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  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    de The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • Biodiversity and Human Health

    de Jensa Bell, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Michael Boyd, Mary Campbell, Eric Chivian, Paul Cox, Gordon Cragg, Andrew P. Dobson, Kate Duffy-Mazan, Robert Engelman, Paul Epstein, Alexandra Fairfield, John Grupenhoff, Dan Janzen, Catherine Laughlin, Tom Mays, Robert McCaleb, Katy Moran, David Newman, Charles Peters, Walter Reid, John Vandermeer, Anthony Artuso, Byron Bailey ...
    The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • A Pivotal Moment

    Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge

    de Martha Farnsworth Riche, Steve Sinding, Tim Wirth, Tim Cohen, Susan Gibbs, Brian O'Neill, Robert Engelman, Elizabeth Malone, Elizabeth Leahy Madsen, Amy Coen, Lynne Gaffikin, John Harte, Gordon McGranahan, Rachel Nugent, Walden Bello, Eleanor Sterling, Erin Vintinner, Vicky Markham, Julia Varshavsky, Carmen Barroso, Judith Bruce, John Bongaarts, Suzanne Petroni, Susana Chavex Alvarado, Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray, Adrienne Germain, Ellen Chesler, Roger-Mark De Souza, James Gustave Speth, Shira Saperstein, Priscilla Huang, Ursula Goodenough, Frances Kissling, Sandra Postel, Fred Sai, Alex Steffen, Adriana Varillas, Malea Hoepf Young, Charlotte Brody, Lester R. Brown, James B. Martin-Schramm, Rev. ...
    Through a series of essays by leading demographers, environmentalists and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality. It presents the latest research on the relationship between population growth and climate change, ecosystem health and other environmental issues. It surveys the new ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • Comment manger un homard et autres énigmes comestibles

    de Ashley Blom ...
    Traducido por Aurélie Ouazan ...
    Destinés aux foodistas comme aux cuisiniers débutants, 50 conseils illustrés pour maîtriser les arts de la table et le savoir (tout) manger...Comment manger un homard sans que le corps-à corps avec le crustacé finisse en scène de crime ?Comment ouvrir une noix de coco, éplucher une mangue ou découper une volaille avec dextérité ?Comment utiliser des baguettes ?Comment se lever de table ou partager ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama?s Global Warming Agenda

    de Roy W. Spencer ...
    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    As the U.N. moves closer to a new global warming treaty, it is time to examine the calls for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The health and welfare of humanity has benefited from access to fossil fuels, and any drastic move to limit that access must have extraordinary evidence to support it.While alternative energy technologies will increasingly be relied upon in the face of dwindling ... Leer más

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  • Leap of Faith

    de Laura Adams ...
    Based on a true story of recent events that took place in one of America's most famous small towns. Known for cereal, Battle Creek, Michigan, became world-famous again in July of 2010 when over 800,000 gallons of crude oil were spilled into the river that runs through town, from a pipeline that nobody knew existed, owned by a company no one had heard of.Leap of Faith is the true story of a small ... Leer más

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  • Retreat from a Rising Sea

    Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

    de Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey ...
    This sobering examination of climate-change and the disastrous effects of rising sea levels explains what must be done to avoid the worst outcomes.By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and will lay waste to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Lifeboat Cities

    Making a New World

    de Brendan Gleeson ...
    Hopeful and provocative, this account considers the principle social and ecological threats facing Australia and outlines the ways in which these crises need to be confronted and addressed. Taking a radical approach to climate change prevention, this bold manifesto claims that Australia's current focus on over-consumption and "greener lifestyles" are ineffective. Rather, this opinionated record ... Leer más

    $23.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Political Economy of Global Warming

    The Terminal Crisis

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Triumph of the Expert

    Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism

    de Joseph Morgan Hodge ...
    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire.Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and ... Leer más

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  • Water and Climate Change in Africa

    Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi

    Edición de Patricia E. Perkins ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave for marginalized people, whose access to food, potable water, and safe shelter may be threatened due to fluctuations in rainfall and temperature, and to extreme weather events. Because ... Leer más

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  • Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks

    Edición de Bert Metz, M Kok J T ...
    The integration of development and climate objectives is increasingly recognized as significant in research and policy making. In practice, some development aims, such as poverty alleviation, enhancing energy security and access or improving health, also have potential climate benefits. The challenge is to find a broadly applicable range of effective policies and actions that realize development ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD