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Book SynopsisPhilip D. Duncan is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Eureka College. Derek Moscato is Professor of Journalism at Western Washington University.

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental professionals can no longer simply publish research in technical journals. Informing the public is now a critical part of the job. Environmental Communication demonstrates, step by step, how it’s done, and is an essential guide for communicating complex information to groups not familiar with scientific material. It addresses the entire communications process, from message planning, audience analysis and media relations to public speaking - skills a good communicator must master for effective public dialogue. Environmental Communication provides all the knowledge and tools you need to reach your target audience in a persuasive and highly professional manner. "This book will certainly help produce the skills for environmental communications sorely needed for industry, government and non-profit groups as well as an informed public". Sol P. Baltimore, Director, Environmental Communications and Adjunct faculty, Hazardous Waste management program, Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. "All environmental education professionals agree that the practice of good communications is essential for the success of any program. This book provides practical skills for this concern". Ju Chou, Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Environmental Education National Taiwan Normal University Taipei, TaiwanTrade ReviewFrom the reviews: "This book will certainly help produce the skills for environmental communications sorely needed for industry, government and non-profit groups as well as an informed public". (Sol P. Baltimore, Director, Environmental Communications and Adjunct faculty, Hazardous Waste management program, Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan) "All environmental education professionals agree that the practice of good communications is essential for the success of any program. This book provides practical skills for this concern". (Ju Chou, Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Environmental Education National Taiwan Normal University Taipei, Taiwan)Table of ContentsPart 1: Principles of Environmental Communication 1. Understanding the world around us 2. Communicating about the environment 3. Developing your environmental literacy 4. Investigating environmental issues Part 2: Communication planning 5. Planning environmental communication 6. Analyzing your audience 7. Evaluating your messages’ effects 8. Characterizing the mass media 9. Highlighting useful media Part 3: Skills Building and Practical Applications 10. Grouping together well 11. Differing ways of thinking and doing 12. Communicating across cultures 13.Speaking to an audience 14.Communicating without words 15. Using visual aids 16. Dealing with the news media 17. Managing conflict 18. Communicating about risk 19. Learning from marketing and public relations 20. Walking the Talk of Green Business and Sustainability

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Book SynopsisGeo Takach is Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University, and an uninvited visitor to the lands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, on so-called Vancouver Island, Canada.

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Book Synopsis* Draws together major topics in environmental and resource management, usually dispersed over many separate books. * Questions, summaries and clearly structured chapters enhance usability. * Emphasis on clarity and accessibility. * Based on a proven and successful course. .Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Energy, Carbon Balance and Global Climate Change. 3. Water. 4. Soil. 5. Fish from the Sea. 6. Management of Grazing Lands. 7. Management of forests. 8. Pest Control. 9. Pollution. 10. Conservation and Management of Wild Species. 11. Restoration of Communities. Glossary. References. Subject Index. Species Index

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Book SynopsisThis book, based on authoritative sources and reports, links environmental communication to different fields of competence: environment, sustainability, journalism, mass media, architecture, design, art, green and circular economy, public administration, big event management and legal language. The manual offers a new, scientifically based perspective, and adopts a theoretical-practical approach, providing readers with qualified best practices, case studies and 22 exclusive interviews with professionals. A fluent style of writing leads the readers through specific details, enriching their knowledge without being boring. As such it is an excellent preparatory and interdisciplinary academic tool intended for university students, scholars, professionals, and anyone who would like to know more on the matter.Table of Contents1. The Environmental Communication under the magnifying lens.- 2. Journalism and Environment: two opposed trends which attract each other.- 3. Which shades of “green” are the new Nets of communication disseminating?.- 4. Communicating the Environment at the state of art. Ciak /Action!- 5. Communicating the Environment in the Green and Circular Economy.- 6. Communicating the Environment is a “public right and duty”.- 7. Eco-communication: environmental management, big events and legal eco-language.- Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe environment is part of everyone's life but there are difficulties in communicating complex environmental problems, such as climate change, to a lay audience. In this book Klöckner defines environmental communication, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the issues involved in encouraging pro-environmental behaviour.Trade Review“This book will appeal to those who want a broad, academic, well-referenced foundation to environmental communication which is understandable to educated laypeople. … this book contains a wealth of actionable concepts and techniques. … The Psychology of Pro-Environmental Communication: Beyond Standard Information Strategies provides a valuable resource which environmental communicators may benefit from drawing on for insights and the stimulation of brainstorms.” (George M. Jacobs, Language & Ecology, ecolinguistics-association.org, 2017)“Multidisciplinary in nature, this book offers a comprehensive overview of theory and case studies. The parts of this book dedicated to accounting for the role of intraorganizational dynamics and innovation are arguably the most useful. These insights are applicable not only to environmental communication, but also organizational communication and management.” (Hyun Tae (Calvin) Kim, International Journal of Communication, Vol. 10, 2016)Table of ContentsPreface1. What is Environmental Communication and Why is it Important? 2. Potential and Limitations of Environmental Communication3. Understanding Communication - Insights from Theories of Communication4. Decision models - What Psychological Theories Teach Us about People's Behaviour5. Communication in Large Social Systems - How Information Spreads through Societies6. Traditional and New Media - About Amplification and Negation7. Target Group Segmentation - Why Knowing your Audience is Important8. An Overview of Communication-Based Intervention Techniques9. Promoting Pro-Environmental Behaviour in Groups and Organisations 10. Playing Good? - Environmental Communication through Games and Simulations11. Rock Festivals, Sport Events, Theatre - Some Out-of-the-Ordinary Means of Environmental Communication

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the nexus between children, media, and nature during a time of planetary crisis marked by climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. In this time of planetary emergency, children have become an increasingly visible part of conversations about the human/nature relationship – they have also become an important market for environmentally-themed media content. Indeed, recent years have seen a proliferation of environmental texts, products, and narratives for young people: children are recognised and addressed as audiences for environmental content across a range of media including news, films, television programs, magazines, videogames, and transmedia franchises. Through analysis of a range of case studies, this book examines the construction of children as green audiences, the intersection between media and environmental literacies, and the mainstreaming of children’s voices in environmental communication. The book will appeal to readers with an interest in children’s media and the industry imperatives that shape the production of children’s culture as well as to students, scholars, and practitioners in the field of environmental communication.Table of ContentsChapter 1 – The child/nature relationshipChapter 2 – Environmental and media literacies Chapter 3 – Covering the environment in children’s news Chapter 4 – The greening of children’s television Chapter 5 – Nature on screen in children’s film Chapter 6 – Young explorers in virtual worlds Chapter 7 – The mainstreaming of children’s voices in environmental communication

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive examination of the multifaceted roles of communication in addressing global environmental challenges.The overarching framework connecting all chapters is the belief that environmental communication is at a decisive moment, as effective communication interventions are critical for the success of global efforts to address the ecological crisis. The book emphasizes the need for a global perspective in environmental communication, highlighting that dominant narratives must begin incorporating diverse voices, including minorities and marginalized communities. Chapters explore case studies such as the communication strategies of minority communities, the use of branding campaigns as an element of environmental communication, and environmental communication during war. Ultimately, the contributors argue that environmental communication can be a powerful tool to raise awareness, foster public engagement, and drive meaningful change in pursuit of environmental sustainability and social justice. Environmental justice and environmental communication as a care discipline are central themes, outlining the need for equal access to a healthy environment.Bridging various academic fields to provide a holistic overview of communication as a key element of current environmental issues, this book will be of interest to researchers in the field of media and communication, environmental studies, political science, and public diplomacy.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Book SynopsisAs awareness of social and environmental issues becomes more central to business and reputational success, communications and marketing professionals need to be able to make the most of opportunities to communicate effectively about these issues. This is the definitive guide to planning and delivering great communications on complex social and environmental issues. Outlining the steps needed to plan, risk-proof and execute effective communications strategies, the book provides a clear framework to help leaders, communications managers and marketing practitioners build the knowledge and skills needed to spot risks and opportunities around complex issues, such as climate change and ethical supply chains. Including real-world case studies, practical exercises and further reading, each chapter offers a beginning-to-end framework: from making the business case and mapping stakeholders, to messaging, framing relevant tactics, and then risk-assessing the plan. Whether a local authority, brand, educational institution or senior leader, this guide will equip you with all the necessary skills to make your communications effective.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Building the business case for strategic social and environmental communications Chapter 2. Key principles of communicating social and environmental issues Chapter 3. Understanding your context - what kind of organisation you're working with and your own roleChapter 4. Uncovering and refining your aimsChapter 5. Understanding your stakeholders and stakeholder ecosystem Chapter 6. Principles of effective engagement Chapter 7. Building allies, advocates and partnerships Chapter 8. Creating a stakeholder-focused communications approach Chapter 9. Risk-proofing your approach Chapter 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHow are different concepts of nature and time embedded into human practices of landscape and environmental management? And how can temporalities that entwine past, present and future help us deal with challenges on the ground? In a time of uncertainty and climate change, how much can we hold onto ideals of nature rooted in a pristine and stable past? The Scandinavian and Australian perspectives in this book throw fresh light on these questions and explore new possibilities and challenges in uncertain and changing landscapes of the future.This book presents examples from farmers, gardens and Indigenous communities, among others, and shows that many people and communities are already actively engaging with environmental change and uncertainty. The book is structured around four themes; environmental futures, mobile natures, indigenous and colonial legacies, heritage and management. Part I includes important contributions towards contemporary environmental management debaTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION1. Holding on and letting go: nature, temporality and environmental management PART I: Imagining new environmental futures and entwined pasts2. The outside within: the shifting ontological practice of the environment in Australia 3. Landscape, temporality and responsibility: making conceptual connections through alien invasive species 4. Presence of absence, absence of presence, and extinction narratives 5. The view from off-centre: Sweden and Australia in the imaginative discourse of the Anthropocene PART II: Living with nature in motion6. The co-presence of past and future in the practice of environmental management: implications for rural-amenity landscapes 7. Wild Tradition: hunting and nature in regional Sweden and Australia 8. Managing nature in the home garden PART III: Indigenous challenges to environmental imaginaries9. Indigenous land claims and multiple landscapes: Postcolonial openings in Finnmark, Norway 10. Mining as colonisation: the need for restorative justice and restitution of traditional Sami lands PART IV: Temporalities of environmental management11. Challenges in agricultural land management – a Scandinavian perspective on contextual variations and farmers’ room to manoeuvre 12. Performing natures: adaptive management practice in the ‘eternally unfolding present’ 13. How to bring historical forms into the future? An exploration of Swedish semi-natural grasslands

