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This book provides an innovative theoretical and analytical framework for studying the role and impact of specialized research organizations and consultancies on decision making in climate politics. It includes advanced empirical analysis of the case of Germany,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-08
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Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing. Non-profit organizations rely on their philanthropy. People look to their brands for meaning. And their power continues to rise. Can...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-05-04
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This book elucidates what it means to transition to alternative sources of energy and discusses the potential for this energy transition to be a more democratic process. The book dynamically describes a recent sociotechnical study of a number of energy transitions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-30
Collection :
Energy, Climate and the Environment
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This book aims to identify the challenges presented by current urban environmental governance practices in fast growing Indian cities, to propose changes to the current governance implementation strategies, and to explore the best practices to achieve sustainable urban...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-03-29
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions. Addressing the strong association in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-03-20
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Cord Drögemüller beschäftigt sich mit der regionalen Dimension des Entsorgungskonflikts hochradioaktiver Abfälle in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Aus der Perspektive der Governance- und Partizipationsforschung untersucht er lokale Problemwahrnehmungen. Dabei werden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-03-17
Collection :
Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection
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This book discusses sustainable forest management from the perspectives of sociology, anthropology, politics, economics and policy. It examines the roles of governments, private sectors, NGOs, academics and local communities in implementing sustainable plantation...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-03-15
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This open access book aims to consolidate and advance debates on European and global energy poverty by exploring the political and infrastructural drivers and implications of the condition across a variety of spatial scales. It highlights the need for a geographical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-22
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This multidisciplinary book examines the diverse ways in which environmental disasters with compounding impacts are being governed as they traverse sovereign territories across rapidly urbanising societies in Asia and the Pacific. Combining theoretical advances with...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-12-06
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Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about how humans might live...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-11-10
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This book presents pioneering work on a range of innovative practices, experiments, and ideas that are becoming an integral part of urban climate change governance in the 21st century. Theoretically, the book builds on nearly two decades of scholarships identifying the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-27
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This book considers how public sector institutions can be transformed to better support sustainable development by exploring the concept of green inside activism and its importance for institutional change. The phenomenon of inside activism has been shown to be crucial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-21
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This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region. Globally, the palm oil industry is associated with practices that fit the most conventional definitions and perceptions of crime,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derives questions to be addressed in multi-disciplinary research toward a new...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-15
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This book offers comprehensive coverage of current energy policy in Scotland focussing on non-fossil fuel energy options: renewables, nuclear power and energy efficiency. Covering issues of policy and practice, planning, legislation and regulation of a range of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-14
Collection :
Energy, Climate and the Environment
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Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power spacecraft and in nuclear medicine. But it is also at the heart of many...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-07-03
Collection :
Resources
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Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-06-05
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This book presents a conceptual and practical tool for those involved directly or indirectly in the planning and management of basic provision of water supply, wastewater and stormwater services in metropolitan regions by offering insights into governance paradigms and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-05-09
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology
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This book analyses the performance and potential of India’s oilseed sector, identifies the major constraints facing the industry and suggests options for increasing the country’s oilseed production and productivity, taking into account the changing policy environment,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-04-07
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This interdisciplinary book challenges current approaches to “environmental problems” that perpetuate flawed but deeply embedded cultural beliefs about the role of science and technology in society. The authors elucidate and interrogate a cultural history of solutionism...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-29
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