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  • Environmental Management in Practice: Vol 1

    Instruments for Environmental Management

    Focuses on the instruments and tools currently available to the environmental manager. A theoretical background to the instruments is given together with an overview of those instruments that are in common use today, with particular attention to the physical, economic, legislative and communication instruments. ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Environmental Management in Practice: Vol 2

    Compartments, Stressors and Sectors

    Volume 2: Compartments, Stressors and Sectors, deals with the problems that occur in the three 'compartments' of the environment, namely air, water and soil. The contributors also address the socio-economic sectors of industry, traffic, energy, agriculture and tourism. ... Leer más

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  • Environmental Management in Practice: Vol 3

    Managing the Ecosystem

    Volume 3: Managing the Ecosystem focuses on those ecosystems in which human intervention has been or continues to be predominant, specifically within cities and rural areas. ... Leer más

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  • Water Resources Planning and Management

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    Water is an increasingly critical issue at the forefront of global policy change, management and planning. There are growing concerns about water as a renewable resource, its availability for a wide range of users, aquatic ecosystem health, and global issues relating to climate change, water security, water trading and water ethics. This handbook provides the most comprehensive reference ever ... Leer más

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  • Living in a Warmer World

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  • Balancing Water for Humans and Nature

    The New Approach in Ecohydrology

    Balancing Water for Humans and Nature, authored by two of the world's leading experts on water management, examines water flows - the 'blood stream' of both nature and society - in terms of the crucial links, balances, conflicts and trade-offs between human and environmental needs. The authors argue that a sustainable future depends fundamentally on our ability to manage these trade-offs and ... Leer más

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  • Blue Revolution

    Integrated Land and Water Resources Management

    de Ian Calder ...
    'Blue Revolution upturns some environmental applecarts - not for the hell of it, but so we can manage our environment better.'Fred Pearce, New ScientistThis updated and revised edition of The Blue Revolution provides further evidence of the need to integrate land management decision-making into the process of integrated water resources management. It presents the key issues involved in finding the ... Leer más

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  • Resetting the Compass

    Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability

    Resetting the Compass: Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability Updated Edition sets out Australia's environmental problems in their global context and explains what is now needed to fix them. It also illustrates how ecological sustainability can be achieved together with economic, social and cultural sustainability. The book examines the pressures on our environment from population growth, ... Leer más

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  • Environmental Governance

    Institutions, Policies and Actions

    de Arild Vatn ...
    Environmental governance encompasses our relations to nature, spanning institutions and policies in fields such as biodiversity loss, climate change, land use and pollution. This book offers tools for the study of environmental conflicts, analyzes the current status of environmental policies and discusses why we are so far from resolving many of the issues we face. It also offers alternative ... Leer más

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  • Making the Modern World

    Materials and Dematerialization

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  • How Numbers Rule the World

    The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

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    Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers?In How Numbers Rule the ... Leer más

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