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Cover Spatial Flood Risk Management
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 Transport in Human Scale Cities
Transport in Human Scale Cities
Edited by Miloš N. Mladenović, Tuuli Toivonen, Elias Willberg, and Karst T. Geurs
This timely book calls for a paradigm shift in urban transport, which remains one of the critically uncertain aspects of the sustainability transformation of our societies. It argues that the potential of human scale thinking needs to be recognised, both in understanding people on the move in the city and within various organisations responsible for cities.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
12 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800370517
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 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.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
10 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802200720
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Standing up for a Sustainable World
Standing up for a Sustainable World
Voices of Change
Edited by Claude Henry, Johan Rockström, and Nicholas Stern
The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.
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Handbook
Published:
11 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371781
Collection:
Economics 2020
Cover Russian Oil Companies in an Evolving World
Russian Oil Companies in an Evolving World
The Challenge of Change
Indra Overland and Nina Poussenkova
This book examines Russia’s capacity to respond to a changing world through the lens of the country’s oil industry. Against a backdrop of social, political and climatic change, Indra Overland and Nina Poussenkova present a systematic analysis of how modern energy developments in the form of shale oil, offshore oil and the global energy transition are handled.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
14 Aug 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978019
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe
Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe
Civic Engagement and Public Discourse in Times of Crises
Edited by Christian Lahusen
Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe systematically dissects the manifestations of solidarity buried beneath the official policies and measures of public authority in Europe. In this exciting and innovative book, contributors offer comprehensive and original data and highlight the detrimental factors that tend to inhibit or annihilate solidarity, and those that are beneficial for the nurturing of solidarity.
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Monograph Book
Published:
02 Mar 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909500
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
Cover The Energy of Russia
The Energy of Russia
Hydrocarbon Culture and Climate Change
Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen
This timely book analyses the status of hydrocarbon energy in Russia as both a saleable commodity and as a source of societal and political power. Through empirical studies in domestic and foreign policy contexts, Veli-Pekka Tykkynen explores the development of a hydrocarbon culture in Russia and the impact this has on its politics, identity and approach to climate change and renewable energy.
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Monograph Book
Published:
02 Dec 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978606
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
Cover A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance
A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance
Edited by Oksana Mont

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. Evaluating achievements, challenges and future avenues for research, this book explores how new dimensions of knowledge and practice contest, reshape and advance traditional understandings of sustainable consumption governance.

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Monograph Book
Published:
01 Oct 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Contingent Valuation of Environmental Goods
Contingent Valuation of Environmental Goods
A Comprehensive Critique
Edited by Daniel McFadden and Kenneth Train
Contingent valuation is a survey-based procedure that attempts to estimate how much households are willing to pay for specific programs that improve the environment or prevent environmental degradation. For decades, the method has been the center of debate regarding its reliability: does it really measure the value that people place on environmental changes? Bringing together leading voices in the field, this timely book tells a unified story about the interrelated features of contingent valuation and how those features affect its reliability. Through empirical analysis and review of past studies, the authors identify important deficiencies in the procedure, raising questions about the technique’s continued use.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
28 Apr 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786434692
Collection:
Economics 2017
Cover Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability
Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability
Tom Dedeurwaerdere
The dynamism of science has been catalytic for human prosperity in recent history. Conventional perspectives of the ivory tower model of modern science are, however, rivalled by the failure of humanity to tackle global crises of an economic, environmental and social nature. Operational solutions to these pressures have grown and exposed pitfalls of modern science to date. Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability investigates core concepts, tools and institutional strategies of transdisciplinary sustainability science. Prominent research programs within heterodox economics, the environmental sciences and transition theory are explored through diverse case studies, revealing challenges and advancements for transdisciplinary research. In this book, the reform of modern science is facilitated by the consideration of action points to overcome the institutional barriers of putting sustainability science into practice. Researchers, students and policy practitioners will benefit from up to date knowledge on the practice of transdisciplinary research for sustainability.
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Monograph Book
Published:
26 Sep 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474561
Collection:
Economics 2014