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  • What Is Water?

    The History of a Modern Abstraction

    by Jamie Linton ...
    Series series Nature | History | Society
    We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. Because it seems so natural, we seldom question how we see water. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water.Jamie Linton dives into the history of the modern concept of water, that water can be stripped of its wider environmental, social, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Water as a Social Opportunity

    Edited by Jamie Linton, Warren E. Mabee, Seanna Davidson ...
    Series Book 3 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen’s University with the idea that it is more illuminating and constructive to think about water as an opportunity.Water as a Social Opportunity conveys the idea that the ways in which society responds to water-related challenges has the potential to ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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    by Aranya ...
    This full colour book explains the design process and is based on course worksheets which have been designed, refined and tested on students over time. If you already have a basic knowledge of permaculture, from either reading another book or attending a course, then this guide is probably just what you need to build on your prior knowledge and put it into practical application. While it includes ... Read more

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  • No Impact Man

    The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process

    by Colin Beavan ...
    Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one man's decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one year—while still living in New York City—to see if it's possible to make no net impact on the environment.In No Impact Man, a guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Urban Ecology

    Science of Cities

    by Richard T. T. Forman ...
    How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology: Science of Cities explores the entire urban area: from streets, lawns, and parks to riversides, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Sustainability Science

    by Bert J. M. de Vries ...
    Sustainable development is becoming the guiding principle for the twenty-first century. This textbook - based on the author's course and rigorously class-tested by his students - provides an introduction into patterns of past and present (un)sustainable development and into the emergence of the notion of sustainable development. It systematically surveys the key concepts, models and findings of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Facing the Anthropocene

    Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System

    by Ian Angus ...
    Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun—the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business as usual continues, this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our physical, social, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Waterworlds

    Anthropology in Fluid Environments

    Edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Frida Hastrup ...
    Series Book 3 - Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
    In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Sustainability Policy

    Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy

    by Steven Cohen, William Eimicke, Alison Miller ...
    A complete guide to sustainability policy at the federal, state, and local levelsSustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy is a fundamental guide for public sector professionals new to sustainability policy development, implementation, strategy, and practice. Featuring detailed cases highlighting innovative sustainability initiatives, this book explores the elements that ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • Water Is...

    The Meaning of Water

    by Nina Munteanu ...
    In this fascinating meditation on water, internationally published limnologist, Nina Munteanu, draws inspiration from some of the world’s greatest thinkers, artists and scientists, and a lifetime dedicated to water, into a spectacular gift for hydrophilics.Part history, part science and part philosophy and spirituality, "Water Is..." combines personal journey with scientific discovery that ... Read more

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  • The Enemy of Nature

    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

    by Joel Kovel ...
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy us. Capitalism and its by-products - imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty and the destruction of community - are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.Only now are we beginning to realise the depth of the crisis and the kind of transformation which will have to occur to ... Read more

    $28.39 USD