Environmental Studies

The book proposes a comprehensive negotiation framework that paints a holistic picture of multilateral negotiation dynamics and the role of negotiation management, demonstrating parallels between the in-depth case of climate negotiations and case pairs from world trade and biosafety. The research dr..

The book proposes a comprehensive negotiation framework that paints a holistic picture of multilateral negotiation dynamics and the role of negotiation management, demonstrating parallels between the in-depth case of climate negotiations and case pairs from world trade and biosafety. The research dr..

_x005F_x000D_ The collection covers different faiths’ responses to climate change and how religious action and interfaith interaction operate locally and internationally when it comes to the environment. The book is wide-ranging in its coverage and thoroughly demonstrates the relationship between fa..

Arguing for environmentally sustainable lifestyles, this envisages a new kind of consciousness based on the notion of the individual as an agent mediating between society and the environment...

Humanities for the Environment, or HfE, is an ambitious project that from 2013-2015 was funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project networked universities and researchers internationally through a system of "Observatories." This book collects the work of contributors..

Analyzes the consequences of conflict and competition, especially associated with race, ethnicity and gender in the ways Miami prepared, responded and recovered to Hurricane Andrew...

A lively, comprehensive introduction for environmental study, explaining how the environment functions, how environmental systems relate, and the ways in which people and the enviroment interact...

Integrating Environment and Economy provides a detailed and accessible examination of the policies and practices associated with local and regional strategies for integrating economic development and environmental management...

This book looks in detail at the preconditions and outlook for international cooperation on the development of Arctic petroleum resources, focusing on Norwegian–Russian cooperation in the Barents Sea towards 2025...

This explores the position of humanity in the environment from the principle that the models we construct are imperfect and provisional. Environmental cognition can be formed by looking at philosophy, ethics, social science and the arts..

In comparison to other textbooks, this book provides a balanced treatment of complete energy systems, covering the demand side, the supply side, and energy markets. The emphasis is very much on presenting a range of tools and methodologies that will help students find their way in analysing real wor..

This book examines how groups looking to plan and make decisions in any number of areas wade through the imperfect and often contradictory information they have to make fair, efficient, wise and well-informed choices. An emerging and very promising approach called joint fact-finding (JFF) can help. ..