Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy
International Arctic Petroleum Cooperation: Barents Sea Scenarios
1st Edition
Edited
By Anatoli Bourmistrov, Frode Mellemvik, Alexei Bambulyak, Ove Gudmestad, Indra Overland, Anatoly Zolotukhin
December 20, 2016
The Arctic region contains large amounts of natural resources considered necessary to sustain global economic growth, so it is unsurprising that it is increasingly susceptible to political, economic, environmental, and even military conflicts. This book looks in detail at the preconditions and ...
Nuclear Energy Safety and International Cooperation: Closing the World's Most Dangerous Reactors
1st Edition
By Spencer Meredith, III
November 07, 2016
Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl explosion, disaster struck once again after a tsunami overwhelmed the considerable safety measures at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. However, Fukushima had in place a solid containment structure to reduce the spread of radiation in the event of a ...
The Politics of Carbon Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin Stephan, Richard Lane
June 17, 2016
The carbon markets are in the middle of a fundamental crisis - a crisis marked by collapsing prices, fleeing actors, and ever increasing greenhouse gas levels. Yet carbon trading remains at the heart of global attempts to respond to climate change. Not only this, but markets continue to proliferate...
Land and Resource Scarcity: Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World without Fossil Fuels
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Exner, Peter Fleissner, Lukas Kranzl, Werner Zittel
May 21, 2015
This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be ...