Management Natural Resources
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Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions
Clement A. Tisdell
This innovative book identifies socio-economic processes which transform the stock of genetic resources and ecosystems and discusses sustainability issues raised by variations in this stock. It focuses subsequently on the socio-economics...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Politics of River Basin Organisations
Edited by Dave Huitema, Sander Meijerink
Can River Basin Organisations (RBOs) actually improve water governance? RBOs are frequently layered on top of existing governmental organisations, which are often reluctant to share their power. This, in turn, can affect their performanc...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Environmental Entrepreneurship
Laura E. Huggins
In this innovative book, Laura E. Huggins finds path breaking entrepreneurial solutions to difficult environmental challenges in some of the world’s poorest areas. The approaches entrepreneurs are taking to these challenges involve esta...eBook:Find out more£19.96
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The Politics of Environmental Policy in Russia
David Feldman, Ivan Blokov
The authors, renowned experts in the field, explore efforts to develop a mature civil society in Russia, and analyse the policy views of environmental groups, the media, and the scientific community. Three important case studies underpin...eBook:Find out more£19.96
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GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FINANCE
Edited by Joshua Bishop, Chloe Hill
Global Biodiversity Finance sets out the case for scaling up Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) at the international level. The book explores how International Payments for Ecosystem Services (IPES) can help capture the global willing...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Values, Payments and Institutions for Ecosystem Management
Edited by Pushpam Kumar, Ibrahim Thiaw
Using a selection of authoritative and original contributions, this timely book explores the uncertainty surrounding the impact of decisions undertaken to manage ecosystem services worldwide. Invariably, the policies designed and imple...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Water Policy Reform
Edited by John Quiggin, Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Sarah Chambers
Agriculture in the Murray–Darling Basin of Australia represents a controversial ‘policy experiment’ comprising large capital investments, innovation and enterprise across a hundred-year period. This book, which contains contributions fro...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Global Threats, Global Futures
Thayer Scudder
Global threats can be expected to cause a global environmental crisis and declining living standards for most people. Threats analyzed include poverty, cultural, economic, political and religious fundamentalism, consumption, population i...eBook:Find out more£29.56
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Governance and Complexity in Water Management
Edited by Hans Bressers, Kris Lulofs
The premise of this book is that careful reconsideration of strategies to achieve water management ambitions, together with more in-depth knowledge on the theories and practices of boundary spanning, could bring solutions for contemporar...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Promoting Sustainable Electricity in Europe
Edited by William M. Lafferty, Audun Ruud
This is a timely and comparative assessment of initiatives to promote renewable electricity sources (RES-E) in eight European countries. Carried out by the ProSus research programme at the University of Oslo in cooperation with leading r...eBook:Find out more£44.76
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Innovation for a Low Carbon Economy
Edited by Timothy J. Foxon, Jonathan Köhler, Christine Oughton
This book shows that although innovations in energy systems represent a core contribution to achieving national and international energy policy goals, theoretical approaches to understanding innovation differ radically between separate d...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Conflict, Cooperation and Institutions in International Water Management
Ines Dombrowsky
This book asks under which conditions cooperation is in the interest of the riparian countries sharing international waters, and how institutions must be designed to realize potential gains of cooperation.eBook:Find out more£25.00