Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

"This useful reference work provides grounding for two essential tasks: understanding the needs of the present, and engaging with the compromises implicit in any attempt to assure that future generations will be able to meet their own needs."--Kai N. Lee, Williams College

Info autore

Natalia Mirovitskaya is Visiting Research Fellow of Public Policy at Duke University. She is the author of Biological Resources of the Ocean: International Aspects and numerous other publications on international environmental policy and resource management.

William L. Ascher is Vice President, Dean of the Faculty, and Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College in California. His numerous books include Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries, coauthored with Robert Healy and also published by Duke University Press. Mirovitskaya and Ascher are also coauthors of The Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security.

Riassunto

A compilation of definitions, terms, and critical commentary on aspects of sustainable development and environmental policy, with a strong emphasis on policy tools, policy practices, and systems of international environmental governance.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mirovitskaya
• Con la collaborazione di: Natalia Mirovitskaya (Editore), William L. Ascher (Editore), William L Ascher (Editore)
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 29.03.2002
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Natura e società: tematiche generali, opere di con
• EAN: 9780822327356
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2735-6
• Numero di pagine: 424
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.6 x 24.8 x 3.1 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 794 g
• Categorie: Nachhaltigkeit; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy; Environmental Studies