World Seas An Environmental Evaluation

• Author : Charles Sheppard
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 24 August 2018

World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Second Edition, Volume One: Europe, The Americas and West Africa provides a comprehensive review of the environmental condition of the seas of Europe, the Americas and West Africa. Each chapter is written by experts in the field who provide historical overviews in environmental terms, current environmental status, major problems arising from human use, informed comments on major trends, problems and successes, and recommendations for the future. The book is an invaluable worldwide reference source for

• Author : Charles Sheppard
• Publisher : Academic Press, is
• Release : 18 May 2022

• Author : World Bank,The University of Gothenburg,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,The Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment
• Publisher : World Bank Publications
• Release : 11 November 2010

This book presents the findings and recommendations of the evaluation of the World Bank's Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Pilot Program. It shows that SEA can contribute to improving development policy and sector reform by calling attention to environmental and social priorities, strengthening constituencies, enhancing policy capacities, and improving social accountability. It also provides guidance for undertaking SEA in policy and sector reform. Although it acknowledges the need for tailoring SEA to the context of specific sectors and countries, the book

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 14 July 2018

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 79, the latest release in a series that has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963, updates on many topics that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology and biological oceanography. This latest release includes a review of patterns of multiple paternity across sea turtle rookeries, parasites and pathogens in seabirds, progress in marine genomics and bioinformatics, the rise of sea turtle research and

• Author : Marcos Rubal,Jose Manuel Guerra-García,Juan Moreira Da Rocha,Carlos Navarro Barranco,Macarena Ros,Puri Veiga
• Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
• Release : 17 March 2022

• Author : Ralf Aschemann,Thomas Jahn,Maria Rosario Partidario,Barry Sadler,Rob Verheem
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 10 September 2012

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

• Author : Barry Sadler,D. Barry Dalal-Clayton
• Publisher : Earthscan
• Release : 18 May 2022

This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) that is intended to serve as a baseline for the work of an OECD Task Team on SEA and a UNEP initiative on integrated planning and assessment. It describes trends in application and experience in different contexts worldwide, providing in-depth coverage of the status of SEA systems, and practice in developed, transitional and developing countries by a range of development agencies. The

• Author : Hussein Abaza,Ronald Bisset,Barry Sadler
• Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
• Release : 18 May 2022

• Author : Michael Short,Mark Baker,Jeremy Carter,Stephen Jay,Carys Jones
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 17 June 2013

'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective and why. It provides invaluable insights for practitioners and researchers in this rapidy evolving field' Riki Therivel, author of Strategic Environmental Assessment in Action Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning provides an authoritative,

• Author : Thomas B. Fischer,Ainhoa González
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release : 26 March 2021

This comprehensive Handbook shows how Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), an important decision support tool for strategies, policies, plans and programmes, is applied globally. It reflects on SEA practices and the advancements made over the past three decades in the development of SEA.

• Author : Trevor M. Letcher
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 09 May 2021

The Impacts of Climate Change: A Comprehensive Study of Physical, Biophysical, Social and Political Issues presents the very real issues associated with climate change and global warming and how it affects the planet and everyone on it. From a physical perspective, the book covers such topics as population pressures, food issues, rising sea-levels and coastline degradation, and health. It then goes on to present social impacts, such as humanitarian issues, ethics, adaptation, urban issues, local action, and socio-economic issues. Finally,

• Author : Robert J. A. Goodland,Jean-Roger Mercier
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 1999

• Author : Donat-P. Häder,E. Walter Helbling,Virginia E. Villafañe
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 30 September 2021

This book provides examples of pollutants, such as accidental oil spills and non-degradable plastic debris, which affect marine organisms of all taxa. Terrestrial runoff washes large amounts of dissolved organic materials from agriculture and industry, toxic heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and persistent organic pollutants which end up into rivers, coastal habitats, and open waters. While this book is not intended to encyclopaedically list all kinds of pollution, it rather exemplifies the problems by concentrating on a number of serious and prominent

• Author : E. Walter Helbling
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 18 May 2022

• Author : Barry Sadler,Jiří Dusík
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 17 March 2016

This book brings together the latest thinking in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and considers the key question of whether the processes are having a positive impact on strategic decision making, both in Europe and worldwide. As governments move to develop green agendas, the book explores the challenges of working within national systems, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of sector-specific SEA. The importance of stakeholder engagement is considered, as is the question of how to turn NIMBYs into WIMBYs –