This book provides a first comprehensive legal examination of water rights arrangements and water rights trading in China. Although recent water reform in China has made substantial progress in policy development and practice, how its legal and institutional framework facilitates or hinders the application of tradable water rights remains less addressed in the existing scholarship. Meer
This book deals with the introduction of a new type of “spatial measures" in flood governance. In contrast to traditional “safety measures" that aim to provide protection against floods by building structural flood defenses such as levees and flood walls, the goal of spatial measures is to reduce the exposure to flood risks by changing the spatial layout of flood-prone areas. Meer
Die Aufgabe, auf engstem Raum eine Einfiihrung in die Umweltpolitik zu geben und dabei so vielfal tige Themenbereiche zu beriihren wie Umweltpro bleme in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, im globa len Zusammenhang, "Umwelt-AuBenpolitik", Um weltpolitik in Entwicklungsllindem, China und Ja pan, ist kaum losbar. Meer
Technik und Technikdebatten: Bestimmung und Selbstbestimmung der modemen Gesellschaft 1 Zum Begriff ,,knowledge society" D. Bell schon 1973; zu "Wissenschaftsgesell schaft" heute R. Meer
Die Neuregelung des Umwelthaftungsreehts gehOrt zu den ehrgeizigsten umweltpoliti sehen Vorgaben der laufenden Legislaturperiode. Sie hat seit ihrer Ankiindigung in der Regierungserklarung vom Man 1987 eine lebhafte und kontroverse Diskussion in Wissensehaft, Wirtsehaft und Politik ausgelost, die aueh mit der Vorlage eines Ge setzentwurfs im Februar 1990 noeh Hingst nieht beendet sein wird. Meer
More countries are now using Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) than ever before. This timely and comprehensive Handbook describes the implementation of SEA in 18 countries around the world, as well as a critical analysis of different SEA methodologies. Meer
This series of books are the output of the research project called "Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)", which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA). Meer
This book is a comprehensive overview of economic geology for the general geologist and anyone else interested in the minerals industry and the global supply of raw materials. Meer
The World Commission on Dams (WCD) report (2000) “Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making” set a landmark in the ongoing controversy over large dams. Meer
This book is the second collection of systematic case studies describing national environmental policies in 17 countries in terms of capacity building (see Appen dix). Meer
In recent years, a greater level of integration of the world economy and an opening of national markets to trade has impacted virtually all areas of society. Meer
Traditional notions of security are premised on the primacy of state security. In relation to energy security, traditional policy thinking has focused on ensuring supply without much emphasis on socioeconomic and environmental impacts. Meer
Dieter Senghaas, professor emeritus of international relations, University of Bremen, was one of most innovative contemporary German social scientists, with major contributions on peace and development research and on music and peace. Meer
On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Rodolfo Stavenhagen, a distinguished Mexican sociologist and professor emeritus of El Colegio de Mexico, Úrsula Oswald Spring (UNAM/CRIM, Mexico) introduces him as a Pioneer on Indigenous Rights due to his research on human rights issues, especially when he served as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. Meer