Miljøpolitik og miljøprotokoller

'What's needed is a revolution in how we procure, distribute and use energy. Toke boldly goes further, calling for a revolution in who gets to develop and own our renewable future' Paul Gipe, author of Wind Energy for the Rest of Us'The future of humankind depends on the choices we make about energy systems. Will Western governments go on prioritising obscene corporate profits at the expense of energy security? David Toke authoritatively demonstrates how insane that would be - and what brilliant alternatives are already available' Jonathon Porritt, author of Hope in Hell: A Decade to Confront the Climate Emergency'A vision of how, in the renewable era, shared ownership of energy could lead to a future of equality and economic security' Molly Scott Cato, Professor Emerita of Green Economics, Roehampton UniversityThis book exposes the energy crisis as an inevitable result of an industry run by and for corporate profit. Energy policy was never meant to favour sustainability or energy security - for decades, it has been shaped by corporate interests while hampering renewable alternatives. Now we suffer the consequences.Written by a leading energy expert, Energy Revolutions reveals the urgent need to radically increase state intervention, including public ownership, and deploy energy democracy for the public interest. It explores examples of energy democracy around the world, showing us how to fight back against fossil fuel interests, avoid climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear technological dependency; transforming energy into a cheap, decentralised renewable good for all.David Toke is Reader in Energy Politics at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of nine books, has written in many newspapers and magazines, and is the founding director of the not-for-profit organisation 100percentrenewableuk.

Species are going extinct, forests are burning, and children are worried about the future and their peers worldwide. But that is not the whole story: One Friday in 2018, a few young people joined Greta Thunberg to protest, and the global climate strike movement was born. Scientist David Fopp spent 250 Fridays with the newly formed grassroots movement. Together with activists Isabelle Axelsson and Loukina Tille, he offers an insider perspective on this fight for a globally just and sustainable society. They also turn their focus to science and our political engagement: How can research in all disciplines help with this struggle? And how can we all fight the climate crisis by transforming and deepening democracy?

They blazed new trails for people seeking a better world. These are their stories.In 1970, a group of young people chose to take their values to work at a new sort of profession. They formed the Public Interest Research Group, a nonpartisan, nonprofit voice for consumers, taxpayers, open and honest government, and the environment.Working under the renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader, they helped prove it's possible to make real and lasting improvements in the lives of millions of Americans-and make an honest, and modest, living doing it. Now they are sharing their stories to challenge young people today and tomorrow to make the pursuit of positive social change their life's work too.

"This book is an essential reading for students, researchers and non-academic experts dealing with environmental, economic and social science aspects of the circular bioeconomy and with sustainability in general"--

A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLERestores China's place in forest historyThe disappearance of China's naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country's history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China's early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against this narrative of deforestation, Ian Miller charts the rise of timber plantations between about 1000 and 1700, when natural forests were replaced with anthropogenic ones. Miller demonstrates that this form of forest management generally rested on private ownership under relatively distant state oversight and taxation. He further draws on in-depth case studies of shipbuilding and imperial logging to argue that this novel landscape was not created through simple extractive pressures, but by attempts to incorporate institutional and ecological complexity into a unified imperial state.Miller uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire. Because dominant European forestry models do not neatly overlap with the non-Western world, China's history is often left out of global conversations about them; Miller's work rectifies this omission and suggests that in some ways, China's forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions.The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.

"This study of Japanese "forest reclamation" in Korea during the period of Japanese colonial rule (1895-1945) holds the notion of conservation up for scrutiny, examining the roots of Japanese practices and ideas about the Korean landscape as well as the consequences and aftermath of the Japanese approach to "greenification" in Korea. The Japanese program for natural resource management included change in how woodland ownership rights were controlled at both the national and village level as well as efforts to change how Koreans cooked and heated their homes and to inculcate "forest love thought" among the Korean people, and culminated with an extreme increase in extraction during the Second World War. This project offers a compelling environmental approach to Korean history but also expands environmental thinking about Japan into colonized lands and contributes to broader conversations about colonial forestry globally"--

How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasureChina today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country's arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing desertification. State environmentalism?in the form of grazing bans, enclosure, and resettlement?has transformed the lives of many ethnic minority herders in China's western borderlands. However, this book shows how such policies have been contested and negotiated on the ground, in the context of the state's intensifying nation-building project. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Alasha, in the far west of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Thomas White describes how ethnic Mongols have foregrounded the local breed of Bactrian camel, mobilizing ideas of heritage and resource conservation to defend pastoralism.In exploring how the greening of the Chinese state affects the entangled lives of humans and animals at the margins of the nation-state, this study is both a political biography of the Bactrian camel and an innovative work of political ecology addressing critical questions of rural livelihoods, conservation, and state power.

