Strategic environmental assessment in action

This practical guide on how to carry out strategic environmental assessment (SEA) presents a coherent #how to do it# approach for the practitioner. It is the first publication to take account of the requirements of the European Union Directive 2001/42/EC # known as the ...

An invitation to environmental sociology

Environmental sociology is the study of community in the largest sense. When there are problems in the environment, there are problems in society-it is people who create environmental problems and people who must resolve them. Author Michael Mayerfeld Bell uses a lively, personal writing style ...

Ecological sensitivity and global legal pluralism

rethinking the trade and environment conflict

The tension between trade liberalisation and environmental protection has received remarkable attention since the establishment of the WTO. It has been the subject of a wide-ranging debate, and is one of the central themes of the anti-globalisation movement. This book explores that debate. It argues ...

Logística inversa y medio ambiente

aspectos estratégicos y operativos

La preocupación por el medio ambiente ha pasado de ser minoritaria a extenderse de una manera notable: prensa, políticos, organizaciones sociales, todos se hacen eco de las voces autorizadas de científicos que, desde hace años, han venido alertando sobre la degradación acelerada que estamos provocando ...

EMAS

análisis experiencias e implantación

Este libro tiene por finalidad el análisis riguroso de los requisitos de participación en el EMAS (Eco Management and Audit Scheme), así como las consecuencias que dicha participación tiene para la organización, el entorno y, sobre todo, la protección ambiental. Es, por tanto, un libro ...

Domestic wastewater treatment in developing countries

Affordable and effective domestic wastewater treatment is a critical issue in public health and disease prevention around the world, but particularly so in developing countries, which often lack the financial and technical resources necessary for proper treatment facilities. This practical guide provides state-of-the-art coverage of ...

Las áreas litorales de España

del análisis geográfico a la gestión integrada

El objetivo principal de este libro es ofrecer una visión detallada sobre la planificación y gestión del litoral en España.La estructura del contenido viene definida por tres partes bien diferenciadas.La primera de ellas está dedicada a realizar un análisis general del litroal.La ...

Eco-Finance

the legal design and regulation of market-based environmental instruments

Market-based environmental instruments are the most creative of the many initiatives devised to combat air and water pollution and promote biodiversity. Among these, none has attracted more attention than the burgeoning trade in environmental allowances and credits. Originally developed in the United States around 1990 ...

Medio ambiente y fiscalidad autonómica

Medio Ambiente y Fiscalidad Autonómica, es un libro imprescindible para el profesional y el académico. Muestra de manera concisa y rigurosa los elementos esenciales de las configuraciones tributarias ambientales que han puesto en marcha por parte de las distintas Comunidades desde el año 1981 hasta ...

Guía española para la utilización de los mecanismos basados en proyectos del Protocolo de Kioto

The business of global environmental governance

The Business of Global Environmental Governance takes a political economy approach to understanding the role of business in global environmental politics. The book's contributors -- from a range of disciplines including international political economy, management, and political science -- view the evolution of international environmental governance ...

Sustainable development and innovation in the energy sector

Almost every energy scenario assumes an enormous growth in the demand for energy in the coming decades. Meanwhile, at international conferences and other venues, the primary concern is massive reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, especially of the CO2 produced by fossil-fuel energy consumption. Experts also ...

Earth system analysis for sustainability

Earth System Analysis for Sustainability uses an integrated systems approach to provide a panoramic view of planetary dynamics since the inception of life some four billion years ago and to identify principles for responsible management of the global environment in the future. Perceiving our planet ...

Business, government and sustainable development

Keijzers provides a concise and authoritative introduction to the evolution of the collaborative stakeholder approach to sustainable development in the context of changing environmental policies. The range of sustainability objectives has now developed from relatively simple issues of environmental protection to a full array of ...

Beyond Kyoto

a new global climate certificate system: continuing Kyoto Commitments or a global'Cap and trade'scheme for a sustainable climate policy?

This balanced analysis presents news from the #climate-protection front#. On the down-side, neither the current 'Kyoto-Protocol' Climate Protection System with (legally binding) commitments by major countries to reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions nor various proposals for improving the commitment system are capable of ...

Agribusiness and society

corporate responses to environmentalism, market opportunities and public regulation

"Agribusiness & society" examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness.How are they changing their R & D and business practices to develop new environmentally oriented products,services and methods of prodcution?And what can they cahnge of their own volition,and where is external direction a necessary condition of environmentally friendly innovation? These questions are explored through investigations of particualr biotech and agribusiness companies-including Monsanto,Ciba Geigy,Dole,and Chiquita-and their behaviour in locations as diverse as California,Europe,Australia,Brazil,and Central America.The authors explore how some have responded to environmental pressures by exploiting new consumer-created markets;some changed their production practices in a sustainable way;while others have complied with(or resisted) state environmental regulation,notably labelling systems and certification. Each study examines how institutional,cultural,economic,political and technological contexts shape the strategies of big business.Topics include " green ...

Alternatives for environmental valuation

ÍNDICE: 1. Exploring alternatives for environmental valuation CLIVE L. SPASH, SIGRID STAGL AND MICHAEL GETZNER PART ONE: Extending the environmental valuation approach 2. A framework for valuing nature: regional biodiversity MICHAEL GETZNER 3. Non-use values and attitudes: wetlands threatened by climate change JÜRGEN MEYERHOFF 4 ...

The environment encyclopedia and directory 2005

Examining environmental issues throughout the world, this reference title contains thorough definitions and explanations of terms relating to the environment. The volume includes detailed maps, an extensive bibliography and a Who's Who section, making this an essential one-stop reference work for anyone interested in ...

Game practice and the environment

Game theory is one of the most powerful tools that economists can use to deal with complex economic and policy problems. At the same time, environmental issues are at the heart of many domestic and international policy processes, where interactions among different stakeholders play a ...

The political economy of environmental regulation

This new authoritative collection comprises previously published papers on the political economy of environmental regulation: economic analyses of the processes through which political decisions regarding environmental regulation are made, principally in the institutional context found in the United States. Despite this geographic focus, many of ...