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“ramkumar mishra”

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  • Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Human Security

    A Comparative Analysis

    by Maria Bondes, Antonio Marcio Buainain, Natalia Eremina, Cheng Fang-Ting, Leonid M. Gregoryev, Laura L. Janik, Craig Johnson, Palakodety Sita Janaki Kreshina, Norman Laws, Rebecca McGuire, Ramkumar Mishra, Roopinder Oberoi, Miguel Rocha de Sousa, Alla Salmina, Clifton White, Paul Williams, Mahendra Prasad Singh ...
    This anthology of scholarly essays on climate change, sustainable development, and human security presents a comprehensive analysis of severe global warming and its potential to impact all aspects of human life and security. It has been observed that climate change will most drastically impact poor tropical regions of the world for various reasons. The main focus of this collection of essays is to ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

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  • Should Trees Have Standing?

    Law, Morality, and the Environment

    by Christopher D. Stone ...
    Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, in the 35th anniversary edition of this remarkably influential book, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis and explores the impact his ideas have had on ... Read more

    $34.19 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

  • Globalization and the Environment

    by Peter Christoff, Robyn Eckersley ...
    Series series Globalization
    This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework for understanding the globalization of environmental problems and the highly uneven, often faltering, international political response. The authors ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Climate Coup

    Global Warming's Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives

    Edited by Patrick J. Michaels ...
    A first-rate team of experts offers compelling documentation on the pervasive influence global warming alarmism now has on almost every aspect of our society-from national defense, law, trade, and politics to health, education, and international development. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

    by Heather E. Campbell, Elizabeth A. Corley ...
    This timely book provides a wealth of information to help city managers, policy analysts, and government administrators identify relevant urban environmental problems and an array of potential solutions, analyze policy solutions and outcomes, and communicate with the public regarding urban environmental problems and policies. ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Retreat from a Rising Sea

    Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

    by Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey ...
    This sobering examination of climate-change and the disastrous effects of rising sea levels explains what must be done to avoid the worst outcomes.By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and will lay waste to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transdisciplinary Research and Practice for Sustainability Outcomes

    Edited by Dena Fam, Jane Palmer, Chris Riedy, Cynthia Mitchell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    ‘Transdisciplinarity’ is a form of research and practice that synthesises knowledge from a range of academic disciplines and from the community. There is now global interest and a significant body of work on transdisciplinarity and its potential to address the apparently intractable problems of society. This creates the opportunity for a specific focus on its practical application to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Global Warming

    The Terminal Crisis

    by Del Weston ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Green State

    Environmental governance towards climate and sustainability transitions

    Edited by Karin Bäckstrand, Annica Kronsell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    This innovative book is one of the first to conduct a systematic comprehensive analysis of the ideals and practices of the evolving green state. It draws on elements of political theory, feminist theory, post-structuralism, governance and institutional theory to conceptualise the green state and advances thinking on how to understand its emergence in the context of climate and sustainability ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Biting the Hands that Feed Us

    How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable

    by Baylen J. Linnekin ...
    Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks—these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Baylen Linnekin argues that, too often, government rules handcuff America’s most sustainable farmers, producers, sellers, and consumers, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Car Country

    An Environmental History

    by Christopher W. Wells ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country—a nation dominated by landscapes that are difficult, inconvenient, and often unsafe to navigate by those who are not sitting behind the wheel of a car.The prevalence of car-dependent landscapes seems perfectly natural to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD