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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “julia backhaus”
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  • Social Innovation and Sustainable Consumption

    Research and Action for Societal Transformation

    Edited by Julia Backhaus, Audley Genus, Sylvia Lorek, Edina Vadovics, Julia Wittmayer ...
    Series series Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
    This book showcases strategic policies for and processes of societal transformation, which are required to address the challenge of sustainability. Based on the latest thinking at the interface of social innovation, sustainable consumption and the transformation of society, the book provides:in-depth discussions at the nexus of sustainable consumption, social innovation and social transformation, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs

    by Eric W. Sanderson ...
    A look at what the American lifestyle has done to the environment—and how to move toward a better future.In the last century, three powerful forces—oil, cars, and suburbs—buoyed the American dream. Yet now, the quality of life in the United States is declining due to these same three forces. Our dependence on oil is a root cause of wars, recessions, and natural disasters. Cars consume an outsize ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Being Ecological

    by Timothy Morton ...
    A book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir.Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you.Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. Slapping you upside the head to make you feel bad. Grabbing you by the lapels while ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Coming Climate Crisis?

    Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix

    by Claire L. Parkinson ...
    Series series Why of Where
    Decisively cutting through the hyperbole on both sides of the debate, distinguished NASA climatologist Claire L. Parkinson brings much-needed balance and perspective to the highly contentious issue of climate change. Offering a deeply knowledgeable overview of global conditions past and present, the author lays out a compelling argument that our understandings and models are inadequate for ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Energy Innovation: Fixing the Technical Fix

    by Lewis Perelman ...
    Energy policy is a mess: a tangle of interconnected problems stirred by competing political agendas. Whether it's soaring fuel prices, noxious pollution, climate worries, security risks, or threats to the economy and jobs, energy politics are vexed by the tendency of single-issue solutions to make other problems worse.Many look to technology to break the logjam. But current energy technology ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rainforest Of Cameroon : Experience And Evidence From A Decade Of Reform

    by Topa Giuseppe; Megevand Carole; Karsenty Alain; Debroux Laurent ...
    Starting in 1994, Cameroon introduced regulatory and market-based reforms to regulate access to its rainforests, balance public and private interests in those forests, and integrate wider economic, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the value of forests. Based on historical data and extensive interviews, this report concludes that the reforms brought order over the most aggressively ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society

    Edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Kelly Moore ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Over the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, methods, and theoretical perspectives are being drawn both from long-established and relatively young disciplines. From its origins in philosophical and political debates about the creation and use of scientific knowledge, STS has become a wide and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Successful Adaptation to Climate Change

    Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World

    Edited by Susanne C. Moser, Maxwell T. Boykoff ...
    What does successful adaptation look like? This is a question we are frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged with the task of developing and implementing adaptation strategies. While adaptation is increasingly recognized as an important climate risk management strategy, and on-the-ground adaptation planning activity is becoming more common-place, there is no ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Vegetarian Imperative

    by Anand M. Saxena ...
    We have learned not to take food seriously: we eat as much as we want of whatwe want when we want it, and we seldom think about the health and environmental consequences of our choices. But the fact is that every choice we make has an impact on our health and on the environment. In The Vegetarian Imperative, Anand M. Saxena, a scientist and a vegetarian for most of his life, explains why we need ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change

    New Northern Horizons

    by Frank Sejersen ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    This ground-breaking book investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop self-determination. Adopting an anthropological focus on Greenland’s vision to boost extractive industries and transform society, the book examines how indigenous communities engage with climate change and development discourses. It applies a critical ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics

    Edited by Melanie Pichler, Cornelia Staritz, Karin Küblböck, Christina Plank, Werner Raza, Fernando Ruiz Peyré ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    As demand for natural resources increases due to the rise in world population and living standards, conflicts over their access and control are becoming more prevalent. This book critically assesses different approaches to and conceptualizations of resource fairness and justice and applies them to the analysis of resource conflicts.Approaches addressed include cosmopolitan liberalism, political ... Read more

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  • Earth Governance

    Trusteeship of the Global Commons

    by Klaus Bosselmann ...
    Series series New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series
    The predicament of uncontrolled growth in a finite world puts the global commons - such as oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere - at risk. So far, states have not found the means to protect what, essentially, is outside their jurisdiction. However, the jurisprudence of international law has matured to a point that makes global governance beyond state-negotiated compromises both possible and desirable ... Read more

    $35.99 USD