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  • National Parks Our Living National Treasures
    Dr. Gil Lusk / DrGil Lusk
    The National Park Service, created in 1916 and now over one hundred years old, has become an immensely popular concept with visitation equal to the national population of the United States every year. Along the way, the Service has picked up a few issues and stresses that endanger the mission of the NPS. Its unique mission is to preserve and protect America's significant na...
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    15,83 €

  • Ecocriticism of the Global South
    Scott Slovic
    This new book is the second volume in a two-volume 'mini-series' devoted to representing diverse and innovative ecocritical voices from throughout the world, particularly from developing nations (the first volume, Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development, appeared in 2014). The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which espouse the 'postcolonial ecocritical...
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    54,22 €

  • The Ecopolitics of Consumption
    HLouise Davis
    This collection adds to the field of ecocritical theory by merging multidisciplinary approaches to food studies with the established ecocritical discourse of culture and the environment. With themes of confinement and control in the global industrial food systems, this book explores the role of consumption and commodification in contemporary life. ...
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    54,53 €

  • Energy Policy in the Emerging Economies
    Joachim Betz / Sören Scholvin
    The emerging economies are critical for future energy consumption and climate change mitigation. This book sheds light on material conditions, energy demand and expansion plans, politico-economic constellations, energy-related know-how and climate policy in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, and South Korea. ...
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    128,98 €

  • The Foreman’s Boys
    William Marcum
    Employment prospects for many were bleak at the height of the Great Depression. For unmarried recent high school graduates, the prospect of getting a job was mostly non-existent. President Rosevelt’s New Deal plan included the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program specifically targeted to provide employment for those whose job prospects were non-existent. This seventeen to twe...
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    15,66 €

  • Plutonium & People Don’t Mix
    LeRoy Moore
    Production of nuclear weapons began at Rocky Flats in 1952. For thirty-seven years it was the only plant in the country producing the fissile plutonium bomb cores for the U.S. arsenal.  But the plant also created a tradition of risk for people in the area. 3 ...
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    52,69 €

  • Surviving Global Warming
    Roger A. Sedjo / Roger ASedjo
    Though the Paris Agreement on climate change was a significant achievement, most authorities agree that its measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions will be insufficient to offset the forecasted increase in global warming. Even in the unlikely case of ideal compliance, the Earth will still experience major climate-driven damages. Given this reality, climate expert Roger A. S...
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    21,12 €

  • Facing the Apocalypse - Arguments for Ecosocialism
    Alan Thornett
    This book is a response to what is now a planetary ecological emergency. The special IPCC Report, published in October 2018, concluded that the increase in the temperature of the planet over preindustrial times due to global warming must be held below 1.5°C if dangerous destabilisations are to be avoided. This was the limit fought for in Paris by countries under direct threat f...
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    27,30 €

  • Throwaway Nation
    Jeff Dondero
    Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It’s befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste, and we’re now polluting outer space. Throwaway Nation ta...
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    44,52 €

  • Overcoming Disadvantage
    Brian Ross Roberts
    This extensive compilation with comprehensive index represents two decades of personal research on Indigenous culture and spirituality. It analyses group identity and seeks to highlight the fundamental building blocks or ‘essence’ of Aboriginal well-being. The author extracts the critical issues faced by Indigenous communities and relates these to mainstream behavioural norms b...
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    21,30 €

  • The Politics of Land
    Tim Bartley
    This volume renews the political sociology of land. Chapters examine dynamics of political control and contention in a range of settings, including land grabs in Asia and Africa, expulsions and territorial control in South America, environmental regulation in Europe, and controversies over fracking, gentrification, and property taxes in the USA. ...
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    189,61 €

  • International Organizations and Environmental Protection
    Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of...
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    44,00 €

  • GOLDILOCKS POLICY, THE
    JOHN R FANCHI
    This book makes the case for a grand energy bargain that recognizes the need to protect the environment from the combustion of fossil fuels while protecting the national and global economies during the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy.Our future energy mix depends on choices we make, which depends, in turn, on energy policy. Society is continuing a trend towar...
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    107,67 €

  • GOLDILOCKS POLICY, THE
    JOHN R FANCHI
    This book makes the case for a grand energy bargain that recognizes the need to protect the environment from the combustion of fossil fuels while protecting the national and global economies during the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy.Our future energy mix depends on choices we make, which depends, in turn, on energy policy. Society is continuing a trend towar...
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    47,55 €

  • Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism
    Gareth Bryant
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    133,04 €

  • Middle-ism World
    Fred Rouady
    The protection for the natural environment against human interference has stepped up since the early 1990’s. Most people in western countries have mistakenly considered the environment as only global warming, but tend to ignore other environmental issues. Like pollution of our oceans and water systems with plastic waste, over logging, etc. The earth has turned on humans lately ...
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    11,23 €

  • ISO 14001 Step by Step
    Asif Hayat Khan / Naeem Sadiq
    Take the first steps to ISO 14001 certification with this practical overview.This book provides practical advice on how to achieve compliance with ISO 14001:2015, the international standard for an EMS (environmental management system). With an EMS certified to ISO 14001, you can improve the efficiency of your business operations and fulfil compliance obligations, while reassuri...
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    20,30 €

  • Strengthening the Environmental Dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    ADB, in collaboration with UN Environment, prepared this tool compendium to help developing countries address challenges faced upon the successful implementation of the environmental dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals.The tools presented here can help policy makers gain a better understanding of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) interlinkages, establish horizontal...
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    38,72 €

  • Hazardous Waste Management, Volume II
    Sukalyan Sengupta
    This second volume focuses on treatment technologies that are commonly applied at hazardous waste sites and site characterization. Environmental engineers are responsible for cradle-to-grave handling and management of a hazardous waste. To fulfil this responsibility, a practicing engineer needs to apply their knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations; environmental aud...
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    57,22 €

  • Environmental Awareness and the Role of Social Media
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    176,75 €

  • Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts
    ’Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues. ...
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    165,42 €

  • Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
    The book integrates the theory, practice, ethics, and policy of sustainability to better evaluate the implications for problems and responses to sustainable development in Africa. Chapters from leading scholars provide context and a deeper understanding of the critical issues in sustainability in the sub-Saharan African world. ...
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    122,40 €

  • Reproduction Revisited
    Toni Ruuska
    Capitalism is ecologically irredeemable. It simply cannot be fixed. This is because capitalism is based on endless capital accumulation, entailing growth in material throughput, whereas the planet Earth is finite. From this conclusion of ecological Marxism, this book continues to theorise how capitalism is reproduced in the 21st century. It is argued that the logic of capital a...
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    22,20 €

  • Unlocking Sustainable Cities
    Paul Chatterton
    This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting new routes can be unlocked for real change.Across the world, city innovators are putting real sustainability into practice - fro...
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    127,33 €

  • Unlocking Sustainable Cities
    Paul Chatterton
    This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting new routes can be unlocked for real change. Across the world, city innovators are putting real sustainability into practice - fr...
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    29,33 €

  • Tax Law and the Environment
    This book explores how tax policy can solve environmental problems, using a multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary approach. The book provides a detailed analysis of environmental taxation with examples from around the world. ...
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    156,51 €

  • SDG11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    Maha Al-Zu’bi / Vesela Radovic
    SDG11 will map success stories, policies, and strategies from various regions that include actions to improve natural resources management, reduce GHG emissions, and develop urban adaptation, resilience strategies and disaster risk management to help decision-makers, planners and practitioners in achieving the 2030 SDG agenda. ...
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    104,50 €

  • SDG4 - Quality Education
    Dzintra Iliško / Therese Ferguson
    SDG4 - Quality Education: Inclusivity, Equity and Lifelong Learning For All will explore the multifaceted and complex nature of the concepts of inclusivity and quality education. ...
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    104,50 €

  • The EU’s Green Dynamism
    Henning Deters
    The high voting threshold in the Council together with conflicting national preferences should frustrate effective European problem-solving. This famous prediction of the 'joint-decision trap' (JDT) is at odds with Europe’s dynamic environmental policy. Yet there is scarce research on the limited impact of the JDT in this realm. We know little, therefore, about the conditions o...
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    171,66 €

  • Environmental Political Thought
    Robert Garner
    This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most prominent theories, concepts and debates in environmental political thinking. In doing so, Robert Garner - an esteemed scholar in the field - offers a foundation from which readers can better tackle perennially thorny questions such as what environmental cost can we bear for development, what do we mean by terms such as ...
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    193,74 €


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