Environment and Sustainability
Featured Books
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
£40.00 / $40.00
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Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance
Expert Institutions and the Implementation of International Environmental Treaties
Pia M. Kohler
“Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance” examines expert committees advising multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants and land degradation. This work argues the co-production arising in these committees warrants recognizing their contribution to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271465
November 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00“Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance” examines expert committees advising multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants and land degradation. This work argues the co-production arising in these committees warrants recognizing their contribution to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism.
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Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making
Davide Geneletti
The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application to a variety of environmental decision-making problems, ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental impact assessment of tourism infrastructures.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089529
May 2019
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£79.95 / $79.95The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application to a variety of environmental decision-making problems, ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental impact assessment of tourism infrastructures.
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Sustainability Is the New Advantage
Leadership, Change, and the Future of Business
Peter McAteer
"Sustainability Is the New Advantage" is a practical blueprint for leaders who want to start, develop, and grow sustainable organizations. The book provides stories and practical examples of how to assess challenges, create demonstrations projects, and scale the capabilities needed for sustainable business transformation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089468
April 2019
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£37.99 / $37.99“Sustainability Is the New Advantage” is a practical blueprint for leaders who want to start, develop, and grow sustainable organizations. The book provides stories and practical examples of how to assess challenges, create demonstrations projects, and scale the capabilities needed for sustainable business transformation.
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The Labyrinth of Sustainability
Green Business Lessons from Latin American Corporate Leaders
Edited by Daniel C. Esty
‘The Labyrinth of Sustainability’ explores the growth of corporate sustainability in Latin America, offering actionable insights to business leaders, policymakers, NGOs, academics and journalists through 12 case studies that examine the challenges and opportunities facing companies across the region as they integrate sustainability into their strategy and operations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089123
January 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Labyrinth of Sustainability’ explores the growth of corporate sustainability in Latin America, offering actionable insights to business leaders, policymakers, NGOs, academics and journalists through 12 case studies that examine the challenges and opportunities facing companies across the region as they integrate sustainability into their strategy and operations.
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Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts
Enabling Conditions for Negotiating Contingent Resolutions
Edited by Enamul Choudhury, Shafiqul Islam
foreword by Lawrence Susskind‘Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088690
December 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues.
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Mesoscale Modelling for Meteorological and Air Pollution Applications
Edited by Ranjeet S. Sokhi, Alexander Baklanov, K. Heinke Schlünzen
‘Mesoscale Modelling for Meteorological and Air Pollution Applications’ combines fundamental and practical aspects of mesoscale air pollution and meteorological modelling, including applications and evaluation approaches.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088263
November 2018
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£200.00 / $200.00‘Mesoscale Modelling for Meteorological and Air Pollution Applications’ combines fundamental and practical aspects of mesoscale air pollution and meteorological modelling, including applications and evaluation approaches.
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Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts
Patrick Field, Tushar Kansal, Catherine Morris, Stacie Smith
Based on decades of experience in addressing energy-siting conflicts, the authors of ‘Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts’ provide details of a host of tools, strategies and principles for tackling them.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088522
September 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00Based on decades of experience in addressing energy-siting conflicts, the authors of ‘Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts’ provide details of a host of tools, strategies and principles for tackling them.
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Managing Coral Reefs
An Ecological and Institutional Analysis of Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia
Kelly Heber Dunning
‘Managing Coral Reefs’ compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087969
July 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Managing Coral Reefs’ compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach.
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Environmental Problem-Solving – A Video-Enhanced Self-Instructional e-Book from MIT
An Overview of the Tools of Environmental Policy-Making and Decision-Making
Edited by Lawrence Susskind, Bruno Verdini, Jessica Gordon, Yasmin Zaerpoor
Environmental Problem-Solving - A Video-Enhanced Self-Instructional e-Book from MIT’ offers an online, self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems. The e-book includes links to short videos showing the best MIT student responses to weekly assignments and exam questions.
Anthem Press
E-Book (EPUB)
9781783087020
December 2017
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£45.00 / $45.00Environmental Problem-Solving – A Video-Enhanced Self-Instructional e-Book from MIT’ offers an online, self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems. The e-book includes links to short videos showing the best MIT student responses to weekly assignments and exam questions.
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Worst-Case Economics
Extreme Events in Climate and Finance
Frank Ackerman
In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ‘Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087075
October 2017
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£49.00 / $49.00In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ‘Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks.
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The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes
Edited by Anna Grichting, Michele Zebich-Knos
A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, “The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes” addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086696
May 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, “The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes” addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones.
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Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment
Through the Eyes of Communities
Gwendolyn Smith, Elena P. Bastidas
‘Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment’ presents the idea that local communities can develop sustainably under changing environmental conditions when the discrepancy are sufficiently addressed between community views and the views of organizations responsible for implementing development initiatives. It introduces a theoretical framework and practical tools for analyzing such views.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086078
January 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment’ presents the idea that local communities can develop sustainably under changing environmental conditions when the discrepancy are sufficiently addressed between community views and the views of organizations responsible for implementing development initiatives. It introduces a theoretical framework and practical tools for analyzing such views.
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China and Sustainable Development in Latin America
The Social and Environmental Dimension
Edited by Rebecca Ray, Kevin Gallagher, Andres López, Cynthia Sanborn
China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America. It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments, communities and investors have worked together to harness the commodity boom for the benefit of the people and the planet.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086139
January 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America. It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments, communities and investors have worked together to harness the commodity boom for the benefit of the people and the planet.
