Global Environmental Challenges

Author : David E. Lorey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0842050493

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Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-first Century by David E. Lorey Pdf

The most serious environmental problems of the twenty-first century have the potential to alter the course of life on this planet. Global warming, toxic waste, water and air pollution, acid rain, and shrinking energy supplies are frightening challenges that may threaten our future if we do not face up to them.p Global Environmental Challenges provides important information and gives us hope about the environment. This book first helps us to grasp these difficulties, then shows us the choices we can make. How long to leave a light on, whether to take the car, the train, or bicycle to work, whether to recycle or throw away, whether to vote to curb continued suburban sprawl-all of these decisions can make a difference.p This collection of some of the best essays and articles on the environment comes from a variety of sources, including journals, magazines, websites of ecological/conservation organizations, and other publications.p Five major sections investigate the interaction of population growth,consumption, and environment; the emerging crisis in freshwater around the globe; global climate and atmosphere (including global warming); biodiversity loss; and the concept of sustainable development-using natural resources to place future human development on a sustainable path. The final section on sustainable development reveals how we can take action. As individuals, we can make a difference readily and easily without making huge personal sacrifices. As societies, we can work together in a global community of interest to sustain the earth.p This valuable resource offers readers a better understanding of our environmental problems and presents solutions to improving the health of theplanet.p

Author : Tobias Lanz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151655406X

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Global Environmental Problems by Tobias Lanz Pdf

"Global Environmental Problems: Causes, Consequences, and Potential Solutions provides an overview of the main environmental problems facing today's world. While many books on the environment place a heavy emphasis on political actors, processes, and institutions, Global Environmental Problems highlights not only environmental actors, but the causes of and potential solutions to environmental crises. Each chapter of the text uses a specific case study to address a specific issue. These include wildlife depletion, tropical deforestation, marine fisheries depletion, climate change, water pollution and shortages, and toxic waste. Students will also learn about less familiar, but critical issues such as dry land deforestation, the environmental impacts of agriculture, desertification, and population and urbanization. Global Environmental Problems is well suited to courses on environmental policy. The book uses an accessible, interdisciplinary approach, which also makes it appropriate for courses on environmental history, conservation, and international relations. In addition, Global Environmental Problems will be of interest to the general reader who cares about the environment and the problems facing it. Tobias Lanz earned his Ph.D. in international studies at the University of South Carolina. His teaching interests include environmental politics, African politics, and developmental and political theory. Dr. Lanz has conducted extensive field research in Cameroon and India, and his academic research focuses on the social history of wildlife, environmental history, political ecology, and rural development."

Author : Frances Harris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470093955

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Global Environmental Issues by Frances Harris Pdf

Meeting the needs of upper level students, this book treats global environmental problems as complex issues with a network of human and biophysical causes. Each chapter interlinks human demands on the Earth's resources to natural biophysical change - not simply a 'cause and effect' treatment of global issues and environmental change Includes coverage of contemporary hot topics such as biodiversity, urbanisation and sustainable development Global case studies (two per chapter) contextualise theory for students "This book should have considerable appeal among undergraduate and postgraduate students in a broad range of disciplines. Frances Harris has assembled a team of well-qualified authors, who between them consider such important environmental issues as climate and sea level change, biodiversity, GM crops, energy supply, urbanization, pollution and sustainable development. The style is clear and non-technical, the coverage is global and the text is supported by numerous figures and illustrations. Boxed case studies provide useful exemplification of general issues. I have no doubt that this book will be very popular with my own students, in providing detailed analysis of a range of key environmental issues which are frequently reported in the media." Tony Binns, University of Sussex, UK "This book usefully realises that environmental issues are a complex blend of contested science, broader socio-political contexts and the concerns, values, attitudes and livelihoods of individuals. Written by internationally recognised authors, it covers major global issues such as pollution, energy, climate change, sea level rise, food production, urbanisation and sustainability in an informative way, with abundant case studies and illustrations, which clearly exemplify just how complex the facets of the issues can be. It does not offer easy solutions but it is a good exercise in awareness for the reader." Stephen Trudgill, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK

