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  • Pulp Friction in Tasmania: A Review of the Environmental Assessment of Gunns' Proposed Pulp Mill

    by Fred Gale ...
    This book documents the failure of Gunns Limited, a giant wood chip exporter, to build a massive pulp mill in Tasmania, Australia. A dramatic lesson in corporate social irresponsibility, the book highlights how government-industry collusion led to serious deficiencies in the environmental assessment process, which generated a massive and so far successful campaign against the mill. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How Money Really Does Grow on Trees

    by Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate the emergence of a new wave of environmental attention focused on “natural capital,†“ecosystem services†and “biodiversity,†things nature does for us. In What Has Nature ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Gift Ecology

    Reimagining a Sustainable World

    by Peter Denton ...
    Series series RMB Manifesto
    Global sustainability in the 21st century seems to be an elusive goal. There are too many issues, too many problems—and, increasingly, too many people—to make the major changes required in the time various experts tell us we have left before it’s too late.To create a sustainable future, we need to change the game itself. We cannot simply try to solve our problems one at a time. Instead, we need to ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Should Trees Have Standing?

    Law, Morality, and the Environment

    by Christopher D. Stone ...
    Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, in the 35th anniversary edition of this remarkably influential book, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis and explores the impact his ideas have had on ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • When Soldiers Fall

    How Americans Have Confronted Combat Losses from World War I to Afghanistan

    by Steven Casey ...
    Call it the Vietnam Syndrome or Black Hawk Down blowback. It's the standard assumption that Americans won't tolerate combat casualties, that a rising body count lowers support for war. But that's not true, argues historian Steven Casey; even worse, this assumption damages democracy. Fearing a backlash, the military has routinely distorted its casualty reports in order to hide the true cost of war. ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Water

    The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

    by Marq de Villiers ...
    An award-winning, alarming account of "one of the central challenges facing civilization" ( The Washington Post Book World).Offering ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, this "well-researched and thought-provoking book" (Minneapolis Tribune) explains how we are using, misusing, and abusing our planet's most vital resource.Reporting from hot spots as diverse as China, Las Vegas, and ... Read more

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  • Environment and Society

    A Critical Introduction

    by Paul Robbins, Sarah A. Moore, John G. Hintz ...
    Series series Critical Introductions to Geography
    Substantially updated for the second edition, this engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects.Features substantial revisions and updates for the second edition, including new chapters on E waste, mosquitoes and uranium, improved maps and graphics, new exercises, shorter theory chapters, and refocused sections on ... Read more

    $58.95 USD

  • Climate Coup

    Global Warming's Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives

    Edited by Patrick J. Michaels ...
    A first-rate team of experts offers compelling documentation on the pervasive influence global warming alarmism now has on almost every aspect of our society-from national defense, law, trade, and politics to health, education, and international development. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Rethinking the Green State

    Environmental governance towards climate and sustainability transitions

    Edited by Karin Bäckstrand, Annica Kronsell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    This innovative book is one of the first to conduct a systematic comprehensive analysis of the ideals and practices of the evolving green state. It draws on elements of political theory, feminist theory, post-structuralism, governance and institutional theory to conceptualise the green state and advances thinking on how to understand its emergence in the context of climate and sustainability ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Global Warming

    The Terminal Crisis

    by Del Weston ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Breaking the Logjam

    Environmental Protection That Will Work

    by Professor David Schoenbrod, Richard B. Stewart, Katrina M. Wyman ...
    After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. Schoenbrod, Stewart, and Wyman, distinguished scholars in the field of environmental law, identify the core problems with existing environmental statutes and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming

    Edited by Lucas Bernard, Willi Semmler ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The first World Climate Conference, which was sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization in Genève in 1979, triggered an international dialogue on global warming. From the 1997 United Nations-sponsored conference-during which the Kyoto Protocol was signed-through meetings in Copenhagen, Cancún, Durban, and most recently Doha (2012) and Warsaw (2013), worldwide attention to the issue of ... Read more

    $134.09 USD