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Economic Institutions And Environmental Policy

by Antonio Nicita

31,79€ + 10% CARD

 This title was first published in 2001. The essays in this volume examine the questions of evaluation processes and enforcement with regards to environmental externalities, stressing the role of institutional failures in dealing with the environment.
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Waste And Distributive Justice In Asia - In-Ward Waste Disposal In Tokyo

by Takashi Nakazawa

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 Conflicts over waste disposal facility siting is a pressing issue not only in developed countries but also in fast-growing countries that face drastic waste increase and rapid urbanisation. How to address distributive justice has been one of the biggest concerns.This book examines what determines the influence of distributive justice in siting policy. In the 23 wards of Tokyo, one idea of distributive justice, known as "In-Ward Waste Disposal" (IWWD), emerged amid the ongoing garbage crisis in the early 1970s. IWWD was adopted as a significant principle, but its influence waxed and waned over time, until the idea was finally abandoned in 2003.To unravel causes and mechanisms behind the changing influence of IWWD, this book adopts a framework that considers not only ideational causes, but also the power struggles between rationally calculating actors, as well as the influence of external events and environments. By combining an in-depth case study with an integrative theoretical framework, this book tells a thought-provoking story of the changing influence of IWWD in a deep, comprehensive and consistent way. This book provides significant insights and lessons for both academics and practitioners.
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Individual And Structural Determinants Of Environmental Practice

by Bengt Hansson

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 During recent years, there has been a growing awareness that a better understanding of human activities and the behavioural components of environmental problems is needed. This volume brings together psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, historians of technology and economics, and management experts to identify and examine the rules and motives that govern the environmental behaviour of individuals, households, organizations and society as a whole. Illustrated with case studies from Scandinavia, it shows how behaviours with negative or positive environmental effects are often performed without such consequences in mind. The book discusses how change towards positive environmental behaviour often conflicts with deep-rooted habits as well as exploring the importance for environmental practice of different everyday contexts. By presenting this multi-disciplinary analysis, the volume provides a comprehensive understanding of how behavioural change in relation to the environment can come about and how this can be integrated in the political framework.
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Changing By Degrees - The Potential Impacts Of Climate Change In The East Midlands

by Jim Kersey, Paul Fleming e Simon Shackley

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 The first regional integrated assessment of climate change in the UK, this important study explores the potential impacts of such change upon key landscapes, economic and social sectors.
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Environmentalism In Turkey - Between Democracy And Development?

by Fikret Adaman

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 Bringing together a mixture of theoretical discussion, political analyses and illustrative case studies, this volume provides the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the tension between environmental protection and economic development in Turkey. Above all, it evaluates the role played by environmental movements in the democratization process of Turkey.
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Energy And Culture - Perspectives On The Power To Work

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 How will humanity continue to meet its energy needs without destroying the conditions necessary to sustain human life on earth? The search for an answer to this question depends as much on the past as on the present; and as much on the physical sciences as on the social sciences. This book offers a truly trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural look at the problem of energy production and consumption in modern times. Discussing issues of history, politics, science, risk, lifestyle and representation, contributors demonstrate that experiences through time can provide insights into the kinds of solutions that have succeeded, as well as reasons why other solutions have failed. They also show what different countries and cultures might learn from each other, emphasizing how discoveries in one discipline have inspired new approaches in another discipline. Among many other important conclusions, the book suggests that energy transitions do not occur simply because of the exhaustion of old energy sources, and any solutions to the incipient energy crisis of the 21st century will depend on people''s perceptions of science, environment and risk, informed and shaped in turn by the media.
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Environmental Leaders And Laggards In Europe - Why There Is (Not) A ''Southern Problem''

by Tanja A. Borzel

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 No other European laws are so frequently violated as environmental directives. Focusing in particular on Spain and Germany, this informative and illuminating volume explains why member states have repeatedly failed to comply with European Environmental Law and challenges the assumption that non-compliance is merely a southern problem.
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Household Waste In Social Perspective - Values, Attitudes, Situation And Behaviour

