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  • Reconstructing Sustainability Science

    Knowledge and action for a sustainable future

    by Thaddeus Miller ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    The growing urgency, complexity and "wickedness" of sustainability problems—from climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and persistent poverty and inequality—present fundamental challenges to scientific knowledge production and its use. While there is little doubt that science has a crucial role to play in our ability to pursue sustainability goals, critical questions remain ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Prosperity without Growth

    Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow

    by Tim Jackson ...
    What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits?The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson’s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike: the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth. Its findings provoked controversy, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Market Madness

    A Century of Oil Panics, Crises, and Crashes

    by Blake C. Clayton ...
    Stock market booms are cause for celebration. But when oil prices soar because supplies are failing to keep up with demand, the response is nearly always apocalyptic. Predictions of the end of oil can create anxiety on Wall Street and in Washington, stoking fears that production has hit a ceiling and prices will rise in perpetuity. Yet these dire visions have always proven wrong. Market Madness is ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hungry for Profit

    The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment

    Edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, Frederick H. Buttel ...
    Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our food and water, and leave crops more vulnerable to pest outbreaks. The new and expanding use of genetically engineered seeds threatens species ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • BP Blowout

    Inside the Gulf Oil Disaster

    by Daniel Jacobs ...
    The story of the worst environmental disaster in American history and its enduring consequencesBP Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the disaster that resulted from the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident, which destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killed 11 people. The ensuing oil dischargethe ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Green Economics

    Confronting the Ecological Crisis

    by Robin Hahnel ...
    This book's pluralistic, non-dogmatic, and committed investigation of the values of ecological sustainability, economic justice, and human dignity provides balanced analysis of environmental problems and their potential solutions. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Nuclear Waste Management and Legitimacy

    Nihilism and Responsibility

    by Mats Andrén ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Nuclear technology places special demands on society and both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy for peaceful purposes require a large measure of security and monitoring at the international level.This book focuses on nuclear waste management, which can work in democratic countries only if viewed as legitimate by the population. This book posits the inability of democracies to establish such ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Thinking through Landscape

    by Augustin Berque ...
    Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment, informed by the history of the concept of landscape and the role played by the concept of nature in the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • From Ambition to Execution

    by Stefania Fabrizio, Catherine Pattillo, Adrian Peralta-Alva, Andrea Presbitero, Baoping Shang, Geneviève Verdier, Marie-Thérèse Camilleri, Kazuaki Washimi ...
    The formal launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sets the global development agenda through 2030, placing significant emphasis on promoting social and environmental sustainability alongside economic growth and poverty reduction. Meeting the SDGs will require actions across a wide range of areas by both national governments and the international community. This paper examines the types ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation

    by Tim Magee ...
    The world's poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate—and yet their current plight isn't improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. If experienced development organizations are finding it difficult to solve decades-old development problems, how will they additionally solve new challenges driven by climate change? This book illustrates how ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies

    by John A. Dixon, David E. James, Paul B. Sherman ...
    Series series Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensiveagricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation.Following their successful and innovative work The Economics of Dryland Management the editors have assembled twenty case ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Democracy and Public Administration

    by Richard C Box ...
    The true measure of the successful practice of public service is its ability to remain faithful to the tenets of democratic society. This introductory text links the practice of public administration to the core concepts of American democracy. It covers the nuts and bolts of public administration in the context of "delivering democracy" in public service - providing what the public really wants as ... Read more

    $72.99 USD