The short guide to environmental policy (Short Guides) by Carolyn Snell,Gary Haq

By Carolyn Snell,Gary Haq

a few have argued that the speed and scale of human-induced worldwide environmental swap is so major that it now constitutes a brand new geological epoch within the Earth’s historical past known as the Anthropocene (Zalasiewicz et al, 2011; Steffen et al, 2011). greater than ever, there's a have to have acceptable and powerful environmental guidelines that tackle the demanding situations of weather swap, biodiversity, meals, water and effort lack of confidence, environmental pollutants, poverty relief and environmental fairness. the quick consultant to environmental coverage offers a concise advent to post-war environmental regulations, bringing jointly views from various fields together with economics, sociology, politics and social coverage. It covers a huge diversity of concerns, together with explanations and results of latest environmental concerns, coverage ways to addressing environmental difficulties, demanding situations to enforcing environmental rules and destiny environmental demanding situations. This ebook is an important advent to all these attracted to how regulations can handle environmental problems.

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