Confronting Environments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confronting Environments write by James G. Carrier. This book was released on 2004-10-17. Confronting Environments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Carrier and his group of international researchers tackle the complex factors affecting people's understandings of their environment-not just the natural environment, but landscapes shaped by humans, and their social contexts. The authors consider the impact of local events, such as tourism or environmental protection regimes, with detailed analyses of local cases. They also evaluate the large-scale political-economic forces that operate at regional and global levels, such as policies and bureaucratic requirements of international agencies and a country's position in global commodity markets. Their approach encourages policy makers and researchers to think about their natural and non-natural environment in novel ways. This book will be an excellent resource for all concerned with social, cultural and political-economic aspects of environmental use and conservation, and researchers in anthropology, geography, and political ecology.
Confronting the Climate Challenge
Confronting the Climate Challenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confronting the Climate Challenge write by Lawrence Goulder. This book was released on 2017-12-26. Confronting the Climate Challenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Without significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, climate change will cause substantial damage to the environment and the economy. The scope of the threat demands a close look at the policies capable of reducing the harm. Confronting the Climate Challenge presents a unique framework for evaluating the impacts of a range of U.S. climate-policy options, both for the economy overall and for particular household groups, industries, and regions. Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead focus on four alternative approaches for reducing carbon dioxide emissions: a revenue-neutral carbon tax, a cap-and-trade program, a clean energy standard, and an increase in the federal gasoline tax. They demonstrate that these policies—if designed correctly—not only can achieve emissions reductions at low cost but also can avoid placing undesirable burdens on low-income household groups or especially vulnerable industries. Goulder and Hafstead apply a multiperiod, economy-wide general equilibrium model that is distinct in its attention to investment dynamics and to interactions between climate policy and the tax system. Exploiting the unique features of the model, they contrast the shorter- and longer-term policy impacts and focus on alternative ways of feeding back—or “recycling”—policy-generated revenues to the private sector. Their work shows how careful policy design, including the judicious use of policy-generated revenues, can achieve desired reductions in carbon dioxide emissions at low cost, avoid uneven impacts across household income groups, and prevent losses of profit in the most vulnerable U.S. industries. The urgency of the climate problem demands comprehensive action, and Confronting the Climate Challenge offers important insights that can help elevate policy discussions and spur needed efforts on the climate front.
Confronting Environmental Racism
Confronting Environmental Racism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confronting Environmental Racism write by Robert D. Bullard. This book was released on 1993. Confronting Environmental Racism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Arguing to Learn
Arguing to Learn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arguing to Learn write by Jerry Andriessen. This book was released on 2013-04-17. Arguing to Learn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on how new pedagogical scenarios, task environments and communication tools within Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments can favour collaborative and productive confrontations of ideas, evidence, arguments and explanations, or arguing to learn. The first to assemble the work of internationally renowned scholars, this book will be of interest to researchers in education, psychology, computer science, communication and linguistic studies
Environmental Regime Effectiveness
Environmental Regime Effectiveness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environmental Regime Effectiveness write by Edward L. Miles. This book was released on 2001-11-09. Environmental Regime Effectiveness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines why some international environmental regimes succeed while others fail. Confronting theory with evidence, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, it compares fourteen case studies of international regimes. It considers what effectiveness in a regime would look like, what factors might contribute to effectiveness, and how to measure the variables. It determines that environmental regimes actually do better than the collective model of the book predicts. The effective regimes examined involve the End of Dumping in the North Sea, Sea Dumping of Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Management of Tuna Fisheries in the Pacific, and the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on Ozone Layer Depletion. Mixed-performance regimes include Land-Based Pollution Control in the North Sea, the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, Satellite Telecommunication, and Management of High Seas Salmon in the North Pacific. Ineffective regimes are the Mediterranean Action Plan, Oil Pollution from Ships at Sea, International Trade in Endangered Species, the International Whaling Commission, and the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
