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  • Disasters and History

    The Vulnerability and Resilience of Past Societies

    by Bas van Bavel, Daniel R. Curtis, Jessica Dijkman, Matthew Hannaford, Maïka de Keyzer, Eline van Onacker, Tim Soens ...
    Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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  • How the World Became Rich

    The Historical Origins of Economic Growth

    by Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin ...
    Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich?Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Environmental Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elizabeth Fisher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer. Few people would actively argue for pollution or environmental destruction. Ensuring a clean environment is ethically desirable, and also sensible ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Green Social Work

    From Environmental Crises to Environmental Justice

    by Lena Dominelli ...
    Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally.This compelling new contribution confronts this topic head-on, examining environmental issues from a social work perspective. Lena Dominelli draws attention to the ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development eBook

    by Ian Scoones ...
    Series Book 4 - Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies
    The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Poverty

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Philip N. Jefferson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people lived on less than US $2 a day in 2013. Why is that? What has been done about it in the past? And what is being done about it now? In this Very Short Introduction Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Social Dimensions Of Climate Change: Equity And Vulnerability In A Warming World

    by Robin Mearns; Andrew Norton; Edward Cameron ...
    Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty reduction, growth and development as it is a global environmental issue. It could undermine or reverse progress in reducing poverty and attaining the Millenium Development Goals, thereby unraveling many of the development gains of recent decades. It ... Read more

    $14.99 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

  • We Can Do Better

    Ideas for Changing Society

    by David Camfield ...
    The view that capitalism is an inherently flawed, exploitative, crisis-prone, oppressive system is not new. But neoliberal capitalism’s flaws are increasingly dangerous in Western countries and globally as corporations exert growing influence on governments, as the endless pursuit of profits pushes our climate to the breaking point and as far-right politics dominate the media. Solutions are needed ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Speaking for Ourselves

    Environmental Justice in Canada

    Edited by Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Pat O'Riley ...
    The concept of environmental justice has evolved over the past two decades to offer a new direction for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity and the environmental aspects of sustainability has been little studied in Canada.Speaking for Ourselves draws ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Green Criminology and Environmental Justice

    by Angus Nurse ...
    A comprehensive introduction to green criminology, this book is a discussion of the relationship between mainstream criminal justice and green crimes.Focused on environmental harm within the context of criminal justice this book takes a global perspective andIntroduces students to different theoretical perspectives in green criminologyLooks at the victims of environmental crime throughoutCovers ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

    Edited by Salvatore Babones, Christopher Chase-Dunn ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and more than half a dozen academic disciplines. Aiming to crystallize forty years of progress and lay the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD