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Addressing the Climate Crisis: Local Action in Theory and Practice
This open access book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate change at multiple levels of our societies, amidst growing calls for transformative and inclusive climate action. In an era of increasing recognition regarding climate and ecological breakdown, this book offers hope, inspiration and analyses for multi-level …
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- 9783030797393
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- xxv, 143p : ill.
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- 363.705 ADD a
Politics and the environment in Eastern Europe
Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental resources are interlinked with systems of governance and power, from local to EU levels. Key challenges in the eastern European region today include …
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- 9781800641341
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- 342 p. : ill.
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- 363.700947 KRA p
Rationality concepts in environmental valuation
Survey based valuation techniques like the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) rely particularly on the premise of respondents’ rationality when answering willingness to pay (WTP) questions. Results of CVM surveys have repeatedly put this fundamental assumption into question. This study adopts a more realistic view of rationality accounting for respondents’ limited capacities to process infor…
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- 9783631573365
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- xvi, 239 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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- Hohenheimer volkswirtschaftliche Schriften, Bd. 58
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- 333.72 FRO r
Air quality integrated assessment : a European perspective
This book reports on the results of an extended survey conducted across Europe within the framework of the APPRAISAL FP7 project to determine the extent to which an integrated assessment approach to air quality is being adopted, on the one hand, by regional and local authorities to develop air quality plans and, on the other, by researchers. Following a detailed analysis of the role and structu…
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- 9783319333496
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- vii. 110p. : ill.
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- 628.53 AIR a
Nature Inc: environmental conservation in the neoliberal age
With global wildlife populations and biodiversity riches in peril, it is obvious that innovative methods of addressing our planet’s environmental problems are needed. But is “the market” the answer? Nature™ Inc. brings together cutting-edge research by respected scholars from around the world to analyze how “neoliberal conservation” is reshaping human–nature relations.
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- 9780816539215
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- 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- Critical green engagements: investigating the green economy and its alternatives
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- 363.7 NAT n
Environmental dispute resolution in Indonesia
In the last two decades, Indonesia has seen a dramatic proliferation of environmental disputes in a variety of sectors, triggered by intensified deforestation and large scale mining operations in the resource rich outer islands, together with rapid industrialisation in the densely populated inner island of Java. Whilst the emergence of environmental disputes has sometimes attracted political re…
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- 9789067183260
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- xvii, 334p.
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- 344.598046 NIC e
International review of environmental history : volume 6, issue 1, 2020
International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It encourages scholars to think big and to tackle the challenges of writing environmental histories across different methodologies, nations, and time-scales. The journal embraces interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational methods, while still recognising the importance o…
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- 22053212
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- 125p. : ill.
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- 333.7 INT i
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