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental technicians are often the ones who must prepare the paperwork: the Material Safety Data Sheets required by OSHA; the letters of explanation or response; the observational reports of incidents; or the reporting forms for the many chemical use, management, and discharge laws enforced by the EPA.Table of ContentsCommunication Skills Overview. Writing and Technical Writing Basics. Letters and Memos. Technical Documents. Environmental Compliance Forms. Oral Communication. Communication Skills Overview. Interpersonal Skills. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisAnimals and plants are in constant communication with the world around them. To join the conversation, we need only to connect with our primal mind and recognize that we, too, are Nature. Once in this state, we can communicate with animals as effortlessly as talking with friends. The songs of birds and the calls of animals start to make sense. We begin to see the reasons for their actions and discover that we can feel what they feel. We can sense the hidden animals around us, then get close enough to look into their eyes and touch them. Immersed in Nature, we are no longer intruders, but fellow beings moving in symphony with the Dance of Life. In this guide to becoming one with Nature, Tamarack Song provides step-by-step instructions for reawakening the innate sensory and intuitive abilities that our hunter-gatherer ancestors relied upon--abilities imprinted in our DNA yet long forgotten. Through exercises and experiential stories, the author guides us to immerse ourselves in Nature at the deepest levels of perception, which allows us to sense the surrounding world and the living beings in it as extensions of our own awareness. The practices in this book strip away everything that separates us from the animals. They enable us to restore our kinship with the natural world, strengthen our spiritual relationships with the animals who share our planet, and discover the true essence of the wild within us.Trade Review“I love the way Tamarack explains that you must get away from thought to understand animals. He is referring to verbal thought with language and entering the animal’s sensory-based world that has no words. To understand animals, you have to get away from words and enter their realm of visual, auditory, and touch sensation, which are linked to emotions. Becoming Nature will help connect you to the natural world.” * Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human *“Do you often feel rushed and far removed from feeling the peace of delighting in the natural world around you? Tamarack Song gives a way to return to heightened sensory awareness and fulfilling kinship with wildlife. Enriched by his background in environmental education, wilderness survival, and wildlife conservation, the author guides readers with a variety of exercises to an active experience with Nature around and within us. Here are practical steps you can take to better know Nature and yourself.” * Penelope Smith, author of Animal Talk and When Animals Speak *“Tamarack Song teaches how Becoming Nature is our natural and innate state of being. Becoming Nature is beautifully written and filled with practices to help us reconnect with the natural world. This is an important and powerful book to help us improve our personal health as well as bring back balance and harmony to the planet and all in the web of life.” * Sandra Ingerman, coauthor of Speaking with Nature and author of Walking in Light: The Everyday Empow *“Following up on his successful book, Entering the Mind of the Tracker, Tamarack Song now offers readers 12 steps for learning to move from observing nature to becoming nature. His system teaches the intuitive skills of our hunter-gatherer Ancestors using story and experience rather than traditional study. He tells readers that we all have innate, though largely ignored, primal aptitudes for these skills which are imbedded in our DNA. This is a powerful call to leave the virtual/intellectual world and reclaim our roots in the natural world.” * Anna Jedrziewski, Spirit Connection New York, April 2016 *“Tamarack’s approach, as the title suggests, is founded primarily on the ideal of oneness, as in “becoming one with nature.” On the other hand, as suggested by the phrase in his subtitle, “learning the language of…” he teaches observational skills as the basis for the process of becoming one. The book is quite detailed and technical in its approach, even though it comes from a spiritual perspective of oneness.” * Intuitive Connections, Henry Reed, April 2016 *“The writing is personable, and Song’s generous inclusion of tales about his own journey to ‘become nature’ adds a loving quality to the text. Whether urban dweller or off-grid subsistence homesteader, anyone can benefit from the collected wisdom Song shares in this latest offering--these lessons from a lifetime of learning-by doing-inspire faith in the limitless potential of one who has truly become nature.” * Foreword Reviews, Patty Comeau, May 2016 *“As Song reminds us, we have innate sensory and intuitive capabilities inherited from our hunter-gatherer predecessors; it's just that in our modern world we've lost this perception, although it's still imprinted in our DNA. Song has designed a series of exercises, supported by experiential stories, to help us expand our awareness to include the world around us and the plants and animals within it. He also has solutions for leaving behind our precious electronic gadgets. Song encourages us to let our imaginations transform us into the animal we seek to become and enter Nature's silence invisibly. Most of us won't ever have the opportunity to interact with animals in the wild, yet Song's wisdom can help us discover that Nature resides within us all.” * Nexus, June 2016 *Table of ContentsIn Honor of My Teachers To Know Nature Is to Become Nature A Different Approach to Connecting with Nature Relearning the Old Way To Know Nature Is to Know Yourself Transformation through the Animal Mind Step 1 Remember Nature Speak, the First Language The Personality of Nature Speak Why We No Longer Talk with Animals How Nature Speak Works Where We Get Stuck Relearning Nature Speak Nature Speak and Domestic Animals What to Expect from Nature Speak Step 2 Learn the Silent Language of Birds How Birds Teach about Themselves A Bridge to Nature Speak How Birds Teach about Other Animals From Symbolic to Direct Communication How to Learn Their Silent Language Rock Dove Red-winged Blackbird Great Northern Loon The Anatomy of a Birdsong Step 3 Awakening the Animal Mind My Coming Out I, the Animal Our Two-Track Brain We, the Conflicted Species Thinking without Thought Beware of the Rational-Mind Trap Knowing the Experiential Mind Set Letting Go of Goal Orientation How to Live in the Now What It’s Like to Be in Animal Mind Step 4 The Time-Media Trap Leaving Tools, Entering Relationship A Fresh Perspective on Cultivating Relationship Our Brains on Media Media Creates Reality Re-attuning Our Ears to Nature Speak It’s All in the Mind Seeing Is Not Always Believing Audiovisual Material Meets the Animal Mind Time by Dictate Step 5 Be Where the Magic Happens How We Live Can Help Us Find Animals Dawn: The Place to Begin Next, Attune to Our Body’s Rhythms Step 6 Enter the Silence, Listen, and You Will See The Dynamic of Silence Learning to Listen Listening Beyond Words Honing Our Listening Skills with Shadowing Big Ears: A Deep Listening Example Deep Listening and Time Looking Versus Seeing The Problem with Seeing Too Much A Lesson in Listening Step 7 Energize and Attune Your Senses The Awareness Overcoming the Barriers The Stories The Exercises The Answers for Step 7 Step 8 Walk and Paddle Quiet as a Shadow Natural Walking Shadowing Canoeing Step 9 Turn Invisible and Instill No Fear Seeing through Our Biggest Blinders: Prejudice and Fear How to Become Invisible To Stand Out Is to Blend In Be the Landscape Visibility: A Survival Strategy Step 10 The Best Tricks for Seeing Animals What to Do When We See an Animal Step 11 Become the Animal Imagine Step 12 To Touch an Animal Counting Coup: The Concept Learning to Count Coup When Noble Fare Is Far Away To Touch the Soul Acknowledgments Appendix 1 List of Stories Appendix 2 List of Exercises Notes Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author About the Artists

