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  • Contextualizing Disaster

    Edición de Mark Schuller, Gregory V. Button ...
    Series Libro 1 - Catastrophes in Context
    Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a ... Leer más

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  • Governing the Commons

    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    de Elinor Ostrom ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Extreme Cities

    The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

    de Ashley Dawson ...
    A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisisHow will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Break Through

    Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists

    de Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus ...
    Two of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” reject the status quo of liberal politics and offer a bold vision for addressing climate change.Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with their self-published essay “The Death of Environmentalism,” which argued that the existing model of environmentalism cannot adequately address global warming and that a new ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Building Resilience

    Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

    de Daniel P. Aldrich ...
    The factor that makes some communities rebound quickly from disasters while others fall apart: "A fascinating book on an important topic."—E.L. Hirsch, in ChoiceEach year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren't explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount of aid ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Asian American History

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Madeline Y. Hsu ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even demeaning, moments. This book provides a sweeping and nuanced history of Asian Americans, revealing ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Capitalism Papers

    Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System

    de Jerry Mander ...
    In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable environmental and social problem of capitalism.Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable system: "What may have worked in 1900 is calamitous in 2010." Capitalism, utterly dependent on never–ending ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Solutions are Already Here

    Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below

    de Peter Gelderloos ...
    Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope.Across the world, grassroots networks of local communities are working to realise their visions of an alternative revolutionary response to planetary ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edición de Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Leer más

    $27.59 USD

  • Indigenous Aspirations and Rights

    The Case for Responsible Business and Management

    Edición de Amy Klemm Verbos, Ella Henry, Ana Maria Peredo ...
    Series series The Principles for Responsible Management Education Series
    Indigenous peoples are recognised as groups with specific rights based on their historical ties to particular territories. The United Nations estimates there are 370 million Indigenous peoples, with Indigenous populations being recognised in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, the Arctic region, Central and South America, and across Asia and Africa.Indigenous Aspirations and ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber

    Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management

    de Nicholas Menzies ...
    Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around them. CBFM provides a framework for a community members to secure access to the products and services that flow from the landscape in which they live and has become an essential component ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Climate Chaos

    Ecofeminism and the Land Question

    Edición de Ana Isla ...
    Today's social and ecological crises, which threaten the preservation of life on our planet, require our attention to understand the dynamics of patriarchy and capitalism, as well as to unmask "answers" or false solutions that obscure, perpetuate, and even worsen the current situation. Ecofeminists have critically examined several of the underlying assumptions of the capitalist-patriarchal ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD