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  • Visualising far-right environments
    Bernhard Forchtner
    This book examines the far right’s visual politics of nature, offering original case studies from around the world. ...
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    169,29 €

  • Economic Analysis of Green Development in China
    Zhiqing Li / Lanjun Yang
    China has promised to achieve carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. To achieve this goal, the country must implement necessary reforms and focus on innovation in areas of economics and finance. This book explores main challenges that China may face in achieving green and low-carbon development, analyzes green and low-carbon related issues from the economic persp...
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    166,46 €

  • Carbon Pricing and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Rationalization Tool Kit
    Jacqueline Cottrell / Mikael Skou Andersen / Rachael Jonassen
    This tool kit explores some of the key attributes of potential and existing emission trading systems, carbon taxes, and fossil fuel subsidies rationalization programs in Asia and the Pacific and other emerging countries.It aims to guide policymakers in the Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries to effectively design, implement, and manage the interplay of carbon t...
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    34,20 €

  • Democratic Management of an Ecosystem Under Threat
    Kelly Dunning
    Using case studies from Florida and the Caribbean, this book summarizes the state of coral reef conservation today, exploring the most effective way to protect vulnerable coral reef ecosystems while ensuring people’s voices are heard. ...
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    158,36 €

  • Technical Communication for Environmental Action
    Sean D. Williams
    This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change. ...
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    46,95 €

  • Environmental Safeguard Monitoring Field Kit
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication is designed as a field kit to help Nepal’s Kathmandu Upatayaka Khanepani Ltd. (KUKL) follow standard environmental planning, monitoring, and reporting in its work to supply water and sanitation to the Kathmandu Valley.Practical and detailed, the kit will support the Project Implementation Directorate of KUKL as it works to prepare the environmental safeguard do...
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    50,23 €

  • The Return of Malthus
    Björn-Ola Linnér
    The Return of Malthus is the first comprehensive analysis of the post-war fear of scarcity. Linnér traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg Börgström, labelled ’neo-Malthusians’ for their emphasis on an impending clash between population growth and resource limits, after the...
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    50,53 €

  • Political Economy of the Environment
    Azhar ul Haque Sario
    The "Political Economy of the Environment:Contemporary Issues and Pathways" refers to the study of the complex interactions between economic systems, political institutions, and environmental policies. It involves examining how economic decisions and actions impact the natural environment and how political institutions and policies influence economic behavior related to the env...
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    9,78 €

  • Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism
    Madelaine Moore
    Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism is an important intervention into social reproduction theory and eco-socialist debates. It provides a timely analysis of the role of expropriation in the current global water crisis and makes a persuasive argument for understanding class as an emergent process constituted through struggle. ...
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    157,46 €

  • ALLEGORY
    Michael Solomon
    Finalist--Best Cover Design--Next Generation Indie Book AwardsNominated for a Pulitzer PrizeAllegory is the story of how one man has created a narrative that has gaslighted the world into believing, unless drastic measures are taken, the world will be destroyed within ten years by greedy industrialists. However, his solution will put planet Earth on a path to suicide. His narr...
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    25,12 €

  • Technical Communication for Environmental Action
    Sean D. Williams
    This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change. ...
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    121,43 €

  • Battling Climate Change and Transforming Agri-Food Systems
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides key highlights and takeaways from the Asia-Pacific Rural Development and Food Security Forum 2022 on four main areas: sustainable, resilient, and inclusive food systems; financing for sustainable agriculture and natural capital; nutrition security; and the rural-urban divide.The publication shares insights from the forum to support policymakers in reth...
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    30,73 €

  • Climate Change and Earthquake Exposure in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This study analyzes the exposure of energy and transport assets in Asia and the Pacific to climate change and earthquake hazards and highlights how multi-hazard assessment can help strengthen the resilience of crucial infrastructure. Geolocating and undertaking a multi-hazard assessment of more than 30,000 infrastructure assets, the study identifies significant risks across the...
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    32,38 €

  • An Agrarian Proposal
    Charles Taliaferro / Rebecca Judge
    An Agrarian Proposal examines how the communitarian perspectives shared among colonial New England’s settlers and the farming methods they employed can be adapted to cultivate contemporary agricultural practices, policies, and ethical commitments. Together these promote sustainable farming and land stewardship, even as they valorize farming as a vital locus for cultivating virt...
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    14,46 €

  • An Agrarian Proposal
    Charles Taliaferro / Rebecca Judge
    An Agrarian Proposal examines how the communitarian perspectives shared among colonial New England’s settlers and the farming methods they employed can be adapted to cultivate contemporary agricultural practices, policies, and ethical commitments. Together these promote sustainable farming and land stewardship, even as they valorize farming as a vital locus for cultivating virt...
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    26,32 €

  • WWF and Arctic environmentalism
    Danita Catherine Burke
    This book explores WWF’s approach toward engagement in the Circumpolar North and reasons why it is relatively well-received by key northern audiences. It argues that the foundation of WWF’s success is based on four inter-related strategic pillars: legacy, networks, scientific research and communication style. ...
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    157,64 €

