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Managers of Global Change: The Influence of International Environmental Burea…
This title is an examination of the role and relevance of international bureaucracies in global environmental governance. After a discussion of theoretical context, reaserch design, and empiral methodology, the book presents nine in-depth case studies of bureaucracies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258593
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 367 pages)
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Hijacking Sustainability
How the sustainability movement has been co-opted: from ecobranding by Wal-Mart to the "greening" of the American military.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262254861
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- 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) :illustrations
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Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and …
"Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, a core research project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."This overview of recent research on how institutions matter in tackling environmental problems reports the findings and policy implications of a decade-long international research project.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286589
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 373 pages) :illustrations
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Metabolism of the anthroposphere: Analysis, evaluation, design
Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of urban systems, including ecosystems, is the anthroposphere; the physical flows and stocks of matter and energy within it form its metabolis…
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- 9780262301329
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- 1 online resource (x, 392 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Technoscience and environmental justice: Expert cultures in a grassroots move…
This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform science and engineering. The chapters present case studies of technical experts' encounters with environmental justice and activists and issues.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298407
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- 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Living in denial: Climate change, emotions, and everyday life
Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any action? In this book sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295772
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- 1 online resource (xix, 279 pages) :illustrations
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Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry, Environment…
How do international environmental standards come into being? One important way, as Elizabeth DeSombre shows in this book, is through the internationalization of regulations that one or more countries have undertaken domestically. Domestic environmental regulation, DeSombre argues, can create an incentive for environmentalists and industry--previously at odds with each other--to work together t…
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- 9780262271608
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages).
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Earth system analysis for sustainability
"Report of the 91st Dahlem Workshop on Earth System Analysis for Sustainabliity, Berlin, May 25-30, 2003"--Page [ii].Earth System Analysis for Sustainability uses an integrated systems approach to provide a panoramic view of planetary dynamics since the inception of life some four billion years ago and to identify principles for responsible management of the global environment in the future. Pe…
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- 9780262310635
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 454 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The economic dynamics of environmental law
This text shows in detail how the concept of economic dynamics can reshape thinking about environmental law and policy. It argues that environmental policymaking in the US has been poorly served by the view of the relationship between environmental regulation and economy, technology and business.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272001
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- 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages)
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Failed Promises: Evaluating the Federal Government's Response to Environmenta…
A systematic evaluation of the implementation of the federal government's environmental justice policies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327138
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages).
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