Governing Global Desertification
Linking Environmental Degradation, Poverty and Participation
Edited by PM Johnson, K Mayrand and M Paquin
Desertification affects 70 per cent of the world's arable lands in more than 100 countries.
Inextricably linked to poverty, it is estimated that the livelihood of 250 ....
312 pages | Ashgate
Hbk | 2006 | 075464359X | #162195A |
£55.00
Household Consumption and the Environment
Edited by European Environment Agency
A renewed policy focus on sustainable consumption and production (SCP) can be observed,
both at the global level and in Europe. With an aim to provide input for European ....
EEA
Pbk | 2006 | 929167768X | #162116A |
£12.50___Punctuated_Equilibrium_and_the_Dynamics_of_U.S._Environmental_Policy'>£12.50
Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S.
Environmental Policy
Robert Repetto
Although many environmental policy issues remain deadlocked for decades with little
movement, sometimes breakthroughs occur abruptly. Why do deadlocks persist? Why do
major ....
304 pages | 13 illus |
Yale UP
Pbk | 2006 | 0300110766 | #158405A |
£20.00
Science and International Environmental Policy
Regimes and Nonregimes in Global Governance
Radoslav S Dimitrov
The proliferation of environmental agreements is a defining feature of modern international
relations that has attracted considerable academic attention. The ....
207 pages | - | Rowman & Littlefield
Hbk | 2006 | 0742539040 | #159665A |
£47.00__Pbk_|_2006_|_0742539059_|_159599A_|_£19.99___Understanding_Environmental_Policy'>£47.00
Pbk | 2006 | 0742539059 | #159599A |
£19.99
Understanding Environmental Policy
Steven Cohen
To what extent do environmental problems and the policy approaches we take reflect the ways
in which we value ecosystems as compared with the value we place on material ....
240 pages | - | Columbia UP
Hbk | 2006 | 023113536X | #157825A |
£48.00__Pbk_|_2006_|_0231135378_|_157826A_|_£17.00_____Sustainable_Development:_Effects_of_Globalisation'>£48.00
Pbk | 2006 | 0231135378 | #157826A |
£17.00
Sustainable Development: Effects of Globalisation
Discovering Nature
Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan
Robert P Weller
Robert P. Weller's richly documented account describes the extraordinary
transformations which
have taken place in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the ....
194 pages | CUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0521839599 | #157958A |
£40.00__Pbk_|_2006_|_0521548411_|_157959A_|_£15.99_____Sustainable_Development:_Planning__Transportation'>£40.00
Pbk | 2006 | 0521548411 | #157959A |
£15.99
Sustainable Development: Planning & Transportation
Developing Naturally
A Handbook for Incorporating the Natural Environment into Planning and
Development
Michael Oxford
Provides the reader with comprehensive information on everything from assessing the value of
a site for wildlife to landscaping and the creation of habitats. ....
194 pages | Illus, tabs | ALGE
Pbk | 2000 | 0954071700 | #117907A |
£52.95
Handbook on Urban Sustainability
Edited by Nolberto Munier
Municipal authorities and agencies around the world are striving to place their cities on the road
to sustainability. Cities, as very complex entities, offer a constant ....
823 pages | Springer
Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 1402053509 |
#162021A |
£191.50
Transport and Environment: Facing A Dilemma
TERM 2005
Edited by European Environment Agency
This report represents a summary of 10 selected issues from the EEA's TERM (transport and
environment reporting mechanism) set of transport and environment integration ....
EEA
Pbk | 2006 | 9291678112 | #162110A |
£12.50
Sustainable Development: Participatory Institutions
Institutional Interaction in Global Environmental
Governance
Synergy and Conflict Among International and EU Policies
Edited by Sebastian Oberthür and Thomas Gehring
This is the first large-scale, systematic investigation of how interaction among international
institutions affects global environmental governance, with a conceptual ....
424 pages | 23 illus | MIT Press
Hbk | 2006 | 026205115X | #160874A |
£43.95
Pbk | 2006 | 0262651106 | #160873A |
£18.95
Sustainable Development: Economics, Business & Industry:
General
Coltan Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: How Tantalum -
Using Industries Can Commit to the Reconstruction of the DRC
K Hayes and R Burge
An assessment of the potentially positive impacts that Coltan
mining can have on the
Demorcratic Republic of Congo. Contains an overview of the mining process, its ....
60 pages | Figs, tabs | FFI
Pbk | 2003 | 1903703107 | #152651A |
£9.95
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Sustainable Development: Environmental Economics
Choice Modelling and the Transfer of Environmental
Values
Edited by John Rolfe and Jeff Bennett
Benefit transfer is the practice of estimating economic values at a target site by utilising the
results of existing studies for different sites. The focus of this book is ....
256 pages | Edward Elgar
Hbk | 2006 | 1843766841 | #157638A |
£66.00
Natural Resources and Economic Development
Edward B Barbier
'Much of the development economics community still seems unconvinced that natural resource
conservation has much to do with lifting the poor out of poverty. In a fine ....
410 pages | 30 tables, 25 figures | CUP
Hbk | 2005 | 0521823137 | #156828A |
£48.00
Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological
Economics
Edited by Philip Lawn
Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, national governments have
introduced a range of policy
measures designed to steer their economies along a more sustainable path. Yet how ....
480 pages | Edward Elgar
Hbk | 2006 | 1845420993 | #157627A |
£102.00___The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Environmental_and_Resource_Economics_Essays_in_Honour_of_Karl-Gustaf_Löfgren'>£102.00
The Theory and Practice of Environmental and Resource
Economics
Essays in Honour of Karl-Gustaf Löfgren
Edited by Thomas Aronsson, Roger Axelsson and Runar Brännlund
This collection of specially commissioned papers pays tribute to Karl-Gustaf Lofgren's significant
and diverse contribution to theoretical and empirical research within the ....
368 pages | Edward Elgar
Hbk | 2006 | 1845426495 | #157631A |
£102.00
Sustainable Development: Business & the Environment
The Voluntary Environmentalists
Green Clubs, ISO 14001, and Voluntary Environmental Regulations
Aseem Prakash and Matthew Potoski
Can businesses voluntarily adopt progressive environmental policies? Most environmental
regulations are based on the assumption that the pursuit of profit leads firms to ....
198 pages | CUP
Hbk | 2006 | 0521860415 | #161562A |
£45.00
Pbk | 2006 | 0521677726 | #161563A |
£17.99
Sustainable Development: Environmental Management in Industry
Linking Industry and Ecology
A Question of Design
Edited by Ray Cote et al
"Linking Industry and Ecology" explores the origins, promise, and relevance of the emerging
field of industrial ecology. Its aims are threefold. First, it reminds us that ....
256 pages | tables, charts, photos | UBC
Press
Hbk | 2006 | 0774812133 | #157879A |
£60.95
Working With Wildlife - Site Guide
J Newton, C Thackray and B Nicholson
An environmental good practice guide that can be used as a quick, on-site reference to help
identify species and be made aware of the action that must be taken to avoid ....
195 pages | colour illus | CIRIA
Pbk | 2005 | 0860175677 | #156938A |
£40.00
Sustainable Development: Ecotourism
Code Green
Experiences of a Lifetime
Kerry Lorimer
Code Green is an alert to the need for change in the way we travel.
It draws together almost
100 responsible travel experiences from across the planet, from budget ....
215 pages | colour photos | Lonely
Planet
Pbk | 2006 | 1741047919 | #160492A |
£14.99
Ecotourism NGOs and Development
A Critical Analysis
Jim Butcher
Ecotourism has emerged over the last twenty years not just as a market niche, but also as a
strategy for combining development with conservation in the developing world. ....
192 pages | Routledge
Hbk | NYP 02/2007 | 0415393671 |
#162351A |
£75.00
The Environment and Sustainable Development in the
New Central Europe
Edited by Zbigniew Bochniarz and Gary B Cohen
With the enlargement
of the European Union, the accession countries are coming under
pressure to develop and meet EU standards for environmental protection and sustainable ....
272 pages | maps, tables, graphs |
Berghahn Books
Hbk | 2006 | 1845451449 | #159341A |
£47.00
The Ethical Travel Guide
Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays
Polly Pattullo and Orely Minelli
"All too often the problems are well hidden," says Tricia Barnett, Director of Tourism Concern.
"How would you know that this beautiful hotel is on land snatched from ....
230 pages | Photos, maps | Earthscan
Pbk | 2006 | 1844073211 | #158448A |
£12.99
Extreme Tourism
Lessons from the World's Cold Water Islands
Edited by Godfrey Baldacchino
This book is a pioneering investigation of the tourism practices in the world's other, cold water,
islands. Located in extreme latitudes and subject to extreme weather ....
310 pages |
Elsevier
Hbk | 2006 | 0080446566 | #162755A |
£53.99
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