Environmental policy & protocols (196)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book offers a critical exploration of first-hand experiences of practicing climate science. It tackles the pivotal question of what, precisely, constitutes contemporary scientific practice. The author offers an insider’s account of the experienc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This book provides authoritative and up-to-date research for anyone interested in the study of international environmental politics. It demonstrates how the field of international environmental politics has evolved and identifies key questions, topic...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book deals with past legacies and emerging challenges associated with agriculture production, water and environmental management, and local and national development. It offers a critical interpretation of the tensions associated with the failure...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:The Middle East region holds the world's largest oil and natural gas proven reserves. Several Middle Eastern States are major oil producers and consumers. Given price fluctuations and environmental concerns many countries have sought to diversify the...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:Throughout the US oil and gas shale are being 'hydrofracked' to produce petroleum and natural gas. Oil (or tar) sands from Canada is being 'processed' – thereby generating large amounts of crude. This book places the unconventional fossil fuels revol...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Melanie Müller untersucht die Folgen der Integration der verschiedenen Weltregionen in das System der Vereinten Nationen für soziale Bewegungen. Am Fallbeispiel Südafrika zeigt sie, dass internationale Konferenzen als ‚transformatives Ereignis‘ chara...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Biokraftstoffe werden bereits seit den 1980er Jahren als eine potenzielle Lösung für eine Vielzahl von Problemen propagiert: von der Ölabhängigkeit über den Strukturwandel der Landwirtschaft bis hin zum Klimawandel. Vor dem Hintergrund des sprunghaft...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:Using historical and contemporary case studies, Youde traces the shifting balance between surveillance and global public good provision and suggests that a human rights-based strategy offers a stable compromise.

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:Providing a comparison the most important instances of public engagement with biotechnology in Europe in recent years, this book provides a theoretically reflected and empirically grounded study of the opportunities and obstacles for a thorough democ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:The author examines Brazil's emerging role as an important actor in various sectors of global governance. By exploring how Brazil's exercise of power developed over the last decade in the sectors of health, food security and bioenergy, this book shed...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:How and why do business organisations contribute to climate change governance? The contributors' findings on South Africa, Kenya and Germany demonstrate that business contributions to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change vary significantly...

publisher: Springer
year: 2008
description:This book puts forward a distinctive theoretical approach and analytical framework for studying business as an international actor in the environmental field, and provides detailed case studies of the most important environmental challenges in recent...