligent fieldwork and careful review of relevant historical literature. It engages a range of social science theories in a vigorous dialog. Its multinational comparative approach effectively opens a new vista for our understanding of interethnic affairs in both human and natural milieus." * Agricultural History *"This book is a rich and thoughtful analysis..Moreover, it should be noted that the book is attractively produced, with photographs and diagrams inserted in appropriate locations throughout. It should be read as an example of how both political and landscape changes are occurring in the real world, and as a groundbreaking analysis of the implications of these changes for people living in border regions." * Progress in Development Studies *"This book exemplifies political ecology that far surpasses the 'chains of expectations' associated with progressive contextualization..an impressively balanced account of biophysical and socioeconomical variables and how they are intertwined..yet never loses its focus on the linkages between environmental change and human agency at local, regional, national, and international scales." * The Geographical Review *"This book should certainly be read by anyone who cares about natural resource management, ethnic minorities, and issues of territory and state power in China, Thailand, and Myanmar. . . Sturgeon's comparative research design and methods serve as a model for the potential of interdisciplinary research." * Annals of the Association of American Geographers *"Border Landscapes is without doubt an important and very timely work.. But the significance of Sturgeon's work extends far beyond this fascinating region, to areas of cultural, political, and biological complexity worldwide." * Human Ecology *"Sturgeon admirably demonstrates how local people live with the reality of continually negotiated political, social and ecological boundaries between China and Thailand. . . . A scholarly, interesting and timely treatment of an important issue, the ever-changing and local nature of political and environmental transformation of a minority culture not just in a single political setting, but on the boundaries of multi-state formation and resource control." * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Production of Border Landscapes 2. The Production of Marginal Peoples and Landscapes: Resource Access on the Periphery 3. The Production of Borders: Sites for the Accumulation and Distribution of Resources 4. Small Border Chiefs and Resource Control, 1910 to 1997 5. Premodern Border Landscapes under Border Principalities 6. Landscape Plasticity versus Landscapes of Productivity and Rule: Akha Livelihoods under Nation-States Conclusion Appendix 1: Trees and Shrubs of Mengsong, China Appendix 2: Trees and Shrubs of Akhapu, Thailand Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
£999.99
University of Washington Press Loving Nature Fearing the State
Book SynopsisExplores the tensions inherent in balancing an ideology dedicated to limiting the power of government with a commitment to protecting treasured landscapes and ecological health. The author argues that antistatist beliefs have colored the American passion for wilderness but also complicated environmental protection efforts.Trade Review"Drake’s analysis succeeds in highlighting the complex and contradictory ways that conservatives have engaged in modern environmentalism....[he]contributes both to the growing literature on the rise of the conservative Right and to studies on the American environmental movement, an intersection that has been explored by few other scholars." -- James Morton Turner * American Historical Review *"Drake’s book fills an obvious void in the literature, and he should be commended for creatively pulling from across a wide landscape of antistatist political thought in the postwar period about the environment, especially in the West…[the] lively writing will keep readers engaged and certainly heading back to Abbey’s writings and Goldwater’s complicated legacy." -- Karen Merrill * Journal of American History *"This well-written and informative book is an important addition to the scant literature on the role of conservative and libertarian thought in shaping the postwar environmental consciousness. Loving Nature, Fearing the State is suited for upper-division or graduate courses in environmental history and the postwar United States. It should stimulate fruitful discussions among a generation of students who have little exposure to environmental problems outside the framework of polarized politics." -- Ian Stacy * H-Environment *"[An] important examination of the relationship between conservatism and environmentalism." -- David A. James * Alaska Dispatch News *"Original and wide-ranging research…[that] fills the void in the history of the environmental movement." -- Paul Lindholdt * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Since 1980, Reagan-style political conservatism and environmental preservation have been locked in a state of near-constant warfare. Historian Drake (Georgia) reveals that for most of the 20th century, the moderate and conservative Republican Right actually had been ideological kindred spirits with postwar Left-leaning environmentalists." * Choice *"The brilliance of this book is how it shows that conservative ideas and values will remain important to the environmental movement, even if many self-identified conservatives cynically ignore them." -- Phil Brick * Environmental Politics *"[A] deeply researched and thought-provoking book, which is sure to be of interest to both environmental and political historians." -- George Vrtis * Historian, The *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Introduction: Nature's Strange Bedfellows 1. Arizona Portraits: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part I 2. Precious Bodily Fluids: Floridation, Environmentalism, and Antistatism 3. The Environmental Conscience of a Conservative: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part II 4. Tending Nature with the Invisible Hand: The Free-Market Environmentalists 5. Like a Scarlet Thread: Into the Political Wilderness with Edward Abbey Epilogue: The Fading Green Elephant: Or the Decline of Antistatist Environmentalism Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£999.99
University of Washington Press Loving Nature Fearing the State
