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Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence: Deliberative Environmental Law
A proposal for a philosophical foundation and a realistic deliberative mechanism for creating a transnational common law for the environment.In Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the necessary characteristics of a meaningful global jurisprudence, a jurisprudence that would underpin international environmental law. Arguing that theories of po…
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- 9780262258524
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- 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages)
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Science in Environmental Policy: The Politics of Objective Advice
An analysis of the role & influence of scientists at the agenda-setting, legislative & implementation stages of environmental policy making, Keller draws on political theory & on empirical evidence from scientific reports, news coverage Congressional hearings & interviews.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258982
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- 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) :illustrations.
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Political Theory and Global Climate Change
Political theorists consider the challenge of global climate change from a range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, critical legal studies, and neo-Marxism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285445
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 228 pages)
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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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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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From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security: Exploring New Limits to Growth
From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security revisits the findings of The Global 2000 Report to the President--commissioned by President Jimmy Carter in 1977--and presents an up-to-date overview, informed by the earlier projections, of such critical topics as population, water, food, energy, climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity. It examines current environmental trends in order to c…
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- 9780262281621
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- 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) :illustrations.
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Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order
"We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we consume without consuming the systems that support life? How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly, Thomas Princen hel…
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- 9780262266079
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- 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)
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Governing environmental flows :global challenges to social theory
Lays the foundations for a new conceptualization of global environmental governance that draws on the flow perspective found in recent work in sociology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284103
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages) : illustrations, map
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Knowledge and environmental policy: Re-imagining the boundaries of science an…
During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scientists were censored. The Obama administration has pledged to restore science to the policy making process. And yet, as the authors of Knowledge and Environmental Policy point out, the problems in con…
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- 9780262289153
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- 1 online resource (xv, 260 pages) :illustrations.
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State and environment :the comparative study of environmental governance
This volume of comparative studies documents the continuing relevance of the state in environmental politics and policy. The book also demonstrates the analytical power of the comparative approach to the study of environmental politics and policy, offering cross-national comparisons of environmental governance in both developed and developing countries. Some chapters are based on qualitative st…
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