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implemented agri-environmental measures that are directly aimed at improving the environment. What are the changes in land use …, farming practices and input use resulting from these reforms? What have been the effects on the environment: soils, water, air … that agricultural policy reforms can improve the environment, provided they are accompanied by appropriate environmental …
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: Labour and the Environment in India -- Chapter 3: Energy Transitions in the Global South: the Precarious Location of Unions … in South Africa -- Chapter 9: Fighting in the Name of Workers: Exploring the Dynamics of Labour-Environmental Conflicts …-Saharan Africa: Between De-Politicisation and Re-Politicisation -- Chapter 19: Working-Class Environmentalism in the UK – Organising …
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Industrial ecology provides a rigorous and comprehensive description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. This volume offers methodologies for such descriptions, with contributions covering both basic and advanced...
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Humankind has long considered the relationship it holds with nature to be both a blessing and a challenge. The onset of climate change has brought a new impetus to this relationship. This volume of Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice will examine environmental philosophy from a...
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people’s behaviour towards the environment. Recent OECD work based on periodic surveys of more than 10 000 households across …
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Subsidies are pervasive throughout OECD countries and much of this support is potentially harmful environmentally. This report presents sectoral analyses on agriculture, fisheries, water, energy and transport, proposing a checklist approach to identifying and assessing environmentally harmful...
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mixes applied in OECD countries to address household waste, non-point sources of water pollution in agriculture, residential … energy efficiency, regional air pollution and emissions to air of mercury. …
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Auch wenn die Dringlichkeit einer sozial-ökologischen Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit längst von praktisch allen Seiten anerkannt wird - moderne Gesellschaften verteidigen ihren Wohlstand und Lebensstil entschiedener denn je. Beharrlich wird eine sozial und ökologisch zerstörerische...
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investigates whether a systemic view of the environment has influenced the policy-making process. The broad perspective adopted … of decentralisation and the environment in economic literature …pt. 1. Institutions : alternative solutions to the problem of assigning powers over the environment -- pt. 2. Issues in …
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This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at how environmental problems emerge from economic activity and how they may be addressed in a responsible and sustainable manner. At its centre is the concept of joint production. This captures the phenomenon whereby several effects necessarily emerge...
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