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  • Shattered Earth
    Dr. Ian Prattis / TBD
    Author Dr. Ian Prattis opens Shattered Earth in the not too distant future with a futuristic analysis of Climate Change and “the inevitable fate provided by the suicide pact engineered by corrupt corporations for most of humanity.”From there, the award-winning writer examines destructive environmental trends and practices and explores ways to protect and preserve planet Earth.D...
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    30,01 €

  • WTO & ENVIRONMENT-RELATED INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISPUTES, THE
    David C Cook / DAVID COOK & JANET HADDOC ROBERT FRASER / Janet Haddock-Fraser / Robert W Fraser
    We live in a world that is increasingly dependent on international trade in a context of substantial regional/national political tensions. Adding to this is an emerging understanding and concern about the social impact of biosecurity and ecosystem services risks associated with such trade. As the key international trade 'arbiter', the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ...
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    118,22 €

  • Shattered Earth
    Dr. Ian Prattis
    Author Dr. Ian Prattis opens Shattered Earth in the not too distant future with a futuristic analysis of Climate Change and “the inevitable fate provided by the suicide pact engineered by corrupt corporations for most of humanity.”From there, the award-winning writer examines destructive environmental trends and practices and explores ways to protect and preserve planet Earth.D...
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    11,21 €

  • Getting the transport right - for what?
    Mathilde Rehnlund
    “Get the transportation right. Then let things happen.” Sir Peter Hall, Professor of Urban Planning, once gave this advice on planning cities for a sustainable future.In research and politics, ‘right’ is increasingly coming to mean ‘sustainable.’ There is a wide consensus that transport is a crucial component of  sustainability efforts and an approximate agreement about what me...
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    27,42 €

  • An Appetite For Change?
    Philip Richardson
    The production of food is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Unprecedented human demand for food, particularly for meat and milk, presents a huge challenge to farmers who, at the same time face increasing pressure to conserve the environment. This book explains how farmers across the world must learn to cope with increasing climatic change and mounting environment...
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    17,66 €

  • TECHNICAL HISTORY OF CHINA’S GRAND CANAL, THE
    Jun Deng / Xuming Tan / Yunpeng Li / YUNPENG LI JUN DENG JINHON XUMING TAN
    Based on the past 30-years' research on the technical and cultural values of China's Grand Canal, this book, based on interdisciplinary research, studies the natural and social background of the evolution and development of different sections of the Grand Canal in different historical periods, as well as the interrelations between the Grand Canal and the Chinese politic...
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    142,27 €

  • The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes
    A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, 'The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes' addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones. ...
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    57,32 €

  • SDG16 - Peace and Justice
    Vesela Radovic
    This book details how interested parties can, must and are getting ahead of the curve to promote peace, provide access to justice and build accountable institutions for all. It envisions a hopeful future in which the impacts of SDG16 are likely to be far more positive, transformational, and visible much more quickly, than we might have imagined. ...
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    85,11 €

  • 2030 - The Year Civilisation Will Die
    Bill Butterworth
    This book is not about global warming and whether it is taking place or not, how fast it is and what effects it will have. Nor is it about population growth. Nor is it about running out of effective vaccines and antibiotics. Those issues, in isolation, are covered in great depth by many other sources. This book brings the three together, considering the possibility of the triad...
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    19,82 €

  • The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States
    Mattijs van Maasakkers
    The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States provides an in-depth analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. It explains why very few of these markets have succeeded even after close to twenty years of scholarly enthusiasm, federal funding and concerted efforts by NGOs, government agencies and busi...
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    54,70 €

  • Leave It in the Ground
    John Berg
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    82,64 €

  • What Does Green Mean?
    James GS Marshall
    Canadians have seen Liberal governments. They’ve seen Conservative governments. And they’ve seen New Democrat governments. But as of 2019 they still have yet to see a Green government.Around the rest of the world, however, Green Parties have formed governments many times. In many countries they have been an established part of the political domain for decades. And they’re not s...
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    42,52 €

  • What Does Green Mean?
    James GS Marshall
    Canadians have seen Liberal governments. They’ve seen Conservative governments. And they’ve seen New Democrat governments. But as of 2019 they still have yet to see a Green government.Around the rest of the world, however, Green Parties have formed governments many times. In many countries they have been an established part of the political domain for decades. And they’re not s...
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    31,99 €

  • Rowing Between the Rooftops
    Rejimon Kuttappan
    ‘Rejimon writes in a highly readable manner [of these]…heart-warming anecdotes of the valour of our coastal communities…whose members are well deserving of the highest praise and admiration from a grateful society. A work to cherish!’—Dr Shashi Tharoor, MPIn August 2018, when the worst floods in a century hit Kerala, fishermen risked their lives, their boats—their only source o...
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    10,33 €

