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Redefining Diversity and Dynamics of Natural Resources Management
in Southeast Asia, Volumes 1-4 brings together scientific research
and policy issues across various topographical areas in Asia to
provide a comprehensive overview of the issues facing the region.
Upland Natural Resources and Social Ecological Systems in Northern
Vietnam, Volume 2, provides chapters on natural resource management
in northern Vietnam tied together by the concept that participatory
local involvement is needed in all aspects of natural resource
management. The volume examines planning for climate change,
managing forestland, alleviating food shortages, living with
biodiversity, and assessing the development projects and policies
being implemented. Without the involvement of local communities,
households, and ultimately individual people, the needed action
will not be effectively taken. Upland Natural Resources and Social
Ecological Systems in Northern Vietnam, Volume 2, goes beyond just
Northern Vietnam to address the issue of transboundary natural
resource management-an issue that Vietnam is dealing with in its
relations with northern neighbor, China, and western neighbor,
Laos-as well as the transboundary water governance between Pakistan
and India in south Asia, with the hope that some of the lessons
learned may one day be useful in the case of Vietnam and its
neighbors.
Marine Ecotoxicology: Current Knowledge and Future Issues is the
first unified resource to cover issues related to contamination,
responses, and testing techniques of saltwater from a toxicological
perspective. With its unprecedented focus on marine environments
and logical chapter progression, this book is useful to graduate
students, ecotoxicologists, risk assessors, and regulators involved
or interested in marine waters. As human interaction with these
environments increases, understanding of the pollutants and toxins
introduced into the oceans becomes ever more critical, and this
book builds a foundation of knowledge to assist scientists in
studying, monitoring, and making decisions that affect both marine
environments and human health. A team of world renowned experts
provide detailed analyses of the most common contaminants in marine
environments and explain the design and purpose of toxicity testing
methods, while exploring the future of ecotoxicology studies in
relation to the world's oceans. As the threat of increasing
pollution in marine environments becomes an ever more tangible
reality, Marine Ecotoxicology offers insights and guidance to
mitigate that threat.
Russia and the Politics of International Environmental Regimes is
an important and timely analysis of Russia's interaction with the
international environmental policy process. The three authors draw
on a wealth of research experience working within the region in
order to explore Russia s activities with respect to climate
policy, water protection and fisheries management. Their detailed
analysis provides an illuminating and much-needed insight into the
interaction between Russian foreign and domestic policy goals and
international environmental regimes operating at a range of
scales.' - Jonathan Oldfield, University of Birmingham, UK'This is
a timely contribution to our understanding of the motives behind,
and results to be expected from, Russia's international
environmental engagement. By focusing on climate change policy,
Barents Sea fisheries, and regional seas protection in the Baltic,
the authors judiciously conclude that trans-boundary environmental
commitments are primarily the result of 'great power' concerns
including domestic economic growth, regional trade, and a globally
favorable image - not ecological conscience. The book represents a
major step forward in post-Soviet foreign policy studies.' - David
Feldman, University of California, Irvine, US 'This valuable book
brings together the insights and research of three established
scholars. Students new to the environmental aspects of Russia's
international engagement will appreciate the clear and readable
case studies. The findings and discussion that result from the
authors' unique and rigorous cross-case comparison will be of great
interest to scholars of Russia s foreign policy and environmental
policy more broadly.' - Elana Wilson Rowe, Norwegian Institute of
International Affairs Russia and the Politics of International
Environmental Regimes examines the political relationship between
Russia and other states in environmental matters. Based on detailed
empirical analysis and data, including interviews and media
sources, this groundbreaking book scrutinizes the dynamics of
Russia's participation in international environmental politics. The
authors explore three detailed case studies focusing on climate
policy, water protection and fisheries management. They then
recommend how best to negotiate with Russia on key environmental
issues. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of
environmental politics, international relations and Russian
studies. Environmental policymakers will also find this to be a
useful tool when looking to understand environmental politics
within Russia. Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Environmental
Regimes and Russia's Approaches to Environmental and Foreign Policy
3. The Global Case: The Climate Regime 4. The Regional Case:
Protecting the Environment of the Baltic Sea 5. The Bilateral Case:
Fisheries Management in the Barents Sea 6. Discussion: Two levels
of Discourses in Russian Environmental Policy 7. Conclusion:
Environmental Encounters? References Index
There has been an exponential growth in international environmental
treaty-making over the past fifty years, to the point of 'treaty
congestion' - with a total of more than 1,300 multilateral (global
and regional) agreements on the topic and close to 3,000 bilateral
ones currently in force. This research review addresses this
phenomenon from a variety of disciplinary perspectives:
international law, political science, and 'ecological economics'.
