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  • Local Government and Sustainable Development in the UK

    Engaging the Local to Achieve the Global

    by Gregory Borne ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    Drawing on and advancing theoretical frameworks that emphasis risk and reflexive modernity, this book presents data, discussions and recommendations from the UK to explore sustainable development and its associated risks at the local, community and individual levels. It argues that local government provides an underused link between communities and international governance that can directly ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Surfing and Sustainability

    by Gregory Borne ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    Surfing and Sustainability presents a new way of understanding the impact of surfing on the environment, society and the economy, providing important insights into the field of sustainability and arguing that the activity of surfing offers a unique opportunity to explore the ambiguity of sustainability.The book contextualises surfing within current debates on sustainability and applies these ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sustainable Surfing

    Edited by Gregory Borne, Jess Ponting ...
    Whilst being an ambiguous and contested concept, sustainability has become one of the twenty-first century’s most pervasive ideas, as humanity’s increasing impact on the environment, as well as increasing social and economic inequalities, have local and global consequences. Surfing is a globally recognised cultural phenomenon whose unique connection with nature and rapid expansion into a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Critical Surf Studies Reader

    Edited by Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee, Alexander Sotelo Eastman ...
    The evolution of surfing—from the first forms of wave-riding in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to the inauguration of surfing as a competitive sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics—traverses the age of empire, the rise of globalization, and the onset of the digital age, taking on new meanings at each juncture. As corporations have sought to promote surfing as a lifestyle and leisure enterprise, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Saving the Earth as a Career

    Advice on Becoming a Conservation Professional

    by Malcolm L. Hunter Jr., David B. Lindenmayer, Aram J. K. Calhoun ...
    Written in an informal and engaging style, Saving the Earth as a Career is an ideal resource for students and professionals pursuing a career in conservation. The book explores the major skills needed to become an effective conservation professional by offering useful advice on a range of topics. Chapters include:Is this the right career for you?Designing a program of studyDesigning and executing ... Read more

    $43.00 USD

  • Lee Kuan Yew’s Educational Legacy

    The Challenges of Success

    Edited by Oon Seng Tan, Ee Ling Low, David Hung ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) laid the foundations for the creation of a first-world education system in Singapore. Like many other issues concerning the country, his ideas for education were transported in a red box, which he took with him wherever he went, even up to his last days. Inside it was always something designed to help create a better life for all Singaporeans.The editors of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Hope Matters

    Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis

    by Elin Kelsey ...
    “This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW.” —Jane GoodallFears about climate change are fueling an epidemic of despair across the world: adults worry about their children’s future; thirty-somethings question whether they should have kids or not; and many young people honestly believe they have no future at all.In the face of extreme eco ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson ...
    In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Tides of Change on Grand Manan Island

    by Joan Marshall ...
    Grand Manan Island a 200-year old fishing village in the Bay of Fundy has been overwhelmed by globalization technology and changing government policies. Changes on the island call into question the myth of the rural idyll and point to an urgent need for reconsideration of urban-rural divides. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Environmental Change in South-East Asia

    People, Politics and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Raymond Bryant, Michael Parnwell ...
    Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests.Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive ... Read more

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  • A Future Untold: The Power of Story to Transform the World and Ourselves

    by Alina Siegfried ...
    An inspiring rallying cry for humanity to solve our biggest problems by returning to the most basic driver of human behaviour and culture – storyIn A Future Untold, the author offers an entertaining, inspiring, and at times deeply vulnerable glimpse into how we can solve social and environmental challenges by addressing the stories and narratives that underpin our lives. Drawing on her experience ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Vanishing Fish

    Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries

    by Daniel Pauly ...
    "Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years."—Ted Danson, actor, ocean activist, and co-author of Oceana"This wonderfully personal and accessible book by the world’s greatest living fisheries biologist summarizes and expands on the causes of collapse and the essential actions that will be required to rebuild fish stocks for future generations.”—Dr. Jeremy Jackson, ocean ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus