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  • Pyromania

    Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-Disrupted World

    by Simon Dalby ...
    We are the only species that uses fire. It has determined how we have made our home on this planet and it has propelled us to the role of the dominant species in the biosphere. But at the heart of contemporary climate change is the process of combustion. Simon Dalby explores what a life without burning things might look like, and how we might get there.Fires make the carbon dioxide in the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Simon Dalby: A Pioneer in International Relations

    Key Contributions on Critical Geopolitics, Environmental Security and the Anthropocene

    Edited by Simon Dalby, Roger Boyd ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book profiles Simon Dalby’s academic contributions in the fields of critical geopolitics, environmental security and the intersection of international relations and the Anthropocene. It includes reprints of key essays that highlight innovations in critical thought at the intersections between geopolitics, environment and security.Starting with an analysis of American reconstructions of the ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Anthropocene Geopolitics

    Globalization, Security, Sustainability

    by Simon Dalby ...
    Series series Politics and Public Policy
    We now find ourselves in a new geological age: the Anthropocene. The climate is changing and species are disappearing at a rate not seen since Earth’s major extinctions. The rapid, large-scale changes caused by fossil-fuel powered globalization increasingly threaten societies in new, unforeseen ways. But most security policies continue to be built on notions that look backward to a time when ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Rethinking Geopolitics

    Edited by Simon Dalby, Gearoid O.u Tuathail ...
    Rethinking Geopolitics argues that the concept of geopolitics needs to be conceptualised anew as the twenty-first century approaches.Challenging conventional geopolitical assumptions, contributors explore:* theories of post-modern geopolitics* historical formulations of states and cold wars* the geopolitics of the Holocaust* the gendered dimension of Kurdish insurgency* the cold war world* ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

    Global Governance Challenges

    Edited by Simon Dalby, Susan Horton, Rianne Mahon, Diana Thomaz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by the SDGs.The contributors are experts in global governance issues in a broad variety of fields ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Security and Environmental Change

    by Simon Dalby ...
    Series series Dimensions of Security
    In the early years of the new millennium, hurricanes lashed the Caribbean and flooded New Orleans as heat waves and floods seemed to alternate in Europe. Snows were disappearing on Mount Kilimanjaro while the ice caps on both poles retreated. The resulting disruption caused to many societies and the potential for destabilizing international migration has meant that the environment has become a ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Reframing Climate Change

    Constructing ecological geopolitics

    Edited by Shannon O'Lear, Simon Dalby ...
    "Change the system, not the climate" is a common slogan of climate change activists. Yet when this idea comes into the academic and policy realm, it is easy to see how climate change discourse frequently asks the wrong questions. Reframing Climate Change encourages social scientists, policy-makers, and graduate students to critically consider how climate change is framed in scientific, social, and ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

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    The leading philosopher of our time tracks the demise of liberalism through landmark events of the 21st century—from 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdownBillions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nomad Century

    How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

    by Gaia Vince ...
    **“The MOST IMPORTANT BOOK I imagine I'll ever read.”—Mary RoachFROM AN AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE JOURNALIST comes an urgent investigation of environmental migration—the most underreported, seismic consequence of our climate crisis that will force us to change where—and how—we live.“An IMPORTANT and PROVOCATIVE start to a crucial conversation.” —Bill McKibben**“We are facing a species emergency. We ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Slow Down

    The Degrowth Manifesto

    by KOHEI SAITO ...
    Translated by Brian Bergstrom ...
    **"Accessible and convincing."—Sally Rooney"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Saito’s clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone . . . are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global situation . . . A cogently ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Demanding the Impossible

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles readers with his analyses ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Globalization:A Very Short Introduction

    by Manfred Steger ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    'Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic - and this Very Short Introduction has been fully updated for 2009, to include developments in global politics, the ... Read more

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