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  • Global Cooperation and the Human Factor in International Relations

    Edited by Dirk Messner, Silke Weinlich ...
    Series series Routledge Global Cooperation Series
    This book aims to pave the way for a new interdisciplinary approach to global cooperation research. It does so by bringing in disciplines whose insights about human behaviour might provide a crucial yet hitherto neglected foundation for understanding how and under which conditions global cooperation can succeed.As the first profoundly interdisciplinary book dealing with global cooperation, it ... Read more

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  • The Vanishing Face of Gaia

    A Final Warning

    by James Lovelock ...
    The global temperature is rising, the ice caps are melting, and levels of pollution across the world have reached unprecedented heights. According to eminent scientist James Lovelock, in order to survive an assault from her dependents, the Earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent "hot state." Within the next century, we will almost certainly be forced to give up many of the comforts of western ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Common Wealth

    Economics for a Crowded Planet

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    “Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.” —The New York Times Book Review“Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces.” —Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United StatesIn Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment

    The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment

    by Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter ...
    The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards even as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Dangers still felt today- ... Read more

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  • Future Primitive Revisited

    by John Zerzan ...
    "Zerzan's writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious." — Derrick Jensen"John Zerzan's importance does not only consist in his brilliant intelligence, his absolute clearness of analysis and his unequalled dialectical synthesis that clarifies even the most complicated questions, but also in the humanity that fills his thoughts of resistance. Future Primitive Revisited is one more precious gift ... Read more

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  • World Hunger

    10 Myths

    by Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins ...
    "The definitive solutions-based book for all those questioning why hunger still exists when there is such an abundance of food." — The Huffington Post, "Food Tank's 2015 Recommended Fall Reading List"From bestselling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the twenty-first century's authoritative book on world hunger. Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Some Like It Cold

    The Politics of Climate Change in Canada

    by Robert C. Paehlke ...
    Some Like It Cold plunges headlong into the political conundrum of Canada’s climatechange debate. Focusing on the past responses of both Liberal and Conservative governmentsto the looming crisis—ranging from negligence to complicity and connivance—Paehlke illuminatesthe issues surrounding compliance with global regulations such as Kyoto, includingthe dilemma of tar sands development. But he also ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Science and Public Reason

    by Sheila Jasanoff ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The term public reason as used here is not simply a matter of deploying principled arguments that respect the norms of democratic deliberation. Jasanoff investigates what states do in practice ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Governance of Climate Change

    Edited by David Held, Marika Theros, Angus Fane-Hervey ...
    Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies. In a world where the fate of countries is increasingly intertwined, how should we think about, and accordingly, how should we manage, the types of risk posed by anthropogenic climate change ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Pursuing Sustainability

    A Guide to the Science and Practice

    by Pamela Matson, William C. Clark, Krister Par Andersson ...
    An essential guide to sustainable development for students and practitionersSustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Sustainable Urban Energy Policy

    Heat and the city

    by David Hawkey, Janette Webb, Heather Lovell, David McCrone, Margaret Tingey, Mark Winskel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Energy Policy
    Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources. Such deliberate transformative change is, however, without precedent.Sustainable Urban Energy Policy debates the major public issue of developing a sustainable, clean and affordable energy system by adopting a distinctive ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Political Change and Environmental Policymaking in Mexico

    by Jordi Diez ...
    Series series Latin American Studies
    This book explores environmental policymaking in Mexico as a vehicle to understanding the broader changes in the policy process within a system undergoing a democratic transformation. It constitutes the first major analysis of environmental policymaking in Mexico at the national level, and examines the implementation of forestry policy in Mexico's largest rain forest, the Selva Lacandona of the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD