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  • Inside the IPCC

    How Assessment Practices Shape Climate Knowledge

    by Jessica Leigh O'Reilly, Mark Vardy, Kari De Pryck, Marcela da S. Feital Benedetti ...
    Series series Organizational Response to Climate Change: Businesses, Governments
    Inside the IPCC explores the institution of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by focusing on people's experiences as authors. While the budget and overall population of an IPCC report cycle is small, its influence on public views of climate change is outsized. Inside the IPCC analyzes the social and human sides of IPCC report writing, as a complement to understanding the ... Read more

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  • Interpreting Subsurface Seismic Data

    Edited by Rebecca Bell, David Iacopini, Mark Vardy ...
    Interpreting Subsurface Seismic Data presents recent advances in methodologies for seismic imaging and interpretation across multiple applications in geophysics including exploration, marine geology, and hazards. It provides foundational information for context, as well as focussing on recent advances and future challenges. It offers detailed methodologies for interpreting the increasingly vast ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Climate, Science and Society

    A Primer

    Edited by Zeke Baker, Tamar Law, Mark Vardy, Stephen Zehr ...
    Climate, Science and Society: A Primer makes cutting-edge research on climate change accessible to student readers.The primer consists of 37 short chapters organized within 11 parts written by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and other social science scholars. It covers a range of key topics including communication, justice and inequality, climate policy, and energy transitions, situating each ... Read more

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  • Long Problems

    Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across Time

    by Thomas Hale ...
    Political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate today, just as our actions shape the climate of tomorrow, while the effects of global warming will last thousands of years. Yet the priorities of the present dominate our climate policy and the politics ... Read more

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  • Governing Complex Systems

    Social Capital for the Anthropocene

    by Oran R. Young ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    An exploration of the need for innovative mechanisms of governance in an era when human actions are major drivers of environmental change.The onset of the Anthropocene, an era in which human actions have become major drivers of change on a planetary scale, has increased the complexity of socioecological systems. Complex systems pose novel challenges for governance because of their high levels of ... Read more

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  • Environmental Politics and Governance in the Anthropocene

    Institutions and legitimacy in a complex world

    Edited by Philipp Pattberg, Fariborz Zelli ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Global Environmental Governance
    The term Anthropocene denotes a new geological epoch characterized by the unprecedented impact of human activities on the Earth’s ecosystems. While the natural sciences have advanced their understanding of the drivers and processes of global change considerably over the last two decades, the social sciences lag behind in addressing the fundamental challenge of governance and politics in the ... Read more

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  • After Sustainable Cities?

    Edited by Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin ...
    A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet, the most common understanding is a vision of the city that is able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Central to this vision are two ideas: cities should meet social needs, especially of the poor, and not exceed the ability of the global environment to meet needs ... Read more

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  • Undone Science

    Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions

    by David J. Hess ...
    A theoretical integration of science and technology studies and social movement studies that finds both common ground and “undone” research.As the fields of social movement studies (SMS) and science and technology studies (STS) have diversified in topical focus, they have moved closer to each other. SMS has turned toward the study of nonstate targets and institutionalized repertoires of action, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Environmental Governance

    by James Evans, Craig Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
    Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their forests, while environmentalists question ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of “Geoengineering” the Global Climate

    Justice, Legitimacy and Governance

    Edited by Stephen M. Gardiner, Catriona McKinnon, Augustin Fragnière ...
    In the face of limited time and escalating impacts, some scientists and politicians are talking about attempting "grand technological interventions" into the Earth’s basic physical and biological systems ("geoengineering") to combat global warming. Early ideas include spraying particles into the stratosphere to block some incoming sunlight, or "enhancing" natural biological systems to withdraw ... Read more

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  • Campus Confidential

    100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities (Second Edition)

    by Ken S. Coates, Bill Morrison ...
    In 2011, the first edition of Campus Confidential sparked a lively debate about what is really going on inside our colleges and universities. The media and readers alike welcomed this readable, honest book. University authorities didn't. They took the authors to task for spilling the beans. In this second edition, Ken S. Coates and Bill Morrison pick up where they left off, adding new and up-to ... Read more

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  • Cone Penetration Testing 2018

    Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing (CPT'18), 21-22 June, 2018, Delft, The Netherlands

    Edited by Michael A. Hicks, Federico Pisanò, Joek Peuchen ...
    Cone Penetration Testing 2018contains the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing (CPT’18, Delft, The Netherlands, 21-22 June 2018), and presents the latest developments relating to the use of cone penetration testing in geotechnical engineering. It focuses on the solution of geotechnical challenges using the cone penetration test (CPT), CPT add-on measurements ... Read more

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