Product Description: In this book, we collected recent results on the control of underactuated mechanical systems subject to internal uncertainties and external disturbances. The strategy developed is so universal that it is not restricted to a specific system but a large class of underactuated systems...read more

Product Description: The first decade of the twenty-first century has been characterized by a growing global awareness of the tremendous strains that human economic activity place on natural resources and the environment. As the world’s population increases, so does the demand for energy, food, and other resources, which adds to existing stresses on ecosystems, with potentially disastrous consequences...read more

Product Description: The environmental justice literature convincingly shows that poor people and minorities live in more polluted neighborhoods than do other groups. These findings have sparked a broad activist movement, numerous local lawsuits, and several federal policy reforms...read more

Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice provides a comprehensive overview of the achievements and challenges confronting the environmental justice movement. Pressured by increased international competition and the demand for higher profits, industrial and political leaders are working to weaken many of America's most essential environmental, occupational, and consumer protection laws. In addition, corporate-led globalization exports many ecological hazards abroad. The result is a deepening of the ecological crisis in both the United States and the Global South. However, not all people are impacted equally. In this process of capital restructuring, it is the most marginalized segments of society -poor people of color and the working class-that suffer the greatest force of corporate environmental abuses. Daniel Faber, a leading environmental sociologist, analyzes the global political and economic forces that create these environmental injustices. With a multi-disciplinary approach, Faber presents both broad overviews and powerful insider case studies, examining the connections between many different struggles for change. Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice explores compelling movements to challenge the polluter-industrial complex and bring about meaningful social transformation.

Product Description: Book by Blodgett, John E.

Product Description: Williams examines the efforts of public agencies to better incorporate citizen participation in the administrative process. He focuses on the effort of the Department of Energy to use citizen advisory boards composed of stakeholders―persons who stand to gain or lose from policy implementation―in its economic transition, waste management, and environmental restoration programs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Federal policies have made great progress protecting the environment. But the policies sometimes have imposed inordinate costs on local governments. Managing Green Mandates describes how various federal environmental directives do not suit diverse conditions at the local level, and compel local communities to spend their revenues on reducing relatively minor risks to the public health...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Robert N. Stavins has emerged as one of the most influential voices in environmental economics over the last decade and a half. These 23 essays on environmental economics and policy, written by Professor Stavins and his co-authors over the period 1988-1999, originally appeared in a diverse set of leading, scholarly periodicals and are here collected for the first time...read more

Product Description: In this book, Achim Korber carefully examines the influence of environmental policy on trade policy. He explores environmental protectionism and models it using public choice theory. The author focuses on: a theoretical analysis of ecological protectionism and the potential misuse of environmental regulation as a tool to gain competitive advantage; a comprehensive case study on the tuna-dolphin cases of the GATT/WTO - the study reveals that the US legislation was not - as it was widely perceived - a victory for the environmentalists but for the billion dollar industry of the US tuna canneries; and an in-depth literature survey on various approaches to protectionism including an analysis of lobbying models including the contest-success function...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As the need to confront unplanned growth increases, planners, policymakers, and citizens are scrambling for practical tools and examples of successful and workable approaches. Growth management initiatives are underway in the U.S...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These papers cover such topics as: the effects of environmental and resources policies on income distribution; the incorporation of distribution effects into environmental policy analysis; the role of economic incentives in environmental policy; the economic valuation of environment changes; and the consideration of risk and uncertainty in economic valuation and policy making...read more

Product Description: Market-Based Approaches to Environmental Policy Regulatory Innovations to the Fore Edited by Richard F. Kosobud and Jennifer Zimmerman With the future of regulatory reform much in question, the search is on for more attractive, flexible, and cost-effective ways of meeting regulatory goals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Market-Based Approaches to Environmental Policy Regulatory Innovations to the Fore Edited by Richard F. Kosobud and Jennifer Zimmerman With the future of regulatory reform much in question, the search is on for more attractive, flexible, and cost-effective ways of meeting regulatory goals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this volume challenge the widespread belief that the government's environmental policies, unlike those in other areas, are drafted and implemented for the public good and genuinely seek to effect a cleaner environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this volume challenge the widespread belief that the government's environmental policies, unlike those in other areas, are drafted and implemented for the public good and genuinely seek to effect a cleaner environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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