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Radioactive Wasteby Frans Berkhout
Routledge 1991; US$ 74.00This analysis of nuclear strategy, the politics of nuclear power and the shifting emphasis of government regulation redefines the issue of radwaste management and sets it at the centre of the current debate about the environment. more...
Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformationsby Roy Ellen; Peter Parkes; Alan Bicker
Routledge 2000; US$ 44.95The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global transference of traditional practices and representations of resources. more...
Emissions Trading for Climate Policyby Bernd Hansjürgens
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 23.00Bringing together economists, political scientists and lawyers, this book provides a description, analysis and evaluation of emissions trading as an instrument to control greenhouse gases. Offering a systematic comparison of US and European experiences of emissions trading, it will be essential reading for all those concerned with climate policy. more...
Protecting The Arcticby Mark Nuttall
Taylor & Francis 1998; US$ 43.95Nuttall explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, investigating their involvement in international environmental policy-making. more...
Environmental Policy, International Trade and Factor Marketsby C.C. Chao; E. Siu-Hung Yu
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 103.00Examines the relationship among trade and investment policies, as well as environmental regulations, especially for developing economies. In this book the impacts of pollution taxes and environmental standards on employment and social welfare are examined, and the coordination of optimal trade, investment and environmental policies are analyzed. more...
Understanding Global Environmental Politicsby Matthew Paterson
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 40.00Understanding Global Environmental Politics develops a new, critical approach to global environmental politics. It argues that the major power structures of world politics are deeply problematic in ecological terms, and that they cannot be easily used to resolve major environmental challenges such as global warming. Instead of simply advocating the construction of new international institutions to respond to such challenges, therefore, the book argues that the construction of alternative social and political structures in necessary. more...
Political Spaceby Warren Magnusson; Karena Shaw
University of Minnesota Press 2002; US$ 72.00The authors develop a new way of making sense of the rapidly changing character of political life in our day, revealing the political problems and possibilities inherent in the convergence of the global and the local so dramatically enacted in Clayoquot Sound. more...
Allocation in the European Emissions Trading Schemeby A. Denny Ellerman; Barbara K. Buchner; Carlo Carraro
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 32.00The first in-depth description and analysis of the European Emissions Trading Scheme. more...
The Green Belt Movementby Wangari Maathai
Lantern Books 2004; US$ 9.002004 Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Wangari Maathai's book offers a compelling insight into the internationally acclaimed tree-planting movement founded by Kenyans and run by and for Kenyans. more...
Emissions Trading and Businessby Ralf Antes; Bernd Hansjürgens; Peter Letmathe
Springer 2006; US$ 169.00Emissions trading challenges the management of companies, when it changes the code by which environmental policy steers management decisions from hierarchical to monetary information. But, is this change transmitted and mirrored in management decisions, processes and structures? And, how do they change? This book aims to answer these questions. more...