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents ground-breaking analyses of how the far right represents natural environments and environmentalism around the globe. Images are not simply pervasive in our increasingly visual culture – they are a means of proposing worlds to viewers. Accordingly, the book approaches the visual not as something ‘extra’ or ‘illustrative’ but as a key means of producing identities and ‘doing politics’. Putting visuality centre stage and covering political parties and non-party actors in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe and the United States, contributors demonstrate the various ways in which the far right articulates natural environments and the rampant environmental crises of the twenty-first century, providing essential insights into such multifaceted politics.Trade Review‘In the growing literature on the far right and the environment, too few works centre the visual politics that are so integral to extremist appeals. Forchtner and his collaborators work to address this lacuna. Novel in its focus, global in its scope, and rigorous in its analysis, Visualising far-right environments makes a necessary and compelling contribution to our understanding of the far right today.’ John Hultgren, Bennington College‘A welcome, timely, and original contribution. This set of diverse global case studies richly analyzes the evergreen appeal of environmental and ecological claims—and their visual representations—to burgeoning far right movements around the world. An essential read.’ Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Founding Director of the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) at the American University in Washington, DC -- .Table of ContentsStudying the far right’s natural environments: towards a visual turn – Bernhard Forchtner 1 Right as rain: affective publics and the changing visual rhetoric of the far right in South Africa – Scott Burnett 2 The exclusivist claims of Pacific ecofascists: visual environmental communication by far-right groups in Australia and New Zealand – Kristy Campion and Justin Phillips 3 The National Socialist Movement of the United States and the turn to environmentalism: greenfingers or brownshirts? – Daniel Jones 4 The environmental semiotics of the Spanish far-right populism: Vox’s visual rhetoric strategies online – Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero 5 Purity and control: gender and visual environmental communication by the extreme right in Cyprus – Miranda Christou 6 The new Russian civilisation: Arctic fossil fuels, white masculinity, and the neo-fascist visual politics of the Izborskii Club – Sonja Pietiläinen 7 Not so green after all: visual representation of green issues by the far-right Kotlebovci – People’s Party Our Slovakia – Radka Vicenová, Veronika Oravcová and Matúš Mišík 8 From metapolitics to electoral communication: visualising ‘nature’ in the French far right – Zoé Carle 9 The murky world of ideologies: the (un)troubling overlaps in visual communication between Hungarian greens and far-right ecologists – Balša Lubarda 10 Homeland, cows and climate change: the visualisation of environmental issues by the far right in India – Mukul Sharma 11 Double vision: local environment and global climate change through the German far-right lens – Bernhard Forchtner and Jonathan Olsen 12 Talking heads and contrarian graphs: televising the Swedish far right’s climate denialism – Kjell Vowles 13 The (paranoid) style of American climate politics: a comparative visual rhetoric analysis of web design by far-right and left conspiracists in the United States – Lauren Cagle Looking back, looking forward: some preliminary conclusions on the far right’s visualisation of its natural environments – Bernhard Forchtner Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the growing need for businesses to handle public inquiries, concerns or conflicts on environmental issues.Table of ContentsAddressing Community Concerns about Environmental Issues--TheImportance of Environmental Community Relations. The Community Assessment Process. Community Relations and the Communication Process. Community Relations Activities. Community Relations Program Planning. Implementing an Environmental Community Relations Program. Regulatory Requirements for Environmental CommunityRelations. Special Cases in Community Relations. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe news media has become a key arena for staging environmental conflicts. Through a range of illuminating examples ranging from climate change to oil spills, Media, Environment and the Network Society provides a timely and far-reaching analysis of the media politics of contemporary environmental debates.Trade Review'Media, Environment and the Network Society is a much-needed rethinking by one of the field's leading scholars of many of our assumptions about media and environmental activism. Anderson's conceptually-smart analysis takes us well beyond activists' quest for access or visibility to the rapidly changing and complex terrain of global media politics including digital media in a networked world.' - Robert Cox, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 'A skilful guide through the rapidly-changing media landscape in which environment communication now takes place and through the new scholarship that has accompanied it. Anderson writes with the clarity of a good journalist and the rigour of a good academic.' - James Painter, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, UK 'Anderson expertly navigates the complex terrain of media, environment, politics and power. As one of the founders of this academic field, she provides a nuanced and rich account of how environmental issues are constructed and contested across a range of media platforms and social actors, including NGOs, businesses, citizens and celebrities. In placing emphasis on the power dynamics of online and offline media and activism in particular, Anderson lends us critical insight into the contemporary formations of the mediatised politics of the environment.' - Julie Doyle, Media and Communication Studies, University of Brighton, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Environmental Risks, Protest and the Network Society 3. News Agendas, Framing Contests and Power 4. The Climate Change Controversy 5. Oils Spills and Crisis Communication 6. Emerging Technologies 7. Future Directions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWe are facing an unprecedented environmental crisis. How can we communicate and act more effectively to make the political and economic changes required to survive and even thrive within the life-support capacities of our planet? This is the question at the heart of W. Lance Bennett’s much-anticipated book. Bennett challenges readers to consider how best to approach the environmental crisis by changing how we think about the relationships between environment, economy, and democracy. He introduces a framework that citizens, practitioners, and scholars can use to evaluate common but unproductive communication that blocks thinking about change; develop more effective ways to define and approach problems; and design communication processes to engage diverse publics and organizations in developing understandings, goals, and political strategies. Until advocates develop economic programs with built-in environmental solutions, they will continue to lose policy fights. Putting “intersectional” communication into action requires acknowledging that communication is not only an exchange of messages, but an organizational process. Communicating the Future is important reading for students and scholars of media and communication, as well as general readers concerned about the environmental crisis.Trade Review"Communicating the Future asks big questions and offers big ideas alongside a synthesis of insights from digital media research, political communication, and social movement studies to fight fragmentation in how we respond to and analyze the existential threat posed by the global climate emergency."—Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, University of Oxford "Lance Bennett provides a compelling, provocative vision for constructing a new social reality. This important book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of communication, networks, organization, and social change and provides a thought-provoking, hopeful, and practical guide for creating a more viable future."—Cynthia Stohl, University of California, Santa Barbara "With Communicating the Future: Solutions for Environment, Economy, and Democracy, W. Lance Bennett has written a compact, accessible, and useful book that compliments—in both substance and tone—influential works such as Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything, Bill McKibbon's The End of Nature, and Naomi Oreskes's Merchants of Doubt."—The International Journal of Communication "Communicating the Future is an original work of simply outstanding scholarship—making it critically important reading for students, scholars, and practitioners of media and communication, as well as political activists and non-specialist readers concerned about dealing with the environmental crisis."—Midwest Book Review

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together an international group of authors to discuss the outdoor environmental education (OEE) theory and practice that educators can use to support teaching and learning in higher education. The book contents are organised around a recently established list of threshold concepts that can be used to describe the knowledge and skills that university students would develop if they complete a major in outdoor education. There are six key sections: the theoretical foundations and philosophies of OEE; the pedagogical approaches and issues involved in teaching OEE; the ways in which OEE is a social, cultural and environmental endeavour; how outdoor educators can advocate for social justice; key approaches to safety management; and the need for on-going professional practice. The threshold concepts that form the premise of the book describe outdoor educators as creating opportunities for experiential learning using pedagogies that align their programme’s purpose and practice. Outdoor educators are place-responsive, and see their work as a social, cultural and environmental endeavour. They advocate for social and environmental justice, and they understand and apply safety principles and routinely engage in reflective practice. This book will provide clarity and direction for emerging and established outdoor educators around the world and will also be relevant to students and professionals working in related fields such as environmental education, adventure therapy, and outdoor recreation.Table of ContentsForeword; Professor Noel Gough and Professor Annette Gough.- Introduction; Glyn Thomas, Janet Dyment and Heather Prince.- Part 1. Theoretical foundations and philosophies.- 1.1 Experiential learning/education philosophy; Assoc. Prof. John Quay.- 1.2 Worldviews and the environment; Kathleen Pleasants and Noel Gough.- 1.3 Human-nature relationships; Dr David Clarkeand and Dr Jamie Mcphie.- 1.4 Leadership theory; Dr Heidi Smith.- 1.5 Sense of place; Assoc. Prof. Mark Leather and Jakob Thorsteinsson.- 1.6 Education for Sustainability; Prof. Jo-Anne Ferreira.- Part 2 Pedagogical approaches and issues.- 2.1 Intentional Teaching and leading; Dr Glyn Thomas.- 2.2 Beyond experiential learning cycles; Assoc. Prof. Jayson Seaman.- 2.3 Pedagogical content knowledge; Assoc. Prof. Janet Dyment.- 2.4 Place-based OEE; Dr Brian Wattchow.- 2.5 Adventure and risk in OEE; Professor Simon Beames.- 2.6 Journeying in OEE; Dr Beau Miles.- 2.7 Wild Pedagogy; Dr Marcus Morse.- 2.8 Technology in OEE; David Hills & Dr Glyn Thomas.- 2.9 Therapeutic Interventions; Dr Anita Pryor, Dr Cathryn Carpenter, Dr Nevine Harper.- Part 3 OEE as a social, cultural and environmental endeavour.- 3.1 Nature connectedness; Dr Marg Cosgriff.- 3.2 Reading the landscape; Dr Alistair Stewart.- 3.3 Indigenous education; Dr Greg Lowan-Trudeau.- 3.4 Cultural Ecology; Professor Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt.- 3.5 Post-colonial land ethics; Kathryn Riley.- 3.6 Climate Change; Dr Kate Rawles.- 3.7 Local community; Dr Allen Hill and Dr Monica Green.- 4. Advocacy.- 4.1 Social justice in OEE; Dr Mary Breunig.- 4.2 Gender equity in OEE; Dr Lisa Hunter.- 4.3 Inclusion and diversity in OEE; Professor Tom Potter and Professor TA Loeffler.- 5. Safety management.- 5.1 Fatality prevention in OEE; Assoc. Prof. Andrew Brookes.- 5.2 Fatality prevention in action; Dr Marcus Morse, Lucas Bester and Anthony Manglesdorf.- 5.3 Systems thinking; Dr Clare Dallat.- 6. Professional practice.- 6.1 How research informs reflective practice; Professor Heather Prince.- 6.2 The currency battle; Scott Polley.- 6.3 Ecologies of skill for leaders; Assoc. Prof. Phillip Mullins.- 6.4 On being a reflective practitioner; Assoc. Prof. Morton Asfeldt.- 6.5 Managing outdoor fieldwork; Brendon Munge, Dr Glyn Thomasa and Assoc. Prof. Deb Heck.-

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Book SynopsisWe are facing an unprecedented environmental crisis. How can we communicate and act more effectively to make the political and economic changes required to survive and even thrive within the life-support capacities of our planet? This is the question at the heart of W. Lance Bennett’s much-anticipated book. Bennett challenges readers to consider how best to approach the environmental crisis by changing how we think about the relationships between environment, economy, and democracy. He introduces a framework that citizens, practitioners, and scholars can use to evaluate common but unproductive communication that blocks thinking about change; develop more effective ways to define and approach problems; and design communication processes to engage diverse publics and organizations in developing understandings, goals, and political strategies. Until advocates develop economic programs with built-in environmental solutions, they will continue to lose policy fights. Putting “intersectional” communication into action requires acknowledging that communication is not only an exchange of messages, but an organizational process. Communicating the Future is important reading for students and scholars of media and communication, as well as general readers concerned about the environmental crisis.Trade Review"Communicating the Future asks big questions and offers big ideas alongside a synthesis of insights from digital media research, political communication, and social movement studies to fight fragmentation in how we respond to and analyze the existential threat posed by the global climate emergency."—Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, University of Oxford "Lance Bennett provides a compelling, provocative vision for constructing a new social reality. This important book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of communication, networks, organization, and social change and provides a thought-provoking, hopeful, and practical guide for creating a more viable future."—Cynthia Stohl, University of California, Santa Barbara "With Communicating the Future: Solutions for Environment, Economy, and Democracy, W. Lance Bennett has written a compact, accessible, and useful book that compliments—in both substance and tone—influential works such as Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything, Bill McKibbon's The End of Nature, and Naomi Oreskes's Merchants of Doubt."—The International Journal of Communication "Communicating the Future is an original work of simply outstanding scholarship—making it critically important reading for students, scholars, and practitioners of media and communication, as well as political activists and non-specialist readers concerned about dealing with the environmental crisis."—Midwest Book Review

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Arts Therapy: The Wild Frontiers of the Heart describes what happens when we take the creative arts therapies and the people whom we work with out of doors in order to provide safe, structured and accompanied creative therapeutic healing experiences. The theoretical themes are developed along with illustrated examples of clinical practice across a variety of settings and locations.The work is introduced and co-edited by a pioneer in the field, Ian Siddons Heginworth, who describes the emergence of environmental arts therapy and its growth across the British Isles supported through the training course based in London. The following 12 chapters are written by contributing authors and creative arts therapy practitioners working with children, adults and elders in schools, adult mental health and private practice in Britain and Europe. A central focus of the book is the clinical populations and settings in which clinicians work, and it also describes the health benefits as well as the challenges faced when working out of doors.This is a book about the emergence of a new creative therapy modality in the British Isles. It shows the value of working with the natural cycles and seasons, using an integrative arts approach including dramatic enactment, role-play, poetry, art-making with natural materials, storytelling, and the use of bodywork through movement, sound, rhythm and the voice, all held and reflected by our encounters with and in nature. It is about our relationship with nature, creativity and therapeutic healing and is written for trainers, trainees and practitioners in the creative arts, psychotherapy and ecotherapy.Trade Review"The deep connection with nature’s capacity for healing is intrinsic to all life throughout history and across all cultures. In recent times there has been renewed interest from psychotherapists to work with clients in nature. In this exciting new book, arts therapists Ian Siddons Heginworth and Gary Nash have chosen a collection of essays on Environmental Arts Therapy introducing new fresh voices to the discipline. As the practice develops and each Environmental Arts therapist forges a way with diverse emerging perspectives, there is simultaneously a return to older traditions where the wise elders are taking people back into nature for healing and growth. Our flourishing community of Environmental Arts therapists describe and reflect on their various considered and creative approaches."- Hephzibah Kaplan, Art Therapist and Director of the London Art Therapy Centre"This book is an exciting addition to the growing literature on environmental arts therapies. The editors show how this movement has become an established form of arts therapy, drawing on previous work by others, and leading to their environmental arts therapy course, the first of its kind, based on the cycle of the year. The book also contains fresh voices taking environmental arts therapies into new contexts. At a time of global environmental crisis, this book paves the way to a new way of envisioning therapy, showing the benefits of taking people and therapy out into nature, or bringing nature into the therapy room. It reminds us of the importance of our environment – not an optional extra but the ground of our being."- Dr Marian Liebmann, OBE, Art Therapist, teacher and author of art therapy booksTable of ContentsForewordMary-Jayne RustAcknowledgementsIntroduction by the editorsIan Siddons Heginworth and Gary NashPart I Environmental arts therapy in contextChapter 1. Turning: the emergence and growth of environmental arts therapy in the British IslesIan Siddons HeginworthChapter 2. Weaving the threads of theory and experience: a review of the literatureGary NashPart II Childhood, love and attachment: the heart of the matterChapter 3. The wild inside: offering children natural materials and an ecopsychological understanding of self within art therapyLydia BoonChapter 4. EarthWays: Environmental arts therapy for repairing insecure attachment and developing creative response-ability in an insecure world Lia PontonChapter 5. Bringing the outside in: reflecting upon mother within a pilot group in environmental arts therapyMichelle EdinburghPart III Feminine and masculine: putting feeling first Chapter 6. Meeting the wounded feminine: trauma-informed environmental arts therapy as an approach to working with physical illnessSusie ThompsonChapter 7. The wood between the worlds: encountering the wounded healer in environmental arts therapyWilliam SecretanChapter 8. The tapping on the window: environmental arts therapy and the integrated selfAuriel EagletonPart IV The cycle of the year: working with the seasonsChapter 9. Taking art therapy outdoors: a Circle of TreesGary NashChapter 10. Creating connections: introducing environmental arts therapy in to London’s green spacesSimon WoodwardChapter 11. Space to move, explore and create: taking art therapy into the outdoor environment in adult mental health servicesPamela StanleyPart V Elderhood and endings: the wild road onChapter 12. Trees of life and death: a journey into the heart of Transylvania to use environmental arts therapy with groups of adults and staff in palliative careHannah MonteiroChapter 13. Growing elders: the cultivation and collaboration of an elder women’s group in the woodsDeborah Kelly and Vanessa JonesEpilogueIan Siddons Heginworth

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Book SynopsisHealth figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. In this book, Jennifer Thomson untangles the complex web of political, social, and intellectual developments that gave rise to the multiplicity of claims and concerns about environmental health.

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Book SynopsisModern and professional communication is required to realise the goal of sustainability in society. This book develops a theoretical and empirical framework, integrating interdisciplinary perspectives from communications theory, psychology, sociology, educational sciences, systems theory and constructivism. Its aim is to inform the establishment of sustainability communication. Complementing this theoretical framework, the book provides methods and concepts in a range of fields such as corporate practice, education and media. The book addresses the scientific community and students as well as communicators in all categories of sustainability communication.Table of ContentsI. Mapping Sustainability Communication 1. Sustainability Communication - An Introduction 2. Strong Sustainability as a Frame for Sustainability Communication 3. Sustainability Communication an Integrative Approach 4. Sustainable Communication as An Inter- and Transdisciplinary Discipline II. Framework of Sustainability Communication 5. Sociological Perspectives on Sustainability Communication 6. Psychological Aspects of Sustainability Communication 7. Media Theory and Sustainability Communication 8. Communication Theory and Sustainability Discourse 9. Communicating Education for Sustainable Development 10. Sustainability Communication: A Systemic-constructivist Perspective III. Practice of Sustainability Communication 11. Climate Change as an Element of Sustainability Communication 12. Biodiversity and Sustainability Communication 13. Communicating Sustainable Consumption 14. Corporate Sustainability Reporting 15. Computer Support for Cooperate Sustainability Communication 16. Participation: Empowerment for Sustainable Development Index

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Book SynopsisCrimes associated with the illegal trade in wildlife, timber and fish stocks, and pollutants and waste have become increasingly transnational, organized and serious. They warrant attention because of their environmental consequences, their human toll, their impact on the rule of law and good governance, and their links with violence, corruption and a range of cross-over crimes. This ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary Handbook examines key transnational environmental crime sectors and explores its most significant conceptual, operational and enforcement challenges. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, this book presents in-depth analysis based on extensive academic research and operational and enforcement expertise. The sectors covered include illegal wildlife, timber, pollutant and waste trades and crimes in the carbon market. The contextual chapters examine criminal networks and illicit chains of custody, local sociocultural, economic and political factors, the effectiveness of policy and operational responses, and international jurisdictional challenges.This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of global environmental politics, international environmental law, and environmental criminology as well as for regulatory and enforcement practitioners working to meet the challenges of transnational environmental crime.Contributors include: J. Ayling, L. Bisschop, G. Broussard, A. Cardesa-Salzmann, M. Cassidy, D.W.S. Challender, E. Clark, M.Á. Clemente Muñoz, E. de Coning, R. Duffy, L. Elliott, C. Gibbs, D. Humphreys, Y. Jia, N. Liu, D.C. MacMillan, C. Middleton, R. Ogden, G. Pink, G. Rose, V. Sacré, S. Saydan, W.H. Schaedla, S. Sinha, V. Somboon, T. Terekhova, E. van Asch, T. WyattTrade Review'This Handbook makes a creative and considered contribution towards this important topic. It provides a well-balanced mix of chapters from scholars and practitioners on issues that we must better understand if we are to successfully tackle these serious transnational environmental crimes. I warmly congratulate the editors and authors for focusing on these critical and contemporary questions, including the criminal networks involved, pervasive impact of corruption, criminal justice responses and exemplary collaborative initiatives, such as ICCWC. This timely publication will help to further shape our responses and assist us to better combat these highly destructive crimes.' --John E. Scanlon, CITES Secretary-General'This timely and very comprehensive book sheds light into the shadowy areas of environmental policy that we have neglected for too long: transnational environmental crime, ranging from illegal trade in timber and wildlife to criminal use of ozone-depleting substances, illegal fishing and novel ''carbon crimes'' around emissions trading. The Handbook of Transnational Environmental Crime, superbly edited by Elliott and Schaedla, combines insightful conceptual chapters with in-depth empirical research and practitioner contributions. The book is essential reading not only for scholars of environmental governance but also for criminologists, conservationists, regulators and other practitioners.' --Frank Biermann, Utrecht University, the Netherlands'This extensive work beautifully covers all major transnational environmental crimes and efforts to combat these crimes, from a broad perspective. It stands out for incorporating chapters written by leading green criminologists but also by policy makers and members of the enforcement community. It is truly a handbook of great value to the increasing number of academics, practitioners and students who are interested in environmental crimes and green criminology.' --Toine Spapens, Tilburg University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: PART I CONTEXT AND SCENE-SETTING 1. Transnational Environmental Crime: Excavating the Complexities – An Introduction Lorraine Elliott and William H. Schaedla 2. Criminal Networks and Illicit Chains of Custody in Transnational Environmental Crime Lorraine Elliott 3. Local Sociocultural, Economic and Political Facilitators of Transnational Wildlife Crime William H. Schaedla 4. The Securitization of Transnational Environmental Crime and the Militarization Of Conservation Lorraine Elliott 5. Criminality and Costs: The Human Toll of Transnational Environmental Crime Sophie Saydan PART II KEY SECTORS AND CASE STUDIES 6. The Illegal Wildlife Trade in Global Perspective Rosaleen Duffy 7. The Uncharismatic and Unorganized Side to Wildlife Smuggling Tanya Wyatt 8. Fisheries Crime Eve De Coning 9. Forest Crimes and the International Trade in Illegally Logged Timber David Humphreys 10. Illegal Trade in Hazardous Waste Lieselot Bisschop 11. Illegal Trade in Ozone Depleting Substances Ning Liu, Vira Somboon and Carl Middleton 12. Crimes in the Carbon Market Carole Gibbs and Michael Cassidy 13. Greater China and Transnational Environmental Crime: Understanding Criminal Networks and Enforcement Responses Yunbo Jiao 14. Wildlife Trade in South Asia Samir Sinha PART III GOVERNANCE, AGENCY AND STRATEGIES 15. Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Illegality Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann 16. International Jurisdictional Challenges in the Suppression of Transnational Environmental Crime Gregory Rose 17. Reducing Demand for Illicit Wildlife Products: Crafting a ‘Whole-Of-Society’ Response Julie Ayling 18. Witnessing WENs: Origins and Future Directions William H. Schaedla and Samir Sinha 19. Forensics in Transnational Environmental Crime Rob Ogden PART IV PRACTITIONER CONTRIBUTIONS 20. The Montreal Protocol and OzonAction Networks Ezra Clark 21. The Basel Convention: A Tool for Combating Environmental Crime and Enhancing the Management of Hazardous and Other Wastes Tatiana Terekhova 22. The Role of Cites in Ensuring Sustainable and Legal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora Margarita África Clemente Muñoz 23. Interpol’s Nest: Building Capability and Capacity to Respond to Transnational Environmental Crime Grant Pink 24. The Evolving Role of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Fighting Wildlife and Forest Crimes Giovanni Broussard 25. The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) Edward Van Asch 26. EU–TWIX: Ten Years of Information Exchange and Co-Operation Between Wildlife Law Enforcement Officials in Europe Vinciane Sacré 27. Transnational Environmental Crime: More than an Enforcement Problem Daniel W.S. Challender and Douglas C. Macmillan Index

