Elizabeth R. DeSombre examines the intricate links between global processes and their local consequences, particularly concerning environmental, safety, and labor regulations. Her scholarship delves into how international standards are established and subsequently impact daily life and ecological systems worldwide. Through her academic research and leadership, she seeks to illuminate the complex interplay between economic forces, political structures, and environmental concerns in our interconnected world. Her work provides critical insights into the mechanisms shaping contemporary global dynamics.
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--
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.
Global Environmental Institutitons continues to provide the most accessible and succint overview of the major global institutions attempting to protect the natural environment.
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.