Environmental Ruin

Author : D. J. Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367214937
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troubled Lands written by D. J. Peterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic revelations of environmental catastrophe in the Soviet Union made during the late 1980s and early 1990s were a driving force behind reform in, and later the demise of the communist party-state. But while the Union no longer exists, the independent republics confront the same dilemmas that plagued the Soviet state: Will the goal of econ

Author : Valerie L. Kuletz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134954336
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tainted Desert written by Valerie L. Kuletz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, nuclear testing in America's southwest was shrouded in secrecy, with images gradually made public of mushroom clouds blooming over the desert. Now, another nuclear crisis looms over this region: the storage of tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste. Tainted Desert maps the nuclear landscapes of the US inter-desert southwest, a land sacrificed to the Cold-War arms race and nuclear energy policy.

Author : Jason Rudall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000034941
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compensation for Environmental Damage Under International Law written by Jason Rudall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by recent litigation, this book identifies and critically appraises the manifold and varied approaches to calculating compensation for damage caused to the environment. It examines a wide range of practice on compensation – in general and specifically for environmental damage – from that of international courts and tribunals, as well as international commissions and regimes, to municipal approaches and other disciplines such as economics and philosophy. Compensation for Environmental Damage Under International Law synthesises these approaches with a view to identifying their blind spots, bringing clarity to an area where there exists broad discrepancy, and charting best practices that appropriately balance the manifold interests at stake. In particular, it is argued that best practice methodologies should ensure compensation serves to fully repair the environment, reflect the emerging ecosystems approach and any implications environmental damage may have for climate change, as well as take into account relevant equitable considerations. This book is essential reading for academics, practitioners and students working in the field of environmental law.

Author : Mark Halsey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351945521
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deleuze and Environmental Damage written by Mark Halsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a post-structuralist critique of the problems associated with modernist accounts of environmental harm and regulation. Through a notably detailed micro-political analysis of forest conflict, the author explores the limits of academic commentary on environmental issues and suggests that the traditional variables of political economy, race and gender need to be recast in light of four key modalities through which 'the environment' and 'environmental damage' are (re)produced. Focusing on vision, speed, lexicon and affect, the book engages a new ethic for categorizing and regulating 'nature' and challenges criminologists, sociologists, cultural theorists and others to reconsider what it is possible to say and do about environmental problems.

Author : Raj Mal Lodha
Publisher : Indus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788185182797
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Ruin written by Raj Mal Lodha and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On India; contributed articles.

Author : Barbara Pozzo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839700262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Loss and Damage in a Comparative Law Perspective written by Barbara Pozzo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book analyzes the regulation of environmental loss and damage. It does so from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, examining both public and private law aspects. It delves into conceptual and specific legal issues concerning liability, compensation and restoration of damage in different sectors and jurisdictions, as well as taking into account the contributions of economic analysis in this field of regulation. Specific attention has been devoted to the role that liability and insurance may play in terms of mitigation and adaptation to climate change, as well as the prevention of damage from natural hazards. The scope of analysis encompasses national as well as supranational and international regimes. In particular, there are two interrelated and very promising developments in the evolving understandings in this field that merit special focus: possible legal transplants and "cross-fertilization" between legal systems, on the one hand; and the current dialectic between global and local law in the environmental field, on the other."-- Page 4 de la couverture.

Author : Jay E. Austin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780209
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Environmental Consequences of War written by Jay E. Austin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental devastation caused by military conflict has been witnessed in the wake of the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Kosovo conflict. This book brings together leading international lawyers, military officers, scientists and economists to examine the legal, political, economic and scientific implications of wartime damage to the natural environment and public health. The book considers issues raised by the application of humanitarian norms and legal rules designed to protect the environment, and the destructive nature of war. Contributors offer an analysis and critique of the existing law of war framework, lessons from peacetime environmental law, means of scientific assessment and economic valuation of ecological and public health damage, and proposals for future legal and institutional developments. This book provides a contemporary forum for interdisciplinary analysis of armed conflict and the environment, and explores ways to prevent and redress wartime environmental damage.

Author : Ben Goldfarb
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160358739X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eager written by Ben Goldfarb and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages of climate change. -- adapted from jacket

Author : C. G. Weeramantry
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nauru written by C. G. Weeramantry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nauru is a small island in the Pacific which was endowed by nature with some of the richest phosphates in the world. Phosphate mining began on the island in 1906, when Nauru was still part of the German empire. Following Germany's defeat in 1918, Nauru was entrusted by the League of Nations to the care of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. It was a fiduciary relationship which, after the Second World War, continued under the trusteeship system of the United Nations. During this period Nauru's idyllic landscape was disastrously transformed, reducing much of the island to a lunar waste fringed in tropical splendour. Nauru: Environmental Damage under International Trusteeship summarizes part of the ten-volume 'Report of the Commission of Inquiry on the Rehabilitation of Phosphate Lands in Nauru', which was presented to the Government of Nauru in 1988. The report covered the responsibilities of the powers which controlled Nauru for rehabilitation of the lands which had been devastated by phosphate mining. It also inquired into the feasibility and manner of rehabilitation. Professor Christopher Weeramantry, the Chairman of the Commission, has written a fascinating and accessible summary of the portion of the report dealing with international responsibility. The issues include a number of areas of international law relating to mandate and trusteeship, environmental law, abuse of power, unjust enrichment, acquired rights, and permanent sovereignty over natural resources. Nauru is probably the most detailed practical study of an international mandate and trusteeship ever written. The issues explored in the book are of far-reaching importance. The story of Nauru has a significancereaching well beyond the tiny coral island.

Author : Thomas Abdallah
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0443152721
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Mass Transit written by Thomas Abdallah and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation, Second Edition highlights the many sustainability solutions and alternatives to fossil fuel usage including renewable energy and efficiency in mass transit, as well as the conservation of materials, water, and air and the overall health of communities. This new edition will update the reader on developments in the field since 2017 and advancements in sustainability solutions. It explores how Environmental Management System frameworks improve environmental performance in the operations, maintenance, design, rehabilitation, and expansion of a mass transportation system. The book covers the numerous types of mass transit systems, looking closely at all their key functions, including operations, maintenance, development, design, building, and retrofitting. It explores the mitigation measures that reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts, including green infrastructure, materials conservation, ecological conservation, and more. It covers energy, greenhouse gas emissions, toxic pollution and other significant environmental impacts, recycling, and more. It also examines organizational best practices and environmental regulatory constraints and life cycle assessments, describing which sustainable elements can be added while rehabilitating or expanding a mass transportation infrastructure or ancillary facility. The book concludes with a look at forthcoming sustainable initiatives that will enhance mass transit systems. Contains case studies from around the world, including several new case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe and Asia Thoroughly updated with four new chapters on The Sustainable Mass Transit Revolution, Relevance of Mass Transit, Environmental Professionals in Transportation, and Reimagining Sustainable Mass Transit Includes a new companion website with assessment questions for educators, image files and video presentations Shows how teams from different fields, entities, agencies and cities can work together to solve complex sustainability challenges