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Book SynopsisLooking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the early modern cultures of communication.Trade Review"What sets this collection apart from others like it is the sheer variety of the essays …" -- David Jonathan Davis * Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 2 *Table of Contents* Introduction: Cultures of Communication, Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond Christopher Wild and Ulrike Strasser * The Absolute Medium: Nicholas of Cusa on the Mediality of Christ Christian Kiening * Fragmentation and Presence: Reformation Debates and Cultural Theory Lee Palmer Wandel *'Here I Stand': Face-to-Face Communication and Print Media in the Early Reformation Marcus Sandl * Mediated Immediacies in Thomas Muntzer's Theology Helmut Puff *'Sing unto the Lord': An Anthropology of Singing and Not-Singing in the Late Reformation Era Susan C. Karant-Nunn * Reading Images, Printing Voices: Simulation of Media and Epistemic Reflection in German Baroque Literature Daniel Weidner * Divine Messengers and Divine Messages: Angelic Media in Early Modern Hispanic America Andrew Redden * On Reading Missionary Correspondence: Jesuit Theologians on the Spiritual Benefits of a New Genre Markus Friedrich * Early Modern Translation Theories as Mission Theories: A Case Study of Jose de Acosta: De procuranda indorum salute (1588) Renate Durr * Apocalyptic Times in a 'World without End': The Straits of Magellan around 1600 Susanna Burghartz

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Book SynopsisCrimes associated with the illegal trade in wildlife, timber and fish stocks, and pollutants and waste have become increasingly transnational, organized and serious. They warrant attention because of their environmental consequences, their human toll, their impact on the rule of law and good governance, and their links with violence, corruption and a range of cross-over crimes. This ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary Handbook examines key transnational environmental crime sectors and explores its most significant conceptual, operational and enforcement challenges. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, this book presents in-depth analysis based on extensive academic research and operational and enforcement expertise. The sectors covered include illegal wildlife, timber, pollutant and waste trades and crimes in the carbon market. The contextual chapters examine criminal networks and illicit chains of custody, local sociocultural, economic and political factors, the effectiveness of policy and operational responses, and international jurisdictional challenges.This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of global environmental politics, international environmental law, and environmental criminology as well as for regulatory and enforcement practitioners working to meet the challenges of transnational environmental crime.Contributors include: J. Ayling, L. Bisschop, G. Broussard, A. Cardesa-Salzmann, M. Cassidy, D.W.S. Challender, E. Clark, M.Á. Clemente Muñoz, E. de Coning, R. Duffy, L. Elliott, C. Gibbs, D. Humphreys, Y. Jia, N. Liu, D.C. MacMillan, C. Middleton, R. Ogden, G. Pink, G. Rose, V. Sacré, S. Saydan, W.H. Schaedla, S. Sinha, V. Somboon, T. Terekhova, E. van Asch, T. WyattTrade Review'This Handbook makes a creative and considered contribution towards this important topic. It provides a well-balanced mix of chapters from scholars and practitioners on issues that we must better understand if we are to successfully tackle these serious transnational environmental crimes. I warmly congratulate the editors and authors for focusing on these critical and contemporary questions, including the criminal networks involved, pervasive impact of corruption, criminal justice responses and exemplary collaborative initiatives, such as ICCWC. This timely publication will help to further shape our responses and assist us to better combat these highly destructive crimes.' --John E. Scanlon, CITES Secretary-General'This timely and very comprehensive book sheds light into the shadowy areas of environmental policy that we have neglected for too long: transnational environmental crime, ranging from illegal trade in timber and wildlife to criminal use of ozone-depleting substances, illegal fishing and novel ''carbon crimes'' around emissions trading. The Handbook of Transnational Environmental Crime, superbly edited by Elliott and Schaedla, combines insightful conceptual chapters with in-depth empirical research and practitioner contributions. The book is essential reading not only for scholars of environmental governance but also for criminologists, conservationists, regulators and other practitioners.' --Frank Biermann, Utrecht University, the Netherlands'This extensive work beautifully covers all major transnational environmental crimes and efforts to combat these crimes, from a broad perspective. It stands out for incorporating chapters written by leading green criminologists but also by policy makers and members of the enforcement community. It is truly a handbook of great value to the increasing number of academics, practitioners and students who are interested in environmental crimes and green criminology.' --Toine Spapens, Tilburg University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: PART I CONTEXT AND SCENE-SETTING 1. Transnational Environmental Crime: Excavating the Complexities – An Introduction Lorraine Elliott and William H. Schaedla 2. Criminal Networks and Illicit Chains of Custody in Transnational Environmental Crime Lorraine Elliott 3. Local Sociocultural, Economic and Political Facilitators of Transnational Wildlife Crime William H. Schaedla 4. The Securitization of Transnational Environmental Crime and the Militarization Of Conservation Lorraine Elliott 5. Criminality and Costs: The Human Toll of Transnational Environmental Crime Sophie Saydan PART II KEY SECTORS AND CASE STUDIES 6. The Illegal Wildlife Trade in Global Perspective Rosaleen Duffy 7. The Uncharismatic and Unorganized Side to Wildlife Smuggling Tanya Wyatt 8. Fisheries Crime Eve De Coning 9. Forest Crimes and the International Trade in Illegally Logged Timber David Humphreys 10. Illegal Trade in Hazardous Waste Lieselot Bisschop 11. Illegal Trade in Ozone Depleting Substances Ning Liu, Vira Somboon and Carl Middleton 12. Crimes in the Carbon Market Carole Gibbs and Michael Cassidy 13. Greater China and Transnational Environmental Crime: Understanding Criminal Networks and Enforcement Responses Yunbo Jiao 14. Wildlife Trade in South Asia Samir Sinha PART III GOVERNANCE, AGENCY AND STRATEGIES 15. Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Illegality Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann 16. International Jurisdictional Challenges in the Suppression of Transnational Environmental Crime Gregory Rose 17. Reducing Demand for Illicit Wildlife Products: Crafting a ‘Whole-Of-Society’ Response Julie Ayling 18. Witnessing WENs: Origins and Future Directions William H. Schaedla and Samir Sinha 19. Forensics in Transnational Environmental Crime Rob Ogden PART IV PRACTITIONER CONTRIBUTIONS 20. The Montreal Protocol and OzonAction Networks Ezra Clark 21. The Basel Convention: A Tool for Combating Environmental Crime and Enhancing the Management of Hazardous and Other Wastes Tatiana Terekhova 22. The Role of Cites in Ensuring Sustainable and Legal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora Margarita África Clemente Muñoz 23. Interpol’s Nest: Building Capability and Capacity to Respond to Transnational Environmental Crime Grant Pink 24. The Evolving Role of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Fighting Wildlife and Forest Crimes Giovanni Broussard 25. The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) Edward Van Asch 26. EU–TWIX: Ten Years of Information Exchange and Co-Operation Between Wildlife Law Enforcement Officials in Europe Vinciane Sacré 27. Transnational Environmental Crime: More than an Enforcement Problem Daniel W.S. Challender and Douglas C. Macmillan Index

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Book SynopsisIn Natural Communication, the author criticizes the current paradigm of specific goal orientation in the complexity sciences and proposes an alternative that envisions a fundamental architectonics of communication. His model of "natural communication" encapsulates modern theoretical concepts from mathematics and physics, in particular category theory and quantum theory. From these fields it abstracts precise concepts such as to constitute a terminological basis for this theory which offers the opportunity to open up novel ways of thinking about complexity. The author is convinced that it is only possible to establish a continuity and coherence with contemporary thinking, especially with respect to complexity, through looking into the past.

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Book SynopsisAt a time when the planet's wildlife faces countless dangers, international environmental law continues to overlook its evolving welfare interests. This thought-provoking book provides a crucial exploration of how international environmental law must adapt to take account of the growing recognition of the intrinsic value of wildlife.Animal Welfare and International Environmental Law offers compelling and timely arguments in favour of wildlife's inherent worth and proposes a progressive development of the law in response to its needs and interests. Taking into account recent trends in bioethics and conservation, these critical discussions of wildlife welfare have dramatic implications for the future of sustainable development and sustainable use. The book challenges assumptions by taking a perspective which decentres the needs of humans and instead emphasises the growing need to protect wildlife with compassion and care.This book will prove invaluable to both students and scholars of environmental law, animal law and international law more widely. It will also appeal to policymakers, legal scholars and NGOs dealing with the imminent needs of the earth's wildlife.Contributors include: D. Bilchitz, M. Bowman, S. Riley, J. Schaffner, W. Scholtz, K. Sykes, S. WhiteTrade Review‘This book is an integral building block for welfare-conscious wildlife law. Scholtz and the contributors to this collection deserve the greatest praise for their bravery and intellectual integrity in supporting a compassionate approach to conservation.’ -- Iyan Offor, The IUCN AEL Journal of Environmental Law'This book does two things very well. It demonstrates that the ethical imperative of treating non-human creatures with respect makes a better conceptual fit with the international legal order's basic tenets than is often assumed. At the same time, it starkly exposes the challenge of ensuring that attention for the welfare of individual animals does not impede the effectiveness of current policies for the conservation, recovery and sustainable use of healthy wildlife populations and ecosystems.' --Arie Trouwborst, Tilburg University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Werner Scholtz 2. Value, wild animals and law Joan E. Schaffner 3. Animals, humans and the international legal order: towards an integrated bioethical perspective Michael Bowman 4. Wildlife law and animal welfare: competing interests and ethics Sophie Riley 5. Shifting Norms in Wild Animal Protection and Effective Regulatory Design Steven White 6. Why conservation and sustainability require protection for the interests of animals David Bilchitz 7. Trading rhinoceros horn for the sake of conservation: dehorning the dilemma through a legal analysis of the emergence of animal welfare Werner Scholtz 8. WTO Law, the Environment and Animal Welfare Katie Sykes Index

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Book SynopsisHow have global changes in information technology and communications affected environmental policy and governance? Arthur P. J. Mol shows how the information revolution brings about new forms of environmental governance and examines the resulting successes and problems.Table of Contents1. Introduction: new frontiers of environmental governance; Part I. Theory: 2. From information society to information age; 3. Social theories of environmental reform; 4. Informational governance; Part II. Praxis: 5. Monitoring, surveillance and empowerment; 6. Environmental state and information politics; 7. Greening the networked economy; 8. Environmental activism and advocacy; 9. Media monopolies, digital democracy, cultural clashes; 10. Information-poor environments: Asian tigers; Part III. Conclusion: 11. Balancing informational perspectives.

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Book SynopsisWith emphasis on practical application and quantitative skill development, this book weaves together these disparate elements in a single coherent textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students. It reviews analytical techniques, explaining the mathematical and statistical principles behind them.Trade Review�I recommend the book unreservedly to wildlife managers, park rangers, biological resource managers, and those working in ecotourism.� (Tahrcountry, 10 August 2014) "This book offers an integrated vision on [rapidly evolving wildlife management] in a comprehensive, experience driven, coherent overview. It is structured in two parts, of which the first one provides an overview of the key ecological concepts on which this field of applied ecology is based...The second section deals with wildlife conservation and management... Books that target their subject [this] specifically and in-depth are rare. All over the publication general subjects in ecology are most convincingly tailored to wildlife management. It provides applicable information on new (sometimes developing) methods. It illustrates the theory with a wealth of graphs, figures, and examples from the literature. This third edition entails new chapters on climate changes, wildlife response to rapidly changing conditions, habitat selection, and corridors in increasingly fragmented landscapes... A glossary and an impressive 36-page reference list enhance the documentary and didactical value of this book, which is excellent for senior undergraduates and graduate students in ecology, biology, and environment sciences. However, it is equally valuable for professional wildlife managers, park rangers, and those working in ecotourism. The book has a most useful accompanying website where additional resources, power points and PDFs of all tables can be found. The whole atmosphere of the book combines academic diligence with wildlife management practice... A great book of applied ecology in a most useful sector of increasing specialisation and professionalism." (International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 2016, http://www.inderscience.com/editorials/f164312115298710.pdf)Table of ContentsPreface xi 1 Introduction: goals and decisions 1 1.1 How to use this book 1 1.2 What is wildlife conservation and management? 2 1.3 Goals of management 3 1.4 Hierarchies of decision 6 1.5 Policy goals 7 1.6 Feasible options 7 1.7 Summary 8 Part 1 Wildlife ecology 9 2 Food and nutrition 11 2.1 Introduction 11 2.2 Constituents of food 11 2.3 Variation in food supply 14 2.4 Measurement of food supply 17 2.5 Basal metabolic rate and food requirement 20 2.6 Morphology of herbivore digestion 23 2.7 Food passage rate and food requirement 26 2.8 Body size and diet selection 27 2.9 Indices of body condition 28 2.10 Summary 33 3 Home range and habitat use 35 3.1 Introduction 35 3.2 Estimating home range size and utilization frequency 36 3.3 Estimating habitat availability and use 38 3.4 Selective habitat use 40 3.5 Using resource selection functions to predict population response 42 3.6 Sources of variation in habitat use 42 3.7 Movement within the home range 45 3.8 Movement among home ranges 48 3.9 Summary 51 4 Dispersal, dispersion, and distribution 53 4.1 Introduction 53 4.2 Dispersal 53 4.3 Dispersion 55 4.4 Distribution 56 4.5 Distribution, abundance, and range collapse 61 4.6 Species reintroductions or invasions 62 4.7 Summary 67 5 Population growth and regulation 69 5.1 Introduction 69 5.2 Rate of increase 69 5.3 Geometric or exponential population growth 73 5.4 Stability of populations 73 5.5 The theory of population limitation and regulation 76 5.6 Evidence for regulation 81 5.7 Applications of regulation 85 5.8 Logistic model of population regulation 86 5.9 Stability, cycles, and chaos 88 5.10 Intraspecific competition 90 5.11 Interactions of food, predators, and disease 93 5.12 Summary 93 6 Competition and facilitation between species 95 6.1 Introduction 95 6.2 Theoretical aspects of interspecific competition 96 6.3 Experimental demonstrations of competition 98 6.4 The concept of the niche 103 6.5 The competitive exclusion principle 106 6.6 Resource partitioning and habitat selection 106 6.7 Competition in variable environments 113 6.8 Apparent competition 113 6.9 Facilitation 114 6.10 Applied aspects of competition 119 6.11 Summary 122 7 Predation 123 7.1 Introduction 123 7.2 Predation and management 123 7.3 Definitions 123 7.4 The effect of predators on prey density 124 7.5 The behavior of predators 125 7.6 Numerical response of predators to prey density 129 7.7 The total response 130 7.8 Behavior of the prey 136 7.9 Summary 138 8 Parasites and pathogens 139 8.1 Introduction and definitions 139 8.2 Effects of parasites 139 8.3 The basic parameters of epidemiology 140 8.4 Determinants of spread 143 8.5 Endemic pathogens 144 8.6 Endemic pathogens: synergistic interactions with food and predators 144 8.7 Epizootic diseases 146 8.8 Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife 147 8.9 Parasites and the regulation of host populations 150 8.10 Parasites and host communities 151 8.11 Parasites and conservation 152 8.12 Parasites and control of pests 155 8.13 Summary 156 9 Consumer–resource dynamics 157 9.1 Introduction 157 9.2 Quality and quantity of a resource 157 9.3 Kinds of resource 157 9.4 Consumer–resource dynamics: general theory 158 9.5 Kangaroos and their food plants in semi-arid Australian savannas 161 9.6 Wolf–moose–woody plant dynamics in the boreal forest 167 9.7 Other population cycles 172 9.8 Summary 175 10 The ecology of behavior 177 10.1 Introduction 17710.2 Diet selection 177 10.3 Optimal patch or habitat use 183 10.4 Risk-sensitive habitat use 186 10.5 Social behavior and foraging 187 10.6 Summary 190 11 Climate change and wildlife 191 11.1 Introduction 191 11.2 Evidence for climate change 191 11.3 Wildlife responses to climate change 192 11.4 Mechanisms of response to climate change 196 11.5 Complex ecosystem responses to climate change 199 11.6 Summary 201 Part 2 Wildlife conservation and management 203 12 Counting animals 205 12.1 Introduction 205 12.2 Total counts 205 12.3 Sampled counts: the logic 207 12.4 Sampled counts: methods and arithmetic 212 12.5 Indirect estimates of population size 220 12.6 Indices 227 12.7 Harvest-based population estimates 228 12.8 Summary 231 13 Age and stage structure 233 13.1 Introduction 233 13.2 Demographic rates 233 13.3 Direct estimation of life table parameters 235 13.4 Indirect estimation of life table parameters 236 13.5 Relationships among parameters 238 13.6 Age-specific population models 239 13.7 Elasticity of matrix models 242 13.8 Stage-specific models 243 13.9 Elasticity of the loggerhead turtle model 245 13.10 Short-term changes in structured populations 246 13.11 Environmental stochasticity and age-structured populations 246 13.12 Summary 249 14 Experimental management 251 14.1 Introduction 251 14.2 Differentiating success from failure 251 14.3 Technical judgments can be tested 252 14.4 The nature of the evidence 255 14.5 Experimental and survey design 257 14.6 Some standard analyses 262 14.7 Summary 271 15 Model evaluation and adaptive management 273 15.1 Introduction 273 15.2 Fitting models to data and estimation of parameters 274 15.3 Measuring the likelihood of the observed data 276 15.4 Evaluating the likelihood of alternate models using AIC 278 15.5 Adaptive management 281 15.6 Summary 284 16 Population viability analysis 285 16.1 Introduction 285 16.2 Environmental stochasticity 285 16.3 PVA based on the exponential growth model 286 16.4 PVA based on the diffusion model 287 16.5 PVA based on logistic growth 290 16.6 Demographic stochasticity 291 16.7 Estimating both environmental and demographic stochasticity 294 16.8 PVA based on demographic and environmental stochasticity 296 16.9 Strengths and weaknesses of PVA 296 16.10 Extinction caused by environmental change 298 16.11 Extinction threat due to introduction of exotic predators or competitors 298 16.12 Extinction threat due to unsustainable harvesting 300 16.13 Extinction threat due to habitat loss 302 16.14 Summary 302 17 Conservation in practice 305 17.1 Introduction 305 17.2 How populations go extinct 305 17.3 How to prevent extinction 315 17.4 Rescue and recovery of near-extinctions 316 17.5 Conservation in National Parks and reserves 317 17.6 Community conservation outside National Parks and reserves 322 17.7 International conservation 323 17.8 Summary 324 18 Wildlife harvesting 325 18.1 Introduction 325 18.2 Fixed-quota harvesting strategy 325 18.3 Fixed-proportion harvesting strategy 329 18.4 Harvesting in practice: dynamic variation in quotas or effort 332 18.5 No-harvest reserves 334 18.6 Age- or sex-biased harvesting 335 18.7 Commercial harvesting 340 18.8 Bioeconomics 340 18.9 Game cropping and the discount rate 344 18.10 Summary 346 19 Wildlife control 347 19.1 Introduction 347 19.2 Definitions 347 19.3 Effects of control 348 19.4 Objectives of control 348 19.5 Determining whether control is appropriate 349 19.6 Methods of control 350 19.7 Summary 356 20 Evolution and conservation genetics 357 20.1 Introduction 357 20.2 Maintenance of genetic variation 358 20.3 Natural selection 359 20.4 Natural selection and life history tradeoffs 361 20.5 Natural selection due to hunting 363 20.6 Natural selection due to fishing 365 20.7 Selection due to environmental change 367 20.8 Ecological dynamics due to evolutionary changes 372 20.9 Heterozygosity 374 20.10 Genetic drift and mutation 375 20.11 Inbreeding depression 376 20.12 How much genetic variation is needed? 377 20.13 Effective population size 378 20.14 Effect of sex ratio 379 20.15 How small is too small? 380 20.16 Summary 380 21 Habitat loss and metapopulation dynamics 381 21.1 Introduction 381 21.2 Habitat loss and fragmentation 381 21.3 Ecological effects of habitat loss 384 21.4 Metapopulation dynamics 386 21.5 Territorial metapopulations 389 21.6 Mainland–island metapopulations 390 21.7 Source–sink metapopulations 391 21.8 Metacommunity dynamics of competitors 392 21.9 Metacommunity dynamics of predators and prey 393 21.10 Corridors 394 21.11 Summary 398 22 Ecosystem management and conservation 399 22.1 Introduction 399 22.2 Definitions 400 22.3 Gradients of communities 400 22.4 Niches 400 22.5 Food webs and intertrophic interactions 400 22.6 Community features and management consequences 402 22.7 Multiple states 404 22.8 Regulation of top-down and bottom-up processes 405 22.9 Ecosystem consequences of bottom-up processes 407 22.10 Ecosystem disturbance and heterogeneity 408 22.11 Ecosystem management at multiple scales 410 22.12 Biodiversity 411 22.13 Island biogeography and dynamic processes of diversity 413 22.14 Ecosystem function 415 22.15 Summary 417 Appendices 419 Glossary 423 References 435 Index 489

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Book SynopsisA brand new edition of the definitive textbook on humankind's impact on the Earth's environmentnow in full color This classic text explores the multitude of impacts that humans have had over time upon vegetation, animals, soils, water, landforms, and the atmosphere. It considers the ways in which climate changes and modifications in land cover may change the environment in coming decades. Thoroughly revised to cover the remarkable transformation in interest that humans are having in the environment, this book examines previously uncovered topics, such as rewilding, ecosystem services, techniques for study, novel and no analogue ecosystems, and more. It also presents the latest views on big themes such as human origins, the anthropocene, domestication, extinctions, and ecological invasions. Extensively re-written, Human Impact on the Natural Environment, Eighth Edition contains many new and updated statistical tables, figures, and references. It offers enlTable of ContentsPreface to the Eighth Edition xi About the Companion Website xiii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 The Development of Ideas 1 1.2 The Anthropocene 5 1.3 The Development of Human Population and Stages of Cultural Development 6 1.4 Hunting and Gathering 10 1.5 Humans as Cultivators and Keepers 12 1.6 Mining and Metals 18 1.7 Modern Industrial and Urban Civilizations 19 1.8 The Great Acceleration 21 1.9 Methods of Study 24 Guide to Reading 25 2 The Human Impact on Vegetation 27 2.1 Human Impacts on Nature 27 2.2 Vegetation Change: Introduction 28 2.3 The Use of Fire 32 2.4 Fires: Natural and Anthropogenic 34 2.5 Some Consequences of Fire Suppression 34 2.6 Some Effects of Fire on Vegetation 35 2.7 The Role of Grazing 37 2.8 Deforestation 39 2.9 Tropical Forests 40 2.10 The Forest Transition 45 2.11 Secondary Rain Forest 48 2.12 The Human Role in the Creation and Maintenance of Savanna 49 2.13 The Spread of Desert Vegetation on Desert Margins 52 2.14 The Maquis of the Mediterranean Lands 56 2.15 The Prairies and Other Mid‐latitude and High‐altitude Grasslands 56 2.16 Post‐glacial Vegetational Change in Britain and Europe 59 2.17 Lowland Heaths 60 2.18 Introduction, Invasion, and Explosion 61 2.19 Air Pollution and Its Effects on Plants 65 2.20 Forest Decline 67 2.21 Miscellaneous Causes of Plant Decline 70 2.22 The Change in Genetic and Species Diversity 71 2.23 Conclusion: Threats to Plant Life 72 Guide to Reading 72 3 The Human Impact on Animals 75 3.1 Domestication of Animals 75 3.2 Dispersal and Invasions of Animals 76 3.3 Human Influence on the Expansion of Animal Populations 82 3.4 Causes of Animal Contractions and Decline: Pollution 86 3.5 Habitat Change and Animal Decline 89 3.6 Other Causes of Animal Decline 93 3.7 Animal Extinctions in Prehistoric Times 98 3.8 Modern‐day Extinctions 102 Guide to Reading 108 4 The Human Impact on the Soil 111 4.1 Introduction 111 4.2 Salinity: Natural Sources 112 4.3 Human Agency and Increased Salinity 112 4.4 Irrigation Salinity 113 4.5 Dryland Salinity 114 4.6 Urban Salinity 116 4.7 Inter‐basin Water Transfers 116 4.8 Coastal Zone Salinity 116 4.9 Consequences of Salinity 118 4.10 Reclamation of Salt‐affected Lands 118 4.11 Lateritization 120 4.12 Accelerated Podzolization and Acidification 121 4.13 Soil Carbon 122 4.14 Soil Structure Alteration 123 4.15 Soil Drainage and its Impact 125 4.16 Soil Fertilization 126 4.17 Fires and Soil Quality 126 4.18 Some Anthrosols Resulting from Agriculture and Urbanization 127 4.19 Soil Erosion: General Considerations 127 4.20 The Causes of Soil Erosion 128 4.21 Forest Removal 129 4.22 Soil Erosion Associated with Grazing 132 4.23 Irrigation and Erosion 132 4.24 Replacement of Grassland by Shrubland in Drylands 133 4.25 Soil Erosion Produced by Fire 133 4.26 Soil Erosion Associated with Construction and Urbanization 134 4.27 Long‐term Studies of Rates of Erosion 134 4.28 Peat Bog Erosion 137 4.29 Accelerated Wind Erosion 138 4.30 Soil Conservation 140 4.31 Soils, Microbiology, and the Earth System 143 Guide to Reading 144 5 The Human Impact on the Waters 145 5.1 Introduction 145 5.2 Deliberate Modification of River Systems Connectivity 146 5.3 Changes in River Flow 154 5.3.1 The Effects of Dams 154 5.3.2 Vegetation Modification and its Effect on River Flow 154 5.3.3 The Role of Invasive Plants 158 5.3.4 Land Drainage 158 5.3.5 Groundwater Exploitation 160 5.3.6 Urbanization and its Effects on River Flow 160 5.4 The Human Impact on Lake Levels 162 5.5 Changes in Groundwater Conditions 168 5.6 Water Pollution 171 5.7 Eutrophication 177 5.8 Pollution by Acid Rain 178 5.9 Deforestation and its Effects on Water Quality 180 5.10 Thermal Pollution 181 5.11 Pollution with Suspended Sediments 182 5.12 Marine Pollution 182 Guide to Reading 185 6 Human Agency in Geomorphology 187 6.1 Introduction 187 6.2 Landforms Produced by Excavation 188 6.3 Landforms Produced by Construction and Dumping 192 6.4 Ground Subsidence 192 6.5 The Human Impact on Seismicity and Volcanoes 198 6.6 Accelerated Sedimentation 200 6.7 Sediment Transport by Rivers 203 6.8 Deliberate Modification of Channels 205 6.9 Non‐deliberate River Channel Changes 208 6.10 Arroyo Trenching and Gullies 213 6.11 Accelerated Mass Movements 216 6.12 Accelerated Weathering and the Tufa Decline 219 6.13 Reactivation and Stabilization of Sand Dunes 220 6.14 Accelerated Coastal Erosion 223 6.15 Changing Rates of Salt Marsh Accretion 229 Guide to Reading 231 7 The Human Impact on Climate and the Atmosphere 233 7.1 World Climates 233 7.2 The Greenhouse Gases – Carbon Dioxide 235 7.3 Other Gases 236 7.4 Ozone Depletion and Climate Change 239 7.5 Aerosols 239 7.6 Global Dimming and Global Brightening 241 7.7 Vegetation and Albedo Change 242 7.8 Forests, Irrigation, and Climate 244 7.9 The Possible Effects of Water Diversion Schemes 244 7.10 Lakes and Climate 245 7.11 Urban Climates 245 7.12 Deliberate Climatic Modification 250 7.13 Geoengineering 252 7.14 Urban Air Pollution 252 7.15 Air Pollution: Some Further Effects 256 7.16 Stratospheric Ozone Depletion 263 7.17 Conclusions 265 Guide to Reading 266 8 The Future: Introduction 267 8.1 Introduction 267 8.2 Changes in the Biosphere 271 8.3 Climate and Geomorphology 278 Guide to Reading 282 9 The Future: Coastal Environments 283 9.1 Introduction 283 9.2 The Steric Effect 284 9.3 Anthropogenic Contributions to Sea‐Level Change 284 9.3.1 Reduction in Lake‐Water Volumes 284 9.3.2 Water Impoundment in Reservoirs 285 9.3.3 Groundwater Mining 285 9.3.4 Urbanization and Runoff 285 9.3.5 Deforestation and Runoff 285 9.3.6 Wetland Losses 285 9.3.7 Irrigation 286 9.3.8 Synthesis 286 9.4 Permafrost Degradation, Melting of Glaciers, and Sea‐Level Rise 286 9.5 Ice Sheets and Sea‐Level Rise 286 9.6 How Fast are Sea Levels Rising? 287 9.7 The Amount of Sea‐Level Rise By 2100 287 9.8 Land Subsidence 287 9.9 Coral Reefs 289 9.10 Salt Marshes and Mangrove Swamps 292 9.11 River Deltas 296 9.12 Estuaries 297 9.13 Cliffed Coasts 298 9.14 Sandy Beaches 298 9.15 Conclusions 300 Guide to Reading 300 10 The Future: Hydrological and Geomorphological Impacts 301 10.1 Introduction 301 10.2 Rainfall Intensity 302 10.3 Changes in Tropical Cyclones 302 10.4 Runoff Response 304 10.5 Cold Regions 305 10.6 Changes in Runoff in the UK 307 10.7 Europe 307 10.8 Geomorphological Consequences of Hydrological and Other Changes 309 10.9 Weathering 310 Guide to Reading 311 11 The Future: The Cryosphere 313 11.1 The Nature of the Cryosphere 313 11.2 The Polar Ice Sheets and Ice Caps 313 11.3 Valley Glaciers and Small Ice Caps 316 11.4 Predicted Rates of Glacier Retreat and Some Environmental Consequences 320 11.5 Sea Ice in the Arctic and Antarctic 322 11.6 Permafrost Regions 323 Guide to Reading 328 12 The Future: Drylands 329 12.1 Introduction 329 12.2 Climate Changes in the Past 330 12.3 Future Changes in Climate in Drylands 331 12.4 Wind Erosivity and Erodibility 332 12.5 Future Dust Storm Activity 333 12.6 Sand Dunes 334 12.7 Rainfall and Runoff 337 12.8 Lake Levels 338 12.9 Sea‐level Rise and Arid‐zone Coastlines 338 12.10 Salt Weathering and Salinization 339 Guide to Reading 340 13 Conclusion 341 13.1 The Power of Non‐industrial and Pre‐industrial Civilizations 341 13.2 The Proliferation of Impacts 342 13.3 The Inter‐relationships of Changes in the Earth System 346 13.4 Human Impacts on the Environment in China 348 13.5 Are Changes Reversible? 349 13.6 The Susceptibility to Change 354 13.7 Human Influence or Nature? 356 13.8 Global Warming and Other Pressures 357 13.9 Into the Unknown 358 Guide to Reading 359 References 361 Index 451

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Book SynopsisEXPAND YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AFFECTS BUSINESS, THE ECONOMY, AND YOUR LIFE WITH THIS ESSENTIAL RESOURCE Environmental Policy: An Economic Perspective offers readers a comprehensive examination of the ever-broadening scope and impact of environmental policy, law, and regulation. Editors Thomas Walker, Northrop Sprung-Much, and Sherif Goubran walk readers through a variety of subjects while maintaining a global perspective on the expanding role of environmental law. This book takes a pragmatic and practical approach to its subject matter, showing readers the real impact across the world of different kinds of environmental policy. Among other topics, Environmental Policy: An Economic Perspective tackles: Climate change legislation Water conservation and pricing Biodiversity of the marine environment Wildlife ranching Emission trading schemes Green job strategies Table of ContentsPreface vii About the Editors ix List of Contributors xi Notes on Contributors xiii List of Figures xix List of Tables xxiii Acknowledgments xxv 1 An Introduction to the Current Landscape: Environmental Policy and the Economy 1Tyler Schwartz and Sherif Goubran Section I An Overview 9 2 Responses to Climate Change: Individual Preferences and Policy Actions around the World 11Andrew Brennan, Astghik Mavisakalyan, and Yashar Tarverdi 3 Legislation or Economic Instruments for a Successful Environmental Policy? Reflections After “Dieselgate” 33Theodoros Zachariadis 4 Environmental Legislation and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): A Literature Review 49Eleni Sfakianaki Section II Governing and Protecting Natural Resources 71 5 Bulk Water Pricing Policies and Strategies for Sustainable Water Management: The Case of Ontario, Canada 73Guneet Sandhu, Michael O. Wood, Horatiu A. Rus, and Olaf Weber 6 The Role of Water Pricing Policies in Steering Urban Development: The Case of the Bogotá Region 89Camilo Romero 7 Effective Environmental Protection and Regulatory Quality: A National Case Study of China 105Sharanya Basu Roy 8 The EU Legal and Regulatory Framework for Measuring Damage Risks to the Biodiversity of the Marine Environment 121Ivelin M. Zvezdov 9 Redefining Nature and Wilderness through Private Wildlife Ranching: An Economic Perspective of Environmental Policy in South(ern) Africa 139Tariro Kamuti Section III Energy, Emissions, and the Economy 153 10 Climate Change Regulations and Accounting Practices: Optimization for Emission-Intensive Publicly Traded Firms 155Carol Pomare and David H. Lont 11 The Economic Aspects of Renewable Energy Policies in Developing Countries: An Overview of the Brazilian Wind Power Industry 167Elia E. Cia Alves and Andrea Q. Steiner 12 Ontario’s Energy Transition: A Successful Case of a Green Jobs Strategy? 193Bruno Arcand 13 Ethical and Sustainable Investing and the Need for Carbon Neutrality 213Quintin G. Rayer Section IV Financing the Environmental Transition 233 14 Building Sustainable Communities Through Market-Based Instruments 235Ying Zhou, Amelia Clarke, and Stephanie Cairns 15 Climate Justice and Food Security: Experience from Climate Finance in Bangladesh 249Muhammad Abdur Rahaman and Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman 16 A Survey of UK-Based Ethical and Sustainable Fund Managers’ Investment Processes Addressing Plastics in the Environment 269Quintin G. Rayer Index 299

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the psychology, sociology, and public policy of global environmental issues. The goals of the book are: to describe the current state of the environment and environmentalism to present new theories and research on environmental attitudes and behaviors to explore obstacles and ethical considerations in promoting pro-environmental action Table of ContentsPart I: Psychology of Promoting Environmentalism: Promoting Environmentalism 1. Promoting EnvironmentalismLynnette C. Zelezny, California State University, Fresno; P. Wesley Schultz, California State University, San Marcos 2. Psychology of Promoting Environmentalism: Psychological Contributions to Achieving an Ecologically Sustainable Future for HumanityStuart Oskamp, Claremont Graduate University Part II: New Environmental Theories 1. Empathizing With Nature: The Effects ofPerspective Taking on Concern for Environmental IssuesP. Wesley Schultz, California State University, San Marcos 2.Toward a Coherent Theory of Environmentally Significant BehaviorPaul C. Stern, National Research Council Part III: New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes 1.Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP ScaleRiley E. Dunlap, Michigan State University; Kent D. Van Liere, Primen; Angela G. Mertig, Michigan State University; Robert Emmet Jones, University of Tennessee Part IV: New Ways of Thinking about Environmentalism 1. Elaborating on Gender Differences in EnvironmentalismLynnette C. Zelezny, California State University, Fresno; Poh-Pheng Chua, Pennsylvania State University; Christina Aldrich, Claremont Graduate University 2. Models of Justice in the Environmental DebateSusan Clayton, The College of Wooster 3. Denial and the Process of Moral Exclusion in Environmental ConflictSusan Opotow, University of Massachusetts-Boston; Leah Weiss, Annapolis, MD Part V: New Ways to Promote Proenvironmental Behavior 1. Human Nature and Environmentally Responsible BehaviorStephen Kaplan, University of Michigan 2. Expanding and Evaluating Motives for Environmentally Responsible BehaviorRaymond De Young, University of Michigan 3. The Application of Persuasion Theory to the Development Of Effective Proenvironmental Public Service AnnouncementsRenee J. Bator, State University of New York, Plattsburgh; Robert B. Cialdini, Arizona State University 4. Promoting Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social MarketingDoug McKenzie-Mohr, St. Thomas University Part VI: Environmentalism and Public Policy 1. Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision MakingRobert D. Bullard and Glenn S. Johnson, Clark Atlanta University

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Book SynopsisMany people consider themselves to be both environmentalists and supporters of animal welfare and rights. Yet, despite the many issues which bring environmentalists and animal advocates together, for decades there have been flashpoints which seem to pit these two social movements against each other, dividing them in ways unhelpful to both. In this innovative book, Amy J. Fitzgerald analyses historic, philosophical, and socio-cultural reasons for this divide. Tackling three core contentious issues sport hunting, zoos, and fur over which there has been profound disagreement between segments of these movements, she demonstrates that, even here, they are not as far apart as is generally assumed, and that there is space where they could more productively work together. Charting a path forwards, she points to evolving practices and broad structural forces which are likely to draw the movements closer together in the future. The threats posed by industrial animal agriculture to the environment and to non-human and human animals demand, once and for all, that we bridge the divide between animal advocacy and environmentalism.Trade Review“For too long, a rift has existed between animal advocacy and environmentalism. Amy Fitzgerald mends the rift, showing how animal advocates and environmentalists can work together to protect all life on the beautiful planet we call home.”Leslie Irvine, University of Colorado at Boulder “Fitzgerald offers compelling evidence and argumentation that animal advocacy and environmental movements have much more in common than scholars and activists have assumed. This brilliant study presents researchers and advocates with the tools to critically examine and explore the implications of those unexpected linkages.”David N. Pellow, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsAbbreviations viii Introduction 1 1 The Animal Advocacy Movement(s) 22 2 Sport Hunting: Environmental Stewardship, Cultural Ritual, or Blood Sport? 54 3 Zoos and Aquaria: Species Conservation, Education, or Unethical Imprisonment? 85 4 Fur: "Green" or Irredeemably Cruel Product? 111 5 Industrial Animal Agriculture: Injustice Writ Large? 135 6 Reconciliation and the Way Forward 160 Notes 190 References 192 Index 213

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