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  • Revitalizing the Commons
    C. A. Bowers / CABowers
    This book champions the cultural and environmental commons as sites of resistance to the current trend of economic globalization, and explains the nature of educational reforms that promote ecological sustainability, conserving of cultural and linguistic diversity, local democracy, and greater community self-sufficiency. ...
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    64,25 €

  • Unsustainable
    Patrick Hossay
    Aimed at an audience, including both budding social activists and young people studying the environment and international development, this book explains how these crises share the same historical roots. Brilliantly combining a huge amount of up-to-date information, visual charts, and clear explanation, Patrick Hossay shows how an historical path of colonialism, capitalist deve...
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    60,21 €

  • Good Neighbor Campaign Handbook
    Paul Ryder
    Neighbors are fighting pollution in a new way: 'For a moment, look through the eyes of the CEO or plant manager. 'He has worked his way into a corner and does not know how to get out. He knows that what he has been doing is wrong. He wants to stop but does not know how. He has been avoiding the matter so completely that he really does not know how bad it is. He has been denying...
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    29,59 €

  • Hurricane Rita
    Vertna Bradley
    A powerful Category Three hurricane races toward your town, but instead of evacuating, you ride it out and endure challenging conditions that try your mind, body, and soul. Reflections of a Generation Witnessing Disaster takes you back into the Hurricane Season of 2005 as you dive into the real life experiences of scores of people in Lake Charles, when Hurricane Rita slammed in...
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    29,91 €

  • Looking for Longleaf
    Lawrence S. Earley / Lawrence SEarley
    Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America. Today these magnificent forests have declined to a fraction of their original extent, threatening such species as the gopher tortoise, the red-cockaded woodpecker, and the Venus fly-trap. Conservationist...
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    43,10 €

  • Diamond
    Steve Lerner
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    26,95 €

  • Electric Earth
    Will Jansen
    The past 50 years of worldwide population growth and construction has changed the way the world works. Global warming, hurricanes and tornadoes are on the rise along with sea levels. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are on the increase. Many say that this is just a natural cycle of the earth. This is not the case. These so called 'natural disasters' are direct results of this...
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    11,43 €

  • The Danish Revolution, 1500 1800
    Thorkild Kj Rgaard / Thorkild Kjaergaard / David Hohnen
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    99,52 €

  • Connectivity Conservation
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    144,13 €

  • Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
    Robert Marks
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    82,95 €

  • Environmental Stewardship
    RJ Sam Berry
    The stimulus for the book came from a conference organized by the John Ray Initiative (JRI) to explore ’the Christian approach to the environment’. A clear conclusion was the need to explore and characterize ’stewardship’. This is a concept widely used by environmentalists and one which has clear biblical roots, but it is repeatedly criticized (even condemned) by those who rega...
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    297,46 €

  • The Ecological Life
    Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
    Written as a series of lectures, The Ecological Life offers a humanistic perspective on environmental philosophy that challenges some of the dogmas of deep ecology and radical environmentalism while speaking for their best desires. The book argues that being human-centered leaves us open to ecological identifications, rather than the opposite. Bendik-Keymer draws on analytic an...
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    169,22 €

  • The Ecological Life
    Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
    Written as a series of lectures, The Ecological Life offers a humanistic perspective on environmental philosophy that challenges some of the dogmas of deep ecology and radical environmentalism while speaking for their best desires. The book argues that being human-centered leaves us open to ecological identifications, rather than the opposite. Bendik-Keymer draws on analytic an...
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    52,99 €

  • Taxonomy and Plant Conservation
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    143,41 €

  • Nonequilibrium Ecology
    Klaus Rohde
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    88,69 €

  • Ecology of Populations
    Esa Ranta / Per Lundberg / Veijo Kaitala
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    91,66 €

  • A Rediscovered Frontier
    Philip L Jackson / Philip L. Jackson / Philip LJackson / Robert Kuhlken
    A Rediscovered Frontier describes the changing land use issues taking place in the rapidly growing western United States, paying special attention to the previously unexplored area of private lands planning and local growth management. A Rediscovered Frontier begins by exploring the term 'New West', describes prototypical land use patterns found throughout the West, and examine...
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    162,16 €

  • A Handbook of Instructions for Taxidermy and Natural History Collectors
    Originally published by the Britsh Museum (Natural History) in 1902 as a series of pamphlets on collecting and preserving specimens in all branches of natural history. These were then combined in book form by popular demand. Contents include: Removing and Preparing Mammal Skins Preservation of Birds Sexing Birds Collecting Reptiles, Batrachians and Fishes Collecting Insects Dip...
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    36,33 €

  • A Rediscovered Frontier
    Philip L Jackson / Philip L. Jackson / Philip LJackson / Robert Kuhlken
    A Rediscovered Frontier describes the changing land use issues taking place in the rapidly growing western United States, paying special attention to the previously unexplored area of private lands planning and local growth management. A Rediscovered Frontier begins by exploring the term ’New West’, describes prototypical land use patterns found throughout the West, and examin...
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    63,73 €

  • Boiling Frogs
    Barbara Rockwell
    The story goes that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, he will jump out and save himself. If you place the same frog in a pot of cool water and slowly bring it to a boil, he will allow himself to be boiled to death. This is exactly what is happening to millions of people around the world. Industry has introduced tens of thousands of chemical compounds into our hum...
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    20,66 €

  • Vessel-Source Marine Pollution
    Alan Khee-Jin Tan
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    199,71 €

  • Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis
    Barry W. Brook / Barry WBrook / Navjot S. Sodhi / Navjot SSodhi
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    219,20 €

  • Getting Through the Wilderness
    Mary Ann Segal
    Dr. Mary Ann Segal came upon warnings of a fuel crisis shortly after 9/11. She was reading the New York Times Magazine and saw the article entitled, '2011', by Niall Ferguson, in which there were predictions that by 2010, due to increasing demands upon peaking oil, there would be a world-wide shortage, and the 'price would become out of reach.' Then on February 24, 2004, anoth...
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    21,81 €

  • The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood
    Christopher E. Forth
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    37,95 €

  • Globalization and the Race for Resources
    Paul S Ciccantell / Stephen G Bunker
    Globalization and the Race for Resources explores how five nations--Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, and Japan--achieved trade dominance by devising technologies, social and financial institutions, and markets to enhance their access to raw materials.Through ecological and economic explanation of resource extraction and production, Stephen G. Bunker and Pa...
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    38,08 €

  • The Ethics of Waste
    Gay Hawkins
    Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life_from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don’t? At what point does personal waste become public responsibility? How does this ’public conscience’ affect p...
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    157,11 €

  • Shattered Consensus
    Patrick JMichaels
    Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming convincingly demonstrates the remarkable differences between what we commonly read about global warming and what is really happening. Nine chapters describe major problems with computer simulations of future climate that are the basis for wrenching policies being proposed by world leaders. Anyone who reads this book will com...
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    178,67 €

  • Science and International Environmental Policy
    Radoslav Dimitrov / Radoslav S Dimitrov / Radoslav S. Dimitrov / Radoslav SDimitrov
    The proliferation of environmental agreements is a defining feature of modern international relations that has attracted considerable academic attention. Typically focusing on happy-end stories of policy creation, the cooperation literature often ignores issue areas where policy agreements are absent. Science and International Environmental Policy introduces nonregimes into the...
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    161,01 €

  • The Ethics of Waste
    Gay Hawkins
    Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life_from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don’t? At what point does personal waste become public responsibility? How does this ’public conscience’ affect p...
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    56,10 €

  • Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy
    Sahotra Sarkar
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    136,51 €


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