Tuesday, September 4, 2012

New Library Acquisitions - Week of August 27th

Featured Book: 

Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Law (Yves Le Bouthillier et al. eds. 2012).  This interdisciplinary study examines the complex relationship between poverty alleviation and the protection of our environment.  Reflecting the results of a recent International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) conference in Mexico on issues relating to poverty, the articles contained herein discuss the interconnectivity between the two issues as well as the consequent tensions. Divided into six parts the text covers such issues as public participation, the role of aboriginal peoples. environmental degradation polies and climate change.  

New Library Acquisitions:

AGRICULTURE.
Agrobiodiversity and the law : regulating genetic resources, food security and cultural diversity / Juliana Santilli 

CLIMATE CHANGE.
Maritime transport and the climate change challenge / edited by Regina Asariotis and Hassiba Benamara


ENERGY INDUSTRY.
Energy networks and the law : innovative solutions in changing markets / edited by Martha M. Roggenkamp ... [et al.]

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.
Poverty alleviation and environmental law / edited by Yves Le Bouthillier, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada [and four others]

GENDER.
Ecofeminism and the sacred / edited by Carol J. Adams

GOVERNMENT.
Greening local government : legal strategies for promoting sustainability, efficiency, and fiscal savings / Keith H. Hirokawa & Patricia E. Salkin, editors

HISTORY.

HUMAN RIGHTS & THE ENVIRONMENT.

INTERNATIONAL LAW.




JURISPRUDENCE.

LITERATURE.

MERCURY.
Mercury in the environment : pattern and process / edited by Michael S. Bank

MINING.
The natural gas industry in Appalachia : a history from the first discovery to the tapping of the Marcellus Shale / David A. Waples

NATURAL RESOURCES.

NUCLEAR ENERGY.

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