Book by Denyse S. Dookie on 23 Dec 2021
This chapter reviews global- and Caribbean-relevant literature regarding disaster risk management and reduction, as well as ongoing strategies and policies.
Book by Candice Howarth on 6 Oct 2021
This open access book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate change at multiple levels of our societies, amidst growing calls for transformative and inclusive climate action.
Book by Nicola Favretto, Stavros Afionis, M. Buckeridge on 8 Dec 2020
Favretto N, Afionis S, Stringer LC, Buckeridge M. 2017. Policy and diplomacy in the production of second generation ethanol in Brazil: International relations with the EU, the USA and Africa. In: MS Buckeridge, AP de Souza (eds.), Advances of basic science for second generation bioethanol from sugarcane and their impact on technology. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-49826-3_11
Book by Andy Gouldson on 22 Oct 2020
Climate change represents the most important environmental challenge of our time. Organisations are responding by implementing governance processes and taking action to reduce their own emissions and the emissions from their supply chains and value chains. Yet very little is known about how these efforts contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (if, indeed, they make […]
Book by Giles Atkinson, Sam Fankhauser on 25 Sep 2019
The unprecedented advances in economic development witnessed over the past decades cannot continue if economic progress comes at the expense of the natural environment. The Sustainable Development Goals, agreed globally … read more »
Book Chapter by Viktoria Cologna, Rosalind Bark, Jouni Paavola on 20 Jan 2018
In the winter 2015/2016 a series of storms resulted in widespread flooding in northern England, damaging hundreds of properties, disrupting transport and exposing public contempt of flood risk management. The flooding was widely covered in the media. This chapter develops a methodological framework to conceptualise factors influencing risk perception related to flood events and discusses […]
Book by Michal Nachmany, Sam Fankhauser, Alina Averchenkova, Mook Bangalore, Alex Bowen, Abbie Clare, Caterina Gennaioli, Fergus Green, Sini Matikainen, Isabella Neuweg, Joana Setzer on 1 Jan 2018
A deepening understanding of the importance of climate change has caused a recent and rapid increase in the number of climate change or climate-related laws. Trends in Climate Change Legislation offers an astute analysis of the political, institutional and economic factors that have motivated this surge, placing it into context. By focusing the analysis on […]
Book by Stavros Afionis on 23 Jan 2017
The EU has been portrayed as a leader in international climate change negotiations. Its role in the development of the climate change regime, as well as the adoption of novel policy instruments such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in 2005, are frequently put forward as indicative of a determination to push the international climate […]
Book by Sam Fankhauser, Tom McDermott on 8 Sep 2016
Some climate change is now inevitable and strategies to adapt to these changes are quickly developing. The question is particularly paramount for low-income countries, which are likely to be most … read more »
Book Chapter, Book by Jouni Paavola, Muriel Bonjean Stanton, Suraje Dessai on 1 Jul 2016
In RJ Heffron and GFM Little (eds), Delivering Energy Law and Policy in the EU and US: A Reader. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 183-190.
