Environmental category: 9736 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Given the number and scope of environmental problems we face today, everyone from high school students to policy makers to concerned citizens should understand how the economy works and grasp how meltdowns—both economic and environmental in nature—can be avoided. Environmental and Natural Resource...
Sustainability Matters
Environmental and Climate Changes in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Sustainability Matters is a compilation of some of the best research papers by students from the National University of Singapore's multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary graduate programme in environmental studies, the M.Sc. in Environmental Management [MEM]. This collection is for the period...
New Environmental Policy Instruments in the European Union
Politics, Economics, and the Implementation of the Packaging Waste Directive
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
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 Europe's environment. Environmental economists in particular have proposed that legislation should be supplemented or replaced...
Contemporary Issues in Environmental Law
The EU and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This book presents a variety of articles on contemporary issues in environmental law by eminent university professors of environmental law, international public law, European Union law, and comparative law in Europe and Japan. It is the first book in the field of environmental law based on the results...
by Charles P. Gerba, Mark L. Brusseau, Ian L. Pepper
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Environmental and Pollution Science, Second Edition, provides the latest information on the environmental influence of a significant number of subjects, and discusses their impact on a new generation of students.
This updated edition of Pollution Science has been renamed to reflect a wider...
by Dr Suzanne Kingston, Veerle Heyvaert, Aleksandra Čavoški
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
EU Environmental Law is a critical, comprehensive and engaging account of the essential and emerging issues in European environmental law and regulation today. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, the book delivers a thematic and contextual treatment of the subject for those...
Green Profits
The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2001
Green Profits covers two tightly connected topics, environmental management systems (EMS) and pollution prevention (P2), in a single volume. Authored by an environmental engineer and an economist/planner, Green Profits shows how to implement an EMS, especially ISO 14001, so that it leads to profitable...
by F. Oosterhuis, G. Scholl, F. Rubik
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Product Policy in Europe: New Environmental Perspectives presents an overview and assessment of a relatively new area of environmental policy in Europe. Whereas the more `traditional' environment policy mainly deals with individual emissions, waste and substances, product policy is a more comprehensive...
Regulatory Management
A Guide To Conducting Environmental Affairs and Minimizing Liability
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Regulatory Management: A Guide to Conducting Environmental Affairs and Minimizing Liability emphasizes the importance of establishing a proactive approach to permit negotiation and compliance. This book is an important guide to conducting environmental affairs and minimizing liability. This book is...
by Steven Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
In Understanding Environmental Policy, Steven Cohen introduces an innovative, multidimensional framework for developing effective environmental policy within the United States and around the world. He demonstrates his approach through an analysis of four case studies representing current local, national,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The present work is a fine contribution to the broad field of environmental security in the context of risk assessment and management of obsolete pesticides for the region of Southeast Europe. The purpose of this book is to evaluate the existing knowledge of improper disposal of obsolete pesticides...
Environmental Protection
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected. Only after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 did environmental protection became a political and social priority. In Environmental...
Shipbreaking in Developing Countries
A Requiem for Environmental Justice from the Perspective of Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book explores the process of shipbreaking in developing countries, with a particular focus on Bangladesh.
In the past, shipbreaking (the disposal of obsolete ships) was a very common industrial activity in many developed countries. However, due to stringent domestic environmental and labour...
Environmental Taxation Law
Policy, Contexts and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The theoretical arguments for environmental taxes and other types of economic instruments for environmental protection have been discussed extensively in the literature. Rather less well discussed has been the extremely complex form that such instruments have in fact taken in practice. Environmental...