Environmental category: 9736 books
by Jane Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Within the overall context of sustainable development Environmental Policy discusses the opportunities and constraints that environmental systems place upon the operation of human systems. It suggests environmental policy is a potential way to modify the operation of human systems so that they function...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Editorial Scope
The Environmental Communication Yearbook is a multidisciplinary forum through which a broad audience of academics, professionals, and practitioners can share and build theoretical, critical, and applied scholarship addressing environmental communication in a variety of contexts. This...
by Elizabeth Reitz, Myra Shackley
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
One of the most significant developments in archaeology in recent years is the emergence of its environmental branch: the study of humans’ interactions with their natural surroundings over long periods and of organic remains instead of the artifacts and household items generally associated with...
Environmental Management
The Supply Chain Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In view of the increasing quest for environmental management in businesses, this book provides a good reference to firms to understand how they may manage their supply chains to improve business and environmental performance. The book consists of six chapters covering such topics as environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
During the last few decades, China has accomplished unprecedented economic growth and has emerged as the second largest economy in the world. This ‘economic miracle’ has led hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, but has also come at a high cost. Environmental degradation and the impact...
by Richard B Macrory
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Regulation, Enforcement and Governance in Environmental Law is an updated edition of Richard Macrory's most influential writings. Spanning his entire career, these are all works which have helped shape contemporary environmental law and policy. The book includes the full text of his 2006 Cabinet Office...
Global Environmental Issues
A Climatological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
This book provides a balanced account of the global environmental issues which threaten our society and which we neglect at our peril. Analysing both social and environmental components of the issues - global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain and drought - the book offers a valuable integrative...
The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change
Volume 1: Approaches, Evidences and Causes Volume 2: Human Impacts and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change is an extensive survey of the interdisciplinary science of environmental change, including recent debates on climate change and the full range of other natural and anthropogenic changes affecting the Earth-ocean-atmosphere system in the past, present and future....
Sustainability Matters
Environmental Management in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Sustainability Matters is a compilation of some of the best research papers submitted by students from the National University of Singapore's multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary graduate programme in environmental studies, as their MSc dissertations in Environmental Management [MEM]. This collection...
Trading Zones in Environmental Education
Creating Transdisciplinary Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Environmental educators often adhere to a relatively narrow theoretical paradigm focusing on changing attitudes and knowledge, which are assumed to foster pro-environmental behaviors, which, in turn, leads to better environmental quality. This book takes a different approach to trying to understand...
Environmental Sociology
From Analysis to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action illustrates how sociological perspectives can help us better understand the causes and consequences of environmental problems and provides examples of efforts to ameliorate these problems. The fourth edition of this environmental sociology reader includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Fundamentals of Environmental Site Assessment and Remediation examines all aspects of environmental site assessment and remediation and outlines the interdisciplinary skills needed to work in the field. It provides a comprehensive overview for students, environmental professionals, and real estate...
Perspectives on Environmental Law Scholarship
Essays on Purpose, Shape and Direction
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This collection invites environmental law scholars to reflect on what it means to be an environmental law scholar and to consider how and why environmental law scholars engage in environmental law scholarship. Leading environmental law scholars from different backgrounds and jurisdictions offer their...
Resolving Environmental Conflicts
Principles and Concepts, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Resolving a conflict is based on the art of helping people, with disparate points of view, find enough common ground to ease their fears, sheath their weapons, and listen to one another for their common good, which ultimately translates into social-environmental sustainability for all generations....