  • Nature’s Laboratory
    Elizabeth Grennan Browning
    The untold history of how Chicago served as an important site of innovation in environmental thought as America transitioned to modern, industrial capitalism.In Nature’s Laboratory, Elizabeth Grennan Browning argues that Chicago--a city characterized by rapid growth, severe labor unrest, and its position as a gateway to the West--offers the clearest lens for analyzing the histo...
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    60,42 €

  • Stories Relating To The Environment
    William 'Brent' Heckler
    Authors in the book - Christine PooleGlenda Goodrichsarah haRoxanneO’ConnellRoy KindelbergerLibby Strain-ThomasHope CovenWilliam 'Brent'HecklerJohn KriegMary Alice DixonMargaret ClareKleinMarthaBransonChristian Johnson ...
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    34,25 €

  • Introduction to Ecology and Environmental Laws in India
    Siva Prasad Bose
    The environment is one of the most precious resources that is available to any country and its people. For rapidly developing countries like India, there are a range of environmental problems such as pollution, deforestation, disappearance of wildlife and sea life. Environmental laws are thus needed to protect and preserve the environment from destruction.In this book, we first...
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    6,01 €

  • Pacific Economic Monitor - August 2022
    Asian Development Bank
    The Pacific region is expected to grow by 4.7% in 2022 and 5.4% in 2023 as most economies emerge from the worst of the pandemic-induced downturn.This issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor focuses on building and financing resilience to climate change and disasters. It also explores the impacts on the region of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, such as higher commodity prices. ...
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    28,01 €

  • Ice humanities
    This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice and the need to understand better why, where, and how it matters to human and more than human life. ...
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    144,78 €

  • Conflictos ambientales en ecosistemas de alta montaña
    Carlos Alfonso Rueda Ardila
    El modelo de desarrollo altamente dependiente de recursos naturales tanto renovables como no renovables ha devenido en conflictos ambientales antes, durante y después de la obtención y el aprovechamiento de estos. Igualmente, las alarmas generadas por la comunidad científica, académica y civil sobre el agotamiento en cantidad y calidad del ambiente por culpa de actividades antr...
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    17,07 €

  • Climaturity
    Marc Cortez
    In Climaturity, Marc Cortez advocates for a transparent climate discussion where half-truths are completed, climate science limitations are put into context, and politicians are held accountable for spending taxpayer dollars.Climaturity offers a new perspective on the climate controversy through the pragmatic lens of a long-time renewable energy industry veteran. Part science, ...
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    10,46 €

  • Mainstreaming Water Resilience in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This guidance note provides specific actions and tools for scaling up and mainstreaming water resilience in Asia and the Pacific through ADB’s operations.Asia and the Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world and water is the primary medium through which the impacts of climate change are felt. Resilient water management is central to achieving climate adaptation, m...
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    30,90 €

  • Analyzing Sustainability in Peripheral, Ultra-Peripheral, and Low-Density Regions
    Rui Alexandre Castanho
    In the last few years, advances in studies and research associated with the borderlands and the subsequent cross-border cooperation (CBC) have been increased and introduced all over the globe. Such advances essentially affect the cross-border strategies and policies, processes of border cooperation, and several complex border movements. Moreover, similar scenarios are encounter...
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    242,36 €

  • Frameworks for Sustainable Development Goals to Manage Economic, Social, and Environmental Shocks and Disasters
    Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu
    In the post-COVID-19 era, it is essential to adhere to an international framework for sustainable development goals (SDGs), which requires the management of the economic, social, and environmental shocks and disasters. While many have suffered across the world from the COVID-19 pandemic, these SDGs work to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages, as well as inc...
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    235,74 €

  • Eco-Friendly and Agile Energy Strategies and Policy Development
    After the advent of the industrial revolution, the world experienced a rapid change in technology and lifestyle, which has led to a dramatic increase in energy demand. Unfortunately, many of the energy resources used in the past have negatively impacted the environment, from greenhouse gases to the depletion of natural resources. Society now faces the challenge of ensuring sust...
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    252,39 €

  • Integrating Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management
    Asian Development Bank
    This guide explores the benefits of using nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resource-efficient infrastructure.Nature-based solutions are interventions to protect, restore, and sustainably manage natural or modified ecosystems to support both biodiversity and people’s well-being. This guide includes case studies from Bangladesh, Nepal, the People’s Republic of Ch...
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    32,47 €

  • Expansion rebellion
    Celeste Hicks
    This is a story of hope in the face of widespread consternation over the global climate crisis. Can the UK expand Heathrow airport, bringing in 700 extra planes a day, and still stay within ambitious carbon budgets? One legal case sought to answer this question. ...
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    26,05 €

  • El análisis ambiental y territorial del planeamiento
    Mercedes Almenar Muñoz
    En las últimas décadas, la perspectiva medioambiental ha adquirido un peso creciente como base del urbanismo y de la planificación del territorio desde criterios de sostenibilidad. La razón de ello es la necesidad de hacer compatible el desarrollo urbano con la protección y preservación de los recursos ambientales, para responder a los desafíos ecológicos asociados al cambio cl...
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    24,50 €