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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
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 Climate in Court
Climate in Court
Defining State Obligations on Global Warming Through Domestic Climate Litigation
Pau de Vilchez Moragues
Answering the key question of whether there is an obligation for States to define and enact sound climate policies in order to avoid the impacts of global warming, this timely book provides expert analysis on recent global climate cases, assessing not only the plaintiffs’ claims but also the legal reasoning put forward by the courts.
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Monograph Book
Published:
12 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886896
Collection:
Law 2022
Cover Protected Area Regulation and Tourism
Protected Area Regulation and Tourism
Science-informed Ecological Transitions
Valentina Dinica
This innovative book proposes a conceptual framework to integrate the ecological and tourism aspects of Protected Area regulation, assisting decision-makers to develop contextually effective laws and management plans that avoid over-regulating or under-regulating tourism, given the areas' ecological profiles.
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Monograph Book
Published:
08 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107085
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 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 Climate Change Law
Climate Change Law
An Introduction
Karl S. Coplan, Shelby D. Green, Katrina Fischer Kuh, Smita Narula, Karl R. Rábago, and Radina Valova
This timely and incisive book combines an introduction to the core legal and policy issues presented by climate change with a deeper analysis of decisions that will define the path forward. Offering a guide to key terms, concepts, and legal principles in the field, this book will help readers develop a sophisticated perspective on issues central to climate change law and policy.
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Monograph Book
Published:
10 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839101304
Collection:
Law 2021
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
Published:
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