Environmental Policy

Having been created for reasons quite unconnected with the environment, the success of EU policy in this field has given it a compelling new justification. A leading authority on the development and application of EU environmental policy, Nigel Haigh, traces the evolution of the EU's environmental p..

This book analyzes the unintended consequences of overlapping state and federal environmental regulations in the United States and provides context to current political debates about excessive and redundant regulatory oversight...

Written by an economist and an investment professional, this book addresses the economical and environmental implications of how we treat food. The book examines each aspect of the ‘food chain’, from agriculture, to production and processing, retail, preparation, consumption and recycling. Along the..

This new edition offers a timely update to a leading introductory text on food policy in the United States, including policy changes in the 2014 Farm Bill, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, new child nutrition legislation, reforms in food labeling policy, and many other developments...

This new edition offers a timely update to a leading introductory text on food policy in the United States, including policy changes in the 2014 Farm Bill, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, new child nutrition legislation, reforms in food labeling policy, and many other developments...

In order to draw lessons for the emerging field of marine spatial planning (MSP). this book explores the long, complex, and frequently contentious history of public lands management in the United States...

Futures: Imagining Socioecological Transformation locates vital possibilities for enacting urgently needed social and ecological transformation in the Anthropocene. Global in scope but grounded in specific socioecological contexts and relations, the book is essential reading for anyone who seeks pat..

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex rel..

_x005F_x000D_ This book maps the development of shale gas in multiple democratic governance systems: the US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany and Poland. Overall, the book proposes a systemic, participatory, community led approach required to achieve a form of legitimacy that allows communities to der..

The Anthropocene is a volatile and potentially catastrophic age demanding new ways of thinking about relations between humans and the nonhuman world. This book explores how responses to environmental challenges are hampered by a grief for a pristine and certain past, rather than considering the scal..

Illustrated by an in-depth analysis of waste reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour in Exeter, Devon, this volume provides a timely evaluation of research on household waste management, develops an original analytical model and demonstrates the utility and importance of focusing on individual atti..

This ground-breaking book explores the origins, development and contemporary significance of the green movement's ideology. It also indicates how different groups have modified them to respond to contemporary political realities...