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  • Zoo Veterinarians

    Governing Care on a Diseased Planet

    Series series Law, Science and Society
    Despite their centrality to the operation of contemporary accredited zoo and aquarium institutions, the work of zoo veterinarians has rarely been the focus of a critical analysis in the social science and humanities. Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations of zoo and aquarium veterinarians, mainly in Europe and North America, this book highlights the recent transformation that has occurred ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Youth Climate Courts

    How You Can Host a Human Rights Trial for People and Planet

    This book focuses on Youth Climate Courts, a bold new tool that young people in their teens and twenties can use to compel their local city or county government to live up to its human rights obligations, formally acknowledge the climate crisis, and take major steps to address it.Tom Kerns shows how youth climate leaders can form their own local Youth Climate Court, with youth judges, youth ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Yearbook of Sustainable Smart Mining and Energy 2022

    Technical, Economic and Legal Framework

    Edited by Walter Frenz, Axel Preuße ...
    Series Book 2 - Yearbook of Sustainable Smart Mining and Energy - Technical, Economic and Legal Framework
    This book covers several aspects of the application of Sustainable Development Goals to mining related subjects. The included works range from methods to assess and implement sustainability to discussions of legal impacts and relations as well as technological developments and outlooks. First, the challenges and opportunities of clean energy transition in the African mining sector are described. ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Yearbook Maritime Law

    Volume I

    Edited by Ignacio Arroyo ...
    I. The importance of legal questions related to the sea is obvious to everyone. It is hardly surprising that the subjects that make up international current events illustrate the leading role played by maritime affairs. Indeed, it is no coincidence that three quarters of the earth's surface is covered by oceans. Territorial seas, exclusive economic zones, exploitation of the seabed, fishing, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Worth Saving

    International Diplomacy to Protect the Environment

    by Anne Egelston ...
    Series series AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series
    This textbook is intended to be used in an upper-level international environmental issues class as part of the American Environmental Studies and Sciences book series. This class is commonly taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level as part of either an environmental studies program, a political science program, or within a policy track of an environmental science program.Given the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • World Trade Law and the Emergence of International Electricity Markets

    Series Book 25 - European Yearbook of International Economic Law
    The expansion of cross-border power transmission infrastructures and the regional integration of electricity markets are accelerating on several continents. The internationalization of trade in electric energy is embedded in an even greater transformation: the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies and the race to net zero emissions. Against this backdrop, this book provides a ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • World Review

    Environmental and Sustainability Education in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals

    The global landscape of education has been reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing the various challenges faced by countries worldwide. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) across different countries, offering unique insights into their histories, challenges, achievements, and future ESE needs. From Africa to Oceania, the book ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • World in Transition: Ways Towards Global Environmental Solutions

    Annual Report 1995

    Series Book 1995 - World in Transition
    At the first Conference of the Parties of the Climate Convention in Berlin in Spring 1995 it became evident once again: To counteract anthropogenic climate changes, individuals as well as societies have to change their way of thinking and behavior. This accounts for other areas of global environmental change as well. Global trends like soil degradation, loss of biological diversity, water scarcity ... Read more

    $71.99 USD $49.99 USD

  • World Heritage Conservation in the Pacific

    The Case of Solomon Islands

    Series series Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies
    This book explores the opportunities and challenges associated with the legal protection of World Heritage sites in the Pacific Islands. It argues that the small Pacific representation on the World Heritage List is in part due to a lack of strong legal frameworks for heritage conservation, putting such sites under threat. Providing a comprehensive analysis of the nomination, listing and protection ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Wolves, Courts, and Public Policy

    The Children of the Night Return to the Northern Rocky Mountains

    This book examines the reintroduction and recovery of the wolf in the Northern Rocky Mountains. The wolf was driven to brink of extinction through conscious government policy. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 provided the means for wolf’s return, which began in the Carter administration and continues in the Obama administration. The battle over the wolf is part of a larger struggle over the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law

    Written with real clarity by authors teaching and researching in the field, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law offers an excellent starting point for both law and non-law students encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first time. Topics covered include administration and enforcement, waste management, EU environmental law, pollution control, environmental permitting, ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Wisconsin Environmental Law Handbook

    Telecommunications With nearly 50 professionals at the cutting edge of our fields, it is our priority to know and fully understand our clients' business by keeping abreast of industry trends and practices. We are regular presenters and panelists at industry and legal seminars and conferences. We actively participate in environmental public policy development by serving on advisory committees ... Read more

