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![Handbook of Security and the Environment]()
Handbook of Security and the Environment
Edited by Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal, Anders Jägerskog
This comprehensive Handbook tackles the increasingly urgent problem of the impact of climate change on conflict and human security. It analyses the ways in which scarcity of resources leads to food, water and health insecurities, resulti...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Water Resource Economics and Policy
W. D. Shaw
This second edition includes updated information and an exploration of water issues outside the United States, as well as a new application of behaviorial and experimental economics to the topic. A concise introduction to issues of water...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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![International Law and Transboundary Aquifers]()
International Law and Transboundary Aquifers
Francesco Sindico
Groundwater amounts to 97% of available global freshwater resources. Emphasising the crucial importance of this in the context of increasing population, climate change and the overall global water crisis, Francesco Sindico offers a compr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts]()
Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts
Edited by Jan McDonald, Jeffrey McGee, Richard Barnes
This topical Research Handbook examines the legal intersections of climate change, oceans and coasts across multiple scales and sectors, covering different geographies and regions. With expert contributions from Europe, Australasia, the ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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![Governing Oceans in a Time of Change]()
Governing Oceans in a Time of Change
Marcus Haward
This incisive book addresses the challenges facing the current institutional framework for governance of high seas fisheries. Marcus Haward identifies significant issues and difficulties affecting the management of fisheries in areas bey...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Mega-Dams and Indigenous Human Rights
Itzchak Kornfeld
This original and insightful book explores and examines the impact that building mega-dams has on the human rights of those living in surrounding areas, and in particular those of indigenous peoples who are often most affected. Compiling...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Environmental Governance and Small States
Michelle Scobie
Global Environmental Governance gives the perspectives of small states on some of the most important issues of the anthropocene, from trade, climate change and energy security to tourism, marine governance, and heritage. Providing an in ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Research Handbook on Freshwater Law and International Relations]()
Research Handbook on Freshwater Law and International Relations
Edited by Mara Tignino, Christian Bréthaut
Recent decades have seen pivotal changes in the management and protection of water resources, with human rights, environmental and water law each developing a strong interest in the conservation of fresh water. This surge in interest has...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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![Water Supply in a Mega-City]()
Water Supply in a Mega-City
Michael Webber, Jon Barnett, Brian Finlayson, Mark Wang
With the increasing threat of depleted and contaminated water supplies around the world, this book provides a timely and much needed analysis of how cities should manage this precious resource. Integrating the environmental, economic, po...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Tapping the Oceans]()
Tapping the Oceans
Edited by Joe Williams, Erik Swyngedouw
Increasingly, water-stressed cities are looking to the oceans to fix unreliable, contested and over-burdened water supply systems. Desalination technologies are, however, also becoming the focus of intense political disagreements about t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Water-Sustainable City]()
The Water-Sustainable City
David L. Feldman
Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water fr...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Water Resource Management and the Law
Edited by Erkki J. Hollo
Scarcity of water, floods and erosion caused by climate change have made the management of water resources a challenge to national and international actors worldwide. States have also initiated water projects to improve social welfare, o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
