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  • Oil

    by Gavin Bridge, Philippe Le Billon ...
    Series series Resources
    Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includes declining conventional oil reserves, volatile prices, climate change, and enduring poverty in many oil-rich countries. The politics of oil are now ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology

    Edited by Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge, James McCarthy ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology presents a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the rapidly growing field of political ecology. Located at the intersection of geography, anthropology, sociology, and environmental history, political ecology is one of the most vibrant and conceptually diverse fields of inquiry into nature-society relations within the social sciences. The ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Energy and Society

    A Critical Perspective

    by Gavin Bridge, Stewart Barr, Stefan Bouzarovski, Michael Bradshaw, Ed Brown, Harriet Bulkeley, Gordon Walker ...
    Energy and Society is the first major text to provide an extensive critical treatment of energy issues informed by recent research on energy in the social sciences. Written in an engaging and accessible style it draws new thinking on uneven development, consumption, vulnerability and transition together to illustrate the social significance of energy systems in the global North and South. The book ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Climate Change

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    "A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."—Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of AmericaSince it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. Reprinted many times since its publication, it remains the only work that looks in detail at the political issues posed by global warming. This new ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Five Times Faster

    Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change

    by Simon Sharpe ...
    We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • State of the World 2013

    Is Sustainability Still Possible?

    by The Worldwatch Institute ...
    Series series State of the World
    Every day, we are presented with a range of “sustainable” products and activities—from “green” cleaning supplies to carbon offsets—but with so much labeled as “sustainable,” the term has become essentially sustainababble, at best indicating a practice or product slightly less damaging than the conventional alternative. Is it time to abandon the concept altogether, or can we find an accurate way to ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Global Environmental Politics

    Problems, Policy and Practice

    by Hayley Stevenson ...
    Concern about humanity's impact on the planet has never been greater, but what are the drivers of environmental change? This wide-ranging introductory textbook outlines the competing explanations of why environmental problems occur and examines the different political approaches taken to address them. Adopting a case study approach, Hayley Stevenson enables students to gain a detailed ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Globalization and the Environment

    by Peter Christoff, Robyn Eckersley ...
    Series series Globalization
    This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework for understanding the globalization of environmental problems and the highly uneven, often faltering, international political response. The authors ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Sustainability

    Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives

    by Martin Mulligan ...
    An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.The fully updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases out the diverse but intersecting domains of sustainability and emphasises strategies for action. Aimed at those studying the subject for the first ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Heat, Greed and Human Need

    Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing

    by Ian Gough ...
    'There are few scholarly books about climate change that take the issue of the distribution of its costs, and of the costs and benefits of its mitigation, as seriously as their absolute value. This is probably the best of those books that I have come across. Rigorously rooted in Gough's earlier work on theories of human need, the book is relentless in its pursuit of equity in respect of climate ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Global Deal

    Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

    by Nicholas Stern ...
    In October 2006, Nicholas Stern, one of the greatest economists and public intellectuals of our day, made headlines around the world with his report, which reviewed the costs and benefits of dealing with global warming. The world's community has learned that it must act to mitigate global climate change, but until the Stern Review, no one knew how much it would cost, and how to do it.Now, Stern ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bankrupting Nature

    Denying Our Planetary Boundaries

    by Anders Wijkman, Johan Rockström ...
    This powerful book shows us that we are in deep denial about the magnitude of the global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world. Despite growing scientific consensus on major environmental threats as well as resource depletion, societies are largely continuing with business as usual, at best attempting to tinker at the margins of the problems. The authors argue that ... Read more

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