Global Environmental Policy : Concepts, Principles, and Practice

✍ Scribed by Eccleston, Charles H.; March, Frederic

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 452
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introduction to Global Environmental Concepts and PrinciplesThe Historical Context of the Environmental MovementCase studyLearning ObjectivesOrigins of the Environmental MovementHistorical Development of National Environmental Policy ActDiscussions, Problems, and ExercisesNotesConcepts and Principles Underlying Environmental PolicyCase StudyLearning ObjectivesIntroductionPart 1: Challenges to the Global EnvironmentThe Tragedy of the CommonsLimits to GrowthThe Gaia PrinciplePart 2: Challenges to Environmental PolicyInterdependence of Environmental and Energy PoliciesPollution and Its Environmen. Read more...

Abstract: Introduction to Global Environmental Concepts and PrinciplesThe Historical Context of the Environmental MovementCase studyLearning ObjectivesOrigins of the Environmental MovementHistorical Development of National Environmental Policy ActDiscussions, Problems, and ExercisesNotesConcepts and Principles Underlying Environmental PolicyCase StudyLearning ObjectivesIntroductionPart 1: Challenges to the Global EnvironmentThe Tragedy of the CommonsLimits to GrowthThe Gaia PrinciplePart 2: Challenges to Environmental PolicyInterdependence of Environmental and Energy PoliciesPollution and Its Environmen

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Authors
Introduction
section one: Introduction to global environmental concepts and principles
chapter one: Historical context of the environmental movement
chapter two: Concepts and principles underlying environmental policy
chapter three: Sustainability and environmental policy
chapter four: Environmental policy treaties and their implementation
section two: Sustainability, environmental impact assessment, and decision making
chapter five: Environmental impact assessment
chapter six: Environmental decision-making theory and practice Chapter seven: Environmental management systemssection three: Environmental ethics and economics
chapter eight: Environmental ethics
chapter nine: Environmental economics
section four: Critical global environmental issues
chapter ten: Coming water wars
chapter eleven: Peak oil, alternatives, and energy policy: The looming world oil crisis
chapter twelve: Peak food or peak everything: An era of bounty or begging?
chapter thirteen: Global climate change
chapter fourteen: Global population paradox: Population explosion or implosion?
Epilogue: Acting locally: Six degrees of separation

✦ Subjects

Экологические дисциплины;Экологический менеджмент;