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  • Grains

    de Bill Winders ...
    Series series Resources
    Grains - particularly maize, rice, and wheat - are the central component of most people’s diets, but we rarely stop to think about the wider role they play in national and international policy-making, as well as global issues like food security, biotechnology, and even climate change.But why are grains so important and ubiquitous? What political conflicts and economic processes underlie this ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

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  • Reshaping Environments

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World

    Edición de Helena Bender ...
    Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World draws together a team of specialist authors from disciplines including urban planning, social sciences, engineering and environmental science to examine the diverse influences humans have upon the natural environment. This interdisciplinary approach presents multifaceted responses for complex environmental ... Leer más

    $77.89 USD

  • Eco-Business

    A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability

    de Peter Dauvergne, Jane Lister ...
    Two experts explain the consequences for the planet when corporations use sustainability as a business tool.McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever seeks to achieve 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing by 2020. Walmart has pledged to become carbon neutral. Big ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Ecovillages

    Lessons for Sustainable Community

    de Karen T. Litfin ...
    In a world of dwindling natural resources and mounting environmental crisis, who is devising ways of living that will work for the long haul? And how can we, as individuals, make a difference? To answer these fundamental questions, Professor Karen Litfin embarked upon a journey to many of the world’s ecovillagesÑintentional communities at the cutting-edge of sustainable living. From rural to urban ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • Nature as Teacher – New Principles in the Working of Nature

    Volume 2 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    de Viktor Schauberger ...
    Traducido por Callum Coats ...
    Today we are standing helpless and perplexed. With no glimmer of improvement anywhere in sight, we feel hopelessly propelled towards a forlorn future. It is understandable therefore than an increasing number of people, sick and tired of this insane activity, are now seeking ways to return to Mother Nature. Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) Nature as Teacher, the second volume of the Eco-Technology ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Who Speaks for the Climate?

    Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change

    de Maxwell T. Boykoff ...
    The public rely upon media representations to help interpret and make sense of the many complexities relating to climate science and governance. Media representations of climate issues – from news to entertainment – are powerful and important links between people's everyday realities and experiences, and the ways in which they are discussed by scientists, policymakers and public actors. A dynamic ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

  • Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice

    Circles of sustainability

    de Paul James ...
    Series series Advances in Urban Sustainability
    Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus for the flourishing of life on this planet. However, for this to be realized in more than an ad hoc way, a substantial rethinking of current approaches and practices needs to occur.Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice responds to the crises of sustainability in the world today ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Community Resilience Reader

    Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

    de Sarah Byrnes, Chuck Collins, Rosemary Cooper, Denise Fairchild, Joshua Farley, Richard Heinberg, Leena Iyengar, Mike Lydon, Asher Miller, Stephanie Mills, William Rees, Margaret Robertson, David Salt, Scott Sawyer, Howard Silverman, William Throop, Brian Walker, Al Weinrub, Rebecca Wodder ...
    The sustainability challenges of yesterday have become today’s resilience crises. National and global efforts have failed to stop climate change, transition from fossil fuels, and reduce inequality. We must now confront these and other increasingly complex problems by building resilience at the community level. But what does that mean in practice, and how can it be done in a way that’s effective ... Leer más

    $28.09 USD

  • Climate Governance at the Crossroads

    Experimenting with a Global Response after Kyoto

    de Matthew J Hoffmann ...
    The global response to climate change has reached a critical juncture. Since the 1992 signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the nations of the world have attempted to address climate change through large-scale multilateral treaty-making. These efforts have been heroic, but disappointing. As evidence for the quickening pace of climate change mounts, the treaty-making ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • The Progress of This Storm

    Nature and Society in a Warming World

    de Andreas Malm ...
    An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Technonatures

    Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-first Century

    Edición de Damian F. White, Chris Wilbert ...
    Series series Environmental Humanities
    Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the “politics of ecology” is that we increasingly find ourselves negotiating “technonatural” space/times. International contributors map the political ecologies of our ... Leer más

    $42.49 USD

  • The Lessons of Nature in Mythology

    de Rachel S. McCoppin ...
    This examination of myths from around the world focuses on the role nature plays within mythology. Creation myths from myriad cultures recognized that life arose from natural elements, inextricably connecting human life to the natural world. Nature as portrayed in myth is unpredictable and destructive but also redemptive, providing solace and wisdom. Mythology relates the human life cycle to the ... Leer más

    $16.39 USD