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Nature science and sustainable technology compendium
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ISBN: 1622575148 9781622575145 9781622575138 162257513X Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,


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OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Italy 2013
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ISBN: 9264186379 9264183922 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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The OECD Environmental Performance Review Programme provides independent assessments of countries’ progress in achieving their domestic and international environmental policy commitments, together with policy relevant recommendations. They are conducted to promote peer learning, to enhance countries’ accountability to each other and to the public, and to improve governments’ environmental performance, individually and collectively. The Reviews are supported by a broad range of economic and environmental data. Each cycle of the Environmental Performance Reviews covers all OECD member countries and selected partner countries. The most recent reviews include: Mexico (2013), Germany (2012) and Slovenia (2012). This report is the third OECD review of Italy’s environmental performance. It evaluates progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on policies that promote more effective and efficient water management and provide better incentives to tackle climate change.


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Umwelt und Herrschaft in der Geschichte : environnement et pouvoir: une approche historique
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ISBN: 3486989278 Year: 2013 Publisher: De Gruyter

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The relationship between environment and domination is one of the central structural features of every human society. The volume brings together the contributions from the first conference devoted to this topic and spans a wide range of time from prehistory to the 20th century. In particular, archaeological and linguistic findings, hunting, wood and water use and infrastructures are discussed. The articles provide information on current research work as well as future research perspectives, also and especially in the interdisciplinary area. Open Access: This title is available for download as a PDF.


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Rule of law for nature : new dimensions and ideas in environmental law
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ISBN: 9781107043268 1107043263 9781107337961 9781107618442 9781461953869 1461953863 1107337968 1107502985 1139893629 1107618444 1107506735 110751715X 1107497434 1107504066 1107514355 1306212006 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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'Human laws must be reformulated to keep human activities in harmony with the unchanging and universal laws of nature.' This 1987 statement by the World Commission on Environment and Development has never been more relevant and urgent than it is today. Despite the many legal responses to various environmental problems, more greenhouse gases than ever before are being released into the atmosphere, biological diversity is rapidly declining and fish stocks in the oceans are dwindling. This book challenges the doctrinal construction of environmental law and presents an innovative legal approach to ecological sustainability: a rule of law for nature which guides and transcends ordinary written laws and extends fundamental principles of respect, integrity and legal security to the non-human world.


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Environment systems & decisions.
ISSN: 21945411 21945403 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Springer Science+Business Media


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Lean and Cleaner Production : Applications in Prefabrication to Reduce Carbon Emissions
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ISBN: 3642420613 3642420621 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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This book explains how in moving towards Cleaner Production, the Lean Production Philosophy can be applied to reduce carbon emissions in prefabrication - one major source of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions which contribute to global climate change. This book examines theories and principles in the Lean Production Philosophy to develop situation-based carbon reduction strategies for precast concrete manufacturers and contractors in terms of Site layout, Supply Chain, Production, Stocks and Installation Management. It presents the empirical findings of surveys and case studies with managers and professionals working for precasters and contractors in Singapore, findings which provide good practical guidance for precast concrete manufacturers and contractors to achieve low carbon emissions and to perform better in many sustainability-based rating systems, such as the Singapore Green Labelling Scheme and the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Green Mark Scheme.


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Scaling-up Finance Mechanisms for Biodiversity
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ISBN: 9264193839 9264193820 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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This report examines six mechanisms that can be used to scale-up financing for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use and to help meet the 2011-20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. The mechanisms are environmental fiscal reform, payments for ecosystem services, biodiversity offsets, green markets, biodiversity in climate change funding, and biodiversity in international development finance. Drawing on literature and more than 40 case studies worldwide, this book addresses the following questions: What are these mechanisms and how do they work? How much finance have they mobilised and what potential is there to scale this up? And what are the key design and implementation issues that need to be addressed so that governments can ensure these mechanisms are environmentally effective, economically efficient and distributionally equitable?


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Revista Estudios ambientales : publicación digital de CINEA.
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ISSN: 23470941 Year: 2013 Publisher: Tandil, Argentina : CINEA, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, UNICEN,


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Energy, environment and economics research compendium
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ISBN: 1622578023 9781622578023 1622578015 9781622578016 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,

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