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“robert e bowen”

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  • Oceans and Human Health

    Implications for Society and Well-Being

    Edited by Robert E. Bowen, Michael H. Depledge, Cinnamon P. Carlarne, Lora E. Fleming ...
    Human health and well-being are tied to the vitality of the global ocean and coastal systems on which so many live and rely. We engage with these extraordinary environments to enhance both our health and our well-being. But, we need to recognize that introducing contaminants and otherwise altering these ocean systems can harm human health and well-being in significant and substantial ways.These ... Read more

    $95.95 USD

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  • Earth at Risk

    Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet

    Edited by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith ...
    Series series Flashpoint
    “In America, four hundred people own the wealth of more than half of the American population. We should not be saying tax the rich, but instead we should be saying take their money and redistribute it, take their property and redistribute it.”—Arundhati RoyIndustrial civilization is devouring the planet and the future. The oceans are acidifying, whole mountains have been laid to waste, and the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Icy Battleground

    Canada the IFAW and the Seal Hunt

    by Donald Barry ...
    Icy Battleground is the first comprehensive account of the forty-year political controversy over the seal hunt. With a foreword by the Honourable John C. Crosbie, it traces the rise of the anti-sealing protests, the emergence of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, its vigorous and unrelenting campaign to end commercial sealing, and its strategies in mobilising pressure in Canada and abroad. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Breathe Underwater

    Field Reports from an Age of Radical Change

    by Chris Turner ...
    The essays and reportage in How to Breathe Underwater offer a panoramic overview of this age of radical change-from the online gambling boom in the Caribbean to Cyberjaya, the Malaysian government’s attempt to build its own Silicon Valley; from video game design to digital-age tabloid journalism to the artistry of The Simpsons; and from the fate of the Great Barrier Reef to Cuba’s economic limbo ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Climate Justice

    Vulnerability and Protection

    by Henry Shue ...
    The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Thermophobia

    Shining a Light, #3

    by Rod Martin, Jr ...
    Series Book 3 - Shining a Light
    Top 25 Weather BestsellerThermophobia means "fear of warmth."Did you know that Global Warming made civilization possible 12,000 years ago? What were the benefits back then? What changed?We live in an Ice Age and governments want to cool down the planet. That could trigger the next glacial period, and Ice Age glacials are brutal. They make the 1998 Great Ice Storm, and 1816 Year Without a Summer, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Walking the Talk: Engaging the Public to Build a Sustainable World

    by Bill Hulet ...
    The human race is facing an existential crisis in the form of climate change, yet most of humanity---even if it believes in global warming---seems incapable of making the lifestyle changes necessary to prevent the worst from taking place. _Walking the Talk_ argues that this is because the traditional methods of mobilizing the public to deal with existential threats---faith and duty---have become ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation

    Biking for all?

    Edited by Aaron Golub, Melody Hoffmann, Adonia Lugo, Gerardo Sandoval ...
    Series series Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
    As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged. This stereotype evolves just as investments in cycling play an increasingly important role in neighborhood transformations. However, despite stereotypes, the cycling public is actually quite diverse, with the greatest share falling into the lowest income categories.Bicycle Justice and Urban ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Betting the Earth

    How We Can Still Win the Biggest Gamble of all Time

    by John Charles Kunich, J.D. ...
    Series Book 4 - Our National Conversation
    "Betting the Earth explores the uneasy parallels between our contemporary environmental challenges and our national fascination with gambling. How much should we bet on preserving biodiversity? Should we bet more on responding to climate change? where should we place each bet: on federal or state laws, on acquiring public or private preserves, on preventing environmental harms or saving places of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Sustainagility

    How Smart Innovation and Agile Companies will Help Protect our Future

    by Patrick Dixon, Johan Gorecki ...
    Sustainagility is about the ability to solve some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges with rapidly evolving business innovations, applications, methods, products and processes, adapted to changing situations. The book looks at how innovation and agility can save the world from the environmental disasters that face it. In addition, it sets forth positive ways in which businesses ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change

    New Northern Horizons

    by Frank Sejersen ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    This ground-breaking book investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop self-determination. Adopting an anthropological focus on Greenland’s vision to boost extractive industries and transform society, the book examines how indigenous communities engage with climate change and development discourses. It applies a critical ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Sustainable Urban Energy Policy

    Heat and the city

    by David Hawkey, Janette Webb, Heather Lovell, David McCrone, Margaret Tingey, Mark Winskel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Energy Policy
    Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources. Such deliberate transformative change is, however, without precedent.Sustainable Urban Energy Policy debates the major public issue of developing a sustainable, clean and affordable energy system by adopting a distinctive ... Read more

    $73.99 USD