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  • Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh

    by Winston Yu, Mozaharul Alam, Ahmadul Hassan, Abu Saleh Khan, Alex Ruane, Cynthia Rosenzweig, David Major, James Thurlow ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impair livelihoods. Climate change will pose additional risks to ongoing efforts to reduce poverty. This book examines the implications of climate change ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Vanishing Face of Gaia

    A Final Warning

    by James Lovelock ...
    The global temperature is rising, the ice caps are melting, and levels of pollution across the world have reached unprecedented heights. According to eminent scientist James Lovelock, in order to survive an assault from her dependents, the Earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent "hot state." Within the next century, we will almost certainly be forced to give up many of the comforts of western ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Little Black Lies

    Corporate and Political Spin in the Global War for Oil

    by Jeff Gailus ...
    Series series RMB Manifesto
    Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity’s most precious and contentious resources: bitumen. As the years passed, the bitumen mines sprawled, poisonous tailings ponds spread, toxins polluted the environment, cancer reared its head ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Great Global Warming Blunder

    How Mother Nature Fooled the Worlds Top Climate Scientists

    by Roy W Spencer ...
    The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Reason in a Dark Time

    Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future

    by Dale Jamieson ...
    From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe

    by Noam Chomksy, Laray Polk ...
    “There are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II.While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced climate change. Denial of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Environment and Society

    A Critical Introduction

    by Paul Robbins, Sarah A. Moore, John G. Hintz ...
    Series series Critical Introductions to Geography
    Substantially updated for the second edition, this engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects.Features substantial revisions and updates for the second edition, including new chapters on E waste, mosquitoes and uranium, improved maps and graphics, new exercises, shorter theory chapters, and refocused sections on ... Read more

    $58.95 USD

  • Climate Change and Society

    Sociological Perspectives

    Edited by Riley E. Dunlap, Robert J. Brulle ...
    Climate change is one of the most critical issues of the twenty-first century, presenting a major intellectual challenge to both the natural and social sciences. While there has been significant progress in natural science understanding of climate change, social science analyses have not been as fully developed. Climate Change and Society breaks new theoretical and empirical ground by presenting ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Competition and Efficiency in International Food Supply Chains

    Improving Food Security

    by John Williams ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Why have food crises seemingly become more frequent in recent years, compared to the last few decades? This book examines an array of different issues and distortions that are causing food supply chain dysfunction in many countries, particularly for staple non-perishable foods such as grains, oilseeds, pulses and sugar. It outlines the underlying changes that are currently occurring, which will ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Essentials of Environmental Public Health Science

    A Handbook for Field Professionals

    Edited by Naima Bradley, Henrietta Harrison, Greg Hodgson, Andrew Kibble, Virginia Murray, Robie Kamanyire ...
    Environmental public health is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the direct and indirect impact of exposure to environmental hazards on the public's health and wellbeing. Assessing and addressing the risks of chemical, ionising and non-ionising radiation, and noise hazards requires a sound knowledge of toxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental science, health risk ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Geo-Politics of the Euro-Asia Energy Nexus

    The European Union, Russia and Turkey

    by A. Tekin, P. Williams ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    A freshly provocative look at the nexus linking EU security, trans-Turkey energy supply routes to Europe and Turkey's EU membership negotiations, this book argues that Europe's collective energy security prospects have become increasingly tied to Turkey's progress towards joining the EU. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Environmental Commodities Markets and Emissions Trading

    Towards a Low-Carbon Future

    by Blas Luis Pérez Henríquez ...
    Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great promise, but require complex public policies that take into account the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and that guard against the social forces that can derail good public policies. Using insights about markets from the new institutional economics, this book sheds light on the institutional history of the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD