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  1. Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development

    By David Reed

    Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

    This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of '...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge

  2. International Environmental Law and the Conservation of Coral Reefs

    By Edward J. Goodwin

    Series: Routledge Research in International Environmental Law

    Tropical coral reefs are important ecosystems. They are economically important to coastal communities living in predominantly developing countries, and also provide shoreline protection, catalyse land formation enabling human habitation, act as a carbon sink and are a repository for genetic and...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  3. The Human Right to Water and its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

    By Amanda Cahill Ripley

    Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

    The Human Right to Water and Its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories provides an overview and examination of the human right to water as determined under international human rights law. This is a highly topical issue, with the UN General Assembly having passed a resolution which...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Taiwan, Humanitarianism and Global Governance

    By Alain Guilloux

    Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

    In this unique book, Alain Guilloux uses four major elements of governance - namely norms, actors, processes, and outcomes - to examine Taiwan’s national governance as well as its participation in global governance in relation to humanitarian aid. Including case studies on Taiwan’s application to...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Protecting the Atmosphere

    The Climate Change Convention and its context

    By Sten Nilsson, David Pitt

    Series: International Environmental Governance Set

    'The authors take us into less-known corridors of climate Realpolitik and energy power play. We are provided with the essential vocabulary to understand what is at stake and how the challenge should be tackled' Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Global warming and the resulting climate change present one of...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Nature's Spectacle

    The World's First National Parks and Protected Places

    By John Sheail

    National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger context in which they developed. ...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Mountain World in Danger

    Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe

    By Sten Nilsson, David Pitt

    Series: Sustainable Development Set

    The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Renewable Energy Project Development Under the Clean Development Mechanism

    A Guide for Latin America

    By Elizabeth Lokey

    Series: Environmental Market Insights

    This definitive guide to developing renewable energy CDM projects in Latin America - the largest market on the doorstep of the United States - provides business leaders, investors, project developers and host country offices with the one-stop guide to successful CDM renewable energy project...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Cost-Effective Control of Urban Smog

    The Significance of the Chicago Cap-and-Trade Approach

    By Richard Kosobud, Houston Stokes, Carol Tallarico, Brian Scott

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    Containing rigorous hard evidence, this book is of immense practical use to postgraduates, researchers and business communities affected by or working in environmental regulation. The author, a leading name in the environmental economics community, examines the problem of urban smog in cityscapes...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects

    By John A. Dixon, Richard A. Carpenter, Louise A. Fallon, Paul B. Sherman, Supachit Manipomoke

    Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

    It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify and assess the extent of this sort of damage. In this book a group of analysts from the Asian Development Bank and from the East West Center propose...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge