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Redefining Diversity and Dynamics of Natural Resources Management in Asia, Volume 2 - Upland Natural Resources and Social... Redefining Diversity and Dynamics of Natural Resources Management in Asia, Volume 2 - Upland Natural Resources and Social Ecological Systems in Northern Vietnam (Paperback)
Ganesh Shivakoti, Mai van Thanh, Tran Duc Vien, Steven Leisz
R2,562 R2,417 Discovery Miles 24 170 Save R145 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 (Hardcover): Julian Blasco, Peter M. Chapman, Olivia Campana, Miriam... Marine Ecotoxicology - Current Knowledge and Future Issues (Hardcover)
Julian Blasco, Peter M. Chapman, Olivia Campana, Miriam Hampel
R2,578 Discovery Miles 25 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Familiar Fish, Their Habits and Capture - A Practical Book on Fresh-Water Game Fish (Hardcover): Eugene McCarthy Familiar Fish, Their Habits and Capture - A Practical Book on Fresh-Water Game Fish (Hardcover)
Eugene McCarthy
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Russia and the Politics of International Environmental Regimes - Environmental Encounters or Foreign Policy? (Paperback): Anna... Russia and the Politics of International Environmental Regimes - Environmental Encounters or Foreign Policy? (Paperback)
Anna Korppoo, Nina Tynkkynen, Geir Honneland
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

The Big Thaw - Policy, Governance, and Climate Change in the Circumpolar North (Paperback): Ezra B.W. Zubrow, Errol Meidinger,... The Big Thaw - Policy, Governance, and Climate Change in the Circumpolar North (Paperback)
Ezra B.W. Zubrow, Errol Meidinger, Kim Diana Connolly
R831 R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 Save R78 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Natural History of Lake Ontario (Hardcover): Susan P Gateley Natural History of Lake Ontario (Hardcover)
Susan P Gateley
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Theology of Nature (Hardcover): Ruben Alvarado A Theology of Nature (Hardcover)
Ruben Alvarado
R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
International Environmental Agreements (Hardcover): Peter H. Sand International Environmental Agreements (Hardcover)
Peter H. Sand
R10,921 Discovery Miles 109 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

A World Not Made for Us - Topics in Critical Environmental Philosophy (Hardcover): Keith R. Peterson A World Not Made for Us - Topics in Critical Environmental Philosophy (Hardcover)
Keith R. Peterson
R1,973 Discovery Miles 19 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Ecopolitics of Consumption - The Food Trade (Hardcover): H Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, Madhudaya Sinha The Ecopolitics of Consumption - The Food Trade (Hardcover)
H Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, Madhudaya Sinha; Contributions by Nicole Anae, Cori Brewster, …
R2,607 Discovery Miles 26 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Carbon Capitalism - Energy, Social Reproduction and World Order (Hardcover): Tim Di Muzio Carbon Capitalism - Energy, Social Reproduction and World Order (Hardcover)
Tim Di Muzio
R3,791 Discovery Miles 37 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Mutual Aid (Hardcover): Peter Kropotkin, Victor Robinson Mutual Aid (Hardcover)
Peter Kropotkin, Victor Robinson
R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Conversations About The Environment (Hardcover): Howard Burton Conversations About The Environment (Hardcover)
Howard Burton
R863 Discovery Miles 8 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marine Paleobiodiversity - Responses to Sea Level Cycles and Perturbations (Paperback): Mu Ramkumar Marine Paleobiodiversity - Responses to Sea Level Cycles and Perturbations (Paperback)
Mu Ramkumar
R1,347 Discovery Miles 13 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Examining the Vital Financial Role of SMEs in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Hardcover): Dalila Taleb, Mohammed... Examining the Vital Financial Role of SMEs in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Hardcover)
Dalila Taleb, Mohammed El Amine Abdelli, Afef Khalil, Asma Sghaier
R6,734 Discovery Miles 67 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Compleat Ambler - A Hiker's Notebook about the Flora, Fauna and Fungi of a Healthy Mind and Body (Hardcover): William... The Compleat Ambler - A Hiker's Notebook about the Flora, Fauna and Fungi of a Healthy Mind and Body (Hardcover)
William Donald Needham
R1,392 R1,241 Discovery Miles 12 410 Save R151 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Biosorption (Hardcover): Jan Derco, Branislav Vrana Biosorption (Hardcover)
Jan Derco, Branislav Vrana
R3,326 Discovery Miles 33 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Biodiversity Loss in the 21st Century (Hardcover): Neil Griffin Biodiversity Loss in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Neil Griffin
R3,180 R2,877 Discovery Miles 28 770 Save R303 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Biodiversity: Sustaining Life (Hardcover): Jason Hendon Biodiversity: Sustaining Life (Hardcover)
Jason Hendon
R3,439 R3,110 Discovery Miles 31 100 Save R329 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Climate Engineering - A Normative Perspective (Hardcover): Daniel Edward Callies Climate Engineering - A Normative Perspective (Hardcover)
Daniel Edward Callies
R3,397 R2,394 Discovery Miles 23 940 Save R1,003 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Logging by Steam - Employing Improved Systems Under the Patents of Baptist, Beekman, Miller, Dickinson and Others (Hardcover):... Logging by Steam - Employing Improved Systems Under the Patents of Baptist, Beekman, Miller, Dickinson and Others (Hardcover)
Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company Log
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Trace Elements - Human Health and Environment (Hardcover): Hosam El-Din M. Saleh, Eithar El-Adham Trace Elements - Human Health and Environment (Hardcover)
Hosam El-Din M. Saleh, Eithar El-Adham
R3,337 Discovery Miles 33 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Biodiversity Enrichment: Socio-Economic Impacts and Genetics (Hardcover): Neil Griffin Biodiversity Enrichment: Socio-Economic Impacts and Genetics (Hardcover)
Neil Griffin
R2,732 R2,484 Discovery Miles 24 840 Save R248 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Framing in Sustainability Science (Hardcover): Shogo Kudo, Takashi Mino Framing in Sustainability Science (Hardcover)
Shogo Kudo, Takashi Mino
R1,406 Discovery Miles 14 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba - Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia (Hardcover): Cynthia T.... Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba - Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia (Hardcover)
Cynthia T. Fowler
R2,365 Discovery Miles 23 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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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