Protecting The Global Environment

Author : UN Environment
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108707661
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Environment Outlook - GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People written by UN Environment and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, UN Environment's sixth Global Environment Outlook calls on decision makers to take bold and urgent action to address pressing environmental issues in order to protect the planet and human health. By bringing together hundreds of scientists, peer reviewers and collaborating institutions and partners, the GEO reports build on sound scientific knowledge to provide governments, local authorities, businesses and individual citizens with the information needed to guide societies to a truly sustainable world by 2050. GEO-6 outlines the current state of the environment, illustrates possible future environmental trends and analyses the effectiveness of policies. This flagship report shows how governments can put us on the path to a truly sustainable future - emphasising that urgent and inclusive action is needed to achieve a healthy planet with healthy people. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Donald G. Kaufman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biosphere 2000 written by Donald G. Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allen L. Springer
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Law of Pollution written by Allen L. Springer and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1983-11-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791431177
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance written by Ronnie D. Lipschutz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the growing role of global civil society and local environmental activism in the management and protection of the environment worldwide.

Author : Gary C Bryner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317253388
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protecting the Global Environment written by Gary C Bryner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Gary Bryner's brief, readable, capstone book: " Features a forward by Mark A. Boyer Outlines the major environmental challenges facing the world today Applies international relations theory to these challenges Covers such key topics as development, sustainability, and market capitalism Offers a social justice perspective to environmental problems and solutions Borne of an amalgam of social science, fieldwork, and a passionate commitment to justice, this book brings debates about climate change to a new level, compelling readers and researchers to rethink the reasons for reversing global environmental trends. The book lays out three inspirations for improving environmental prospects: effective markets, sustainable development, and environmental justice for the most vulnerable. It also projects three possible scenarios flowing from the success or failure of these inspirations one bleak, one breakthrough, and one of status quo. Gary Bryner is not sanguine about humanity s ability to make the right choices, but this does not deter him from asking us to think beyond our own generation and our own species in urging environmental action now."

Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490834
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life written by Edward O. Wilson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." —Jedediah Purdy, New Republic In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed—such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others—Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).

Author : Li Jianping
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642546781
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report on Global Environmental Competitiveness (2013) written by Li Jianping and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the environmental competitiveness of 133 countries around the world, presenting an index evaluation system to facilitate a comparative analysis of environmental competitiveness on a global scale. This is a new way to measure competitiveness in the light of the contradiction between world economic development and environmental protection. Global environmental competitiveness covers five aspects: the ecological environment, resources environment, environmental management, environmental impacts and environmental coordination. The authors use longitudinal study and horizontal analysis, combining qualitative and quantitative analysis methods so as to conduct an in-depth study of theoretical, empirical and methodological issues of global environmental competitiveness. The work is presented here in three main parts beginning with the theory, technical road-map and analytical approach used. The second part reports on the countries as evaluation objects, analyzing the development status of global environmental competitiveness as a whole and revealing the strengths and weaknesses of each country’s environmental competitiveness. Basic paths and strategies to enhance the competitiveness level are presented. In the third part the reader will discover a sub-report and evaluation of the environmental competitiveness for 133 countries around the world, revealing the characteristics and relative differences of countries representing different levels of development, in order to provide an important decision-making reference to those considering environmental economic policies, especially those considering accelerating a green economic transformation and enhancing environmental competitiveness. This book will appeal to scholars and professionals with an interest in environmental issues and environmental competitiveness at a global level, as well as those with an interest in each of the 133 countries analyzed in this text, including environmental policy makers in those countries.

Author : James Gustave Speth
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781597260800
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Environmental Governance written by James Gustave Speth and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them? Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines ten major environmental threats-climate disruption, biodiversity loss, acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation, desertification, freshwater degradation and shortages, marine fisheries decline, toxic pollutants, and excess nitrogen-and explores how they can be addressed through treaties, governance regimes, and new forms of international cooperation. Written by Gus Speth, one of the architects of the international environmental movement, and accomplished political scientist Peter M. Haas, Global Environmental Governance tells the story of how the community of nations, nongovernmental organizations, scientists, and multinational corporations have in recent decades created an unprecedented set of laws and institutions intended to help solve large-scale environmental problems. The book critically examines the serious shortcomings of current efforts and the underlying reasons why disturbing trends persist. It presents key concepts in international law and regime formation in simple, accessible language, and describes the current institutional landscape as well as lessons learned and new directions needed in international governance. Global Environmental Governance is a concise guide, with lists of key terms, study questions, and other features designed to help readers think about and understand the concepts discussed.

Author : Alexander Ovodenko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190677724
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regulating the Polluters written by Alexander Ovodenko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why have national governments created different international rules and institutions to address global environmental issues? Alexander Ovodenko argues that this variation can be explained by looking to a dynamic that has been thus far downplayed by the literature on global environmental governance: the structures of industries regulated by environmental rules. Regulating the Polluters inverts the literature on regulatory capture and collective action bypresenting empirical evidence of the irony of market power in global environmental politics" (ed.).

Author : Yuji Suzuki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642801528
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Environmental Security written by Yuji Suzuki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Z. Sonoda It is my great honour to declare the opening of the 2nd IBM Japan International Symposium on 'The Global Environment'. It is especially my honour, on behalf of IBM Japan, to welcome all of you most distinguished experts of the world. Historically, IBM Japan has maintained a strong interest in the protection of the global environment, not only as a member of the industrial community, but also as a member of the global community where environmental disruption has become more and more significant and of common concern. In 1990, we held the first environmental symposium on 'Global Warming'. It offered a stage to which both social and natural scientists could bring problems about 'The Global Environment' for in-depth discussions. One of its conclusions includes collaboration about socio economic aspects among the industrialized and developing countries. With this in mind, we now host the 2nd symposium which focuses upon a socio-economic approach to global environmental problems. I understand that the symposium will seek a solution by examining actual experiences and circumstances from various parts of the world, with special attention given to North/South issues. Thus, we have invited guests from America, Europe, and neighbouring Asian countries alike. I wish, and believe, that the symposium will bring about new clues, toward a breakthrough for the betterment of the environment through positive and harmonious discussions in this beautiful setting at the foot of Mt Fuji.