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41. Ecological Modernisation and Japan

    By Brendan F.D. Barrett

    In the 1990s, Japan gradually began to turn green and started to experiment with more participatory forms of environmental governance. Ecological Modernisation and Japan explores this transformation and looks at Japan as a case for ecological modernisation while contextualising the discussion...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
42. Education and Climate Change

    Living and Learning in Interesting Times

    Edited by Fumiyo Kagawa, David Selby

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    There is widespread consensus in the international scientific community that climate change is happening and that abrupt and irreversible impacts are already set in motion. What part does education have to play in helping alleviate rampant climate change and in mitigating its worst effects?&...

    Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
43. Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology

    A Case Study of the Integrated Product Policy of the European Union

    By Jakub Kronenberg

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    Holistic in approach and rooted in the real world Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology presents a new way of looking at environmental policy; exploring the relationship between ecological economics and industrial ecology. Concentrating on the conceptual background of ecological economics...

    Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
44. Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature

    By Debra Mitts-Smith

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    From the villainous beast of “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Little Pigs,” to the nurturing wolves of Romulus and Remus and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the wolf has long been a part of the landscape of children’s literature. Meanwhile, since the 1960s and the popularization of...

    Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
45. The European Union as a Leader in International Climate Change Politics

    Edited by Rüdiger Wurzel, James Connelly

    Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

    Climate change poses one of the biggest challenges facing humankind. The European Union (EU) has developed into a leader in international climate change politics although it was originally set up as a ‘leaderless Europe’ in which decision-making powers are spread amongst EU institutional, member...

    Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
46. Nuclear Waste Management in a Globalised World

    Edited by Urban Strandberg, Mats Andrén

    High-level nuclear waste (HLW) is a controversial and risky issue. For the next 100 years, the HLW will be subject to policy decisions and value assessments. Physically safe, technologically stable, and socio-economically sustainable HLW-management will top the agenda. That must be accomplished in...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
47. Modeling Environment-Improving Technological Innovations under Uncertainty

    Edited by Alexander Golub, Anil Markandya

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    The issues of technology and uncertainty are very much at the heart of the policy debate of how much to control greenhouse gas emissions. The costs of doing so are present and high while the benefits are very much in the future and, most importantly, they are highly uncertain. Whilst there is broad...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
48. The Politics of Climate Change

    Environmental Dynamics in International Affairs

    Edited by Paul G. Harris

    Climate change is now a mainstream part of the international political agenda. It has become clear that it is not solely a technical issue, to be resolved by scientists, but a political issue with political implications at all levels of global governance. Indeed, some may argue that few long-term...

    Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
49. Environmental Social Accounting Matrices

    Theory and applications

    By Pablo Martínez de Anguita, John E. Wagner

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    In this book Professors Pablo Martínez de Anguita and John E. Wagner put two disciplines together, regional and ecological economics, presenting a way to understand ecological economic concerns from a regional perspective, and providing a mathematical tool to measure their interrelationships. This...

    Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
50. Economic Growth and Environmental Regulation

    The People's Republic of China's Path to a Brighter Future

    Edited by Timothy Swanson, Tun Lin

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    This volume assembles a group of eminent scholars to look at the problem of growth and environment from the perspective of environmental regulation. The questions addressed are: How does economic growth interact with regulation, and what are the best approaches to regulation in use today? The...

    Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge