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  • The Political Economy of Global Warming

    The Terminal Crisis

    by Del Weston ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Economics of Enough

    How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

    by Diane Coyle ...
    The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Inheritors of the Earth

    How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction

    by Chris D. Thomas ...
    Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad.It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more hopeful truth -- we're also helping nature grow and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fossil Capital

    The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

    by Andreas Malm ...
    A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power—and contributed to the worsening climate crisisThe more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Anthropocene

    The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Future

    by Christian Schwägerl ...
    For more than two decades, award-winning science and environmental journalist, Christian Schwägerl has researched how humans, nature, and technology interact. Schwägerl is inspired by the idea of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen who argued that we are living in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, a time in which human dominance of Earth’s biological, chemical and geological ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Social Practices, Intervention and Sustainability

    Beyond behaviour change

    Edited by Yolande Strengers, Cecily Maller ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    In an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption. Many calls to action have focused on individual behaviour or technological innovation, with relative silence from the social sciences on other modes and methods of intervening in social life. This book shows how we can go beyond behaviour change in the pursuit of sustainability.Inspired ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • What Animals Live in the Desert? Animal Book 4-6 Years Old | Children's Animal Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    The desert looks like it can’t hold much life because it’s very hot and there aren't any greens for miles! Well, you're in for a big surprise! Underneath the sand, the desert is actually teeming with life. Would you like to know What Animals Live in the Desert? Then open this book today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Communicating Environmental Patriotism

    A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement

    by Anne Marie Todd ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country’s greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century American environmentalism. This book is the first to explore the history of environmental patriotism in America through the intriguing stories of environmental patriots and the rhetoric of their speeches and propaganda,The See America First movement began ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Climate Capitalism

    Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy

    by Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson ...
    Confronting climate change is now understood as a problem of 'decarbonising' the global economy: ending our dependence on carbon-based fossil fuels. This book explores whether such a transformation is underway, how it might be accelerated, and the complex politics of this process. Given the dominance of global capitalism and free-market ideologies, decarbonisation is dependent on creating carbon ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life

    Interdisciplinary perspectives

    Edited by Karen Syse, Martin Mueller ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world over are eroding at unprecedented rates? These and other simultaneous harms and threats demand creative responses at several levels of consideration and action.Written by an international team of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD