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Cover Rethinking Environmental Security
Rethinking Environmental Security
Simon Dalby

This thought-provoking book explores how the global ecological crisis profoundly challenges conventional meanings of environmental security and raises important questions about how states and other institutions now face the future.

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Monograph Book
Published:
06 May 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375857
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2022
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Spatial Flood Risk Management
Implementing Catchment-based Retention and Resilience on Private Land
Edited by Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková, and Mark E. Wilkinson
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Centralising the role of land and landowners, Spatial Flood Risk Management brings together knowledge from socio-economy, public policy, hydrology, geomorphology, and engineering to establish an interdisciplinary knowledge base on spatial approaches to managing flood risks.
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Monograph Book
Published:
14 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379534
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
Cover Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism
Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism
Edited by David Tindall, Mark C.J. Stoddart, and Riley E. Dunlap
This thought-provoking Handbook provides a theoretical overview of the wide variety of anti-environmentalisms and offers an integrative research agenda for future research on the topic. Probing the ways in which groups have organized to oppose environmental movements and pro-environmental policies in recent decades, it examines those involved in these countermovements and studies their motivations and support systems. This Handbook explores core topics in the field, including contestation over climate change, wind power, mining, forestry, food sovereignty, oil and gas pipelines and population issues.
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Handbook
Published:
25 Mar 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100222
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover Research Handbook on Energy and Society
Research Handbook on Energy and Society
Edited by Janette Webb, Faye Wade, and Margaret Tingey
This incisive Research Handbook examines the relationship between energy and society, across both macro- and micro-scales, in the context of the climate crisis. Featuring an extensive examination of current research in the field from fifty expert international contributors, it offers important insights into the inter-connections between the globally organised fossil fuel energy system and the changing structures of society.
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Handbook
Published:
10 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100710
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Greening China’s New Silk Roads
Greening China’s New Silk Roads
The Sustainable Governance of Belt and Road
R. J. Ferguson
This timely book offers a critical account of key governance challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Illustrating China’s efforts to expand its idea of a sustainable eco-civilization, thereby ‘greening’ the BRI, it explores the disputes that have emerged from this process and subsequent complications resulting from geopolitical competition.
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Monograph Book
Published:
07 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977470
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China
Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China
A Governmentality Perspective
Le-Yin Zhang
Utilizing a governmentality lens, this timely book offers an explanation for China’s decarbonization performance in the early 21st century. Le-Yin Zhang investigates one of the most ambitious governing projects in history, analyzing the political rationalities of Chinese leaders for decarbonization and the governing techniques and technologies at multiple levels of governance.
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Monograph Book
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19 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977395
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Research Handbook on Ocean Acidification Law and Policy
Research Handbook on Ocean Acidification Law and Policy
Edited by David L. VanderZwaag, Nilüfer Oral, and Tim Stephens
This important Research Handbook provides a guide to navigating the tangled array of laws and policies available to counter the ominous threats of ocean acidification. It investigates the limitations and opportunities for addressing ocean acidification under national, regional and global governance frameworks, including multilateral environmental agreements, law of the sea and human rights instruments.
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Handbook
Published:
19 Oct 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900149
Collection:
Law 2021
Cover The Transformation of Environmental Law and Governance
The Transformation of Environmental Law and Governance
Risk, Innovation and Resilience
Edited by Francesco Sindico, Stephanie Switzer, and Tianbao Qin
This cutting-edge book considers the functional inseparability of risk and innovation within the context of environmental law and governance. Analysing both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ innovation, the book argues that approaches to socio-ecological risk require innovation in order for society and the environment to become more resilient.
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Monograph Book
Published:
19 Oct 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800889378
Collection:
Law 2021
Cover Giving Future Generations a Voice
Giving Future Generations a Voice
Normative Frameworks, Institutions and Practice
Edited by Jan Linehan and Peter Lawrence
This important book focuses on how newly emerging institutions for future generations can contribute to tackling large scale global environmental problems, such as threats to biodiversity and climate change. It is especially timely given the new global impetus for decarbonisation, as well as the huge growth of climate litigation and climate protest movements, often led by young people.
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Monograph Book
Published:
12 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108259
Collection:
Law 2021
Cover Grand Challenges of Planetary Governance
Grand Challenges of Planetary Governance
Global Order in Turbulent Times
Oran R. Young
In this timely book, leading scholar Oran Young reflects on the future of the global order. Developing new lenses through which to consider needs for governance arising on a global scale, Young investigates the grand challenges of the 21st century requiring the most urgent and sustained planetary responses: protecting the Earth’s climate system; controlling the eruption of pandemics; suppressing disruptive uses of cyberspace; and guiding the biotechnology revolution.
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Monograph Book
Published:
10 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802200720
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021