Author : James Gustave Speth
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Global environmental change
ISBN : 8125027408

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Global Environmental Challenges by James Gustave Speth Pdf

This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Spetch, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth's environment are not succeeding. Still, he says, the challenges are not insurmountable. He offers environmental threats around the world. The author explains why current approaches to critical global environmental problems Climate change, biodiversity loss, deterioration of marine environments, deforestation, water shortages, and others don't work now and won't work in the future. He provides a stinging critique of the failure of U.S. leadership and offers intriguing insights into why the U.S. has been able to address domestic environmental threats with some success while largely failing at the international level. Setting forth eight specific steps to a sustainable future, Speth convincingly argues that dramatically different and far-reaching actions by citizens and governments are now urgent. If ever a book could be described as essential , this is it.

Author : Norman J. Vig,Regina S. Axelrod
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000949193

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The Global Environment by Norman J. Vig,Regina S. Axelrod Pdf

All serious environmental threats are now international in scope and more than one thousand international environmental agreements already exist. Yet the prospects for international cooperation leading to the management of impacts on the planet remain grim. The Global Environment meets the need for an authoritative assessment of the state of international environmental institutions, laws and policies at the end of the 20th century. The book examines disagreements over the meaning of sustainable development, problems inherent in implementing environmental policies and the conflict over the exclusion of developing countries from the Kyoto Protocol. It discusses the profound trade-offs that may be required, the role of international financial interests in promoting incompatible forms of development and analyses international environmental institutions, law and policy and sustainable development.

Author : Hayley Stevenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107121836

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Global Environmental Politics by Hayley Stevenson Pdf

This introduction to global environmental politics examines why environmental challenges occur and how we can effectively respond to them.

Author : James Gustave Speth,Peter Haas
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 1597260800

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Global Environmental Governance by James Gustave Speth,Peter Haas Pdf

Today's most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them? Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines ten major environmental threats-climate disruption, biodiversity loss, acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation, desertification, freshwater degradation and shortages, marine fisheries decline, toxic pollutants, and excess nitrogen-and explores how they can be addressed through treaties, governance regimes, and new forms of international cooperation. Written by Gus Speth, one of the architects of the international environmental movement, and accomplished political scientist Peter M. Haas, Global Environmental Governance tells the story of how the community of nations, nongovernmental organizations, scientists, and multinational corporations have in recent decades created an unprecedented set of laws and institutions intended to help solve large-scale environmental problems. The book critically examines the serious shortcomings of current efforts and the underlying reasons why disturbing trends persist. It presents key concepts in international law and regime formation in simple, accessible language, and describes the current institutional landscape as well as lessons learned and new directions needed in international governance. Global Environmental Governance is a concise guide, with lists of key terms, study questions, and other features designed to help readers think about and understand the concepts discussed.

Author : Nazli Choucri
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0262531348

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Global Accord by Nazli Choucri Pdf

A holistic approach to a complex set of environmental issues.

Author : Klaus Bosselmann & Prasenjit Maiti
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 8126908475

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Global Environment by Klaus Bosselmann & Prasenjit Maiti Pdf

Author : James Gustave Speth And Peter M. Haas
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131709221

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Global Environmental Governance by James Gustave Speth And Peter M. Haas Pdf

Global Environmental Governance examines ten major environmental threats- climate disruption, biodiversity loss, acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation, desertification, freshwater degradation and shortages, decline of marine fisheries, toxic pollutants, and excess nitrogen-and explores how they can be addressed through treaties, governance regimes, and new forms of international cooperation. It also critically examines the serious shortcomings of current efforts and the underlying reasons for the persistence of disturbing trends. This book presents key concepts in international law and regime formation in simple, accessible language, and describes the current institutional landscape, les-sons learned, and new directions need-ed in international governance.

