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Environmental restoration: environmental management or environmental threat?
Area, 1999Summary This paper compares the ethical and political issues raised by two environmental restoration schemes in England: those of the River Skerne and the A33 near Twyford Down. Neither example fully restores a ‘natural’ condition, nor tries to, but both raise questions about how far restoration is an acceptable option for environmental ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT WITHOUT ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION? [PDF]
, 1997 There is a rising tendency for environmental economics to be viewed as exclusively concerned with valuing everything in monetary terms and there are certainly some among its ranks whose own self-interest leads them to preach that line in public. However, acceptance of the many valid criticisms of monetary valuation and our limited understanding of ...
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The Environmental State and Environmental Governance
2018Since the late nineteenth century, the nation-state has played a major role in protecting the natural environment. This resulted in the proliferation of specialized state environmental organizations, institutions and practices. For decades this state centrality in environmental protection was judged favourably.
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International Journal of Environmental Studies, 1986
Several recent critiques of Western, science‐based, technological society call for a shift away from the present paradigm of reductionism to one of holism. One manifestation of this would be the development of a new kind of science which is non‐interventionist, non‐manipulative, and much more environmentally aware. The object of Part 1 of this paper is
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Several recent critiques of Western, science‐based, technological society call for a shift away from the present paradigm of reductionism to one of holism. One manifestation of this would be the development of a new kind of science which is non‐interventionist, non‐manipulative, and much more environmentally aware. The object of Part 1 of this paper is
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2008
'Environmental space' is the total amount of resources we can use (in a given time period) without compromising the ability of future generations to access the same amount. The global environmental space per capita can be calculated by dividing the total amount of natural resources and services to the total world population.
Le Xuan, Quynh, Hens, Luc
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'Environmental space' is the total amount of resources we can use (in a given time period) without compromising the ability of future generations to access the same amount. The global environmental space per capita can be calculated by dividing the total amount of natural resources and services to the total world population.
Le Xuan, Quynh, Hens, Luc
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Environmental Security, Environmental Management, and Environmental Justice
Pace Environmental Law Review, 1995The quality of the environment has become a global concern. It is an issue that effects all communities. The article examines the role and effect of environmental security issues within and between communities. The author posits that, in spite of the difficulties of bringing differing cultures together to achieve a common goal, the need for a global ...
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Environmental taxes and environmental quality in Canada
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023This paper aims to capture the effect of environmentally related taxes on environmental quality in Canada while controlling economic growth, financial development, and energy consumption over the period of 1990Q1 to 2020Q4. The present study employs novel econometric approaches, namely, the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (N-ARDL) test and the
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Environmentalism of the Poor: Environmental Conflicts and Environmental Justice
2019This chapter examines the theory of the ‘environmentalism of the poor’ proposed by Catalan ecological economist Joan Martinez-Alier and Indian historian Ramachandra Guha. The authors identify two types of environmentalism: one ideological and based on values, found in countries of the global North, and the other materialistic and based on interests ...
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Environmental solutions sparked by environmental history
Conservation Biology, 2019Abstract Environmental solutions require a decision‐making process that is ultimately political, in that they involve decisions with uncertain outcomes and stakeholders with conflicting viewpoints. If this process seeks broad alignment between the government and public, then reconciling conflicting viewpoints is a key to the ...
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Environmental Degradation and Environmental Threats in China
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2004The article presents a review of environmental degradation and its threats in China. Air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, soil degradation, sand depositing in dams, decaying urban infrastructure, and more and more hazards such as floods, landslides and soil erosion are major consequences of environmental degradation and are making tremendous ...
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