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Themed issue - environment 2010
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 199.00Excess sludge is an inevitable drawback of the waste-activated sludge process. Both the reduction of the amount of sludge produced and improving its dewaterability are of paramount importance. With more stringent environmental and legislative constraints, increasing sludge production and limited disposal options, new reduction alternatives have to... more...
Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies
World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 9.99Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good governance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the key tool for integrating environmental considerations into policies, programs and plans. This book focuses on SEA applied to policies. Through lessons learned from previous use of SEA on policies, it draws lessons on... more...
Valuing Complex Natural Resource Systems
Edward Elgar Publishing 2006; US$ 40.00In complex natural resource systems, modifications or disruptions tend to affect many and diverse components of the ecological system, settlements and groups of people. This book uses the Lagoon of Venice ? a unique natural resource, wildlife habitat, center of cultural heritage and recreational site ? as an example of one such system that has been... more...
Turmoil in American Public Policy: Science, Democracy, and the Environment
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 35.00This book explores the intricacies of the science-policy linkage that pervades environmental policymaking in a democracy. more...
Ecologies of the Heart
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 44.99A treatment of the ways that humans process information in relation to resource management. It aims to answer the question of why people hold beliefs about the environment that is counterfactual to modern scientists. more...
Institutional Dynamics in Environmental Governance
Springer 2006; US$ 119.99Presents analyses of a number of well-known cases, from the so-called policy arrangement approach. Cases discussed range over organic farming, integrated water management, nature policy, cultural heritage policy, integrated region-oriented policy, corporate environmental management and target group policy, and more. more...
The ISIS Agreement
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95This is the must-have book for leaders in business, organizations and government who are scrambling to get a grip on sustainability while improving performance in the era of climate change. Renowned business and sustainability consultant Alan AtKisson distils decades of wisdom and experience into this highly readable and motivational work. Covering... more...
Environmental Politics and Deliberative Democracy
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 40.00This book argues that in academic inquiry and policy practice there has been a deliberative turn, manifested in a revitalized interest in deliberative democracy coupled with calls for novel forms of public-private governance. more...
Feeling the Heat
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00To avoid uncontrolled climate change, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be brought under control by major emitters outside the affluent West. The authors investigate the political obstacles in BRIC countries and what their governments could do to strengthen climate policies without incurring serious political damage. more...
Ecological Modernisation and Japan
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 44.95In the 1990s, Japan gradually began to turn green and started to experiment with more participatory forms of environmental governance. Ecological Modernisation and Japan explores this transformation and looks at Japan as a case for ecological modernisation while contextualising the discussion within its unique history and recent discussions about globalisation... more...









