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Climate change as a security risk
This publication summarizes the state-of-the-art of science on the subject of 'Climate Change as a Security Risk'. It is based on the findings of research into environmental conflicts, the causes of war, and of climate impact research. It appraises past experience but also ventures to cast a glance far into the future in order to assess the likely impacts of climate change on societies, nation-states, regions and the international system.
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- 2008
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- German Advisory Council on Global Change
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International trade and climate change: Economic, legal, and institutional perspectives
This book is one of the first comprehensive attempts to look at the synergies between
- Date:
- 2008
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- The World Bank
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Water to the people: drinking water and water for livelihoods
Access to water and control over it is not only a matter of survival but an issue of democratic participation of all citizens in the management of their country's natural resources, particularly as conflicts over water increase. This collection of case studies offers insights into promising attempts and successful models of how joint efforts can assist people in their struggle for drinking water as well as water for agricultural use, water as energy source and for the environment.
- Date:
- 2008
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- EED
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Corporate accountability and sustainable development
This volume is part of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-being that offers outstanding recent work in the transdisciplinary field of ecological economics, whose focus is the study of the relationship between economic activity and environmental sustainability.
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- 2008
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- Oxford University Press
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Hydrology of small watersheds
Planning and development of small watersheds calls for rigorous understanding about the occurrence and movement of water in the surface and sub-surface systems along with soil and nutrient losses in a small watershed. Realizing the importance of the problem and gaps in understanding small watershed hydrology in Indian catchments due to paucity of data, the coordinated program on “Hydrology of small watershed” has been launched by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
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- 2008
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- TERI
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Understanding environmental issues
This book explains, clearly and concisely, the science and social science necessary to understand environmental issues, using learning outcomes, text boxes, tables and figures throughout to make complex ideas accessible and relevant. It describes in section one the philosophies, values, politics, and technologies which contribute to the production of environmental issues. It uses cases in section two on climate change, waste, food, and natural hazards to provide detailed illustration and exemplification of the ideas described in section one.
- Date:
- 2008
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- Sage Publications
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Trapped! between the devil and deep waters: the story of Bihar's kosi river
The Story of Bihar’s Kosi River, as the book is subtitled, is an ode to this most volatile of rivers as Mishra analyses the many decades of political and administrative mismanagement that has left Bihar worse off than it was in the 1950s. Mishra has been studying the Kosi since 1984 when he was called to help with rehabilitation after one of its worst floods. Trapped!
- Date:
- 2008
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- People Science Institute
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Reforming Indian agriculture: towards employment generation and poverty reduction
This book discusses the past performance and present status of the agricultural sector in India and delineates the challenges faced by it in the era of economic reforms. The effectiveness of some of the existing schemes for agricultural development (price support, credit, marketing, rural/agricultural development experiences) in devising appropriate intervention strategies for agriculture rejuvenation in India is examined. This book also focuses on the issues of employment, poverty, food and nutrition.
- Date:
- 2008
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- Sage Publications
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Deliberative ecological economics
This volume is part of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-being that offers the best and most recent work in the transdisciplinary field of ecological economics, whose focus is the study of the relationship between economic activity and environmental sustainability.
- Date:
- 2008
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- Oxford University Press
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Brick by brick: the Herculean task of cleaning up the Asian brick industry
The Asian brick industry is a huge economic sector employing many millions of people and consuming sizeable amounts of energy, mostly in the form of coal and firewood. It is a very conservative and change-resistant industry, especially in South Asia, but has a very interesting potential for change. If it does change, energy savings and a reduction of CO2 emissions similar to the entire airline industry would be possible. This publication tells the story of the Herculean task of cleaning up the Asian brick industry, an important sector in the booming economies of Asia.
- Date:
- 2008
- Source:
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
