Environmental Sociology
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Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development
Edited by Jan-Peter Voß, Dierk Bauknecht, René Kemp
This book deals with the issue of sustainable development in a novel and innovative way. It examines the governance implications of reflexive modernisation – the condition that societal development is endangered by its own side-effects. ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Governance for Sustainable Development
Edited by William M. Lafferty
This book is an original study of the challenge of implementing sustainable development in Western democracies. It highlights the obstacles which sustainable development presents for strategic governance and critically examines how these...eBook:Find out more$49.60
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Amenities and Rural Development
Edited by Gary Paul Green, Steven C. Deller, David D. Marcouiller
Amenities and Rural Development explores the paradigmatic shift in how we view land resources and the potential for development in amenity-rich rural regions. Amenity-based growth can lead to several paths, based largely on proximity ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Whaling Diplomacy
Alexander Gillespie
Whaling Diplomacy is the only book that addresses all of the substantive issues relating to the conservation of whales through the International Whaling Commission (IWC). It covers the law, policy, science and philosophy at the heart o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Shrimp Farming and Mangrove Loss in Thailand
Edited by Edward B. Barbier, Suthawan Sathirathai
Through in-depth case studies of local communities in four distinct coastal areas in Southern Thailand, the authors are able to assess objectively the underlying economic causes, and consequences, of mangrove deforestation due to the exp...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries
Edited by Phoebe Koundouri, Panos Pashardes, Timothy M. Swanson, Anastasios Xepapadeas
The increasing scarcity of water resources (in terms of quantity and quality) is one of the most pervasive natural resource allocation issues facing development planners throughout the world. This problem is especially prevalent in less ... -
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Negotiating Environmental Change
Edited by Frans Berkhout, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones
This book by leading researchers presents a critical review of debates in environmental social science over the past decade. Three broad areas are covered in ten chapters: the problems of scientific uncertainty and its role in shaping en...eBook:Find out more$54.40
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The Economic Valuation of the Environment and Public Policy
Noboru Hidano
The importance of the hedonic valuation approach in public policy evaluation and environmental value estimation is now widely accepted. This book is especially designed to illustrate the basic assumptions of the hedonic approach and high...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Implementing Sustainable Development
Edited by Hussein Abaza, Andrea Baranzini
Decision-makers increasingly seek to design environmental and development policies that will support sustainable development. Thus, practical tools to help formulate sustainable development policies and clear methods to assess their acce...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Human Security and the Environment
Edited by Edward A. Page, Michael R. Redclift
In the post-Cold War era, the pre-eminent threats to our security derive from human degradation of vital ecosystems as well as the possibility of war and terrorist attack. This substantial book examines this new ‘security-environment’ pa...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Valuing Cultural Heritage
Edited by Ståle Navrud, Richard C. Ready
What value do we place on our cultural heritage, and to what extent should we preserve historic and culturally important sites and artefacts from the ravages of weather, pollution, development and use by the general public? This innovati...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Warming and the American Economy
Edited by Robert Mendelsohn
The impact of climate change on seven regions of the United States is studied in this new and accessible collection. The study examines how the different regions of the United States may be affected by climate change. In particular, the ...eBook:Find out more$40.00