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Autore: | Eccleston Charles H. |
Titolo: | Global environmental policy : concepts, principles, and practice / / by Charles H. Eccleston and Frederic March |
Pubblicazione: | Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2010 |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (452 p.) |
Disciplina: | 333.72 |
Soggetto topico: | Environmental policy - International cooperation |
Persona (resp. second.): | MarchFrederic |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Authors; Introduction; section one: Introduction to global environmental concepts and principles; chapter one: Historical context of the environmental movement; chapter two: Concepts and principles underlying environmental policy; chapter three: Sustainability and environmental policy; chapter four: Environmental policy treaties and their implementation; section two: Sustainability, environmental impact assessment, and decision making; chapter five: Environmental impact assessment; chapter six: Environmental decision-making theory and practice |
chapter seven: Environmental management systemssection three: Environmental ethics and economics; chapter eight: Environmental ethics; chapter nine: Environmental economics; section four: Critical global environmental issues; chapter ten: Coming water wars; chapter eleven: Peak oil, alternatives, and energy policy: The looming world oil crisis; chapter twelve: Peak food or peak everything: An era of bounty or begging?; chapter thirteen: Global climate change; chapter fourteen: Global population paradox: Population explosion or implosion?; Epilogue: Acting locally: Six degrees of separation | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Environmental policy is often practiced reactively with each crisis addressed as an isolated event. Focusing on development of proactive policies, Global Environment Policy: Concepts, Principles, and Practice provides the essential scientific and socioeconomic framework for formulating pragmatic and comprehensive environmental policies. It discusses topics of interest toAmerican and international audiences. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Global environmental policy |
ISBN: | 0-429-11186-X |
1-4398-9606-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910797032003321 |
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