Product Description: This book presents conceptual and empirical discussions of adaptation to climate change/variability in West Africa. Highlighting different countries’ experiences in adaptation by different socio-economic groups and efforts at building their adaptive capacity, it offers readers a holistic understanding of adaptation on the basis of contextual and generic sources of adaptive capacity...read more

Product Description: Can economic globalization and environmental protection co-exist or does globalization inevitably lead to environmental degradation? How have firms in Europe responded to increased environmental regulation in the face of growing international competition, particularly from newly industrializing and transition economies? This book attempts to answer these questions using case studies of three pollution-intensive industries: iron and steel, leather tanning, and fertilizers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "According to the World Bank, the number of urban poor in the world will triple from the year 2000 to 1.5 billion by 2025. Nearly, one-third of all city dwellers already live in substandard housing. In a few decades, it is probable that the process of urbanisation of poverty will have gone its course in India also...read more