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“rose bridger”

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  • Plane Truth

    Aviation's Real Impact on People and the Environment

    by Rose Bridger ...
    As aviation is celebrated as one of the world's fastest growing industries, with passenger numbers and cargo volumes projected to double in the next 20 years, Plane Truth sounds a note of caution.In addition to the environmental impact of airport expansion, devouring farmland and wildlife habitats, and aviation's impact of noise and air pollution on communities, Rose Bridger reveals the ... Read more

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  • Common Wealth

    Economics for a Crowded Planet

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    “Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.” —The New York Times Book Review“Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces.” —Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United StatesIn Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The ... Read more

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  • The Greenwash Effect

    Corporate Deception, Celebrity Environmentalists, and What Big Business Isn?t Telling You about Their Green Products and Brands

    by Guy Pearse ...
    Going green is the new black for big business. But how real is the climate-friendly revolution that’s being advertised? Toyota would like us to think that Mother Nature drives a Prius, Ford wants us to Join the Green Revolution,” and McDonald’s has painted its golden arches green. Facebook has even friended” Greenpeace. All across the globe big corporations are spending big bucks trying to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Green Growth, Smart Growth

    A New Approach to Economics, Innovation and the Environment

    by Ralf Fücks ...
    Translated by Rachel Harland ...
    Series series Anthem Environment and Sustainability
    This book is not another warning about the end of the world. It is neither a penitential sermon on environmentalism, nor an appeal to frugality and self-restraint. Far from having exhausted the era of technological, social and democratic progress, we are on the brink of a new stage of industrial modernity: a shift from a fossil-based to a postfossil economy, from the ruthless exploitation of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism

    West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders

    by Hannah Cross ...
    Series series Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration
    People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain labour migration. It shows how global capitalism regulates different stages of the process within an ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Integrated Activism

    Applying the Hidden Connections between Ecology, Economics, Politics, and Social Progress

    by Alexis Zeigler ...
    How do peak oil, climate change, and the limits of growth affect abortion rights, income equality, and civil liberty? In this impassioned treatise, author and activist Alexis Zeigler reveals the hidden connections between ecology, economics, politics, and social justice—and shows us how to use these connections to effect real, long-lasting change.Most activist movements, says Zeigler, suffer from ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and Order

    The End of Prosperity and Democracy

    by Beth Edmondson, Stuart Levy ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Beth Edmondson and Stuart Levy examine why it is so difficult for the international community to respond to global climate change. In doing so, they analyse and explain some of the strategies that might ultimately provide the foundations for appropriate responses. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Climate Policy Foundations

    Science and Economics with Lessons from Monetary Regulation

    by William C. Whitesell ...
    This book provides a thorough grounding in the science and economics of climate policy issues and draws key lessons from the longer experiences of central banks in grappling with related challenges. Findings and controversies of climate history and the effects of human activities on climate are reviewed. The author describes similarities in risk management approaches for climate and monetary ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security

    Common Challenges and National Responses in Japan, China and Northern Europe

    Edited by E. Moe, P. Midford ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable technologies in diverse and highly topical countries: Japan, China and Northern Europe. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Natural Resource Management and the Circular Economy

    by Robert C. Brears ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management
    This book provides insight into how governments are using a variety of innovative fiscal and non-fiscal instruments to develop circular economies with significant economic and environmental benefits. It emphasises the urgent need for these circular economies and to move away from our current, linear model that has led to environmental degradation, volatility of resource prices and supply risks ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Values in Sustainable Development

    Edited by Jack Appleton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit. Values in Sustainable Development introduces and compares worldviews and values from multiple countries and perspectives, providing a survey of empirical methods available to study environmental values as affected by sustainable development. The ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Experiment Earth

    Responsible innovation in geoengineering

    by Jack Stilgoe ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Experiments in geoengineering – intentionally manipulating the Earth’s climate to reduce global warming – have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and innovation. Drawing on three years of sociological research working with scientists on one of the world’s first major geoengineering projects, this book examines the politics of experimentation. Geoengineering provides a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD