Environmental history in southern Africa has only recently come into its own as a distinct field of historical inquiry. While natural resources lie at the heart of all environmental history, the field opens the door to a wide range of inquiries, several of which are pioneered in this collection. South Africa's Environmental History offers a series of local and particular studies followed by more general commentary and comparative studies. The contributors include Sean Archer, William Beinart, Jane Carruthers, Beverley Ellis, Bill Guest, Nancy Jacobs, Elna Kotze, John Lambert, Gregory H. Maddox, John McAllister, John McNeill, S. Ravi Rajan, Jabulani Sithole, Georgina Thompson, Lance van Sittert, and Harald Witt.

South Africa’s Environmental History: Cases and Comparisons (Ecology & History)

Business & Money

Dovers, Stephen

Economics

Ohio University Press

The Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Policies and Institutions

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement planning and prevention or to manage disasters. This book seeks to overcome this mismatch and to guide development of a policy and institutional framework. For the first time it brings together into a coherent framework the insights of public policy, institutional design and emergency and disaster management.

Politics & Social Sciences

Handmer, John

Social Sciences

Routledge

Taking their concept of sustainable development from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Connor and Dovers (both of the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National U.) explore a series of case studies of institutional reform for sustainable development, seeking to identify positive principles for future change. The case studies include examinations of the environmental policies of the European Union, the legislative reforms stemming from New Zealand's Resource Management Act of 1991, the establishment of a number of National Councils for Sustainable Development and similar bodies around the world, and property rights based policy reforms. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Institutional Change for Sustainable Development

Connor, Robin

Edward Elgar Publishing

Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement planning and prevention or to manage disasters. This book seeks to overcome this mismatch and to guide development of a more strategic policy and institutional framework.  This updated and revised second edition includes new coverage of climate change adaptation, which has rapidly become central to disaster and emergency planning and management. This is an essential handbook for practitioners across the world seeking to improve the quality, robustness and capacity of their disaster management mechanisms.

Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions: Improving Emergency Management and Climate Change Adaptation

Dovers and Hussey argue that better public policy is the key to creating a more sustainable environment and show what this might involve. This is an intensely practical book, intellectually rigorous, and written in a concise and accessible style. They meld a deep knowledge of traditional public policy with a close understanding of sustainability problems and an appreciation of the complex institutional systems which make up modern civil society. As well as establishing an operational framework for policy analysis and prescription, they provide ways of fulfilling key elements of an effective policy process with chapters on: Problem framing Policy framing Policy implementation Policy monitoring and evaluation Public participation Institutional settings and reform for effective policy. This edition responds to the increasing urgency and complexity of challenges of environment and sustainability. It is updated to include new perspectives from policy theory and practice, expands the coverage of international dimensions of trade and regulation and incorporates coverage of emerging issues and policy challenges such as climate mitigation and adaptation, urban sustainability, and the nexus between climate change, energy and water.

Environment and Sustainability: A Policy Handbook

Science & Math

Hussey, Karen

Biological Sciences

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