    $131.99 USD

  • Wildlife Trafficking

    A Deconstruction of the Crime, Victims and Offenders

    by Tanya Wyatt ...
    Series series Critical Criminological Perspectives
    This book provides a comprehensive, global exploration of the scale, scope, threats, and drivers of wildlife trafficking from a criminological perspective. Building on the first edition, it takes into account the significant changes in the international context surrounding these issues since 2013. It provides new examples, updated statistics, and discusses the potential changes arising as a result ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Wildlife Law, Second Edition

    A Primer

    Wildlife is an important and cherished element of our natural heritage in the United States. But state and federal laws governing the ways we interact with wildlife can be complex to interpret and apply. Ten years ago, Wildlife Law: A Primer was the first book to lucidly explain wildlife law for readers with little or no legal training who needed to understand its intricacies. Today, navigating ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Wildlife Ecotoxicology

    Forensic Approaches

    Series series Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology
    Many books have now been published in the broad field of environmental toxicology. However, to date, none of have presented the often fascinating stories of the wildlife science, and the steps along the way from discovery of problems caused by environmental pollutants to the regulatory and non-regulatory efforts to address the problems. This book provides case by case examinations of how toxic ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Wilderness Protection in Europe

    The Role of International, European and National Law

    Edited by Kees Bastmeijer ...
    Europe still retains large areas which play host to numerous native and free-functioning ecosystems and lack roads, buildings, bridges, cables and other permanent manifestations of modern society. In the past such areas were considered wastelands, whose value lay only in their potential for cultivation and economic exploitation. Today, these wilderness areas are increasingly cherished as places ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Wild Life

    The Institution of Nature

    Wild Life documents a nuanced understanding of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation. It also documents the emerging understanding that all forms of wild nature—both in situ (on-site) and ex situ (in captivity)—may need to be managed in perpetuity. Providing a unique window into the high-stakes world of nature conservation, Irus Braverman describes the heroic efforts by ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Wild Law - In Practice

    Series series Law, Justice and Ecology
    Wild Law - In Practice aims to facilitate the transition of Earth Jurisprudence from theory into practice. Earth Jurisprudence is an emerging philosophy of law, coined by cultural historian and geologian Thomas Berry. It seeks to analyse the contribution of law in constructing, maintaining and perpetuating anthropocentrism and addresses the ways in which this orientation can be undermined and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Wild Diplomacy

    Cohabiting with Wolves on a New Ontological Map

    by Morizot ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleStarting from a specific case, the spontaneous return of wolves to France and the intense conflicts that event has triggered, the French philosopher Baptiste Morizot invites us to think about what he calls "diplomacy with living beings." How can we conceive of cohabitation with the most recalcitrant wildlife, large predators in particular, and what concrete ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Widening the Scope of Environmental Policies in North America

    Towards Blue Approaches

    Edited by Gustavo Sosa-Nunez ...
    Series series Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America
    This edited volume provides a variety of insights into the context in which ocean and wetlands policy is placed at the sub-continental level. The governments of Mexico, Canada, and United States of America have recognized the importance of conserving, protecting, and enhancing the environment in their territories. As a result, they have developed an institutional structure aimed at furthering ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Why The Youths Are Angry

    by Morgan Orioha ...
    This book does not only illustrate that human rights and good governance are important aspects of democracy, but with examples including political conflicts, it calls for effective structuring of government that will make it sustainable and rewarding to citizens whilst responding to the climate crisis. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Why Life Matters

    Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind

    Dr. Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison are world-renowned ecological philosophers and activists, interdisciplinary social and environmental scientists and broad-ranging, deeply committed humanists. This collection of fifty essays and interviews comprises an invigorating, outspoken, provocative and eloquent overview of the ecological humanities in one highly accessible volume. The ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Why Environmental Policies Fail

    by Jan Laitos ...
    This book is for those who are not just interested in the ways humans have harmfully altered their environment, but instead wish to learn why the many governmental policies in place to curb such behavior have been unsuccessful. Since humans began to exploit natural resources for their own economic ends, we have ignored a central principle: nature and humans are not separate, but are a unified, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Who Speaks for the Climate?

    Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change

    The public rely upon media representations to help interpret and make sense of the many complexities relating to climate science and governance. Media representations of climate issues – from news to entertainment – are powerful and important links between people's everyday realities and experiences, and the ways in which they are discussed by scientists, policymakers and public actors. A dynamic ... Read more

    $22.99 USD