by Stewart Barr

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 Illustrated by an in-depth analysis of waste reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour in Exeter, Devon, this volume provides a timely evaluation of research on household waste management, develops an original analytical model and demonstrates the utility and importance of focusing on individual attitudes.
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New Environmental Policy Instruments In The European Union - Politics, Economics, And The Implementation Of The Packaging Waste Directive

by Ian Bailey

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 Politics Economics and the Implementation of the Packaging Waste Directive. The use of legislation by EU governments to define environmental standards for industry has been criticised for its poor track record in arresting the decline in the quality of Europes environment. Environmental economists in particular have proposed that legislation should be supplemented or replaced by New Environmental Policy Instruments NEPIs, such as eco-taxes, environmental charges, tradable permits and voluntary agreements. This book focuses on practical experiences with NEPIs in the EU and tests their application using the
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Policy Integration For Complex Environmental Problems - The Example Of Mediterranean Desertification

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 This book proposes a comprehensive conceptualization of policy integration and negotiates pertinent theoretical, methodological and applied issues from the perspective of selected EU policies - rural development, regional development, transport, social, economic, environmental, water resources, and biodiversity policy.
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Causes And Progression Of Desertification

by Helmut Geist

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 Using a meta-analytical model, this book provides an examination into the causes and prospects of desertification through a systematic review of 132 sub national case studies. In doing so, the book shows desertification to be driven by a limited set of recurrent core variables.
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Russian Nature - Exploring The Environmental Consequences Of Societal Change

by Jonathan D. Oldfield

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 Jonathan D Oldfield provides a detailed assessment of the changing relationship between Russian society and the wider environment since the fall of the Soviet Union. In addition, the book highlights pressures that are related to Russia's engagement with the global economy.
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Forest Farms Of Kandy - And Other Gardens Of Complete Design

by D.J. Mcconnell, K.A.E. Dharmapala e S.R. Attanayake

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 Providing a survey of tropical farming systems around the world and an in-depth analysis of Kandy, Sri Lanka, this book offers an economic and ecological description and evaluation of this ancient agroforestry system and its relationship to a wide range of global agro-development and environmental problems.
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Storage And Scarcity - New Practices For Food, Energy And Water

by Giorgio Osti

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 In an era of abundance, at least part of humanity has stopped thinking about the future provision of basic vital resources such water, energy and food. This book deals with cases of water, food, energy and biodiversity storage as a response to a new era of scarcity.
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New Agenda For Sustainability

by Bo Elling e Erling Jelsoe

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 Two decades after the Brundtland Commission''s Report "Our Common Future" adopted the concept of ''sustainable development'', this book provides a renewal of the concept exploring the potential for new practices and fields for those involved in sustainability activity. The book addresses a number of themes concerning firstly, the provision of a "next generation perspective", which was a central, and still unresolved, notion of the original Brundtland definition and, secondly the provision of new milestones for policy and research that can expand the discussion on this second generation concept on sustainability. The material dealt with in the book offers a wide variety of perspectives on sustainability and reflects the importance of interdisciplinary and transdiciplinary work in the field. Suggesting targets for future analytical and political efforts in achieving global sustainability, this book offers new analytical opportunities for holistic politics and research at a general and sector level.
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Scientists, Experts, And Civic Engagement - Walking A Fine Line

by Amy E. Lesen

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 How do scientists, scholars, and other experts engage with the general public and with the communities affected by their work or residing in their sites of study? Where are the fine lines between public scholarship, civic engagement, and activism? Must academics "give back" once they collect data and publish results? In this volume.
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Negotiating Water Governance - Why The Politics Of Scale Matter

by Christina Cook e Emma S. Norman

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 Recently, efforts to understand the relationship between water and political boundaries have come to the fore of water governance debates: how and why does water governance fragment across sectors and governmental departments? How can we govern shared waters more effectively? How do politics and power play out in water governance.

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