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…
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 …
Legal Aspects of Environmental Damage -- Estimating Damages Under the 2004 EC Directive on Environmental Liability -- Environmental Damage and Belgian Law -- Compensation for Ecological Damage and Latvian Law -- International and Regional Funds for Compensation for Damage to the Marine Environment -- Scope of Compensation for Environmental Damage Under the 1992 Civil Liability Convention and th…
1.Introduction.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Significance and Objectives of the Book.- 1.3 Typhoon Ketsana and the Philippine PDR Legislation -- 1.4 The PDRRMA and Post-Disaster Recovery.- 1.5 PDRRMA’s PDR Standards.- 1.6 Evaluating Typhoon Ketsana Victims’ PDR.- 1.7 Theoretical Orientation of the book.- 1.7.1 Areas of “Success” and “Failure” in PDR Projects.- 1.7.2 Normative …
Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Understanding contested energy spaces -- Chapter3. Zooming in on contested energy spaces: the study area -- Chapter4. Methodology -- Chapter5. Empirical cases -- Chapter6. Conclusions and contributions.This authored brief discusses how to conceptualize the socio-material complexity of contested energy spaces in the Canadian North, specifically in the context …
1. Theories of Urban Growth, Sustainability, and Transparent Development -- 2. The Speculative Growth Paradigm in the History of Phoenix -- 3. A History of Property Development and Ownership in Downtown Phoenix -- 4. The Political Economy of Land Speculation in Downtown Phoenix -- 5. Policy Approaches to Transparent Urban Development in Phoenix.This book studies both the tangible benefits and s…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Legal history -- Chapter 3. Executive branch -- Chapter 4. Subgovernments -- Chapter 5. Governance -- Chapter 6. Energy development -- Chapter 7. Ranching -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.This book documents the United States Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) shift from a rancher-dominated agency to an energy-dominated agency. This shift is analyzed by identifying …
I. Introduction -- II. Policy Paradoxes: Challenges Confronting the Contemporary Arctic -- III. The Arctic Council in Transition -- IV. Chairs and International Organizations: The Case of the Arctic Council -- V. The Swedish Chairmanship: Foresight and Hindsight in Arctic Activism -- VI. The Canadian Chairmanship: Development or Bust -- VII. The U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council: Round Tw…
Part 1 – Overview on volcanic unrest -- Significance of unrest -- Past experiences -- Part 2 - Geophysical and geochemical insights on unrest and precursory activity -- Volcano Seismology: detecting unrest in wiggly lines -- Volcano geodesy and multiparameter investigations -- Volcanic gases and low temperature volcanic fluids -- MONITORING CAPACITY: obvious and hidden problems -- Part 3 – …