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  • Dams and Development in China

    The Moral Economy of Water and Power

    by Bryan Tilt ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    China is home to half of the world's large dams and adds dozens more each year. The benefits are considerable: dams deliver hydropower, provide reliable irrigation water, protect people and farmland against flooding, and produce hydroelectricity in a nation with a seeimingly insatiable appetite for energy. As hydropower responds to a larger share of energy demand, dams may also help to reduce the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China

    Environmental Values and Civil Society

    by Bryan Tilt ...
    Though China's economy is projected to become the world's largest within the next twenty years, industrial pollution threatens both the health of the country's citizens and the natural resources on which their economy depends. Capturing the consequences of this reality, Bryan Tilt conducts an in-depth, ethnographic study of Futian Township, a rural community reeling from pollution.The industrial ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The River Runs Black

    The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

    by Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The New Harvest

    Agricultural Innovation in Africa

    by Calestous Juma ...
    African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa faces three major opportunities that can transform its agriculture into a force for economic growth: advances in science and technology; the creation of regional markets; and the emergence of a new crop of entrepreneurial leaders ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth—And What It Means for Our Children

    by Dick Russell ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author Dick Russell, edited and introduced by New York Times bestselling author Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.!”A must read for anyone concerned with climate and energy issues.”—Leonardo DiCaprio, Academy Award winning actor and environmental activistThe science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Democratic Illusion

    Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy

    by Genevieve Fuji-Johnson ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations. While deliberative processes are being adopted in an increasing number of cases, decision-making power remains mostly in the hands of traditional elites.In Democratic Illusion, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy

    Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States

    by Andrea Olive ...
    Canada and the United States are similar in terms of the species of wildlife that mingle freely across their shared border. Despite this similarity, however, there are significant differences between approaches to wildlife management in these two nations. In Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy, Andrea Olive examines the divergent evolution of endangered species policy on either side of the 49th ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Crimes Against Nature

    How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy

    by Robert F. Kennedy ...
    "A meticulous, elegant, and devastating account of an administration that . . . seems to get a kick out of sticking it to the planet. Scary stuff." — New York PostIn this powerful indictment of George W. Bush's White House, environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., charges that the administration has taken corporate favoritism to unprecedented heights—threatening our health, our national ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lobbying in the European Parliament

    The Battle for Influence

    by Maja Kluger Dionigi ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
    This book explains when and how interest groups are influential in the European Parliament, which has become one of the most important lobbying venues in the EU. Yet we know little about the many ways in which interest groups and lobbyists influence parliamentary politics. The author offers insights on four key cases of lobbying, based on the analysis of EU documents, lobbying letters, and 150 ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • America the Possible

    Manifesto for a New Economy

    by James Gustave Speth ...
    In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Water, State and the City

    by A. Ioris ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book investigates the complexity of the Latin American mega cities and the multiple commitments of the apparatus of the state with a focus on the failures of the public water sector. It offers an innovative interpretation of large-scale urbanization, one of the most challenging questions affecting Latin American governments and society. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Power Switch

    Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century

    by G.Bruce Doern, Monica Gattinger ...
    Series series Heritage
    In the energy sector of Canadian economic and political life, power has a double meaning. It is quintessentially about the generation of power and physical energy. However, it is also about political power, the energy of the economy, and thus the overall governance of Canada. Power Switch offers a critical examination of the changing nature of energy regulatory governance, with a particular focus ... Read more

    $33.09 USD