The objective is comparative analysis, with a view to identifying
common features and common problems of transnational environmental
regimes, in light of their historical evolution, their application
and effectiveness in practice, and possible lessons learned in
their institutional 'interplay' with each other.
Today's highly industrialized and technologically controlled global
food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes
towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At
the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively
impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us,
human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of
increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and
exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global
commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost,
increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers
and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the
excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often
unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the
growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to
topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies
through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms
toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.
Modern civilization and the social reproduction of capitalism are
bound inextricably with fossil fuel consumption. But as carbon
energy resources become scarcer, what implications will this have
for energy-intensive modes of life? Can renewable energy sustain
high levels of accumulation?? Or will we witness the end of
existing capitalist economies? This book provides an innovative and
timely study that mobilizes a new theory of capitalism to explain
the rise and fall of petro-market civilization. Di Muzio
investigates how theorists of political economy have largely taken
energy for granted and illuminates how the exploitation of fossil
fuels increased the universalization and magnitude of capital
accumulation. He then examines the likelihood of renewable
resources providing a feasible alternative and asks whether they
can beat peak oil prices to sustain food production, health care,
science and democracy. Using the capital as power framework, this
book considers the unevenly experienced consequences of monetizing
fossil fuels for people and the planet.
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Marine Paleobiodiversity presents a concise history, development
and current status of paleobiodiversity research, thus forming a
reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates, who are
interested in this subject and intend venture into serious
research. This book provides a link-reference between text book and
highly-specialized journal articles, and so will be valuable for a
wide audience of geologists and climatologists.
In today's society, businesses are being pressured to play a more
active role in addressing global environmental, social, and
economic issues. Therefore, a considerable shift in the functional
components of enterprises is required to achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals. SMEs play a vital role in countries'
socio-economic structures, and the importance of SMEs is
increasingly recognized as a factor of economic stability and
social cohesion. In order to ensure SMEs are appropriately utilized
to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, further study is
required. Examining the Vital Financial Role of SMEs in Achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals highlights the challenges and
opportunities of using the concepts of economic sustainability to
achieve sustainability goals as well as the role SMEs play in
developing sustainable practices. The book also discusses how
finance sustainability can be used to improve the stability of
policies. Covering topics such as blockchain, corporate social
responsibility, and performance management practices, this
reference work is ideal for business owners, policymakers,
researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors,
and students.
Climate Engineering: A Normative Perspective takes as its subject a
prospective policy response to the urgent problem of climate
change, one previously considered taboo. Climate engineering, the
"deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment
in order to counteract anthropogenic climate change," encapsulates
a wide array of technological proposals. Daniel Edward Callies here
focuses on one proposal currently being researched-stratospheric
aerosol injection-which would spray aerosol particles into the
upper atmosphere to thus reflect a small portion of incoming
sunlight and slightly cool the globe. This book asks important
questions that should guide moral and political discussions of
geoengineering. Does engaging in such research lead us towards
inexorable deployment? Could this research draw us away from the
more important tasks of mitigation and adaptation? Should we avoid
risky interventions in the climate system altogether? What would
legitimate governance of this technology look like? What would
constitute a just distribution of the benefits and burdens
associated with stratospheric aerosol injection? Who ought to be
included in the decision-making process? Callies offers a normative
perspective on these and other questions related to engineering the
climate, ultimately arguing for research and regulation guided by
norms of legitimacy, distributive justice, and procedural justice.
Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and
Environmental Variations in Indonesia examines biosocial change in
the Austronesian community of the Kodi by examining multispecies
interactions between select biota and abiota. Cynthia T. Fowler
describes how the Kodi people coordinate their mundane and ritual
practices with polychaetes and celestial bodies, and how this
synchrony encourages and is encouraged by social and ecological
variations. Fowler grounds her anthropogenic environmental research
with information from geospatial science, marine ecology,
astronomy, physics, and astrophysics.
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