Introduction: Launching the Era of Global Environmental Governance from Asia -- Introduction: Launching the Era of Global Environmental Governance from Asia -- Asia by Theme -- Military Impacts on the Environment: Working Toward the Century of Peace and Environmental Progress -- Trade and the Environment: Promoting Environmentally Friendly Trade -- Food, Farming and the Environment: The Develop…
A Comparative Perspective on Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders Throughout Europe -- Victim-Offender Mediation in England and Wales -- Victim-Offender Mediation with Juvenile Offenders in Ireland -- Victim-Offender Mediation in Sweden -- Victim-Offender Mediation with Juvenile Offenders in Norway -- Victim-Offender-Mediation with Juvenile Offenders in Finland -- Victim-Offender Medi…
The Traditional Approach -- General Principles -- Scoping -- Baseline Conditions -- Alternatives -- Impact Assessment -- Writing the Impact Statement -- The Modern Approach -- Moving to the New Paradigm -- to Fuzzy Sets and Logic -- Environmental Conditions -- Impact Inference and Assessment -- Multi-Objective, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making -- Application -- Scoping -- Baseline Environment -- …
Section I. Discipline Disparities: A Research-to-Practice Collaborative -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 What Do We Know about Discipline Disparities? New and Emerging Research -- Chapter 2 How Educators Can Eradicate Disparities in School Discipline -- Section II. Understanding and Addressing Disparities: What We Are Learning and What We Can Do -- Chapter 3 Sexual Orientation-Based Disparities in …
Professionalization of Forest Sector Policy Making -- Interests and Conflicts in the Forest Sector -- Programs for Forest Protection and Utilization -- Forest Users: Owners, Workers & Employees, and the General Population -- Associations and Political Parties -- Government and Administration -- Informational Instruments -- Economic Instruments -- Regulatory Instruments -- Land-Use Planning -- P…
Alternative Sentencing -- Private Prisons -- Prostitution -- Drugs -- Gangs -- Gun Control -- Police.Fighting crime breeds emotional responses which often lead to counter-productive government policy. To allow a rational analysis of these important concerns, this book employs the thinking of economics, political science, and game theory to develop new perspectives on crime and its causes. A bas…
A Clear-Cut and Quantified Criterion for a Successful Global Climate Policy -- A Comprehensive Standard System for Evaluating the Prospect of Success of Different Climate Protection Systems -- Evaluation of the Existing Kyoto System and the Most Important Incremental Evolution Proposals to Reach EU’s Minimum Target for Climate Sustainability -- Structural Regime Change in the Kyoto/UNFCCC Sys…
Using an anti-deficit approach, Black Men in the Academy explores narratives of resiliency, success, and achievement for black men in the academy. This book is an important text for scholars interested in promoting success in education for underrepresented minorities.
Adaptation Options Strategies for Hazards and Vulnerability Mitigation: An International Perspective -- Risk Mitigation Strategies for Tornadoes in the Context of Climate Change and Development -- Mitigation of the Impact of Tropical Cyclones in Northern Australia Through Community Capacity Enhancement -- Improving Access to Water Resources Through Rainwater Harvesting as a Mitigation Measure: …
Summary -- Problem Definition, Tasks, Procedure and Derivation of Recommendations for Action -- Terminological and Conceptional Foundations -- Normative Criteria for Evaluation and Decision-Making -- Towards a Sustainable Energy System — Legal Basis, Deficits and Points of Reference -- Potentials for the Sustainable Development of Energy Systems -- The Reality of Sustainability: Conflicts of …