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A Pragmatist Orientation for the Social Sciences in Climate Policy [electronic resource] : How to Make Integrated Economic Assessments Serve Society / by Martin Kowarsch.

Kowarsch, Martin. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016., 2016)

While economic and other social science expertise is indispensable for successful public policy-making regarding global climate change, social scientists face trade-offs between the scientific credibility, policy-relevance, ...
Addressing Global Environmental Challenges from a Peace Ecology Perspective [electronic resource] / edited by Hans G nter Brauch, rsula Oswald Spring, Juliet Bennett, Serena Er ndira Serrano Oswald.

Brauch, Hans G nter. editor.; Oswald Spring, rsula. editor.; Bennett, Juliet. editor.; Serrano Oswald, Serena Er ndira. editor.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016., 2016)

Addressing global environmental challenges from a peace ecology perspective, the present book offers peer-reviewed texts that build on the expanding field of peace ecology and applies this concept to global environmental ...
Building Civil Society in Authoritarian China [electronic resource] : Importance of Leadership Connections for Establishing Effective Nongovernmental Organizations in a Non-Democracy / by John W. Tai.

Tai, John W. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015., 2015)

How is modern civil society created? There are few contemporary studies on this important question and when it is addressed, scholars tend to emphasize the institutional environment that facilitates a modern civil society. ...
Climate Change Adaptation and Forest Dependent Communities [electronic resource] : An Analytical Perspective of Different Agro-Climatic Regions of West Bengal, India / by Jyotish Prakash Basu.

Basu, Jyotish Prakash. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017., 2017)

This book addresses the livelihood impacts of climate change, vulnerability and adaptation measures on the forest dependent communities of India. Research presented here focuses on three different agro-climatic areas of ...
Climate Change, Security Risks and Conflict Reduction in Africa [electronic resource] : A Case Study of Farmer-Herder Conflicts over Natural Resources in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Burkina Faso 1960–2000 / by Charlène Cabot.

Cabot, Charl ne. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2017., 2017)

The environmental impacts of climate change represent challenges to the societies and are anticipated to contribute to the destabilization of their human security, endangering ways of life of human-beings and inducing ...
Contemporary Issues in Environmental Law [electronic resource] : The EU and Japan / edited by Yumiko Nakanishi.

Nakanishi, Yumiko. editor.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016., 2016)

This book presents a variety of articles on contemporary issues in environmental law by eminent university professors of environmental law, international public law, European Union law, and comparative law in Europe and ...
Environmental Politics [electronic resource] : New Geographical and Social Constituencies / by Corrado Poli.

Poli, Corrado. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015., 2015)

A change in the way humans relate to nature could be the starting point for a new environmental politics, a change which in itself will also influence relations among humans. Such a new approach would help to radically ...
Experiencing and Protecting Sacred Natural Sites of S mi and other Indigenous Peoples [electronic resource] : The Sacred Arctic / edited by Leena Hein m ki, Thora Martina Herrmann.

Hein m ki, Leena. editor.; Herrmann, Thora Martina. editor.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017., 2017)

This book focuses specifically on the experience and protection of indigenous, and particularly Sámi sacred sites in the Arctic. Sacred sites are being increasingly recognized as important reservoirs of Arctic cultural and ...
Forests in International Law [electronic resource] : Is There Really a Need for an International Forest Convention? / by Anja Eikermann.

Eikermann, Anja. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015., 2015)

This book investigates the potential need for an international convention on forests and establishes a multifunctional concept of forests as a cornerstone for international forest regulation. Accordingly, it examines a ...
From the Paris Agreement to a Low-Carbon Bretton Woods [electronic resource] : Rationale for the Establishment of a Mitigation Alliance / by Michele Stua.

Stua, Michele. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017., 2017)

This book investigates the existing and possible links between the concept of a Carbon Club and the Paris Agreement. In doing so the book defines those criteria that may lead to an effective establishment of a Carbon Club ...
How to Deal with Climate Change? [electronic resource] : Institutional Adaptive Capacity as a Means to Promote Sustainable Water Governance / by Beatrice Mosello.

Mosello, Beatrice. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015., 2015)

As the evidence for human-induced climate change becomes more obvious, so too does the realisation that it will harshly impact on the natural environment as well as on socio-economic systems. Addressing the unpredictability ...
Morton Deutsch: A Pioneer in Developing Peace Psychology [electronic resource] / by Peter T. Coleman, Morton Deutsch.

Coleman, Peter T. author.; Deutsch, Morton. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015., 2015)

Commemorating Morton Deutsch’s 95th birthday, this book presents ten major texts by this highly respected social psychologist on war and peace. This first volume presents Deutsch in his role as a leading social science ...
Morton Deutsch: Major Texts on Peace Psychology [electronic resource] / by Peter T. Coleman, Morton Deutsch.

Coleman, Peter T. author.; Deutsch, Morton. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015., 2015)

Commemorating Morton Deutsch’s 95th birthday, this book presents ten major texts by this highly respected social psychologist on war and peace. This second volume presents Deutsch in his role as a leading social science ...
Nils Petter Gleditsch: Pioneer in the Analysis of War and Peace [electronic resource] / by Nils Petter Gleditsch.

Gleditsch, Nils Petter. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015., 2015)

This book presents Nils Petter Gleditsch, a staff member of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) since 1964, a former editor of the Journal for Peace Research (1983-2010), a former president of the International ...
On the Effect of Offshore Wind Farms on the Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics [electronic resource] / by Elke Ludewig.

Ludewig, Elke. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015., 2015)

Renewable energy resources now play an essential role in the energy supply debate, and especially a new interest in wind energy has resulted in the intensified construction of wind farms. Thanks to the growing demand for ...
Prevention of Pollution of the Marine Environment from Vessels [electronic resource] : The Potential and Limits of the International Maritime Organisation / by Md Saiful Karim.

Karim, Md Saiful. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015., 2015)

This book examines the role of The International Maritime Organization (IMO) in the prevention and control of pollution of the marine environment from vessels with a particular reference to the current north-south tensions ...
Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific [electronic resource] / edited by rsula Oswald Spring, Hans G nter Brauch, Serrena Er ndira Serrano Oswald, Juliet Bennett.

Oswald Spring, rsula. editor.; Brauch, Hans G nter. editor.; Serrano Oswald, Serrena Er ndira. editor.; Bennett, Juliet. editor.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016., 2016)

This book presents peer-reviewed texts from the International Peace Research Association’s Ecology and Peace Commission: M.I. Abazie-Humphrey (Nigeria) reviews “Nigeria’s Home-Grown DDR Programme”; C. Christian and H. ...
Sustainable Consumption [electronic resource] : Design, Innovation and Practice / edited by Audley Genus.

Genus, Audley. editor.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016., 2016)

This book originates from the work of contributors to initiatives and global networks promoting and pursuing lines of enquiry that recognise and probe relationships between sustainable consumption, design and production, ...
The South China Sea and Asian Regionalism [electronic resource] : A Critical Realist Perspective / by Thanh-Dam Truong, Knio Karim.

Truong, Thanh-Dam. author.; Karim, Knio. author.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016., 2016)

This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea. Moving beyond the spirit of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the mechanisms of which are limited to ...
Use of Economic Instruments in Water Policy [electronic resource] : Insights from International Experience / edited by Manuel Lago, Jaroslav Mysiak, Carlos M. G mez, Gonzalo Delac mara, Alexandros Maziotis.

Lago, Manuel. editor.; Mysiak, Jaroslav. editor.; G mez, Carlos M. editor.; Delac mara, Gonzalo. editor.; Maziotis, Alexandros. editor.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015., 2015)

This book assesses both the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) in order to achieve water policy goals, and identifies the preconditions under which they outperform alternative ...

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