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Air Transport and the Environment
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 69.95Air Transport and the Environment provides an overview of the main issues relating to aviation environmental impacts. It explains the challenge facing policymakers in terms of sustainable development, focusing on the importance of balancing the industry's economic, social and environmental costs and benefits, both for people living now and for... more...
Assessments of Regional and Global Environmental Risks
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 49.95As environmental challenges grow larger in scale and implications, it is increasingly important to apply the best scientific knowledge in the decisionmaking process. Editors Farrell and J?ger present environmental assessments as the bridge between the expert knowledge of scientists and engineers on the one hand and decisionmakers on the other. When... more...
On the Origins and Dynamics of Biodiversity
Springer 2010; US$ 99.99Chance is necessary for living systems - from the cell to organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems. It is at the heart of their evolution and diversity. Long considered contingent on other factors, chance both produces random events in the environment, and is the product of endogenous mechanisms - molecular as well as cellular, demographic... more...
Environmental Impact Assessment - Setting Standards and Thresholds
Springer 2008; US$ 139.99Standards and Thresholds play an important role in many stages of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process. They can be legally-binding or guidance values and are linked to environmental data. This publication provides a comprehensive collection of standards and thresholds, their derivation and application in case studies of EIA projects.... more...
Strategic Environmental Assessment in Policy and Sector Reform
World Bank Publications 2010; US$ 14.99This 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,... more...
Handbook of Environmental Accounting
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 60.00This concise Handbook examines welfare measurement problems in a dynamic economy, focusing on the welfare-economic foundations for social accounting. With environmental accounting becoming an increasingly important area of research, this timely Handbook assesses the ways in which the system of national accounts should be modified to accurately reflect... more...
Mountain Justice
AK Press 2010; US$ 13.99Illuminating the human and environmental catastrophe coal companies don't want you to see. more...
In Too Deep
Wiley 2010; US$ 24.95The truth behind the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history In 2005, fifteen workers were killed when BP's Texas City Refinery exploded. In 2006, corroded pipes owned by BP led to an oil spill in Alaska. Now, in 2010, eleven men drilling for BP were killed in the blowout of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. What's next? In In Too... more...
Environmental Impact Assessment
CRC Press 2011; US$ 119.95Written to help decision makers form assessments on the environmental impacts a project would produce, this book provides readers with an in depth, yet understandable description of the ecological, socioeconomic, and other parts of the natural environment that may be affected. While written for professionals in government, consulting, and the private... more...
Something's Rising
The University Press of Kentucky 2009; US$ 19.95Something's Rising collects oral histories from a diverse group of individuals from Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Virginia who are fighting mountaintop removal, an ecologically devastating form of coal mining. Taken together, these voices stand as a testament of what it means to be an Appalachian and demonstrate the value of preserving a... more...









