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In this book, Cohen integrates various facets to develop an innovative, multidimensional framework for analysing and improving environmental policy. He applies this framework to four case studies that reflect challenges faced by local, national, and international environmental policymakers.

This text presents a concise overview of the key international organisations that are concerned with environmental issues. It examines the history, structure and policies of key international bodies. It is a useful reading for students of environmental politics and international organizations.

The award-winning human rights activist and advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans. Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy...

A small city's big vision that can help transform your own community. We all want a sustainable future, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? In Ithaca, NY a new culture is blossoming-one that values cooperation, local production, environmental stewardship, social justice and creativity. Ithaca is showing the way to meet the challenges of the day with a wide variety of practical, real-world solutions. Filled with inspiring examples,...