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Drake’s analysis succeeds in highlighting the complex and contradictory ways that conservatives have engaged in modern environmentalism....[he]contributes both to the growing literature on the rise of the conservative Right and to studies on the American environmental movement, an intersection that has been explored by few other scholars." -- James Morton Turner * American Historical Review *"Drake’s book fills an obvious void in the literature, and he should be commended for creatively pulling from across a wide landscape of antistatist political thought in the postwar period about the environment, especially in the West…[the] lively writing will keep readers engaged and certainly heading back to Abbey’s writings and Goldwater’s complicated legacy." -- Karen Merrill * Journal of American History *"This well-written and informative book is an important addition to the scant literature on the role of conservative and libertarian thought in shaping the postwar environmental consciousness. Loving Nature, Fearing the State is suited for upper-division or graduate courses in environmental history and the postwar United States. It should stimulate fruitful discussions among a generation of students who have little exposure to environmental problems outside the framework of polarized politics." -- Ian Stacy * H-Environment *"[An] important examination of the relationship between conservatism and environmentalism." -- David A. James * Alaska Dispatch News *"Original and wide-ranging research…[that] fills the void in the history of the environmental movement." -- Paul Lindholdt * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Since 1980, Reagan-style political conservatism and environmental preservation have been locked in a state of near-constant warfare. Historian Drake (Georgia) reveals that for most of the 20th century, the moderate and conservative Republican Right actually had been ideological kindred spirits with postwar Left-leaning environmentalists." * Choice *"The brilliance of this book is how it shows that conservative ideas and values will remain important to the environmental movement, even if many self-identified conservatives cynically ignore them." -- Phil Brick * Environmental Politics *"[A] deeply researched and thought-provoking book, which is sure to be of interest to both environmental and political historians." -- George Vrtis * Historian, The *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Introduction: Nature's Strange Bedfellows 1. Arizona Portraits: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part I 2. Precious Bodily Fluids: Floridation, Environmentalism, and Antistatism 3. The Environmental Conscience of a Conservative: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part II 4. Tending Nature with the Invisible Hand: The Free-Market Environmentalists 5. Like a Scarlet Thread: Into the Political Wilderness with Edward Abbey Epilogue: The Fading Green Elephant: Or the Decline of Antistatist Environmentalism Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£28.22
Yale University Press Our Common Ground A History of Americas Public
Book SynopsisThe little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation’s land and manage it primarily for recreation, education, and conservationTrade Review“I found Our Common Ground to be quite a lively read. . . . The book is replete with interesting stories, told through the passage of time and the evolving notions of what America’s public lands are for.”—Andy Kerr“Finally, we have a truly great book about the federal public lands. John Leshy has used his unequalled knowledge and engaging style to write a comprehensive, inspiring, and lastingly informative masterpiece.”—Charles Wilkinson, author of Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West“Our Common Ground is a much-needed chronicle of how the American people decided—wisely and democratically—that nearly a third of the nation’s land surface should remain in our collective ownership and be managed for our common good.”—Dayton Duncan, author of The National Parks: America’s Best Idea“This history of public lands in America, reflecting prodigious research, illustrates the continuity, tensions, and narratives that persist through time to the present. What a rich history, richly presented. I could not put down this book!”—Lynn Scarlett, former deputy secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior“Read John Leshy’s masterpiece! John shows us that by questioning and reframing our European-centric public lands history we can begin to right the wrongs of the past. And if we get it right, find common purpose and keep our covenant with future Americans.”—Mark Udall, former U.S. senator, Colorado
£44.51
National Academies Press Climate Change and Human Migration
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£999.99
Random House USA Inc What the Eyes Dont See
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Random House USA Inc Rescuing the Planet
Book SynopsisThe award-winning author of The Experience of Place delivers an upbeat and engaging account of the remarkable progress being made to preserve vast wild spaces for animals to roam (The Wall Street Journal)?and an urgent call to protect 50 percent of the earth''s land by 2050?thereby saving millions of its species. Beginning in the vast North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent, from the Northern Sierra to Alabama''s Paint Rock Forest, from the Appalachian Trail to a ranch in Mexico, Tony Hiss sets out on a journey to take stock of the superorganism that is the earth: its land, its elements, its plants and animals, its greatest threats--and what we can do to keep it, and ourselves, alive.Hiss not only invites us to understand the scope and gravity of the problems we face, but also makes the case for why protecting half the land is the way to fix those problems. He highlights the important work of the many groups already involved in this fight, such as the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, and the global animal tracking project ICARUS. And he introduces us to the engineers, geologists, biologists, botanists, oceanographers, ecologists, and other Half Earthers like Hiss himself who are allied in their dedication to the unifying, essential cause of saving our own planet from ourselves.Tender, impassioned, curious, and above all else inspiring, Rescuing the Planet is a work that promises to make all of us better citizens of the earth.
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Random House Canada How to Be a Climate Optimist
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University of British Columbia Press Principles of Tsawalk
Book SynopsisHereditary chief Umeek weaves together Nuu-chah-nulth and Western worldviews to revitalize contemporary approaches to the environment and the plight of indigenous peoples.Trade ReviewProfessor Atleo, a Chief of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth, argues in this book that the principles followed by his tribe would solve the planetary problems such as environmental crises, poverty, lack of education and political crisis. We should treat all peoples and life forms with respect. Trial lawyers practising in this field will be able to draw on and quote what could become legal principles sourcing same in this valuable text. * The Barrister *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Wikiiš ca?miihta: Things Are Not in Balance, Things Are Not in Harmony2 Mirrors and Patterns3 Genesis of Global Crisis4 The Nuu-chah-nulth Principle of Recognition5 The Nuu-chah-nulth Principle of Consent6 The Nuu-chah-nulth Principle of Continuity7 HahuulismNotesIndex
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