New Library Acquisitions - Week of September 10th

Featured Book: 

The Human Right to Water: Significance, Legal Status and Implications for Water Allocation (2012). Authored by Inga T. Winkler, Legal Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation based at the German Institute for Human Rights, this 376 page book discusses the legal issues and implications of the United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council's 2010 decision to recognize the human right to water.  Key Features: bibliography and UN documents.

New Library Acquisitions:

 

BIODIVERSITY.

Biodiversity conservation handbook : state, local, and private protection of biological diversity / editors, Robert B. McKinstry, Jr., Coreen Ripp, Emily Lisy

 

BIOETHICS.

Law and bioethics : intersections along the mortal coil / George P. Smith, II

 

The bioethics of great ape well-being : psychiatric injury and duty of care / Theodora Capaldo, G.A. Bradshaw

 

ENERGY DEVELOPMENT.

Energy for development : resources, technologies, environment / Ferenc L. Toth, editor

 

INTERNATIONAL LAW.

A proteção jurídica das florestas tropicais = The legal protection of tropical forests / Antônio Herman Benjamin (organizador/editor)

 

Parques nacionais Brasil

 

Meio ambiente no Pará : fato e norma / Maria Cristina Cesar de Oliveira Cascaes Dourado

 

O futuro do controle da poluição e da implementação ambiental / Antônio Herman Benjamin, José Carlos Meloni Sícoli, organizadores = The future of pollution regulation and enforcement / Antônio Herman Benjamin, José Carlos Meloni Sícoli, editors

 

NATURAL RESOURCES.

Natural resources, sustainability and humanity : a comprehensive view / Angela Mendonca, Ana Cunha, Ranjan Chakrabarti, editors 

 

RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Financing renewable energy in developing countries : drivers and barriers for private finance in sub-Saharan Africa : a study and survey by UNEP finance initiative on the views, experiences, and policy needs of energy financiers

 

WASTE TREATMENT.

Green technologies for wastewater treatment : energy recovery and emerging compounds removal / Giusy Lofrano, editor

 

WATER LAW.

The human right to water : significance, legal status and implications for water allocation / Inga T. Winkler