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This book explores the relationship between pedestrians/cyclists’ mode and route choice to/from metro/railway stations and the micro-level (street-scale) built environment in a second-tier city in China. More specifically, it investigates how the street-scale built...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-14
Collection :
Urban Sustainability
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Developing an original approach, this book examines how both nationalism and climate change threaten humankind with future catastrophes, arguing that humanity is on a fast track to a dystopian future unless significant changes are implemented. While the world warms,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-01
Collection :
Springer Studies on Populism, Identity Politics and Social Justice
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This Brief discusses the translation of global environmental norms across local contexts in France. It provides a snapshot of how global-level environmental norms travel vertically across levels of governance, from the global to the local, and asks how global...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-08-26
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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A transdisciplinary approach to investigating relationships between biomass burning and human health outcomes Environmental degradation is causing severe impacts on the various Earth ecosystems. Unsustainable development and anthropogenic pressure have altered the...
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Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2023-07-04
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Environmental protection has not equally established itself as a permanent fixture in the political systems of all countries: to date, governments and entire societies have responded to environmental challenges in a variety of ways, and concrete environmental policy is...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-06-13
Collection :
Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication
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Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no longer exist. We’re converting our planet from a natural one to an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects – houses,...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-05-25
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While the ambitious objectives outlined in the EU’s Green Deal aim at making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, national implementation greatly varies depending on local geographies, history, culture, economics, and politics. This book analyses Member...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-03-28
Collection :
The Future of Europe
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This book provides a summary of the main concepts involved in environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions and a consistent sequence of environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions. It presents many environmental ethics, by focusing on maximising welfare...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-05
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This open access book presents the state-of-the-art environmental governance research and practices in Indonesia. It offers a wide scope, covering different sectors (e.g., forestry, mining) and geographical landscapes (e.g., inland and coastal areas).This book...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-02
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The scope of this book is to map China’s city clusters and their individual directions for the national-level strategies in line with the 2060 carbon neutrality plan. Since China announced the carbon neutrality plan in autumn 2020, no study has looked at the role of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-12-03
Collection :
Urban Sustainability
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This book analyzes climate policy integration processes by investigating cause-effect relations in cases of integrating climate policy in energy and land-use sectors of Indonesia and Mexico, taking a novel comparative case study approach. The book identifies root causes...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-11-30
Collection :
Springer Climate
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The book provides an assessment of whether sustainability is realizable in the current societal framework. What are the challenges and the barriers - and what are the levers necessary to meet and overcome them?Through a revision of the essence of sustainability the book...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-19
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Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-11-14
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Winner of the 2023 E.B. Burwell, Jr. Award for outstanding contributions in engineering and environmental geologyIntroduction to Waste Management An introductory textbook offering comprehensive coverage of the management of municipal, hazardous, medical, electronic, and...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2022-07-29
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This book discusses issues of geoecological (GER) and geopolitical (GPR) risks due to hydrocarbon development of the Arctic. The authors explain the ethical and philosophical foundations of understanding environmental equity and justice in relation to the development of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-06-01
Collection :
Environmental Pollution
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This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner.This book has been developed through...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-15
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This book establishes theories and methods of climate change economics based on the perspective of human development. The book, in two volumes, consists of papers and research reports authored by Pan Jiahua or researchers under his guidance. Professor Pan Jiahua is a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-04-22
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Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, plastics are set to be the biggest driver of oil demand. Single-use plastics – deemed essential in the fight against COVID-19...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-04-21
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ORGANIC REACTIONS Thought-provoking discussions of the challenges posed by—and potential solutions to—plastic and microplastic pollution In Plastic and Microplastic in the Environment: Management and Health Risks, a team of distinguished environmental researchers...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-03-18
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Climate change is one of the most serious global challenges facing humankind.Climate change has enormous environmental and economic implications, and finding a solution is a daunting task. The purpose of this book is to look at the global problem of climate change...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-03-15
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