Environment & Resources

This volume examines the wider potential for the experience of scarcity to promote cooperation in international relations and diplomacy beyond the traditional bounds of the interests of competitive nation states...

This book explores emergent forms of governance in mining and extractive industry projects around the world. ..

Informed by rich, ethnographic research with farmers, scientists and publics in three global rising power settings – Brazil, India and Mexico – this book provides a fresh understanding on how GM crops are being experienced in different locales, on why the controversy has taken varied forms internati..

Through detailed cases and analysis of broader global trends, this volume examines how coastal communities are adapting to environmental change and the attributes of governance that are required to build resilience and well-being...

Originally published in 1963, this study draws together papers from a conference dealing mainly with the under-utilisation and misallocation of human resources, as well as wage rates, migration patterns and education in urban societies and the impact they have on the American labour force. This titl..

This book aims to provide a basin-wide analysis of the political, socio-economic and environmental perspectives of hydropower development in the Mekong Basin...

This book offers a critical review of the IWRM concept. It has the objective of fostering scholarly exchange, encouraging intellectual debate and promote the advancement of knowledge and understanding of IWRM as a concept, as a goal per se and as a strategy towards development goals._x005F_x000D_ Th..

This book uniquely integrates the hitherto segmented and fragmented approaches to the challenge of access to energy. It provides theoretical, philosophical and practical analysis of energy for the low energy (non-hydrocarbon based) Other Third of the world, and how the unmet needs of the energy poor..

This book uniquely integrates the hitherto segmented and fragmented approaches to the challenge of access to energy. It provides theoretical, philosophical and practical analysis of energy for the low energy (non-hydrocarbon based) Other Third of the world, and how the unmet needs of the energy poor..

This book provides a fresh conceptualisation of water security, developing an operational methodology for identifying the four core elements of water security which must be addressed by international law: availability; access; adaptability; and ambit...

Originally published in 1981, this study delves into important issues related to forest resources and trade such as the future role of the United States in the world forest economy, trade restriction and U.S log exports. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and Economi..

This book investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile basin...