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“michael buser”

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  • Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change

    Water Security in the Global Context

    by Michael Buser ...
    Available open access digitally under CC BY NC ND licence.This book investigates and analyses places in Europe, North America and Asia that are facing the immense challenges associated with climate change adaptation. Presenting real-world cases in the contexts of coastal change, drinking water and the cryosphere, Michael Buser shows how the concept of care can be applied to water security and ... Read more

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  • Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson ...
    In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Biodiversity Conservation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David W. Macdonald ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Extinction is a natural process. In geological time there have been several periods of mass extinction. One of these periods is unfolding right now but all the evidence suggests that current extinction rates are between a hundred and a thousand times greater than the background rate. To put this in to context, a quarter of all known mammalian ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Ignoring Nature No More

    The Case for Compassionate Conservation

    Edited by Marc Bekoff ...
    From the coauthor—with Jane Goodall—of The Ten Trusts , "a must-read for every student of zoology, ecology, environmental ethics, and conservation biology" (Michael Charles Tobias, coauthor of The Metaphysics of Protection ).For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive speci... ... Read more

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  • Placing Animals

    An Introduction to the Geography of Human-Animal Relations

    by Julie Urbanik ...
    Series series Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications
    As Julie Urbanik vividly illustrates, non-human animals are central to our daily human lives. We eat them, wear them, live with them, work them, experiment on them, try to save them, spoil them, abuse them, fight them, hunt them, buy and sell them, love them, and hate them. Placing Animals is the first book to bring together the historical development of the field of animal geography with a ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber

    Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management

    by Nicholas Menzies ...
    Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around them. CBFM provides a framework for a community members to secure access to the products and services that flow from the landscape in which they live and has become an essential component ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Authenticity in Nature

    Making Choices about the Naturalness of Ecosystems

    by Nigel Dudley ...
    This book examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discusses its values and considers choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts. The author argues that all ecosystems have been modified and the idea of places 'untouched by humans' is a myth. But there are large differences in the degree of modification and levels of naturalness which can be identified. Changes are ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Planetary Justice

    Stories and Studies of Action, Resistance and Solidarity

    by Natasha Abhayawickrama, Alex Baird, Robin A Bellingham, Sanjana Dutt, Souvik Lal Chakraborty, Beth Christie, Alicia Flynn, Aleryk Fricker, Aditya Ghosh, Naomi Godden, Anwesha Haldar, Lowell Hunter, Marlies Kustatscher, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Callum McGregor, Jenia Mukherjee, Yin Paradies, Anne Poelina, Kalyan Rudra, Lakshminarayan Satpati, Amrita Sen, Sharon Stein, Ruchira Talukdar, Dani Villafaña, Bill Webb, Sandra Wooltorton, Julian S. Yates ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Bringing together interdisciplinary climate change scholarship and grassroots activism, this book considers the possibilities of planetary justice across human difference, generations, species and the concept of life and non-life. Writing amidst bushfires, cyclones, global climate strikes and a global pandemic, contributors from the Earth ... Read more

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  • People and Nature

    An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations

    by Emilio F. Moran ...
    Series series Primers in Anthropology
    Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world.Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a multi-disciplinary focus that also draws from geography, ecology, and environmental studiesAddresses new issues of importance, ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Conservation

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Paul Jepson, Richard J. Ladle ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Modern conservation for a planet in meltdown - and why it just might work!At a time of unparalleled environmental change, there has never been a greater need for new ways of defending nature. In this forward-thinking work, Paul Jepson and Richard Ladle cover all aspects of modern conservation to provide a fascinating look into how we're fighting for the earth's species and habitats, as well as ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities eBook

    Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action

    Edited by Professor A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor, Professor David W. Brokensha ...
    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Intertwined

    Women, Nature, and Climate Justice

    by Rebecca Kormos ...
    Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel PrizeA powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planetWomen are disproportionately impacted by climate change—floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures overwhelmingly affect women in the short and long term. In some cases, women make up almost 90 percent of casualties during dangerous ... Read more

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