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  • Trials of Nature

    The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost

    Focusing on John Milton’s Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law – an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In an enormous variety of texts, from the Greek beginnings of Western literature onward, nature has been described as a courtroom in which an all- ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Earth Detox

    How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet

    by Julian Cribb ...
    Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes and workplaces, the things we use each day. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our bodies ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • The Growth Spiral

    Money, Energy, and Imagination in the Dynamics of the Market Process

    This book develops a new theory of the modern economy. Conventional economic theory is (still) based on an essentially static notion of equilibrium. In contrast, this book offers an analysis of the economic process based on a truly dynamic approach. It understands modern economic activity as manifesting itself in a growth spiral. There are two main drivers of the dynamics of this spiral: steady ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Endowed

    Regulating the Male Sexed Body

    Feminist legal scholars and health care lawyers have long engaged with law’s responses to the female reproductive body, especially on what the legal regulation of women’s reproductive lives can tell us about the broader relationship between law and gender. Acknowledging this work and building upon it, Endowed considers the interaction of law and ideas of male reproductivity. In particular, it ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Finders Keepers?

    How the Law of Capture Shaped the World Oil Industry

    Since the beginnings of the oil industry, production activity has been governed by the 'law of capture,' dictating that one owns the oil recovered from one's property even if it has migrated from under neighboring land. This 'finders keepers' principle has been excoriated by foreign critics as a 'law of the jungle' and identified by American commentators as the root cause of the enormous waste of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development

    Horizontal and Sectorial Policy Issues

    Edited by Volker Mauerhofer ...
    This book addresses legal aspects of sustainable development and offers the latest thinking on a wide range of current themes. By taking a cross-cutting approach, it adds considerably to the exploration of this emerging scientific field.Twenty-nine original contributions present innovative thoughts and replicable ideas from this exciting, new area, which will be of value to practitioners and ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Caracterização e modelagem geotécnica do fenômeno das terras caídas no ambiente Amazônico

    Em muitos rios da Amazônia, principalmente, ao longo do rio Amazonas, ocorre o fenômeno das "terras caídas", na época da vazante dos rios, provocando a erosão das margens fluviais e causando grandes problemas sociais, econômicos e ambientais. Não se sabe, até agora, as causas em que o fenômeno ocorre, em termos da influência da saturação das camadas de solo e da percolação (na vazante dos rios) na ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment

    Most ecological risk assessments consider the risk to individual organisms or organism-level attributes. From a management perspective, however, risks to population-level attributes and processes are often more relevant. Despite many published calls for population risk assessment and the abundance of available scientific research and technical tool ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Handbook for Environmental Risk Decision Making

    Values, Perceptions, and Ethics

    Edited by C. Richard Cothern ...
    This handbook describes the broad aspects of risk management involving scientific policy judgment, uncertainty analysis, perception considerations, statistical insights, and strategic thinking. This book presents all the important concepts to enable the reader to "see the big picture." This ability is extremely important - it allows the decision ma ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • EU Environmental Governance

    Current and Future Challenges

    Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy
    This book presents an overview of the field of environmental law and policies within the European Union, from theoretical foundations to major issues and applied governance solutions.Drawing on expertise from renowned academics and practitioners from different disciplines, EU Environmental Governance: Current and Future Challenges helps readers to understand the main legal, political and economic ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Los retos del cambio climático

    Un estudio sobre las respuestas legales del Perú

    Este libro es el resultado de una investigación sobre las políticas, las leyes, los tratados y los arreglos institucionales relacionados con la implementación de acciones para combatir el cambio climático. Es, pues, un análisis detallado de los retos, vacíos y logros del Perú en esta lucha contra el cambio climático.La obra presenta la complejidad de este tema de manera comprensible y ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecological Restoration Law

    Concepts and Case Studies

    Series series Law, Justice and Ecology
    Ecological restoration is as essential as sustainable development for the health of the biosphere. Restoration, however, has been a low priority of most countries' environmental laws, which tend to focus narrowly on rehabilitation of small, discrete sites rather than the more ambitious recovery of entire ecosystems and landscapes. Through critical theoretical perspectives and topical case studies, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • International Encyclopaedia of Environmental Pollution Control and Law

    by P.C. Sinha ...
    International Encyclopaedia of. Environmental Pollution Control &Law helps trace the process of evolution of regulatory frame work for the global and national environmental legislations. It helps the readers to evaluate the development of international environmental consciousness. This encyclopaedia will serve as a complete register of international environmental conventions, agreements and ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Auswirkungen des Meeresspiegelanstiegs auf maritime Grenzen

    by Eike Blitza ...
    Series Book 279 - Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
    Das Buch geht der Frage nach, ob und inwiefern sich meeresspiegelinduzierte Veränderungen der Küstenlinien auch im Verlauf maritimer Grenzen widerspiegeln. Nach Untersuchung der maßgeblichen Vorschriften des Seerechtsübereinkommens (SRÜ) kommt die Arbeit zu dem Ergebnis, dass Veränderungen des Küstenverlaufs Auswirkungen auf maritime Grenzen haben können, das Ausmaß der Veränderung allerdings von ... Read more

    $71.99 USD $62.99 USD

  • Human - Wildlife Conflicts in Europe

    Fisheries and Fish-eating Vertebrates as a Model Case

    Series series Environmental Science and Engineering
    This book is about conflicts between different stakeholder groups triggered by protected species that compete with humans for natural resources. It presents key ecological features of typical conflict species and mitigation strategies including technical mitigation, policy instruments and the design of participatory decision strategies involving relevant stakeholders. The book provides not only ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Water Policy and Governance in Canada

    Series Book 17 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    This book provides an insightful and critical assessment of the state of Canadian water governance and policy. It adopts a multidisciplinary variety of perspectives and considers local, basin, provincial and national scales. Canada’s leading authorities from the social sciences, life and natural sciences address pressing water issues in a non-technical language, making them accessible to a wide ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • International Law Obligations on Climate Change Mitigation

    by Benoit Mayer ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs in International Law
    Recent years have witnessed exciting developments in international negotiations, litigation, and scholarship about climate change, but doctrinal research in the field remains in its infancy. In particular, little is known about how fast states are required to limit and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The first part of the book identifies the relevant obligations through an analysis of ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Sustainable Consumption

    Design, Innovation and Practice

    Edited by Audley Genus ...
    Series Book 3 - The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science
    This book originates from the work of contributors to initiatives and global networks promoting and pursuing lines of enquiry that recognise and probe relationships between sustainable consumption, design and production, and the implications of those relationships for new economic activity and the way we live and govern ourselves. It features contributions from social scientists (e.g. from the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Food Law and Regulation for Non-Lawyers

    A US Perspective

    Series series Food Science Text Series
    Designed and modeled after a six-week introductory food law course taught at Northeastern University, Food Law and Regulation for Non-Lawyers offers a succinct overview of key topics and core concepts for food scientists, quality managers, and others who need to understand the regulation of food in the U.S. This second edition includes critical updates on the Food Safety Modernization Act-- the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Small Island Developing States

    Vulnerability and Resilience Under Climate Change

    Series Book 9 - The World of Small States
    This book explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible, evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people’s long-term ability to deal with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies, and constructions around SIDS dealing with climate change. The contributions ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Cancer Hazards: Parathion, Malathion, Diazinon, Tetrachlorvinphos and Glyphosate

    The 2015 IARC Classifications: Implications for Regulation, Environmental Justice, and Global Health

    Series series AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series
    This book focuses on a monograph published in 2017 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), discussing its carcinogen hazard classification of four pesticides: parathion, malathion, diazinon, and tetrachlorvinphos as well as the herbicide glyphosate.The monograph provided a detailed discussion of considerations and conclusions ... Read more

    $98.99 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

  • European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2022

    Series Book 13 - European Yearbook of International Economic Law
    Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. While political leadership and scientific expertise are key, law has a major role to play in fashioning responses. Volume 13 of the EYIEL assesses central aspects of the legal regimes governing "Climate Change and Liability". Covering traditional trade and investment topics as well EU instruments regulating private actors, contributions reflect ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Farmers and Plant Breeding

    Current Approaches and Perspectives

    Series series Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity
    This book presents the history of, and current approaches to, farmer-breeder collaboration in plant breeding, situating this work in the context of sustainable food systems, as well as national and international policy and law regimes.Plant breeding is essential to food production, climate-change adaptation and sustainable development. This book brings together experienced practitioners and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD