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Climate change: politics and facts
Climate change is definitely the biggest story of the 21st century. But its sheer complexity and urgency is defeating us For the past 19 years – the first intergovernmental negotiation took place in Washington, DC, USA in early 1991 – the world has been haggling about what it knows but doesn’t accept.
- Date:
- 2009
- Source:
- Centre for Science and Environment
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Water first: issues and challenges for nations and communities in South Asia
This book brings together current knowledge and cutting edge interdisciplinary perspectives from renowned scholars on the histories, politics, ecologies and cultures of water in South Asia. It explores the complexities of the issues and challenges thrown up by contemporary water management practices in the South Asian region.
- Date:
- 2008
- Source:
- Sage Publications
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Climate change as a security risk
This publication summarizes the state-of-the-art of science on the subject of 'Climate Change as a Security Risk'. It is based on the findings of research into environmental conflicts, the causes of war, and of climate impact research.
- Date:
- 2008
- Source:
- German Advisory Council on Global Change
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International trade and climate change: Economic, legal, and institutional perspectives
This book is one of the first comprehensive attempts to look at the synergies between
- Date:
- 2008
- Source:
- The World Bank
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Water to the people: drinking water and water for livelihoods
Access to water and control over it is not only a matter of survival but an issue of democratic participation of all citizens in the management of their country's natural resources, particularly as conflicts over water increase.
- Date:
- 2008
- Source:
- EED
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Corporate accountability and sustainable development
This volume is part of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-being that offers outstanding recent work in the transdisciplinary field of ecological economics, whose focus is the study of the relationship between economic activity and environmental sustainability.
- Date:
- 2008
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- Oxford University Press
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Hydrology of small watersheds
Planning and development of small watersheds calls for rigorous understanding about the occurrence and movement of water in the surface and sub-surface systems along with soil and nutrient losses in a small watershed.
- Date:
- 2008
- Source:
- TERI
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Understanding environmental issues
This book explains, clearly and concisely, the science and social science necessary to understand environmental issues, using learning outcomes, text boxes, tables and figures throughout to make complex ideas accessible and relevant. It describes in section one the philosophies, values, politics, and technologies which contribute to the production of environmental issues.
- Date:
- 2008
- Source:
- Sage Publications
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Trapped! between the devil and deep waters: the story of Bihar's kosi river
The Story of Bihar’s Kosi River, as the book is subtitled, is an ode to this most volatile of rivers as Mishra analyses the many decades of political and administrative mismanagement that has left Bihar worse off than it was in the 1950s. Mishra has been studying the Kosi since 1984 when he was called to help with rehabilitation after one of its worst floods. Trapped!
- Date:
- 2008
- Source:
- People Science Institute
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Reforming Indian agriculture: towards employment generation and poverty reduction
This book discusses the past performance and present status of the agricultural sector in India and delineates the challenges faced by it in the era of economic reforms.
- Date:
- 2008
- Source:
- Sage Publications
