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Global Environmental Institutions continues to provide the most
accessible and succinct overview of the major global institutions
attempting to protect the natural environment. Fully updated
throughout to reflect the latest environmental issues, the second
edition includes substantial new material on developments in
international agreements and how institutional mechanisms have
evolved in the past 10 years, including the creation of the new
Sustainable Development Goals, the Minamata Convention on Mercury,
and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This second edition
maintains the clear structure of the first edition, examining: *
the underlying causes of global environmental problems * the
creation of global environmental institutions * the effectiveness
of action undertaken by these institutions. Providing an overview
of the United Nations Environment Programme and the other entities
within the UN that play important roles in global environmental
governance, it also examines institutions clustered by issue area,
introducing institutions that focus on protecting endangered
species and biodiversity, govern the ocean environment (focusing on
the atmosphere), and regulate the transboundary movement of
hazardous substances. Concluding with an updated chapter on
emerging issues and future directions drawing on the latest
scholarship in the field, and written by an acknowledged expert in
the field, Global Environmental Institutions is essential reading
for students of environmental politics and international
organizations.
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The Sister Split
Auriane Desombre
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R218
R186
Discovery Miles 1 860
Save R32 (15%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we
justify harvesting the world's natural resources at unsustainable
rates, even though these activities cause known harm to both people
and ecosystems? Scientific knowledge and technological advances
alone cannot tackle these environmental challenges; they also
involve difficult political choices and trade-offs both locally and
globally. What is Environmental Politics? introduces students to
the different ways society attempts to deal with the political
decisions needed to prevent or recover from environmental damage.
Across its six chapters leading environmental scholar Elizabeth
DeSombre explains what makes environmental problems, such as
climate change, overfishing or deforestation, particularly
challenging to address via political processes, what types of
political structures are more or less likely to prioritize
protecting the environment, and how effective political
intervention can improve environmental conditions and the lives of
people who depend on them. It will be a vital resource for students
new to the field of environmental politics as well as readers
interested in protecting the future of our planet.
Global Environmental Institutions continues to provide the most
accessible and succinct overview of the major global institutions
attempting to protect the natural environment. Fully updated
throughout to reflect the latest environmental issues, the second
edition includes substantial new material on developments in
international agreements and how institutional mechanisms have
evolved in the past 10 years, including the creation of the new
Sustainable Development Goals, the Minamata Convention on Mercury,
and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This second edition
maintains the clear structure of the first edition, examining: *
the underlying causes of global environmental problems * the
creation of global environmental institutions * the effectiveness
of action undertaken by these institutions. Providing an overview
of the United Nations Environment Programme and the other entities
within the UN that play important roles in global environmental
governance, it also examines institutions clustered by issue area,
introducing institutions that focus on protecting endangered
species and biodiversity, govern the ocean environment (focusing on
the atmosphere), and regulate the transboundary movement of
hazardous substances. Concluding with an updated chapter on
emerging issues and future directions drawing on the latest
scholarship in the field, and written by an acknowledged expert in
the field, Global Environmental Institutions is essential reading
for students of environmental politics and international
organizations.
Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we
justify harvesting the world's natural resources at unsustainable
rates, even though these activities cause known harm to both people
and ecosystems? Scientific knowledge and technological advances
alone cannot tackle these environmental challenges; they also
involve difficult political choices and trade-offs both locally and
globally. What is Environmental Politics? introduces students to
the different ways society attempts to deal with the political
decisions needed to prevent or recover from environmental damage.
Across its six chapters leading environmental scholar Elizabeth
DeSombre explains what makes environmental problems, such as
climate change, overfishing or deforestation, particularly
challenging to address via political processes, what types of
political structures are more or less likely to prioritize
protecting the environment, and how effective political
intervention can improve environmental conditions and the lives of
people who depend on them. It will be a vital resource for students
new to the field of environmental politics as well as readers
interested in protecting the future of our planet.
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Fish (Hardcover)
E Desombre
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R1,341
Discovery Miles 13 410
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Fishing has played a vital role in human history and culture. But
today this key resource faces a serious crisis as most species are
being overfished or fished to their very limit. Governments have
tried to tackle the problem with limited success. Many of their
actions have been counterproductive or ineffective. What will
happen to global fisheries, and the populations that depend on
them, as we continue to catch more fish than the oceans can
reproduce? This book explores the causes of the current crisis in
the world's fisheries, and what needs to be done to address the
situation. It explains the structure of the fishing industry, the
incentives that persuade individuals or companies to catch fish at
unsustainable levels, and illuminates the problems created by
governmental efforts to use fishing policy as a tool for economic
development or to win votes in domestic elections. It also looks at
the role of aquaculture in either decreasing or increasing the
pressure on wild fish stocks. The dire condition of fish stocks has
led governments and consumer organizations to consider new
approaches to protect the global supply of fish. DeSombre and
Barkin conclude by showing how such methods, along with new forms
of international regulation and informed decision-making by
consumers, all have an important part to play in rewarding and thus
encouraging sustainable fishing behaviour in the future.
Politically, the world is composed of states. Environmentally, the
world is made up of ecosystems. The disconnect between these two
systems makes addressing environmental issues globally both
difficult and necessary. The study of global environmental politics
draws on a variety of academic traditions. It uses international
relations theory to look at the concerns and actions of states, but
has also had to find a variety of new concepts and perspectives in
order to explain issues unique to the study of the environment.
Here, DeSombre examines four important aspects of the field:
international environmental cooperation; the issues of science,
uncertainty and risk; the experience of developing states in global
environmental negotiations; and the role of non-state actors. In
the second half of the book she examines these issues through the
use of case studies on specific problems facing the global
environment, including ozone depletion and global climate change,
the politics of whaling, the protection of Amazonian biodiversity
and acid rain in Europe and North America.
No one sets out to intentionally cause environmental problems. All
things being equal, we are happy to protect environmental
resources; in fact, we tend to prefer our air cleaner and our
species protected. But despite not wanting to create environmental
problems, we all do so regularly in the course of living our
everyday lives. Why do we behave in ways that cause environmental
harm? It is often easy and inexpensive to behave in ways with bad
environmental consequences, but more difficult and costly to take
environmentally friendly actions. The incentives we face, some
created by the nature of environmental resources, some by social
and political structures, often do not make environmentally
beneficial behavior the most likely choice. Furthermore, our
behavior is conditioned by habits and social norms that fail to
take environmental protection into consideration. In this book,
Elizabeth R. DeSombre integrates research from political science,
sociology, psychology, and economics to understand why bad
environmental behavior makes perfect sense. As she notes, there is
little evidence that having more information about environmental
problems or the way an individual's actions contribute to them
changes behavior in meaningful ways, and lack of information is
rarely the underlying cause that connects behavior to harm. In some
cases such knowledge may even backfire, as people come to see
themselves as powerless to address huge global problems and respond
by pushing these issues out of their minds. The fact that causing
environmental problems is never anyone's primary goal means that
people are happy to stop causing them if the alternative behavior
still accomplishes their underlying goals. If we can figure out why
those problems are caused, when no one intends to cause them, we
can develop strategies that work to shift behavior in a positive
direction. Over the course of this book, DeSombre considers the
role of structure, incentives, information, habit, and norms on
behavior in order to formulate lessons about how these factors lead
to environmentally problematic behavior, and what understanding
their effects can tell us about ways to change behavior. To prevent
or address environmental problems, we have to understand why even
good people do bad environmental things.
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Fish (Paperback)
E Desombre
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R606
R566
Discovery Miles 5 660
Save R40 (7%)
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Ships in 7 - 13 working days
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Fishing has played a vital role in human history and culture. But
today this key resource faces a serious crisis as most species are
being overfished or fished to their very limit. Governments have
tried to tackle the problem with limited success. Many of their
actions have been counterproductive or ineffective. What will
happen to global fisheries, and the populations that depend on
them, as we continue to catch more fish than the oceans can
reproduce? This book explores the causes of the current crisis in
the world's fisheries, and what needs to be done to address the
situation. It explains the structure of the fishing industry, the
incentives that persuade individuals or companies to catch fish at
unsustainable levels, and illuminates the problems created by
governmental efforts to use fishing policy as a tool for economic
development or to win votes in domestic elections. It also looks at
the role of aquaculture in either decreasing or increasing the
pressure on wild fish stocks. The dire condition of fish stocks has
led governments and consumer organizations to consider new
approaches to protect the global supply of fish. DeSombre and
Barkin conclude by showing how such methods, along with new forms
of international regulation and informed decision-making by
consumers, all have an important part to play in rewarding and thus
encouraging sustainable fishing behaviour in the future.
Politically, the world is composed of states. Environmentally, the
world is made up of ecosystems. This disconnection between
ecological and political systems makes addressing environmental
issues at the global level both more difficult and more necessary.
This volume examines how we should set about addressing the
problems that face the environment internationally. The field of
international environmental politics draws on a variety of academic
traditions. It uses international relations theory to look at the
concerns and actions of states; but it also uses variety of new
perspectives to explain issues that are unique to the study of the
environment. Elizabeth DeSombre explores four important approaches
to the field: International environmental cooperation; the
relationship between the environment and security; the issues of
science, uncertainty and risk; and the role of non-state actors.
She explores these approaches with the help of case studies on
specific problems facing the global environment, focusing in
particular on ozone depletion and global climate change; the
politics of whaling; the protection of Amazonian biodiversity; and
acid rain in Europe and North America.
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