Environmental Policy

This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integra..

This edited collection, first published in 1989, provides a detailed analysis of rural land-use policies on a country-specific basis. Case studies include analyses of planning and legislation in Britain, The Netherlands, Japan, the U.S.A. and Australia...

This edited collection, first published in 1989, provides a detailed analysis of rural land-use policies on a country-specific basis. Case studies include analyses of planning and legislation in Britain, The Netherlands, Japan, the U.S.A. and Australia...

Originally published in 1978, this volume addresses the scientific, economic, and administrative aspects of the public policy problem raised by the United States’ Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. This is an ideal title for students interested in environmental studies and public policy reform...

This book offers an empirically detailed, cross-nationally comparative account of the institutional logics and practices through which modern democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument designed to persuade publics that legal and policy decisions are f..

This book compiles research by scholars from the Global South on what should succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The research is an output of Southern Voice on Post-MDG International Development Goals (Southern Voice), a network of 48 thinks tanks from Africa, Asia and Latin America, wh..

This book explicitly explores the relationship between surfing and the environment, society and the economy. Adopting an innovative methodological approach, it presents original research through international case studies and considers future directions and challenges for sustainable surfing...

There has been a profound change within the sphere of government and societal regulation in recent years. Traditional hierarchical government has been challenged by new governance instruments relying on negotiations instead of command and control. Alongside this development there has been a change i..

There has been a profound change within the sphere of government and societal regulation in recent years. Traditional hierarchical government has been challenged by new governance instruments relying on negotiations instead of command and control. Alongside this development there has been a change i..

This book addresses the theory and practice of sustainability assessment applications, drawing from experiences globally in a variety of sectors and presenting lessons learned. Diverse international case studies from professionals and academics demonstrate best practice, illustrating the opportunity..

_x000D_ Sustainability in the Gulf covers the region’s contemporary development challenges through the lens of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, which place sustainability at the center of the solution addressing the current environmental, economic and social imbalances facing Gulf ..

This book will review the record of the UNDS over more than 70 years as a fount of ideas and concepts in development; as a contributor to development thinking and strategy; and as the principal source of global development goals from the first UN Development Decade to the SDGs...