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  • Protecting the Commons

    A Framework For Resource Management In The Americas

    Edited by Elinor Ostrom, Richard Norgaard, David Policansky, Bernard D. Goldstein, Joanna Burger, Dr. ...
    Commons—lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single private entity, such as ocean and coastal areas, the atmosphere, public lands, freshwater aquifers, and migratory species—are an increasingly contentious issue in resource management and international affairs.Protecting the Commons provides an important analytical framework for understanding commons issues ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

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  • Cool It

    by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Human-Environment Geography

    Local Dynamics and Global Processes

    by William G. Moseley, Eric Perramond, Holly M. Hapke, Paul Laris ...
    This introductory level text explores various theoretical approaches to human-environment geography, demonstrating how local dynamics and global processes influence how we interact with our environments.Introduces students to fundamental concepts in environmental geography and scienceExplores the core theoretical traditions within the field, along with major thematic issues such as population, ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Adapting Cities to Climate Change

    Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges

    Edited by David Dodman, Jane Bicknell, David Satterthwaite ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by an overview of the main possibilities and constraints for adaptation, the contributors examine the implications of climate change for cities in Africa, Asia and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Global Political Ecology

    Edited by Richard Peet, Paul Robbins, Michael Watts ...
    The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies.This critical volume draws together contributions ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Lomborg Deception

    Setting the Record Straight About Global Warming

    by Howard Friel ...
    In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjørn Lomborg, Howard Friel meticulously deconstructs the Danish statistician’s claim that global warming is “no catastrophe” by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism. His detailed analysis serves not only as a guide to reading the global warming skeptics, but also as a ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edited by Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

    Policy and Governance in a Changing World

    Edited by Kevin S. Hanna, Douglas A. Clark, D. Scott Slocombe ...
    **This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles. Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades. However, this period has also ... Read more

    Was $74.99 USD Now $63.99 USD

  • Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

    Landscapes, People and Power

    by Robert Fisher, Stewart Maginnis, William Jackson, Edmund Barrow, Sally Jeanrenaud ...
    'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader, IUCN Forest Conservation Programme. 'This book could be the catalyst ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Nature Unbound

    Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas

    by Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy, Jim Igoe ...
    This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories they impose.The book explores key debates on devolution, participation and democracy; the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ecological Economics from the Ground Up

    Edited by Hali Healy, Joan Martínez-Alier, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Julien-François Gerber ...
    Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of internationally relevant topics, to teach the principles, concepts, methods and tools of these fields, which are seen as increasingly important in the context of the current triple social, economic and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities

    Edited by A. Peter Castro ...
    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD