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  • Global Cities and Climate Change

    The Translocal Relations of Environmental Governance

    by Taedong Lee ...
    Series series Cities and Global Governance
    Cities have led the way to combat climate change by planning and implementing climate mitigation and adaptation policies. These local efforts go beyond national boundaries. Cities are forming transnational networks to enhance their understandings and practices for climate policies. In contrast to national governments that have numerous obstacles to cope with global climate change in the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Spiritual Activism

    Leadership as service

    by Alastair McIntosh, Matt Carmichael ...
    A visionary but practical sharing of how spiritual insights, and deepening our inner lives, can impact leadership for social change.Over the past half-century, the issues facing activists have changed, as has our understanding and awareness of spirituality. For activists, spiritual philosophy is rising up the agenda because it offers distinct, tried and tested approaches to deep questions: Where ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • After Nature

    A Politics for the Anthropocene

    by Jedediah Purdy ...
    An Artforum Best Book of the YearA Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the Year“After Nature argues that we will deserve the future only because it will be the one we made. We will live, or die, by our mistakes.” —Christine Smallwood, Harper’sNature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • What's Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It

    by Paul G. Harris ...
    Series series What's Wrong?
    Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change. Indeed, climate-changing pollution is increasing globally, and will do so for decades to come without far more aggressive action. What explains this failure to effectively tackle one of the world's most serious problems? And what can we do about it?To answer these questions, Paul G ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Coming Climate Crisis?

    Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix

    by Claire L. Parkinson ...
    Series series Why of Where
    Decisively cutting through the hyperbole on both sides of the debate, distinguished NASA climatologist Claire L. Parkinson brings much-needed balance and perspective to the highly contentious issue of climate change. Offering a deeply knowledgeable overview of global conditions past and present, the author lays out a compelling argument that our understandings and models are inadequate for ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up

    Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change

    by Anthony Flaccavento ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives—and have transformed from impoverished neighborhoods into green development zones. Yet these ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Greening Post-Industrial Cities

    Growth, Equity, and Environmental Governance

    by Corina McKendry ...
    Series series Cities and Global Governance
    City greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality.Bringing these two disparate analyses into conversation, this book offers a comparative understanding of how tensions between growth, environmental protection, and social equity are playing out in practice. Examining Chicago, USA, Birmingham, UK, and Vancouver, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil

    Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-neoliberalism

    by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Due to new production areas and persistent productivity gains, Brazil has consolidated its position as a global leader and even as a ‘model’ of commercial, integrated crop production. The country is now seen as an agricultural powerhouse that has a lot to offer in terms of reducing the prospect of a looming, increasingly global, food crisis.Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Industrialising Rural India

    Land, policy and resistance

    Edited by Patrik Oskarsson, Kenneth Nielsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial parks, mining, or Special Economic Zones has emerged as perhaps the most explosive issue in India over the past decade. Industrialising ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • State of the World 1998

    Environmental Threats of Economic Growth

    by The Worldwatch Institute ...
    Series series State of the World
    In this fifteenth edition of State of the World, Lester R. Brown and the Worldwatch research team look at the environmental effects of continuing economic growth as the economy outgrows the earth's ecosystem. As the global economy has expanded from $5 trillion of output in 1950 to $29 trillion in 1997, its demands have crossed many of the earth's sustainable yield thresholds. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement

    Edited by Matthias Dietz, Heiko Garrelts ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing transnational climate movement. A dual focus on climate politics and civil society provides a hitherto unavailable broad and systematic analysis of the current global movement, highlighting how its dynamic and diverse character can play an important role in environmental politics and climate protection.The range of contributors, from ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Economics of Biofuel Policies

    Impacts on Price Volatility in Grain and Oilseed Markets

    by Harry de Gorter, D. Drabik, David R. Just ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The global food crises of 2008 and 2010 and the increased price volatility revolve around biofuels policies and their interaction with each other, farm policies and between countries. While a certain degree of research has been conducted on biofuel efficacy and logistics, there is currently no book on the market devoted to the economics of biofuel policies. The Economics of Biofuel Policies ... Read more

    $35.99 USD