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  • A Region of Astonishing Beauty
    Roger L. Williams / Roger LWilliams
    As we approach the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 2004, attention will inevitably turn to the nineteenth century explorers who risked life and limb to interpret the natural history of the American West. ...
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    17,53 €

  • Environment, Development and Human Security
    Adil Najam
    This collected volume of essays provides a set of fresh and pertinent perspectives on environment and security coming from the leading South Asian scholars on the subject. ...
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    110,87 €

  • Spix’s Macaw
    Tony Juniper
    An environmental parable for our times – the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century. In December 1897 the Reverend F. G. Dutton lamented that ‘there are so many calls on a parson’s purse, that he cannot always treat himself to expensive parrots.’ He was hoping to purchase a Spix’s Macaw, a rare and beautiful parrot found in a ...
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    21,76 €

  • Freshwater Issues
    Grenetta Thomassey / Grenetta Thomassey Fink / Zachary Smith
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    82,22 €

  • Chesapeake Bay Blues
    Howard R Ernst / Howard R. Ernst / Howard RErnst
    This book addresses the Chesapeake Bay as a political problem and reveals how the political process has worked against the interests of science, the public, and environmental advocates all at once. ...
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    52,96 €

  • Ark of the Broken Covenant
    John Kunich
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    121,75 €

  • Geo-Logic
    Robert Frodeman
    Seeks to redraw the boundaries between the fields of geology and environmental philosophy. ...
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    40,98 €

  • Eco-Phenomenology
    Explores how continental philosophy can inform environmental ethics. ...
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    43,26 €

  • BEACH NOURISHMENT
    Robert G Dean
    This book is written for engineers, students of coastal processes and laypersons interested in beach nourishment, which consists of the placement of large quantities of good quality sediment on the beach to advance the shoreline seaward. The improvement of project performance through proper design and the predictability of performance are emphasized. The overall longevity of a ...
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    64,47 €

  • Sustainable Planet
    Juliet Schor
    Can we find ways of living that are sustainable and deeply satisfying, that ensure economic and political democracy, and are passionate about beauty, elegant design, and the wildness of nature? The contributors to Sustainable Planet say we can, and offer 16 remarkable visions of how to get from here to there, including:* Specific proposals from citizen and labor coalitions that...
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    19,58 €

  • Environmental Activism
    Jacqueline Vaughn / Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer
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    95,05 €

  • What Nature Suffers to Groe
    Mart A. Stewart
    'What Nature Suffers to Groe' explores the mutually transforming relationship between environment and human culture on the Georgia coastal plain between 1680 and 1920. Each of the successive communities on the coast--the philanthropic and imperialistic experiment of the Georgia Trustees, the plantation culture of rice and sea island cotton planters and their slaves, and the pos...
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    38,89 €

  • Buddhism and Deep Ecology
    PH. D. Daniel H. Henning / PHDDaniel HHenning
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    18,28 €

  • Ideology, Social Theory, and the Environment
    William D Sunderlin / William D. Sunderlin / William DSunderlin
    This book shows that polemical environmental and ecological debates are governed not so much by access to ’facts’ as they are by the political ideology of the expert advancing a particular argument. Moreover, the thoughts of these experts tend to be based largely in just one of three competing streams of political thought: the left, the center, or the right. Drawing on social t...
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    69,48 €

  • The Natural Gardens of North Carolina
    B. W. Wells
    For seventy years, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina has been a must-read volume for anyone interested in wildflowers, native plants, ecology, or conservation in the state. This handsome revised edition features new line drawings and color photographs, an appendix that updates the botanical nomenclature, an introduction that focuses on B. W. Wells and his passion for the st...
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    45,32 €

  • Smokestacks and Progressives; Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951
    David Stradling
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    42,00 €

  • Earth Policy Reader
    Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts / Janet Larsen / Lester R Brown
    Brown explains, for example, why wind-generated electricity with its abundance and falling cost is emerging as the foundation of the new post-fossil fuel energy economy: now cheaper than electricity from coal, oil, or natural gas, it can be used to electrolyze water and produce hydrogen, the fuel of choice for the new fuel cell engines that every major automobile manufacturer i...
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    15,28 €

  • Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities
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    45,49 €

  • Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities
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    144,75 €

  • Good Practices and Innovative Experiences in the South
    This book constitutes a unique, inspiring, and practically useful compilation of the rich variety of innovative good practice being pioneered at governmental, NGO, and community levels in so many Third World countries. It provides a wealth of information on a large number of particular policies, projects and organizations in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. ...
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    60,31 €

  • Conserving Bird Biodiversity
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    201,06 €

  • Conserving Bird Biodiversity
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    92,67 €

  • American Heat
    Donald A Brown / Donald A. Brown / Donald ABrown
    In American Heat, Donald Brown critically analyzes the U.S. response to global warming, inviting readers to examine the implicit morality of the U.S position, and ultimately to help lead the world toward an equitable sharing of the burdens and benefits of protecting the global environment. In short, Brown argues that an ethical focus on global environmental matters is the key t...
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    63,91 €

  • Tourism in Frontier Areas
    Shaul Krakover / Yehuda Gradus
    In this timely new collection of essays, an excellent roster of contributors bring new insight to a wide spectrum of topics related to tourism in frontier areas. The book focuses on international case studies as it discusses the economic feasibility of frontier tourist development, the tourist development of rural and urban settings, and the expansion of tourism to remote borde...
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    183,84 €

  • Just Ecological Integrity
    Peter Miller
    Just Ecological Integrity presents a collection of revised and expanded essays originating from the international conference ’Connecting Environmental Ethics, Ecological Integrity, and Health in the New Millennium’ held in San Jose, Costa Rica in June 2000. It is a cooperative venture of the Global Ecological Integrity Project and the Earth Charter Initiative. ...
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    62,25 €

  • Our World
    Anil K. Sarkar / Anil KSarkar
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    24,80 €

  • Our World
    Anil K. Karkar / Anil K. Sarkar / Anil KKarkar / Anil KSarkar
    Excellence in science and Technology Industrial revolution, over population, pollution of the environment, ethnic and religious conflicts are about to explode because man has not learned to tame and civilize the brute caveman in him. To save the human race from self-annihilation, the author is appealing to the conscience of the people who care for our fellow human beings ...
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    36,67 €

  • Food for All
    John Madeley
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    60,55 €

  • The Message of Rainsnow
    J. Rainsnow
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    33,02 €

  • The Greenhouse
    Christoph Lumer
    In The Greenhouse, Christoph Lumer provides moral evaluations of the greenhouse effect and of some of its alternatives, from utilitarian and welfarist perspectives. ...
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    83,91 €