Das Klima auf der Erde hat sich schon immer verändert. Was neu ist: Angsteinflößende Katastrophen-Szenarien.Ja, es ist zwischen 1980 und 2015 weltweit um knapp 1 Grad Celsius wärmer geworden. Wobei: Die globale Erderwärmung hat seit 2015 wieder einmal eine Pause eingelegt.Wenn CO2 wirklich ein Problem ist, müsste die Menschheit das Verbrennen von Kohle, Erdöl und Erdgas insgesamt erheblich reduzieren. Allerdings wird der Energiebedarf der Menschheit derzeit weltweit zu über 80% aus fossilen Brennstoffen gedeckt - und nur zu etwa 5% aus Wind und Sonne. Und der Energiebedarf wird weiter steigen. Kann das weltweit wirklich verändert werden? Wollen die Menschen das überhaupt?Im Pariser Klimaabkommen haben die USA und die EU und einige weitere Industrieländer eine kurzfristige und deutliche Verringerung ihres CO2-Ausstoßes zugesagt. Diese Länder stehen für etwa 25% des weltweiten CO2-Ausstoßes. Rettung der Welt? Oder nur ein regional begrenzter und teurer Feldversuch?Löwe und Katze blicken auf die Themen Klimawandel und Energiewende aus Katzensicht. Was beide nicht mögen: Ideologisch geführte Debatten. Was sie mögen? Ganz einfach: Der Löwe mag Antilopen und die Katze mag Thunfisch in Gelee.

A compelling and pragmatic argument: solutions to yesterday's environmental problems reveal today's path forward. We solved planet-threatening problems before, Susan Solomon argues, and we can do it again. Solomon knows firsthand what those solutions entail. She first gained international fame as the leader of an expedition to Antarctica in 1986, making discoveries that were key to healing the damaged ozone layer. She saw a path--from scientific and public awareness to political engagement, international agreement, industry involvement, and effective action. Solomon, an atmospheric scientist and award-winning author, connects this career-defining triumph to the inside stories of other past environmental victories--against ozone depletion, smog, pesticides, and lead--to extract the essential elements of what makes change possible. The path to success begins when an environmental problem becomes both personal and perceptible to the general public. Lawmakers, diplomats, industries, and international agencies respond to popular momentum, and effective change takes place in tandem with consumer pressure when legislation and regulation yield practical solutions. Healing the planet is a long game won not by fear and panic but by the union of public, political, and regulatory pressure. Solvable is a book for anyone who has ever despaired about the climate crisis. As Solomon reminds us, doom and gloom get us nowhere, and idealism will only take us so far. The heroes in these stories range from angry mothers to gang members turned social activists, to upset Long Island birdwatchers to iconoclastic scientists (often women) to brilliant legislative craftsmen. Solomon's authoritative point of view is an inspiration, a reality check, a road map, and a much-needed dose of realism. The problems facing our planet are Solvable. Solomon shows us how.

Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this book examines the role that international public administrations play in global environmental politics in the Anthropocene. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, this text offers fresh insight into how international bureaucracies shape global policies in the complex areas of climate change, biodiversity, and development policy. International public administrations are thus recognized as partially autonomous actors with their own interests and motivations, assuming the roles of managers, orchestrators, brokers, or attention-seekers. This comprehensive resource provides scholars and practitioners with valuable insight into environmental policymaking and how international public administrations might be transformed to better address the multiple, fundamental challenges of our century. This is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

"A passionate, provocative vision for solving our climate crisis from a young, forward-thinking conservative climate activist. Activists, politicians, and pseudo-experts have led us to believe that there are only two viable approaches to climate change: panicked doomerism or flat-out denial. Conservative climate activist Benji Backer argues that both are failing. In The Conservative Environmentalist, he proposes a new strategy for fixing the climate-while serving the American people instead of working against them. Backer makes the compelling case that conservative values are the key to climate solutions that actually work. In this book, you'll visit the country's most diverse ecosystems and consequential manufacturing hubs-from Utah coal mines and Texas oil fields to Louisiana's wetlands and Rhode Island's off-shore wind farms-witnessing the power of individual entrepreneurship and local problem-solving. You'll learn about the inspiring, under-the-radar efforts to improve Earth's ecosystems that big government Green New Dealers don't want you to know about, like partnerships between resource-rich oil and gas companies and environmental nonprofits to preserve thousands of acres of wetlands. Drawing on the most credible science, a deep understanding of local community needs, and his experience rallying politicians on the Left and Right to take action, Backer offers hope for everyone who cares about the planet and the future of America. Fascinating, clear-headed, and full of surprises, this book is the fresh approach we need to create a sustainable future for America and the world"--

Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject, climate action measures to counter human-made climate change have so far remained largely ineffective. By identifying profound climate-cultural differences, Sarah Kessler offers an explanation to this issue and shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritise climate action should be reconsidered. She uncovers climate-cultural variations in (implicit and explicit) denial of climate change and thus challenges existing approaches that treat the German public as a unified entity waiting to be activated by the right kind of rationally convincing information.

