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  • Cultural Sustainability and Regional Development

    Theories and practices of territorialisation

    Edited by Joost Dessein, Elena Battaglini, Lummina Horlings ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Culture and Sustainable Development
    Meeting the aims of sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult; at the same time, the call for culture is becoming more powerful. This book explores the relationships between culture, sustainability and regional change through the concept of ‘territorialisation’. This new concept describes the dynamics and processes in the context of regional development, driven by collective human agency ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine ...
    New York Times bestselling author Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures.Join them as they encounter the animal kingdom in its stunning beauty, astonishing variety, and imminent peril: the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the helpless but loveable Kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, the white rhinos of ... Read more

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  • How the EPA?s Green Tyranny is Stifling America

    by Rich Trzupek ...
    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    The relationship between environmental regulation and economic growth has gone from dysfunctional to disastrous under the leadership of Barack Obama’s USEPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson. Jackson’s EPA has assumed broad new powers and promulgated sweeping new regulations unlike anything that America has seen since the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were signed into law forty years ago. While much ... Read more

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  • Icy Battleground

    Canada the IFAW and the Seal Hunt

    by Donald Barry ...
    Icy Battleground is the first comprehensive account of the forty-year political controversy over the seal hunt. With a foreword by the Honourable John C. Crosbie, it traces the rise of the anti-sealing protests, the emergence of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, its vigorous and unrelenting campaign to end commercial sealing, and its strategies in mobilising pressure in Canada and abroad. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Break Through

    Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists

    by Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus ...
    Two of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” reject the status quo of liberal politics and offer a bold vision for addressing climate change.Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with their self-published essay “The Death of Environmentalism,” which argued that the existing model of environmentalism cannot adequately address global warming and that a new ... Read more

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  • Towards a Warmer World

    What Climate Change Will Mean for New Zealand’s Future

    by Veronika Meduna ...
    Series Book 32 - BWB Texts
    The year 2014 was the hottest on record since we’ve begun collecting global temperature measurements in 1880. Even at its midway point, 2015 was already promising to take over this dubious record.As new thresholds are breached, acclaimed Radio New Zealand science writer Veronika Meduna explores our future in a warmer world. Beginning with lessons from our ancient geological past, this BWB Text ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Bottled and Sold

    The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water

    by Peter H. Gleick ...
    Series series Shearwater
    Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius," and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don’t the rest of us?Bottled and Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years—and why we are poorer ... Read more

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  • The Oil Road

    Journeys From The Caspian Sea To The City Of London

    by James Marriott, Mika Minio-Paluello ...
    From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and European capitals, this is a journey through the heart of our oil-obsessed society. Blending travel writing and investigative journalism, it charts a history of violent confrontation between geopolitics, profit and humanity. From the revolutionary futurism of 1920s Baku to the unblinking capitalism ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Accomplishing Climate Governance

    by Harriet Bulkeley ...
    This book provides a new approach to thinking about the politics and geographies of climate governance. It argues that in order to understand the nature and potential of the range of new responses to climate change emerging at multiple scales we need to examine how governance is accomplished - how it is undertaken, practised and contested. Through a range of case studies drawn from communities, ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • American Energy Policy in the 1970s

    Edited by Robert Lifset ...
    With Middle East blow-ups, pipeline politics, wind farm controversies, solar industry scandals, and disputes over fracking, it's natural to think that the energy policy debate is at its most intense ever. But it's easy to forget that energy issues dominated the nation's politics in the 1970s as well. Wars were fought, political careers made and unmade, and fortunes gambled and lost, all because of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Betting the Earth

    How We Can Still Win the Biggest Gamble of all Time

    by John Charles Kunich, J.D. ...
    Series Book 4 - Our National Conversation
    "Betting the Earth explores the uneasy parallels between our contemporary environmental challenges and our national fascination with gambling. How much should we bet on preserving biodiversity? Should we bet more on responding to climate change? where should we place each bet: on federal or state laws, on acquiring public or private preserves, on preventing environmental harms or saving places of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Essentials of Environmental Science for Public Health

    A Handbook for Field Professionals

    Edited by Naima Bradley, Henrietta Harrison, Greg Hodgson, Andrew Kibble, Virginia Murray, Robie Kamanyire ...
    Environmental public health is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the direct and indirect impact of exposure to environmental hazards on the public's health and wellbeing. Assessing and addressing the risks of chemical, ionising and non-ionising radiation, and noise hazards requires a sound knowledge of toxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental science, health risk ... Read more

    $61.19 USD