Environmental category: 9736 books
Polar Tourism
An Environmental Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Tourism throughout the world raises environmental issues that are often concerned with conflicting rights and responsibilities: the inherent right of mankind to travel, the no-less inherent right of indigenous people to guard their environmental heritage, and the responsibility of governments - local,...
Communities and Conservation
Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable...
Environmental Change in South-East Asia
People, Politics and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites...
by Jack Buffington
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
One billion beverage containers are used on a daily basis in the United States, with at least 600 million of them ending up in landfills. Even the 400 million that are recycled—at a great cost—are not accomplishing the task of helping the environment. This economic and environmental catastrophe...
Polymers - Opportunities and Risks I
General and Environmental Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Since their first industrial use polymers have gained a tremendous success. The two volumes of "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks" elaborate on both their potentials and on the impact on the environment arising from their production and applications. Volume 11 "Polymers - Opportunities...
by Matthew Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
The construction of the European Economic Communities in 1950 primarily set out to build an integrated economic zone in which national borders were, to a large extent, overcome. The ability of persons and goods to move freely within the economic zone was seminal in the realisation of economic integration....
by Frederic R. Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the growth of human populations in areas that can least cope with them now. Through progressive adaptation to social and environmental...
The Myth of Green Marketing
Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
In this groundbreaking study, Toby Smith analyses the role that social myths such as green marketing play in public understanding of the environmental crisis.
This book introduces the concept of hegemony into environmental politics, using the concept to elucidate the political, economic, and...
Global Spin
The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful conservative forces to try to change the way the public and politicians think about the environment. Large corporations are using their influence to reshape public opinion, to weaken gains made by environmentalists,...
by Water Environment Federation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Cutting edge gas-shale corporate developers, environmental researchers, and concerned municipality representatives present contemporary technical information and explore potential issues and concerns with gas-shale stakeholders. This publication focuses on related science and engineering technology and...
The Holocene
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago. This period has witnessed a shift from environmental changes determined by natural forces to those dominated...
Environmental Protection in Transition
Economic, Legal and Socio-Political Perspectives on Poland
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book takes an interdisciplinary look at environmental protection during Poland’s transition to market democracy. The contributors are recognised experts in their fields, making this an authoritative volume, combining the perspectives of economists, legal scholars, political scientists and sociologists.
The WTO and the Environment
Development of competence beyond trade
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
This book is a review of the development of the WTO dispute resolution procedure and the power and influence it has gained over the practises of the member countries as well as in other international treaties. The book addresses the development of environmental competency in the WTO and examines the...
by J. Robert Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
We drive cars with "Save the Whales" bumper stickers, buy aerosol sprays that advertise "no chlorofluorocarbons," and wear T-shirts made from organically grown cotton. All of these "earth friendly" choices and products convince us that we are "thinking globally,...