Environmental & Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) practitioners work hard to produce detailed studies, but often there is a considerable difference between the measures contained in the ESIA and those which actually get implemented. This is exacerbated in emerging economies, where Western...
In this webinar, Luke Douglas-Home outlined the known problems and some suggested solutions of these two enormous environmental issues – foreshore plastic and historic landfills.
Last year was the first year of the UN’s Decade of Ocean Science: these two issues seriously threaten the...
This webinar reviews recent practical experience of systems approaches to regional and subregional planning for water. In addition to this, the speakers compare approaches taken for Water Resources South East’s draft regional plan and for the Greater London Authority’s Subregional Integrated...
Professor Robert Costanza is familiar to many, perhaps most, scholars and practitioners of sustainable development, particularly those with an interest in the services and values of ecosystems. His contributions are eagerly awaited for insight and guidance. Whilst we are not generally short of...
Humanity has grown prosperous and numerous by burning and consuming the products of biological systems of the past and present. In doing so we have allowed the degradation of the environment which we share with other living things. We have now learned how to get much of what we need without...
Today (February 16th) is Kyoto Protocol Day, which commemorates the Protocol coming into force. In turn, it is an opportunity to reflect on the history of climate science during a time when the lessons with which we are now all-too familiar were still entering the mainstream of public...
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