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  • The Age of Endlings

    Explorations and Investigations into the Indian Wild

    Conservation sometimes killsEndling noun The very last individual of a species.These are not trophy tales of the wildlife photographer or his ancestor, the hunter. Nor are these entreaties of the save-the-world variety. Curious and clinical, irreverent but reasoned, these essays and exposes by one of India's best-known investigative journalists and wildlife reporters, Jay Mazoomdaar, raise ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Wonders of the World: Mother Nature at Work

    Nature Books for Kids

    Series series Children's Mystery & Wonders Books
    Mother Nature is definitely a wonderful provider! She gives us not only the things we need but also the things we’d love to see. This educational book is a collection of all best natural wonders of the world. Through this book, your child will get to learn and appreciate the sights found from all over the world. This will raise awareness and responsibility towards environmental care. Buy a copy ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Landing Native Fisheries

    Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925

    Series series Law and Society
    Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other. Beginning with the first treaties signed on Vancouver Island between 1850 and 1854, Douglas Harris maps the connections between the colonial land policy and the law ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Price of Oil

    Drawing on their extensive knowledge of the oil industry, Roberto F. Aguilera and Marian Radetzki provide an in-depth examination of the price of the world's most important commodity. They argue that although oil has experienced an extraordinary price increase over the past few decades, we have now reached a turning point where scarcity, uncertain supply and high prices will be replaced by ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Infrastructure

    The Social Value of Shared Resources

    Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet. Each of these involves a battle to control infrastructure resources, to establish ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Innovation and Disruption at the Grid's Edge

    How Distributed Energy Resources are Disrupting the Utility Business Model

    Edited by Fereidoon Sioshansi ...
    Innovation and Disruption at the Grid's Edge examines the viable developments in peer-to-peer transactions enabled by open platforms on the grid's edge. With consumers and prosumers using more electronic platforms to trade surplus electricity from rooftop solar panels, share a storage battery, or use smart gadgets that manage load and self-generation, the grid's edge is becoming crowded. The book ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Ending Africa's Energy Deficit and the Law

    Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Africa

    Edited by Yinka Omorogbe, Ada Ordor ...
    With the inclusion of access to energy in the sustainable development goals, the role of energy to human existence was finally recognized. Yet, in Africa, this achievement is far from realized. Omorogbe and Ordor bring together experts in their fields to ask what is stalling progress, examining problems from institutions catering to vested interests at the continent's expense, to a need to develop ... Read more

    $131.39 USD

  • International Water Law and the Quest for Common Security

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    The world’s freshwater supplies are increasingly threatened by rapidly increasing demand and the impacts of global climate change, but current approaches to transboundary water management are unsustainable and may threaten future global stability and international security. The absence of law in attempts to address this issue highlights the necessity for further understanding from the legal ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

    Edited by Helen Young, Lisa Goldman ...
    Series series Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management
    Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential to livelihoods and by significantly hindering access to those resources, conflict can wreak havoc on the ability of war-torn populations to survive and recover. This book explores how natural resource management initiatives ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • The Last Oasis

    Facing Water Scarcity

    by Sandra Postel ...
    For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper sanitation and each year four million children die of water-borne diseases. As most of the world?s major river systems cross several national boundaries, the scope disputes and the threat to international ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Plantation Politics

    Forest plantations in development

    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    Plantations are playing an increasingly important part in the development and the economies of the South. Plantation Politics is the first book to examine their rationale and purpose, exposing the misconceptions and myths that have surrounded their role, and describing the contribution they can make to sustainable development. At their best, industrial plantations can become a major asset to local ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Land Use and the States

    Series series RFF Natural Resource Management Set
    An enlarged and revised book which looks at some programs of state land use control. Focusing on the problems that have caused the public to demand such controls, on the variety of legislative responses, and on the problems of implementation that arise, this study presents a rationale for the role of the state government in the land use field.Originally published in 1979 ... Read more

    $73.99 USD