Environmental Science category: 9368 books
The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change
Volume 1: Approaches, Evidences and Causes Volume 2: Human Impacts and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change is an extensive survey of the interdisciplinary science of environmental change, including recent debates on climate change and the full range of other natural and anthropogenic changes affecting the Earth-ocean-atmosphere system in the past, present and future....
Environmental Sociology
From Analysis to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action illustrates how sociological perspectives can help us better understand the causes and consequences of environmental problems and provides examples of efforts to ameliorate these problems. The fourth edition of this environmental sociology reader includes...
Energy, Environmental & Sustainable Ecosystem Development
International Conference on Energy, Environmental & Sustainable Ecosystem Development (EESED 2015)
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
In the rapid development of global economics, energy, environmental & ecosystem are recognized as important factors for sustainable development in human society. The application of measurement and control technology also play a very important role in the utilization and protection of energy and...
Environmental Software Systems
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Due to increasing practical needs, software support of environmental protection and research tasks is growing in importance and scope. Software systems help to monitor basic data, to maintain and process relevant environmental information, to analyze gathered information and to carry out decision...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
From the beginning of 21st century, there has been an awareness of risk in the environment along with a growing concern for the continuing potential damage caused by hazards. In order to ensure environmental sustainability, a better understanding of natural disasters and their impacts is essential....
The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making
Sustainability, Democracy, and Normative Argument in Policy and Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
In The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making a group of prominent environmental ethicists, policy analysts, political theorists, and legal experts challenges the dominating influence of market principles and assumptions on the formulation of environmental policy. Emphasizing the concept...
by Brendan F. D. Barrett, Riki Therivel
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
First published in 1991. Japanese attitudes to pollution and environmental protection were distinctly equivocal. The Japanese are a nature-loving people, yet they are responsible for widespread environmental destruction; Japan has some of the world’s strictest environmental quality standards, but...
by Carolyn Merchant
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
How and why have Americans living at particular times and places used and transformed their environment? How have political systems dealt with conflicts over resources and conservation? This is the only major reference work to explore all the major themes and debates of the burgeoning field of environmental...
Sustainable Land Development and Restoration
Decision Consequence Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Decision Consequence Analysis (DCA) is a framework for improving the quality of decision results. The framework is a systematic, multi-criteria quantification of uncertainties and the opportunities for managing and reducing the potential negative consequences of such uncertainties. DCA is demonstrated...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
The use of financial concepts and tools to shape development is hardly new, but their recent adoption by advocates of sustainable environmental management has created opportunities for innovation in business and regulatory groups. The Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance summarizes the...
Speaking for Ourselves
Environmental Justice in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Environmental justice as a concept has evolved over the past two decades to offer new, challenging directions for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
Environmental quality has been a major public concern since the first Earth Day in 1970, yet the maze of environmental laws and regulations enacted since then has fostered huge government bureaucracies better known for waste and failure than for innovation and success.
Can we do better than...
by Shunsuke Managi, Koichi Kuriyama
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book aids those concerned about environmental issues to firmly grasp relevant analytical methods and to comprehend the thought process behind environmental economics. It does so by drawing from specific environmental issues and at the same time providing commentary that facilitates understanding....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Companion to Environmental Studies presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches and questions that together define environmental studies today. The intellectually wide-ranging volume covers approaches in environmental science all the way...