Author : Hans Günter Brauch,Úrsula Oswald Spring,Czeslaw Mesjasz,John Grin,Pál Dunay,Navnita Chadha Behera,Béchir Chourou,Patricia Kameri-Mbote,P. H. Liotta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783540759775

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Globalization and Environmental Challenges by Hans Günter Brauch,Úrsula Oswald Spring,Czeslaw Mesjasz,John Grin,Pál Dunay,Navnita Chadha Behera,Béchir Chourou,Patricia Kameri-Mbote,P. H. Liotta Pdf

Put quite simply, the twin impacts of globalization and environmental degradation pose new security dangers and concerns. In this new work on global security thinking, 91 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess the worldwide reassessment of the meaning of security triggered by the end of the Cold War and globalization, as well as the multifarious impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century.

Author : Eric Brousseau,Tom Dedeurwaerdere,Pierre-André Jouvet,Marc Willinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191630170

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Global Environmental Commons by Eric Brousseau,Tom Dedeurwaerdere,Pierre-André Jouvet,Marc Willinger Pdf

Environmental challenges, and the potential solutions to address them, have a direct effect on living standards, the organization of economies, major infrastructures, and modes of urbanization. Since the publication of path-breaking contributions on the governance of environmental resources in the early 1990s, many political initiatives have been taken, numerous governance experiments have been conducted, and a large multi-disciplinary field of research has opened up. This interdisciplinary book takes stock of the knowledge that has accumulated to date, and addresses new challenges in the provision of environmental goods. It focuses on three essential dimensions with respect to governance. First, it addresses the issue of designing governance solutions through analyzing systems of rules, and levels of organization, in the governance and management of environmental issues. Second, it draws renewed attention to the negotiation processes among stakeholders playing a crucial role in reaching agreements over issues and solutions, and in choosing and implementing particular policy instruments. Finally, it shows that compliance depends on a combination of formal rules, enforced by recognized authorities, and informal obligations, such as social and individual norms. The evolution of the research frontiers on environmental governance shows that more legitimate and informed processes of collective decision, and more subtle and effective ways of managing compliance, can contribute to more effective policy. However, this book also illustrates that more democratic and effective governance should rely on more direct and pluralistic forms of involvement of citizens and stakeholders in the collective decision making processes

Author : Cristian Lorenzo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030242541

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Latin America in Times of Global Environmental Change by Cristian Lorenzo Pdf

This volume discusses the challenges of Latin America in global environmental geopolitics. Written by leading experts, this book brings together Latin American research on global environmental change. They cover a range of topics such as climate change, water, forest and biodiversity conservation connected with science policies, public opinion, priorities of international funds, and international politics of Latin American countries. The book describes the discrepancy between the international priorities and the regional needs or country interests. It includes several case studies and analyses the cooperation in multilateral negotiations on climate change. It also offers a synthesis of debates around global environmental changes and Latin American politics, which the authors have previously promoted in different academic events in South America, including in Santiago de Chile in Chile, and Buenos Aires and Ushuaia in Argentina. This book assesses the environmental problems from different perspectives, highlights the scientific development in the environmental changes affecting Latin America and offers a new view on geopolitics to help face those issues. Specialist readers in international relations, political sciences, environmental sciences, geography and geopolitics will appreciate this up-to-date examination of Latin America and the global environmental change.

Author : ANONIMO
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442600268

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Global Environmental Challenges by ANONIMO Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309103800

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Global Environmental Health in the 21st Century by Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine Pdf

Biological threats like SARS and natural disasters like the tsunami in Indonesia have devastated entire regions, and quickly exhausted budgetary resources. As the field of environmental health continues to evolve, scientists and others must focus on gaining a better understanding of the links between human health and various environmental factors, and on creating new paradigms and partnerships needed to address these complex environmental health challenges facing society. Global Environmental Health in the 21st Century: From Governmental Regulations to Corporate Social Responsibility: Workshop Summary discusses the role of industry in environmental health, examines programs designed to improve the overall state of environmental health, and explores how governmental and corporate entities can collaborate to manage this industry. Stakeholders in both the public and private sectors are looking for viable solutions as the complexity of societal problems and risks associated with management and varying regulatory standards continue to increase. Global Environmental Health in the 21st Century draws critical links and provides insight into the current shape of global environmental health. The book recommends expanding environmental management systems (EMS) to encompass a more extensive global network. It also provides a complete assessment of the benefits and costs resulting from implementation of various environmental management systems.