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  • Peacebuilding in Crisis

    Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation

    Edited by Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held, Ulrich Schneckener ...
    Series series Routledge Global Cooperation Series
    The 1990s saw a constant increase in international peace missions, predominantly led by the United Nations, whose mandates were more and more extended to implement societal and political transformations in post-conflict societies. However, in many cases these missions did not meet the high expectations and did not acquire a sufficient legitimacy on the local level. Written by leading experts in ... Read more

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  • The Climate Casino

    Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

    by William D. Nordhaus ...
    Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • A Rough Ride to the Future

    by James Lovelock ...
    The great scientific visionary of our age presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system.A Rough Ride to the Future introduces two new Lovelockian ideas. The first is that three hundred years ago, when Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine, he was unknowingly beginning what James Lovelock calls "accelerated evolution." That is a process that is ... Read more

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  • Climate Ethics

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Stephen Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, Henry Shue ...
    This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Energy

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Jose Goldemberg ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Without a doubt, the topic of energy--from coal, oil, and nuclear to geothermal, solar and wind--is one of the most pressing across the globe. It is of paramount importance to policy makers, economists, environmentalists, and industry as they consider which technologies to invest in, how to promote use of renewable energy sources, and how to plan for dwindling reserves of non-renewable energy. In ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Earth in the Balance

    Forging a New Common Purpose

    by Al Gore ...
    Al Gore leads the charge against climate change, the world's greatest threat, in an incendiary new foreword to this timeless classic that launched his environmental career. If you want to know Gore, you need this book! ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Lobbying in the European Parliament

    The Battle for Influence

    by Maja Kluger Dionigi ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
    This book explains when and how interest groups are influential in the European Parliament, which has become one of the most important lobbying venues in the EU. Yet we know little about the many ways in which interest groups and lobbyists influence parliamentary politics. The author offers insights on four key cases of lobbying, based on the analysis of EU documents, lobbying letters, and 150 ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Environmental Ethics

    An Overview for the Twenty-First Century

    by Robin Attfield ...
    In this clear, concise, comprehensively revised and up-to-date introduction to environmental ethics, Robin Attfield guides the student through the key issues and debates in this field in ways that will also be of interest to a wide range of scholars and researchers.The book introduces environmental problems and environmental ethics and surveys theories of the sources of the problems. Attfield also ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Environmental Security

    Approaches and Issues

    Edited by Rita Floyd, Richard Matthew ...
    Economic development, population growth and poor resource management have combined to alter the planet’s natural environment in dramatic and alarming ways. For over twenty years, considerable research and debate have focused on clarifying or disputing linkages between various forms of environmental change and various understandings of security. At one extreme lie sceptics who contend that the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance

    Edited by Sébastien Duyck, Sébastien Jodoin, Alyssa Johl ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    Over the last decade, the world has increasingly grappled with the complex linkages emerging between efforts to combat climate change and to protect human rights around the world. The Paris Climate Agreement adopted in December 2015 recognized the necessity for governments to take into consideration their human rights obligations when taking climate action. However, important gaps remain in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Development and Welfare Policy in South Asia

    Edited by Gabriele Koehler, Deepta Chopra ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    This book sheds light on social policies in six South Asian countries introduced between 2003 and 2013, examining the ways in which these policies have come about, and what this reflects about the nature of the state in each of these countries. It offers a detailed analysis of the nature of these policies introduced in recent years in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Environmental Requirements for Electromechanical and Electrical Equipment

    by Samantha Tricker, Ray Tricker ...
    Environmental Requirements for Electromechanical and Electrical Equipment is the definitive reference containing all of the background guidance, typical ranges, details of recommended test specifications, case studies and regulations covering the environmental requirements on designers and manufacturers of electrical and electromechanical equipment worldwide. The recent introduction of the ... Read more

    $229.49 USD