Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Statistical Partners -- Guide for Users -- Highlights -- PART I - Sustainable Development Goals Trends and Tables -- Introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals Trends and Tables -- Section 1. Sustainable Development...

Cover -- PROTECTING CLEAN AIR: PREVENTING POLLUTION -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 AIR CONTAMINANTS AND THEIR SOURCES -- 2.1 NATURAL AIR CONTAMINATION SOURCES -- 2.2 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION - ITS ENERGY NEEDS AND PRODUCTS -- 2.2.1 THE PROCESS OF BURNING...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Statistical Partners -- Guide for Users -- Highlights -- PART I - Sustainable Development Goals Trends and Tables -- Introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals Trends and Tables -- Section 1. Sustainable Development...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- The President's Statement -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 About ADB and the Sustainability Report -- Financing Development and Managing Risks -- Strategic Approach to Development -- Stakeholder...

This volume explores the impact of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) on the environment of the Global South during this period of neoliberal globalization. It develops themes around transnational extractive activity; the impact of transnational capital on indigenous populations, and the role...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Key Findings -- Why Should We Measure Wealth? -- What Is New in This Version of The Changing Wealth of Nations? -- Global and Regional Trends from 1995 to 2014 -- Natural Capital and Development --...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction Gareth Austin -- 2 Environmental Impacts of Colonial Dynamics, 1400-1800: The First Global Age and the Anthropocene Amélia Polónia and Jorge M. Pacheco -- 3 Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa,...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbrevations -- Introduction -- 1. Legal Change at Lake Dianchi -- Part I: Legislation and Lawmaking -- 2. Law in the Boks -- 3. Bargaining on the Land Bill -- 4. Cleaning Up Pollution Legislation -- 5. China's Legislative Challenges -- Part II:...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Class, Race, and the Shaping of the Urban Landscape -- 2 The Perils of Pollution in the Steel City, 1945-1950 -- 3 Opposition to Blind Progress: Middle-Class Environmentalism -- 4 Tired of Working in Pollution and Having It Follow Us Home:...