Author: Enterprise for the Environment (Organization)
Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Marlon Boeve
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780689296
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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This book presents inspiring ideas about how law can support the fundamental transition processes to a sustainable future and how it can provide guidance on the pathways to sustainability.

Author: Ken Sexton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Ruth N. Hull
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402059965
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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This volume presents the main environmental security challenges facing transition countries as well as practical methods and approaches for addressing them, which are equally applicable to all countries. Coverage also details lesson learned as illustrated via research and case studies as well as issues related to metals in the environment.

Author: Lester W. Milbrath
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438413084
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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The evidence is increasingly persuasive. We are changing the way our planet's physical systems work—irrevocably. These changes are global and interconnected and unavoidable. They are upon us already, making it virtually impossible for any modern society to continue its present trajectory of growth. This book provides a penetrating analysis of how we have come to this point, of why science and technology will fail to solve these problems, and of how we as a society must change in order to avoid ecological catastrophe. The scope is broad, the urgency of the message is impossible to ignore.

Author: Steven Cohen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231526377
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Can we grow our world economy and create opportunities for the poor while keeping the planet intact? Can we maintain our vibrant, dynamic lifestyles while ensuring the Earth stays productive and viable? Aimed at managers, students, scholars, and policymakers, Sustainability Management answers these questions in the affirmative, arguing it is possible for environmentally sustainable business practices and policies to foster economic and long-term growth. Written by a former analyst and consultant with the EPA, this book originally combines sustainable efforts in water, agriculture, urban, and power management to achieve in practice, not just in theory a sustainable planet and economy. Steven Cohen begins with the technical, financial, managerial, and political challenges of such a project, and then honestly assesses sustainable practices in the manufacturing and service industries. He addresses renewable and carbon-free energy production; water sustainability, especially with regard to energy issues involving filtration, distribution, and changing rainfall patterns; food cultivation and distribution; and ways to maintain the interdependent systems on which we depend to live. Taking examples from New York City, one of the most sustainable and sustainability-minded metropolises in the world, Cohen explains how everything from construction to waste management can be designed to facilitate a sustainable environment, not just for New York but also for the world. He concludes with this macroscopic view, outlining the global efforts necessary to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems, and the impact of war, terrorism, and human conflict on sustainability.

Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Daniel A. Mazmanian
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262134926
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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A new edition with new and updated case studies and analysis that demonstrate the trend in U.S. environmental policy toward sustainability at local and regional levels.

Author: A. Vari
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401581207
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Recent democratization and the accompanied liberalization of the media in Central and Eastern Europe has brought the devastating environmental impacts of the intensive and careless industrialization of the last 40 years to the surface. Less is known, however, about the social, political and institutional background of environmental risk management which led to the present situation, as well as about recent changes. Environment and Democratic Transition: Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe provides an overview of the mechanism of policy making, the role of the scientific community, the environmental movements, and the public in risk controversies in Central and Eastern Europe from the 1970s until 1991. The book brings together studies by leading social scientists from the East and the West who investigate the economic, legal, institutional, behavioral, social and political aspects of environmental policy. In addition to analyzing past histories, most contributions focus also on challenges, pitfalls and dilemmas that the region's policy makers and environmentalists must face during the period of transition and into the future.

Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289100292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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GAO presented its views on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program issues facing the new administration. GAO found that the new administration will need to: (1) manage environmental programs with greater emphasis on achieving measurable environmental results; (2) implement a multimedia approach in monitoring and evaluating changing environmental conditions; (3) rank results-oriented environmental goals in order of priority as a basis for planning and budgeting activities and link them to the EPA financial management system; (4) develop a more effective partnership with states to carry out the nation's pollution abatement efforts; (5) improve the focus and direction of the hazardous waste program; (6) develop a more effective strategy for the Superfund Program that ensures quick site cleanups and that responsible parties share the cleanup costs; (7) ensure that federal agencies comply with environmental regulations; (8) increase EPA evaluation of nonhazardous wastes and determine the federal role in the control of nonhazardous wastes; (9) create a new policy for reducing ground-level ozone to environmentally safe levels; (10) focus increased management attention on the long-term health effects of pesticide products; and (11) develop a comprehensive approach to controlling surface water pollution that recognizes point and nonpoint sources of pollution, to improve the quality of the nation's waterways.