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Water Security in the Middle East
Essays in Scientific and Social Cooperation
Edited by Jean Axelrad Cahan
Water Security in the Middle East explores the extent and nature of water security problems in transboundary water systems in the Middle East. This collection of essays discusses the political and scientific contexts and the limitations of cooperation in water security.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085668
January 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00Water Security in the Middle East explores the extent and nature of water security problems in transboundary water systems in the Middle East. This collection of essays discusses the political and scientific contexts and the limitations of cooperation in water security.
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Water Diplomacy in Action
Contingent Approaches to Managing Complex Water Problems
Edited by Shafiqul Islam, Kaveh Madani
Rooted in the ideas of complexity science and mutual gains negotiation, this volume shows why traditional systems engineering approaches will not work for complex water problems and what emerging tools and techniques are needed to resolve them. This collection successfully synthesizes insights from theory and practice to advocate for contingent and adaptive management using a water diplomacy framework.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084906
January 2017
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£140.00 / $140.00Rooted in the ideas of complexity science and mutual gains negotiation, this volume shows why traditional systems engineering approaches will not work for complex water problems and what emerging tools and techniques are needed to resolve them. This collection successfully synthesizes insights from theory and practice to advocate for contingent and adaptive management using a water diplomacy framework.
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Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change
Keeping Our Heads above Water
Joseph Hanlon, Manoj Roy, David Hulme
Severely threatened by climate change, Bangladesh is showing the world how to take an active role in adapting to this situation. Learning from its own experience in coping with floods and cyclones, Bangladesh is taking the lead in international climate change negotiations and attempting to persuade the industrialized world to curb emissions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086320
November 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00Severely threatened by climate change, Bangladesh is showing the world how to take an active role in adapting to this situation. Learning from its own experience in coping with floods and cyclones, Bangladesh is taking the lead in international climate change negotiations and attempting to persuade the industrialized world to curb emissions.
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The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States
The Challenge of Trading Places
Mattijs van Maasakkers
The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States provides an in-depth analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. It explains why very few of these markets have succeeded even after close to twenty years of scholarly enthusiasm, federal funding and concerted efforts by NGOs, government agencies and businesses.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086023
November 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States provides an in-depth analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. It explains why very few of these markets have succeeded even after close to twenty years of scholarly enthusiasm, federal funding and concerted efforts by NGOs, government agencies and businesses.
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Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities
Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation
Lawrence Susskind, Danya Rumore, Carri Hulet, Patrick Field
Drawing on research from the New England Climate Adaptation Project, this book introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change. It argues that most of the responsibility for responding to climate risks must be taken by local stakeholders, and that climate adaptation efforts require collective rather than individual commitments to risk management.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084869
September 2015
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£145.00 / $145.00Drawing on research from the New England Climate Adaptation Project, this book introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change. It argues that most of the responsibility for responding to climate risks must be taken by local stakeholders, and that climate adaptation efforts require collective rather than individual commitments to risk management.
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Green Growth, Smart Growth
A New Approach to Economics, Innovation and the Environment
Ralf Fücks
foreword by Anthony Giddens
translated by Rachel HarlandAdvances a proactive response to the dangers of climate change, which can only be overcome by decoupling economic growth from environmental consumption and focusing on a new approach to efficiency, innovation and policymaking.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084739
June 2015
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£29.95 / $29.95Advances a proactive response to the dangers of climate change, which can only be overcome by decoupling economic growth from environmental consumption and focusing on a new approach to efficiency, innovation and policymaking.
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Africa and Economic Policy
Developing a Framework for Policymakers
Ferdinand Bakoup
This book suggests a unique conceptual framework for designing and conducting economic policy in developing countries, particularly those in Africa.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783080199
August 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This book suggests a unique conceptual framework for designing and conducting economic policy in developing countries, particularly those in Africa.
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Climate Change and Global Equity
Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth A. Stanton
In this timely collection of essays, Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton show that the impact of inaction on climate change will be far worse than the cost of ambitious climate policies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783080205
June 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00In this timely collection of essays, Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton show that the impact of inaction on climate change will be far worse than the cost of ambitious climate policies.
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Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy
Federalism in the United States, Brazil, and Germany
Vivian E. Thomson
With the US as the world’s most prominent climate change outlaw, “Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy” offers a unique combination of state-level analysis, international comparison and domestic policy prescription, pointing the way to a productive federal–state partnership for climate change policymaking in the United States.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783081103
February 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00With the US as the world’s most prominent climate change outlaw, “Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy” offers a unique combination of state-level analysis, international comparison and domestic policy prescription, pointing the way to a productive federal–state partnership for climate change policymaking in the United States.
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The Atlas of Climate Change Impact on European Cultural Heritage
Scientific Analysis and Management Strategies
Edited by C. Sabbioni, P. Brimblecombe, M. Cassar
The Atlas of Climate Change Impact on European Cultural Heritage' is comprised of a vulnerability atlas and its accompanying guidelines, which together reveal the effects of future climate variations on cultural heritage.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9780857282835
November 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00The Atlas of Climate Change Impact on European Cultural Heritage’ is comprised of a vulnerability atlas and its accompanying guidelines, which together reveal the effects of future climate variations on cultural heritage.
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Globalization, the Human Condition and Sustainable Development in the Twenty-first Century
Cross-national Perspectives and European Implications
Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati
foreword by Ulrich BrandThis book, based on a 175-nation study, investigates the relevance of dependency theory to the success of eight different dimensions of development, and argues that the pro-globalist policies of the European Commission are the greatest threat to Europe’s future developmental performance.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857284105
May 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00This book, based on a 175-nation study, investigates the relevance of dependency theory to the success of eight different dimensions of development, and argues that the pro-globalist policies of the European Commission are the greatest threat to Europe’s future developmental performance.