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Elizabeth R DeSombre

    Elizabeth R. DeSombre untersucht die komplexen Zusammenhänge zwischen globalen Prozessen und ihren lokalen Auswirkungen, insbesondere in Bezug auf Umwelt-, Sicherheits- und Arbeitsvorschriften. Ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit befasst sich damit, wie internationale Standards etabliert werden und wie sie das tägliche Leben und die ökologischen Systeme weltweit beeinflussen. Durch ihre akademische Forschung und Führungsrolle strebt sie danach, das komplexe Zusammenspiel zwischen wirtschaftlichen Kräften, politischen Strukturen und Umweltbelangen in unserer vernetzten Welt zu beleuchten. Ihre Arbeit liefert entscheidende Einblicke in die Mechanismen, die die heutigen globalen Dynamiken prägen.

    Fish
    Global Environmental Institutions
    Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things
    What is Environmental Politics?
    • What is Environmental Politics?

      • 232 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden
      4,0(1)Abgeben

      Scientific knowledge and technology alone cannot address environmental problems; they also involve difficult political choices and trade-offs both locally and globally. This concise introductory text explores the different ways in which society attempts to deal with the political decisions needed to prevent or recover from environmental damage--

      What is Environmental Politics?
    • Why do people behave in ways that cause environmental harm? Despite not wanting to create environmental problems, we all do so regularly in the course of living our everyday lives. This book looks at how social structures, incentives, information, habits, attitudes, norms, and the inherent characteristics of environmental resources explain and influence how we behave, and how those causes influence what we can do to change behavior.

      Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things
    • Global Environmental Institutions

      • 246 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden

      Global Environmental Institutitons continues to provide the most accessible and succint overview of the major global institutions attempting to protect the natural environment.

      Global Environmental Institutions
    • Fishing has played a vital role in human history and culture. But today this key resource faces a serious crisis as most species are being overfished or fished to their very limit. Governments have tried to tackle the problem with limited success. Many of their actions have been counterproductive or ineffective.

      Fish