Skillnaden mellan den elektromagnetiska miljö som rådde i början av 1800-talet innan elektricitet och trådlös teknik började användas är som att jämföra mörkret en molnig natt med direkt solljus. Hur har samhället hanterat det när vi samtidigt vet att elektricitet är en avgörande del i kroppens funktioner? EMF handboken tar upp viktiga händelser som Sovjetunionens bestrålning av USA:s ambassad i Moskva med mikrovågor, Världshälsoorganisationens projekt att övertala länder som har lägre gränsvärden att höja dessa, debatten i EU inför beslutet att rekommendera de gränsvärden som vi därefter införde i Sverige. Utgångspunkter för riskutvärderingar som är avgörande för resultatet beskrivs. På nationell nivå har Sverige och Stockholm fått tjäna som exempel. Boken kan ses som en fallstudie hur samhällets hälsoskydd har fungerat. Resultatet är att en tredjedel av befolkningen uppger att de har mer eller mindre besvär de sätter i samband med konstgjorda elektromagnetiska fält.

Det europæiske asylsystem er brudt sammen. Både på det moralske og det praktiske plan. Det er hovedpointen i Ruud Koopmans nye bog, hvor han gennemanalyserer konsekvenserne af og manglerne ved EU's asylpolitik. I praksis er alle, der formår at komme ind i EU, sikre på at kunne forblive der – uanset om de har et reelt behov for beskyttelse eller ej. For selv hvis asylansøgningen afvises, sker det næsten aldrig, at de pågældende sendes tilbage. Modsat hjælper EU meget få af dem, der har et reelt behov for asyl, men som ikke er i stand til at rejse til EU's grænse. Det er udtryk for et moralsk sammenbrud, for selvfølgelig har vi en forpligtelse til at hjælpe mennesker i nød, fastslår bogens forfatter, der er en af Europas førende migrationsforskere. Men hvordan? I bogen analyserer Ruud Koopmans alle manglerne ved det europæiske asylsystem. Han beskriver de menneskelige omkostninger og viser, på baggrund af tilgængelige data, f.eks. at risikoen for at dø på ruterne over Middelhavet er lige så stor som risikoen for at dø i klodens mest blodige borgerkrige. Han forklarer, hvordan flygtningestrømmene ikke altid er tilfældige, men ofte kynisk styres og udnyttes af autokrater og diktatorer i et storpolitisk spil. Og han beskriver, hvordan mange af de flygtninge, der når frem til EU’s grænser, forinden har boet i sikkerhed i et andet land. Det gælder f.eks. faderen til den 3-årige dreng, der blev et symbol på flygtningekrisen, da et foto af hans lig, der var skyllet op på en strand, gik verden rundt. Endelig opstiller Koopmans en ’realistisk utopi’ for, hvordan systemet kan repareres, så vi hjælper mennesker i nød, men samtidig sender dem tilbage, der ikke har et reelt behov for beskyttelse. "Hvis man ønsker at læse en populært skrevet, men samtidig videnskabeligt baseret analyse af det dysfunktionelle europæiske asylsystem, er dette bogen.”Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ”Bogen er udgivet på det helt rigtige tidspunkt, og den kan læses med stort udbytte.” NZZ am Sonntag

Dieses Open Access Buch erarbeitet konkrete Ansatzpunkte, wie die kommunale Praxis in Politik und Verwaltung Beiträge zur Ernährungswende Richtung Nachhaltigkeit leisten kann. Dabei wird u.a. aufgezeigt, dass die Aufgaben von Städten und Gemeinden, beispielsweise bei der öffentlichen Beschaffung, in Planungsfragen oder bei der Wirtschaftsförderung, bereits weit in ernährungsrelevante Bereiche hineinreichen und somit wichtige Hebelpunkte für nachhaltige Praktiken bestehen.

Diese Studie interessiert sich für einzelne Personen oder kleine Gruppen und deren Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Steuerung der lokalen Energiewende. Wie funktioniert dieser grundlegende Prozess der Steuerung, bei dem einzelne Personen bestimmte Kompetenzen, Leistungen und Ressourcen für ihre Intervention in das Energiesystem bündeln? Auf diese Frage bieten die Governance-Perspektive und auch die Transformationsforschung unterschiedliche Erklärungsansätze. Zentrales Anliegen dieser Studie ist es, zu zeigen, unter welchen Bedingungen es zu gelingender Steuerung der Energiewende und zu intendierten Veränderungen im Energiesystem kommen kann. Hierfür greift die Studie das Konzept der Agenten des Wandels auf und bringt es mit der soziologischen Systemtheorie in Verbindung. Aus systemischer Perspektive ergibt sich die größte Problematik daraus, dass sich komplexe Systeme wie die Energiewirtschaft nicht einfach steuern, sondern nur unter ganz bestimmten Bedingungen beeinflussen lassen. Mit der Analyseperspektive eines systemischen Agenten des Wandels-Konzepts und dessen Operationalisierung anhand zweier empirischer Fallstudien in Baden-Württemberg werden theoretische Grundlagen erarbeitet, mit denen erklärt werden kann, wie gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse gestaltet und beschleunigt werden können.

"This book explains the science and engineering of energy to help everyone understand and compare current and future advances in renewable energy, providing the context to critically examine the different technologies that are competing in a fast-evolving engineering, political, and economic landscape, to help drive the renewable energy transition"--