Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental management
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Environmental Management and Local Government
Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental management
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Decision Making for the Environment
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309095409
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
With the growing number, complexity, and importance of environmental problems come demands to include a full range of intellectual disciplines and scholarly traditions to help define and eventually manage such problems more effectively. Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities is the result of a 2-year effort by 12 social and behavioral scientists, scholars, and practitioners. The report sets research priorities for the social and behavioral sciences as they relate to several different kinds of environmental problems.
Environmental Management and Governance
Author: Peter J. MayPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415144452
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Problems for environmental management are taking on a new urgency. This book addresses aspects of environmental management that raise fundamental questions about governmental roles and the relationship of humans to the environment. It examines the interaction of local and national governments and the strengths and weaknesses of co-operative vs. coercive environmental management, through a focus on the management of natural hazards. Leading experts in the field examine new and innovative environmental management and planning programmes with particular focus on North America and Australia. This book offers a new understanding of environmental problems and explores the appropriate policy mix that must be developed for environmental management to strive towards environmental sustainability.
Environmental Law and Local Government in South Africa
Author: Anel du PlessisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781485100508
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Environmental Management Handbook for Georgia Local Government Officials
Author: Margaret A. MyszewskiPublisher: University of Georgia, Carl Vinson Institute of Government
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Collaborative Environmental Management
Author: Tomas M. KoontzPublisher: Resources for the Future
ISBN: 9781891853807
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Financial Management for Local Government
Author: Kay SpearmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136565817
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
This series is designed to cover all aspects of sound financial management for local governments in developed and developing countries and economies in transition. Concepts of good governance, transparency and accountability are woven into the text of every chapter, and the needs and potential obstacles to greater decentralization and democracy are highlighted. Each volume is self-contained with its own Trainer's Guide, exercises and web resources. Chapters are divided into basic and advanced concepts and the detailed relationship of each topic to the others covered in the series is explained.
Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance
Author: Ronnie D. LipschutzPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791431177
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Explores the growing role of global civil society and local environmental activism in the management and protection of the environment worldwide.
The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889368015
Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide: An introduction to sustainable development planning
Institutional Dynamics in Environmental Governance
Author: Bas ArtsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402050798
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book presents fresh analyses of a number of well-known cases, but does so from one comprehensive view, the so-called policy arrangement approach. Cases discussed range over organic farming, integrated water management, nature policy, cultural heritage policy, integrated region-oriented policy, corporate environmental management and target group policy, always in search of the commonality of experience and conclusions to be drawn in understanding the past and in formulating future perspectives.