Política y protocolos medioambientales

Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación / El medioambiente / Política y protocolos medioambientales (806)

Libros Eliminar filtro Ciencias de la tierra, geografía, medioambiente, planificación Eliminar filtro El medioambiente Eliminar filtro Política y protocolos medioambientales Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Science-Policy Interfaces in Global Environmental Governance
    Matteo De Donà
    This Brief discusses science-policy interfaces (SPIs) in global environmental governance. Broadly speaking, SPIs can be understood as institutional arrangements that aim to bridge science and policy within a specific issue-area with a view to facilitating the solution of relevant societal problems. Although the scholarly literature on SPIs has grown substantially over the last ...
    Disponible

    71,35 €

  • Global solidarities against water grabbing
    Caitlin Schroering
    Globally, people are organizing against water privatization and to reclaim the public sphere. These struggles demonstrate how people are linking their disparate fights to win against private profit-driven interests; water is at the heart of this book, but the book is as much about collective struggle and popular organization as it is about water. ...
    Disponible

    157,26 €

  • Global solidarities against water grabbing
    Caitlin Schroering
    Globally, people are organizing against water privatization and to reclaim the public sphere. These struggles demonstrate how people are linking their disparate fights to win against private profit-driven interests; water is at the heart of this book, but the book is as much about collective struggle and popular organization as it is about water. ...
    Disponible

    44,20 €

  • PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY IN NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY ISSUES
    YOULIN QIAO YUE YANG
    As a key part and parcel of sustainable development of ASEAN-China relations, cooperation in non-traditional security issues has become a new growth area for both sides. This book is divided into three parts. The first part takes stock of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in 30 years of ASEAN-China public health cooperation, covering topics such as digital health and personnel t...
    Disponible

    105,89 €

  • Building Community Resiliency and Sustainability With Tourism Development
    Across the globe, communities face increasing challenges in building resilience and sustainability in the face of climate change, economic disparities, and other complex issues. The tourism sector, often seen as a driver of economic growth, has also been a source of environmental degradation, cultural erosion, and social inequities in many destinations. There is a growing need ...
    Disponible

    386,77 €

  • Building Community Resiliency and Sustainability With Tourism Development
    Across the globe, communities face increasing challenges in building resilience and sustainability in the face of climate change, economic disparities, and other complex issues. The tourism sector, often seen as a driver of economic growth, has also been a source of environmental degradation, cultural erosion, and social inequities in many destinations. There is a growing need ...
    Disponible

    294,79 €

  • Glacial
    Chelsea Henderson
    Glacial: The Inside Politics of Climate Politics is the first Inside-the-Beltway account to lay bare the machinations of what went wrong in Washington-how and why our leaders failed to act on climate change as mounting scientific evidence underscored the urgency to do so. ...
    Disponible

    16,73 €

  • The State Otherwise
    Alice Stefanelli
    The city of Beirut is increasingly congested, polluted and suffocating. Its already limited green public spaces are under growing threat of privatisation and redevelopment. The State Otherwise examines the difficult predicament of Beirut’s public green spaces from the vantage point of the civic campaign to reopen Horsh al Sanawbar, the city’s largest public park. Analysing the ...
    Disponible

    163,91 €

  • Colonialism and Antarctica
    This book explores how the concept of colonialism can help us to understand the past and present of Antarctica, and how in turn Antarctica may illuminate and rethink our understanding of colonialism. ...
    Disponible

    169,18 €

  • Colonialism and Antarctica
    This book explores how the concept of colonialism can help us to understand the past and present of Antarctica, and how in turn Antarctica may illuminate and rethink our understanding of colonialism. ...
    Disponible

    53,66 €

  • Zero-Wasted
    Hunter C. Johnson
    Zero-Wasted: Live. Love. Leave no trace is a comprehensive guide to adopting a zero-waste lifestyle, providing practical tips and empowering readers to make sustainable choices, with a focus on rethinking consumption, reducing carbon footprint, sustainable eating, eco-friendly home and travel, and cultivating a zero-waste mindset. ...
    Disponible

    85,86 €

  • Colorado Powder Keg
    Michael W. Childers
    Downhill skiing is a vital economic engine for many communities in the Rocky Mountain states, attracting 20 million skier days per season. Colorado is by far the most popular destination, with more than two dozen major ski resorts creating a thriving industry that adds billions to the state’s coffers. But, many ask, at what costMichael Childers traces the rise of Colorado’s ski...
    Disponible

    42,61 €

  • Political ecologies of the far right
    This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect. ...
    Disponible

    44,19 €

  • Political ecologies of the far right
    This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect. ...
    Disponible

    169,54 €

  • One Moment on Earth
    Pramod M Tippashetti
    'One Moment on Earth' invites readers on a profound journey through the eyes of an ordinary individual, offering a captivating perspective on our planet. Through the lens of this everyday observer, the book transcends the mundane, delving into the profound questions of existence, creation, and human ingenuity. With subtle yet powerful strokes, it unveils the intricate tapestry ...
    Disponible

    15,93 €

  • LECTURES IN APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY
    ANASTASIOS XEPAPADEAS
    This book presents a series of lectures on applied environmental economics and policy covering the following issues: environmental cost-benefit analysis; ecosystem services; ecosystems biodiversity and the economy; and sustainability.The first part introduces basic concepts in environmental cost-benefit analysis and explains in detail the choice of the discount rate. Distributi...
    Disponible

    166,58 €

  • LECTURES IN APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY
    ANASTASIOS XEPAPADEAS
    This book presents a series of lectures on applied environmental economics and policy covering the following issues: environmental cost-benefit analysis; ecosystem services; ecosystems biodiversity and the economy; and sustainability.The first part introduces basic concepts in environmental cost-benefit analysis and explains in detail the choice of the discount rate. Distributi...
    Disponible

    69,57 €

  • Climate Governance in International and Comparative Perspective
    This book pulls literature together to examine the quality of climate governance based in the experience of Global South regions-Africa, Latin America, and Caribbean. While these regions are resilient, the IPCC 2022 Report indicates that the effects of climate change are crippling their thinly structured governance systems and limited capacities. For example, in addition to env...
    Disponible

    97,67 €

  • Climate Governance in International and Comparative Perspective
    This book pulls literature together to examine the quality of climate governance based in the experience of Global South regions-Africa, Latin America, and Caribbean. While these regions are resilient, the IPCC 2022 Report indicates that the effects of climate change are crippling their thinly structured governance systems and limited capacities. For example, in addition to env...
    Disponible

    140,20 €

  • The ideal river
    Joanne Yao
    The ideal river offers a remarkable account of how historic attempts to establish international commissions on three transboundary rivers in the nineteenth century shaped our modern international order. ...
    Disponible

    35,64 €

  • On the Swamp
    Ryan Emanuel
    Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina—a patchwork quilt of forested swamps, sandy plains, and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean. In these backwaters, Lumbees and other American Indians have adapted to a radicall...
    Disponible

    126,78 €

  • Under Mountain Shadows
    William D. Frank
    From her world-famous dude ranch in Washington state’s Yakima County, Kay Kershaw exerted tremendous influence on conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest and, tangentially, on LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. After gaining local renown in sports and aviation, she established the ranch at Goose Prairie with her first partner, Pat Kane--a fraught undertaking in a regio...
    Disponible

    73,20 €

  • Seeds of Control
    David Fedman
    Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century KoreaJapanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian...
    Disponible

    37,97 €

  • Fir and Empire
    Ian M. Miller
    A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLERestores China’s place in forest historyThe disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating ...
    Disponible

    44,58 €

  • The Energy of Russia
    Tynkkynen Veli-Pekka / Mahlayuk N.
    ENGThis timely book analyses the status of hydrocarbon energy in Russia as both a saleable commodity and as a source of societal and political power. Through empirical studies in domestic and foreign policy contexts, Veli-Pekka Tykkynen explores the development of a hydrocarbon culture in Russia and the impact this has on its politics, identity and approach to climate change an...
    Disponible

    41,42 €

  • The Wild and the Wicked
    Benjamin Hale
    ...
    Disponible

    28,69 €

  • Irrationality of Capitalism and Climate Change
    Kolin Andrew / Vahtina Nastasia
    ENG: The overwhelming scientific evidence indicates that planet Earth is in the process of undergoing dramatic climate change, which threatens to undermine the quality of life around the world. Irrationality of Capitalism and Climate Change demonstrates how the roots of humanity’s assault on the environment are directly associated with the origins of capitalism, an irrational s...
    Disponible

    41,67 €

  • We Need People Power to Address a World in Peril
    Hardy Merriman
    In a world facing convergent crises--where authoritarianism spreads, climate change accelerates, and violent conflict surges--an urgent call echoes through these pages. Drawing insights from research and practice, this volume reveals the indispensable role of popular nonviolent movements--using tactics such as strikes, boycotts, protest, and other acts of noncooperation--to cou...
    Disponible

    8,70 €

  • The Power Matrix
    Peter Hetherington
    America seems divided as never before, segregated into political tribes with antithetical beliefs. But are these sides really that different? Does virtue lie at just one political extreme? On what are our political opinions and affiliations based? Is one side correct and the other wrong? Is the divide really a conflict between socialism and capitalism, and if so, what do these ...
    Disponible

    25,36 €

  • Be a Climate Warrior
    Eric Wright
    Be a Climate Warrior is an information-driven, nonfiction book about climate change and American society. It is a motivational climate change toolkit that provides individuals guidance for how to contribute to broader climate initiatives while reducing their own carbon footprints. The book casts a blacklight over one’s life and their connection to society, illuminating the carb...
    Disponible

    11,43 €