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  • Sea Change

    Charting a Sustainable Future for Oceans in Canada

    Edited by Ussif Rashid Sumaila, Derek Armitage, Megan Bailey, William W.L. Cheung ...
    Series series Sustainability and the Environment
    As climate change, resource overexploitation, and pollution leave ever more visible marks, ocean ecosystems, economies, and people are all affected. With coasts on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic, Canada faces a formidable challenge in building resilient, sustainable oceans and supporting the communities that rely on them.Sea Change reports on the OceanCanada Partnership, a multidisciplinary ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Adaptive Co-Management

    Collaboration, Learning, and Multi-Level Governance

    Edited by Derek Armitage, Fikret Berkes, Nancy Doubleday ...
    Series series Sustainability and the Environment
    In Canada and around the world, governments are shifting away from regulatory models for governing natural and cultural resources. New concerns with adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships are reshaping environmental governance. Meanwhile, ideas about collaboration and learning are converging around the idea of adaptive co-management.This book provides a comprehensive ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

    Edited by Derek Armitage, Ryan Plummer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Rapid environmental change calls for individuals and societies with an ability to transform our interactions with each other and the ecosystems upon which we depend. Adaptive capacity - the ability of a social-ecological system (or the components of that system) to be robust to disturbances and capable of responding to changes - is increasingly recognized as a critical attribute of multi-level ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Governing the Coastal Commons

    Communities, Resilience and Transformation

    Edited by Derek Armitage, Anthony Charles, Fikret Berkes ...
    Series series Earthscan Oceans
    Coastal communities depend on the marine environment for their livelihoods, but the common property nature of marine resources poses major challenges for the governance of such resources. Through detailed cases and consideration of broader global trends, this volume examines how coastal communities are adapting to environmental change, and the attributes of governance that foster deliberate ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Sustainable Water and Soil Management

    Edited by Tanja Kruse, Andrea Burmester, Sabine Kunst ...

    $89.99 USD

  • Land Use and Climate Change Interactions in Central Vietnam

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    Edited by Alexandra Nauditt, Lars Ribbe ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book summarizes the key findings of a five-year interdisciplinary research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF). It serves as a typical case study for a rapidly growing and developing urban center – Da Nang City, which is surrounded by remote areas characterized by increasing migration and limited development. A number of German and Vietnamese ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science

    The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science

    by Robert Kunzig ...
    A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader.The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of animals and plants, but we have identified only a few thousand of them. The sea controls our planet's ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Coastal Change, Ocean Conservation and Resilient Communities

    Edited by Marcha Johnson, Amanda Bayley ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This collection of essays and design case studies explores a range of ideas and best practices for adapting to dynamic waterfront conditions while incorporating nature conservation in urbanized coastal areas. The editors have curated a selection of works contributed by leading practitioners in the fields of coastal science, community resilience, habitat restoration, sustainable landscape ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions

    European and Asian Experiences

    Edited by Derk Loorbach, Julia M. Wittmayer, Hideaki Shiroyama, Junichi Fujino, Satoru Mizuguchi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face. They do this by not repeating old patterns but by searching for new and innovative methods and instruments based on shared principles of a transitions approach. The book describes the quest of cities on two continents to accelerate and stimulate such ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Are Trams Socialist?

    Why Britain Has No Transport Policy

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Restoration of Coastal Dunes

    Edited by Juan B. Gallego-Fernández, Luisa M Martínez, Patrick A. Hesp ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The continuously growing human population along the world’s coasts will exacerbate the impact of human activities on all coastal environments. Restoration activities will therefore become increasingly important. In particular, sandy shores and coastal dunes will require significant restoration efforts because they are preferred sites for human settlement, industrial and urban development and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Mortal Sea

    fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail

    by W. Jeffrey Bolster ...
    Since the time of the Vikings, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend on it for survival, and people have shaped the Atlantic. In his account of this interdependency, Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world. ... Read more

    $18.79 USD