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Energy Capitol explores the waning of regulatory politics surrounding largescale energy systems in the United States at the turn of the millennium

This book tracks the progress of maternal and child health MNCH part of SDG 3 in Empowered Action Group of states in India

This book examines the legal protection and management of inland waters in Europe addressing threats such as climate change pollution and overexploitation It will be of interest to students and scholars of water law water resource management environmental policy and environmental conservation

This book assesses the extent to which two specialized UN agencies the International Maritime Organization IMO in London and the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO in Montreal have been able to regulate environmental pollution in the global commons

This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say Anatol Lieven is telling his fellow realists that at this moment the world s great powers are far more threatened by climate change than they are by each other Ivan Krastev author of The Light That FailedIn the past two centuries we have experienced wave after wave of overwhelming change Entire continents have been resettled there are billions more of us the jobs done by countless people would be unrecognizable to their predecessors scientific change has transformed us all in confusing terrible and miraculous ways Anatol Lieven s major new book provides the frame that has long been needed to understand how we should react to climate change This is a vast challenge but we have often in the past had to deal with such challenges the industrial revolution major wars and mass migration have seen mobilizations of human energy on the greatest scale Just as previous generations had to face the unwanted and unpalatable so do we In a series of incisive compelling interventions Lieven shows how in this emergency our crucial building block is the nation state The drastic action required both to change our habits and protect ourselves can be carried out not through some vague globalism bu

El tomo 14 de la colección Gridale abarca investigaciones sobre políticas económicas, políticas sociales, salud y migraciones, así como sobre participación ciudadana y gobernanza multinivel. Los temas aqui reunidos son de enorme relevancia, pertinencia y actualidad para los ciudadanos europeos y latinoamericanos, en especial, porque ayudan a orientar las reflexiones derivadas de los resultados de la Conferencia sobre el Futuro de Europa (2021-2022) hacia las experiencias regionalistas en America Latina y el Caribe. El lector tiene en sus manos el segundo de tres tomos de esta coleccion que recoge las reflexiones presentadas por academicos latinoamericanos y europeos en el Simposio EURO-LATAM 2022, organizado por el Gridale y el IELEPI, en la Universidad de Alcala de Henares (España), en octubre del 2022.

Energy Capitol explores the waning of regulatory politics surrounding largescale energy systems in the United States at the turn of the millennium

This book provides an overview of distinct and relevant aspects of forest policy processes in Europe presenting a fresh perspective on different analytical approaches theories and frameworks It will be essential reading for forestry students and scholars and professionals and policymakers working on forest policy and forest management

First published in 1931. The Problem of Federalism provides a comprehensive and critical survey of the historical development and practical application of the idea of federalism as a form of state organisation. The author explores federal ideas from the eighteenth- up until the early twentieth-century. This extensive study will be useful to students of politics and philosophy.

"La resistència implica que la batalla ?si és que n?hi ha hagut cap? ja ha estat perduda i només queda intentar resistir desesperadament davant l?enorme poder que atribuïm a l?altre bàndol. La defens

With impeccably detailed research and an eye towards a better future At What Cost arms ordinary citizens activists and health professionals with an understanding of how we ve arrived at the current critical state in global health and what we can do to ensure a healthier collective future

In Climate Future Robert Pindyck explains what we know and what we don t know about the extent of climate change and its impact why there is so much uncertainty and what it means for climate policy Pindyck argues that investments in adaptation are urgently needed to insure against catastrophic climate change events and shows how that can be done

In the late 1990s governments began investing hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign oil and gas assets through their national oil companies NOCs raising concerns about a resource war and asymmetric interdependence Most critics perceive the foreign investments of NOCs as politically driven and inefficient In Fueling State Capitalism however Andrew Cheon sees these investments as commercial ventures by ambitious stateowned enterprises seeking to become global players amid rising oil prices Looking at investments from 79 countries from 2000 to 2013 as well as case studies of China India Brazil Norway and Russia Fueling State Capitalism unpacks the role of domestic institutions both national and bureaucratic in shaping the global expansion of national energy firms

This book provides an overview of distinct and relevant aspects of forest policy processes in Europe presenting a fresh perspective on different analytical approaches theories and frameworks It will be essential reading for forestry students and scholars and professionals and policymakers working on forest policy and forest management

This second open access book in the EFMD Management Education series explores business schools increasing focus on and search for meaningful societal and economic research impact The book doesn t simply highlight the need for the dominant research model in business schools to evolve but illustrates how this can happen in practice

The root of democratic decline is insecurity not inequality Antidemocrats across the globe feel differently about inequality but all fear losing what they have financially or culturally Pranab Bardhan urges context sensitive policy solutions and the promotion of civic patriotism and moderate community values over aggrandizing ethnonationalism

Reveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marxs writingsKarl Marx, author of what is perhaps the worlds most resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy, has frequently been described as a Promethean. According to critics, Marx held an inherent belief in the necessity of humans to dominate the natural world, in order to end material want and create a new world of fulfillment and abundancea world where nature is mastered, not by anarchic capitalism, but by a planned socialist economy. Understandably, this perspective has come under sharp attack, not only from mainstream environmentalists but also from ecosocialists, many of whom reject Marx outright.

Political ecology is one of the most vibrant fields of environmental research This book introduces political ecology to a new generation of students in a daring new way as an interdisciplinary approach to environmental research but also as a series of lived realities and a praxis for change The origins of political ecology are often traced through an Anglo American canon In Discovering Political Ecology Gustav Cederlof and Alex Loftus instead take up the challenge of presenting the key conversations and the diverse traditions that have shaped this field with attention to its extensive international roots Inspired by voices and research in Asia Africa Europe and the Americas the authors address the concerns of those who from different social backgrounds have grown up in a world shaped by climate change and increasing environmental inequalities Engaging and accessible in style Discovering Political Ecology introduces a set of key concepts around which conversations in political ecology coalesce It also shows how these concepts allow you to make sense of some of the most pressing issues of our time issues around water energy agriculture forestry climate change and environmental justice Each chapter includes learning outcomes and suggested further readings

Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement is not working Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders the climate crisis continues to worsen The solution is within our grasp but we will not achieve it through top down global treaties or grand bargains among nations Charles Sabel and David Victor explain why the profound transformations needed for deep cuts in emissions must arise locally with government and business working together to experiment with new technologies quickly learn the best solutions and spread that information globally Sabel and Victor show how some of the most iconic successes in environmental policy were products of this experimentalist approach to problem solving such as the Montreal Protocol on the ozone layer the rise of electric vehicles and Europe s success in controlling water pollution They argue that the Paris Agreement is at best an umbrella under which local experimentation can push the technological frontier and help societies around the world learn how to deploy the technologies and policies needed to tackle this daunting global problem A visionary book that fundamentally reorients our thinking about th