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  • Digital Technology and Sustainability

    Engaging the Paradox

    Edited by Mike Hazas, Lisa Nathan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    This book brings together diverse voices from across the field of sustainable human computer interaction (SHCI) to discuss what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how humans and technology can work together optimally for a more sustainable future.Contemporary digital technologies are hailed by tech companies, governments and academics as leading-edge solutions to the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Little Black Lies

    Corporate and Political Spin in the Global War for Oil

    by Jeff Gailus ...
    Series series RMB Manifesto
    Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity’s most precious and contentious resources: bitumen. As the years passed, the bitumen mines sprawled, poisonous tailings ponds spread, toxins polluted the environment, cancer reared its head ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 9 Beautiful Lies

    Population and Environment in Australia

    by Tim Flannery ...
    Series Book 9 - Quarterly Essay
    In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold damage to our river system for the sake of white immigration. The lie that rushing to preserve ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Green Paradox

    A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming

    by Hans-Werner Sinn ...
    A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach—which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy—has been ineffective. Despite policy makers' efforts to promote ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Sustainability Science

    Key Issues

    Edited by Ariane König, Jerome Ravetz ...
    Series series Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
    Sustainability Science: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and participants in executive trainings from any disciplinary background studying the theory and practice of sustainability science. Each chapter takes a critical and reflective stance on a key issue or method of sustainability science. Contributing authors offer perspectives from diverse disciplines, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire

    Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes

    by Yaron Ayalon ...
    This book explores the history of natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and the responses to them on the state, communal, and individual levels. Yaron Ayalon argues that religious boundaries between Muslims and non-Muslims were far less significant in Ottoman society than commonly believed. Furthermore, the emphasis on Islamic principles and the presence of Islamic symbols in the public domain ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Peacebuilding in Crisis

    Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation

    Edited by Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held, Ulrich Schneckener ...
    Series series Routledge Global Cooperation Series
    The 1990s saw a constant increase in international peace missions, predominantly led by the United Nations, whose mandates were more and more extended to implement societal and political transformations in post-conflict societies. However, in many cases these missions did not meet the high expectations and did not acquire a sufficient legitimacy on the local level. Written by leading experts in ... Read more

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  • The Politics and Economics of Britain's Foreign Aid

    The Pergau Dam Affair

    by Tim Lankester ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    The Pergau dam in Malaysia was the most controversial project in the history of British aid. Because of its high cost, it was a poor candidate for aid funding. It was provided in part to honour a highly irregular promise of civil aid in connection with a major arms deal. After two parliamentary inquiries and intense media coverage, in a landmark judgement the aid for Pergau was declared unlawful ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming

    Edited by Lucas Bernard, Willi Semmler ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The first World Climate Conference, which was sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization in Genève in 1979, triggered an international dialogue on global warming. From the 1997 United Nations-sponsored conference-during which the Kyoto Protocol was signed-through meetings in Copenhagen, Cancún, Durban, and most recently Doha (2012) and Warsaw (2013), worldwide attention to the issue of ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Explaining Risk Analysis

    Protecting health and the environment

    by Michael Greenberg ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications. Rather, it is widely used to assess and manage a plethora of hazards that threaten dire implications. However, too few people actually understand what risk analysis can help us accomplish and, even among experts, knowledge is often limited to one or two applications.Explaining Risk Analysis frames risk analysis as a holistic planning ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Conflict and Change in Australia’s Peri-Urban Landscapes

    by Melissa Kennedy, Andrew Butt, Marco Amati ...
    Series series Urban Planning and Environment
    In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries. Generally considered as the space extending one hundred kilometres from the city fringe, peri-urban areas are contested and subject to a wide range of uses such as residential development, productive farming, water catchments, forestry, mineral and stone extraction and tourism and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Toward a Common European Union Energy Policy

    Problems, Progress, and Prospects

    Edited by V. Birchfield, J. Duffield ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Since the mid-2000s, the European Union has made unprecedented strides toward the creation of a common energy policy. This book takes stock of these developments, evaluating how much progress has actually been made and what remains to be done, what factors explain these recent advances and their limitations. ... Read more

    $58.49 USD