  • SDG3 - Good Health and Wellbeing
    SDG3 - Good Health and Wellbeing: Re-Calibrating the SDG Agenda will explore topics surrounding the contemporary discussions concerning the implementation of the goal. It will cover concepts and concerns, and include practical case studies of how SDG3 has been implemented in different regions of the world. ...
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    84,71 €

  • Climate, Capitalism and Communities
    Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change.Climate, Capitalism and Communities focuses explicitly on that nexus, examining the injustices and inequalities - as well as the activist responses - that hav...
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    126,99 €

  • Climate Abandoned
    Jill Cody
    This is a Wakeup CallWe no longer have the luxury of ignoring climate change“What’s really breathtaking is how ill-prepared we are for such changes.” - Bill McKibben, “This is How Human Extinction Could Play Out,' Rolling StoneThere isn’t much time left. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that the “planet has only until 2030 to stem catastrophic cli...
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    18,32 €

  • Climate Engineering
    Daniel Callies / Daniel Edward Callies
    Should we research, develop, and deploy climate engineering technology? Drawing upon contemporary moral and political theory, this book offers a normative perspective on such questions, ultimately making the case in favor of research and regulation guided by norms of legitimacy, distributive justice, and procedural justice. ...
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    122,45 €

  • DOLLAR DEMOCRACY ON STEROIDS
    Peter Mathews
    Big Corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many politicians through campaign donations and lobbying. These politicians vote to benefit their donors more than the people. They have outsourced our jobs; dismantled our public education and colleges; neglected our healthcare; destroyed our environment; brought us global warming and climate disruption; polluted our ...
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    19,28 €

  • Renewing Destruction
    Alexander A. Dunlap / Alexander A. Dunlap / Alexander Dunlap
    Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments. Wind energy development, in Mexico and most countries, fall into a ’roll out’ neoliberal strategy that is justified by climate change mitigation programs that are continuing a process of land and wind resources grabbing for profit. The result has been an exaggeration of pre-existing pro...
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    163,69 €

  • Renewing Destruction
    Alexander A. Dunlap / Alexander A. Dunlap / Alexander Dunlap
    Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments. Wind energy development, in Mexico and most countries, fall into a ’roll out’ neoliberal strategy that is justified by climate change mitigation programs that are continuing a process of land and wind resources grabbing for profit. The result has been an exaggeration of pre-existing pro...
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    54,32 €

  • Trump's Corrupt United Nations
    Pallavi Kakoti-McHugh
    FORMER UN STAFFER WHISTLE BLOWS ON RACISM, SEXISM, AND CORRUPTION AND COVER-UP OF THE UNITED NATIONS --Says millions of dollars of tax money used to fund corruption and racism and How President Donald Trump handled the situation in Trump's Corrupt United Nations.The only person in the world trained in the combination of environmental science, environmental law, internationa...
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    21,88 €

  • Water Wars
    Ph.D. Bruce J. Carter / Ph.D. Douglas Winslow Cooper / Ph.DBruce JCarter / Ph.DDouglas Winslow Cooper
    In this independently funded study, the authors address the future of the world’s supplies of clean water, exploring in depth the U.S.A.’s Colorado River Basin, where a variety of approaches have been used and proposed to manage provision and allocation of the Colorado River water. Increases in population and water usage, along with uncertainties associated with climate change,...
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    14,71 €

  • Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond
    Increasing depopulation is causing huge problems for rural communities, leading to a reduction in services and infrastructure in areas with ageing populations. This book examines the concept of the Smart Village, an ICT-conscious integrated strategy which provides a sustainable solution to these problems, helping to revitalize rural areas. ...
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    142,96 €

  • In the Name of the Great Work
    Doubravka Olsakova
    Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of nature." Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, captivating political elites and war-fatigued publics alike. By the time of St...
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    44,19 €

  • The Last Fish Swimming
    Gohar Petrossian
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    95,74 €

  • Play WholEarth Game
    Alanson Jared Charles / Nathan Hassall
    In 1985, at 25 years old, I began a journey to find my true purpose. I began a game of trust and sharing. The day I stepped into Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. How could I begin to compete with all these super talented artists?A simple idea came to me. For all living things, just five things: a home, clean water, healthy food, create energy to do something.My purpose...
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    9,43 €

  • The Wild and the Toxic
    Jennifer Thomson
    Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives, and science-based advocacy organizations about whose health matters most, ...
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    127,16 €

  • Financing Affordable Housing in Yangon
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides analysis and recommendations to support the Yangon Region Government to implement its affordable housing agenda and related policies.Myanmar’s housing sector is struggling to cope with rapid urbanization, internal migration, and new demand arising from recent economic growth. These challenges are most apparent in the Yangon Region, where estimates sugg...
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    31,97 €

  • SDG17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    Monica Thiel
    This book will address partnership challenges and opportunities to influence and develop the capacity of the private and public sectors, and political representatives, to fully implement the goal within local, regional, national, global, and transnational levels. ...
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    98,91 €


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