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  • Stations in the Field

    A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930

    by Raf De Bont ...
    When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and technologies, not the surroundings of the bird’s nest, the octopus’s garden in the sea, or the parts of inland lakes in which freshwater plankton reside. Yet during the late nineteenth and early ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Spatializing the History of Ecology

    Sites, Journeys, Mappings

    Edited by Raf de Bont, Jens Lachmund ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Throughout its history, the discipline of ecology has always been profoundly entangled with the history of space and place. On the one hand, ecology is a field science that has thrived on the study of concrete spatial entities, such as islands, forests or rivers. These spaces are the workplaces in which ecological phenomena are identified, observed and experimented on. They provide both epistemic ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Nature's Diplomats

    Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920-1960

    by Raf De Bont ...
    Series Book 8 - Intersections
    Nature’s Diplomats explores the development of science-based and internationally conceived nature protection in its foundational years before the 1960s, the decade when it launched from obscurity onto the global stage. Raf De Bont studies a movement while it was still in the making and its groups were still rather small, revealing the geographies of the early international preservationist groups, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The Age of Ecology

    by Joachim Radkau ...
    This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today.Radkau shows that this is not a single story of the steady ascent of environmentalism but rather a multiplicity of stories, each with its own dramatic tension: between single-issue movements and the ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • A Companion to Global Environmental History

    Edited by J. R. McNeill, Erin Stewart Mauldin ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
    The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike.Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present dayExplores ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • A History of Ecological Economic Thought

    by Marco P. Vianna Franco, Antoine Missemer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought. The work unearths a diverse set of ideas within a Western and Slavic context, from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the late 1940s, to reveal insights firmly grounded in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Geography

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John A. Matthews, David T. Herbert ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and between the environment and our society. Using wide-ranging examples from global warming and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Globalists

    The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

    by Quinn Slobodian ...
    George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year“A groundbreaking contribution…Intellectual history at its best.”—Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

    by Wenche Dramstad, James D. Olson, Richard T.T. Forman ...
    Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Something New Under the Sun

    by J. R. McNeill ...
    Series series The Global Century Series
    The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first.Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialization and especially since 1950, our impact has accelerated sharply. Economic, technological, and demographic ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Key Concepts in Geography

    Edited by Professor Nicholas Clifford, Dr Sarah L Holloway, Dr Stephen P Rice, Professor Gill Valentine ...
    Including ten new chapters on nature, globalization, development and risk, and a new section on practicing geography, this is a completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling, standard student resource.Key Concepts in Geography explains the key terms - space, time, place, scale, landscape - that define the language of geography. It is unique in the reference literature as it provides - ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • The Vulnerable Planet

    A Short Economic History of the Environment

    by John Bellamy Foster ...
    The Vulnerable Planet has won respect as the best single-volume introduction to the global economic crisis.With impressive historical and economic detail, ranging from the Industrial Revolution to modern imperialism, The Vulnerable Planet explores the reasons why a global economic system geared toward private profit has spelled vulnerability for the earth's fragile natural environment.Rejecting ... Read more

    $12.99 USD