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  • Environmental Politics and Liberation in Contemporary Africa

    de M.A. Salih ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Nowadays, the environment looms large in the analysis of conflict in developing societies, and the precise role it plays is the subject of an ongoing debate. The de bate has moved on from the earlier, but still popular, notions of 'power struggles', 'class struggles' and 'ethnic conflicts', to a perception of conflict as the product of intense group competition for resources. Where the state ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Winner Take All

    China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World

    de Dambisa Moyo ...
    Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance -- their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life -- few people who are not economists or traders know how commodity markets work. Almost every day, newspaper headlines and media commentators scream warnings of impending doom -- shortages of arable land, clashes ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Dick Smith's Population Crisis

    The dangers of unsustainable growth for Australia

    de Dick Smith ...
    Dick Smith takes on the hot topic of our times, arguing that Australian and global population growth carries enormous risks, dangers that none of our political parties is prepared to address.In 2011 the world's population exceeded 7 billion. Each year we add nearly 80 million people and by mid-century we will require twice as much food and double the energy we use today. Australia will be deeply ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Blue Gold

    The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water

    de Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke ...
    "Probably the most eloquent call to arms we're likely to hear about the politics of water" ( The Globe and Mail , Toronto).In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis," Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy ( In These Times). Our ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Down the Drain

    How We Are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources

    de Chris Wood, Ralph Pentland ...
    An incisive critique of Canada’s drinking water gatekeepers.Canada is celebrated for its abundance of fresh water, and few Canadians question the safety of the water that comes from our taps. But is this trust justified? One study estimates that contamination of drinking water causes 90,000 cases of illness and ninety deaths every year.In this authoritative review of decades of legislation, ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Unquenchable

    America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It

    de Robert Jerome Glennon, Dr. ...
    In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out.Robert Glennon captures the irony—and tragedy—of America’s water crisis in a book that is both frightening and wickedly comical. From ... Leer más

    $30.29 USD

  • The Ogallala Road

    A Story of Love, Family, and the Fight to Keep the Great Plains from Running Dry

    de Julene Bair ...
    A love affair unfolds as crisis hits a family farm on the high plainsJulene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas’s beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation, honoring her own father’s wish and commandment, “Hang on to your land!” But part ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Out of the Scientist's Garden

    A Story of Water and Food

    de Richard Stirzaker ...
    Out of the Scientist's Garden is written for anyone who wants to understand food and water a little better - for those growing vegetables in a garden, food in a subsistence plot or crops on vast irrigated plains. It is also for anyone who has never grown anything before but has wondered how we will feed a growing population in a world of shrinking resources. Although a practicing scientist in the ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Breaking the Ice

    Canada, Sovereignty, and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf

    de Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon ...
    Series Libro 3 - Contemporary Canadian Issues
    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017The Arctic seabed, with its vast quantities of undiscovered resources, is the twenty-first century’s frontier.In Breaking the Ice: Canada, Sovereignty and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf, Arctic policy expert Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon examines the political, legal, and scientific aspects of Canada’s efforts to delineate its Arctic extended continental shelf. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Estuarine and Coastal Hydrography and Sediment Transport

    Edición de R. J. Uncles, S. B. Mitchell ...
    A practical guide to the latest remote and in situ techniques used to measure sediments, quantify seabed characteristics, and understand physical properties of water and sediments and transport mechanisms in estuaries and coastal waters. Covering a broad range of topics from global reference frames and bathymetric surveying methods to the use of remote sensing for determining surface-water ... Leer más

    $100.99 USD

  • Italian Historical Rural Landscapes

    Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development

    Edición de Mauro Agnoletti ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem. But the current economic, social and environmental problems of the Earth probably call for examples of a positive integration between human society and nature. This research work presents more than a hundred case studies where the historical ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Sustainable Future for Human Security

    Environment and Resources

    Edición de Benjamin McLellan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book focuses on the environmental components of sustainability, including aspects of resourcing and the environmental impacts of human societies. Marine and tropical forest ecosystems, food security and other natural resources, as well as technologies for the environmental control of societal impacts are examined. This volume is multi-disciplinary, but with a consistent focus on the natural ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD