Experiments on Energy the Environment and Sustainability

• Author : R. Mark Isaac,Douglas A. Norton
• Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
• Release : 07 April 2011

Presents experimental economics research focusing on issues of environmental quality and sustainability. This title covers such topics as institutions for cap-and-trade, eco-tourism, urban sprawl, and optimal pollution control strategies.

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 July 1972

• Author : David Aberbach
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 23 August 2021

Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life. Moral dilemmas are central in the literary genre of protest against the effects of industry, particularly in Romantic literature and ‘Condition of England’ novels. Writers from the time of the Industrial Revolution to the present—including William Blake, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henrik

• Author : Mark Imber,John Vogler
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 12 August 2005

Environmental issues and questions of global change are now firmly established on the international political agenda. This book provides a wide-ranging survey of the current treatment of environmental issues in international relations. This book begins by looking at the relevance of the different theoretical approaches current in international relations to the study of the environment. It analyzses a wide range of approaches from the debate between neo-realism and liberal institutionalism to the significant connections between gender and global environmental change.

• Author : Sanjay Sharma,Mark Starik
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release : 01 January 2004

The role of stakeholders is integral to corporate sustainability as society increasingly demands that corporations play a role in achieving environmental objectives in addition to building shareholder wealth. In this, the first book to gather cutting-edge

• Author : Tony Fitzpatrick
• Publisher : Policy Press
• Release : 09 February 2011

Bringing together leading experts, this textbook explores the key social, political, economic and moral challenges that environmental problems pose for social policy in a global context. Combining theory and practice with an interdisciplinary approach, the book reviews the current strategies and policies and provides a critique of proposed future developments in the field. Understanding the environment and social policy guides the reader through the subject in an accessible way using chapter summaries, further reading, recommended webpages, a glossary and questions

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 July 2022

• Author : Jerrold J Marcus
• Publisher : World Scientific
• Release : 03 May 1997

Negative environmental events make the headlines. Mining industry examples are the recent incidents at Summitville, Colorado, US, and the cyanide leak at Cambria Resource's Omai Operation in Guyana. In this volatile atmosphere, the publication of the Mining Environmental Handbook comes at an opportune time. It presents an objective, comprehensive and integrated examination of the effects of mining on the environment, and the environmental laws that deal with mining. Though stressing activities in the United States of America, it covers all

• Author : Partha Dasgupta,Karl-Göran Mäler
• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• Release : 01 July 2022

Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of local resources. Yet ‘official’ development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the dependence of poor countries on their natural resources; the link between acute poverty and environmental degradation; and the problems associated with the management of local common property such as soil and soil cover, water, forests and their products, animals, and

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund, Ocean, and Water Protection
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 July 1989

• Author : Efstathios E. Michaelides
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 27 April 2018

Energy and the Environment explains in simple terms what the energy demand is at the present, what the environmental effects of energy use are, and what can be accomplished to alleviate the environmental effects of energy use and ensure adequate energy supply. Though technical in approach, the text uses simple explanations of engineering processes and systems and algebra-based math to be comprehensible to students in a range of disciplines. Schematic diagrams, quantitative examples, and numerous problems will help students make

• Author : Partha Dasgupta,Karl-Göran Mäler
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 09 November 2000

These volumes present a set of authoritative studies of the role of environmental resources in the economic development process, written by leading scholars in a wide range of associated fields. Contributors address the problems connected with the management of local common property resources, such as soil, water, forests and their products, animals and fisheries, and supply both explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. To provide material that can be used in classroom teaching, the chapters are written

• Author : A. V. Baez,G. W. Knamiller,J. C. Smyth
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 22 October 2013

The Environment and Science and Technology Education covers topics on key issues in environmental education; school-based primary and secondary education; and community-based environmental education. The book also discusses topics on tertiary, professional and vocational environmental education and non-formal public environmental education. The text will give practical help to teachers in all countries in order to raise standards of education in those topics essential for development.

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on the Environment and the Atmosphere
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 July 1976

• Author : Prithi Nambiar
• Publisher : SAGE Publishing India
• Release : 12 August 2014

The book analyses the role of media and communication in negotiating the meaning of environment and sustainability in the developmental context of India. As part of the global development discourse, it has become necessary to refocus on the meanings attributed to environment, sustainability, and sustainable development at the local and national level. The impact of these globally generated imperatives on a democratic, fast-developing nation like India is determined by the extent to which meaning negotiation through discourse aids their acceptance