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  • Burning Up
    Simon Pirani
    Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism’s main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel consumption has grown fastest in the last three decades, since scientists confirmed that it is the main cause of potentially devastating global warming. In Burning ...
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    126,93 €

  • Pseudo-Green Leftism and True Green Conservatism
    Bruce Walker
    The Left pretends to care about being 'Green' but in fact it cares only about power, wealth and prestige which it milks from the causes it champions. The Left, in fact, is profoundly anti-Green in both its policies and lifestyles. Marxism, the ultimate form of Leftism, is by far the most anti-Green system of government ever devised. The deconstruction of traditional moral value...
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    25,96 €

  • Handbook on Household Hazardous Waste, Second Edition
    Household hazardous waste (HHW) is a topic that affects every individual and community given the nearly universal use, storage, and disposal of chemical consumer products. Yet many communities lack the basic information, guidance, and planning support for HHW collection and management so that struggles (e.g., to gain politicians’ and residents’ support, host a collection, build...
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    118,21 €

  • Managing Coral Reefs
    Kelly Heber Dunning
    ’Managing Coral Reefs’ compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach. ...
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    165,66 €

  • ¡No Se Vende! Water as a Right of the Commons
    Kay Matthews
    Custom and tradition within the acequia (irrigation ditches) agricultural communities of New Mexico, despite the law that assigns a priority date and implies ownership of water, still govern the use of the water by mayordomos and commissions, and repartimiento, or water distribution and sharing, is worked out among communities without state oversight. New Mexico communities hav...
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    14,53 €

  • Environmental Awareness and the Role of Social Media
    Social media has quickly become one of the most effective tools in reaching masses of people. As environmental issues are becoming more prevalent and frequently acknowledged, social media is playing an important role in sharing various environmental problems as well as suitable solutions. Environmental Awareness and the Role of Social Media is an essential reference source for ...
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    229,54 €

  • Boomtown
    Thomas Hylland Eriksen
    Sitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, marinated in coal and gas, the industrial boomtown of Gladstone, Australia embodies many of the contradictions of the ’overheated’ world: prosperous yet polluted; growing and developing yet always on the precipice of uncertainty.Capturing Gladstone at the peak of its accelerated growth in 2013-14, Thomas Hylland Eriksen dissects the boomt...
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    147,84 €

  • Red-Green Revolution
    Victor Wallis
    This book confronts the planetary emergency produced by the accelerated ecological devastation of the last half-century. The human species is in a race against time to salvage and restore what it can of the environmental conditions that make a healthy existence possible. This task requires us to reconsider not only the type of energy that we use, but also the institutions, the ...
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    21,49 €

  • Bridge to Global Governance
    Sovaida Ma'ani Ewing
    Humanity stands at a critical crossroads. While our unprecedented interconnectedness and interdependence have made the world a single organism, we lack the system of global governance necessary to effectively address the urgent challenges of the 21st Century. The confluence of climate change, rapidly increasing worldwide demand for energy, and growing threats of nuclear terrori...
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    13,63 €

  • KILLING AMERICA
    Gerald N Wright
    This book is the most comprehensive book on America's Rise and Fall written by one of the most conservative authors of American  religious and political law and history.  Nancy Reagan and Rush Limbaugh have read one of  the Author's Twelve books that have been in print since 1972.   Among the titles of this author are:  The Sovereign Soul; The Supreme Scientist;  Killin...
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    27,30 €

  • Environment, Politics and Society
    Human activities and decision-making have enormous impacts on the environment. This volume engages in critical conversations on these issues and how their inter-connectedness and outcomes shape the natural environment and human activity. ...
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    184,30 €

  • Ecological Politics
    John Rensenbrink
    Rejection of politics is deep and widespread. Even sincere and responsible individuals who practice it hold their nose while doing so. Yet politics must be practiced, and well, if the planet and the people are to survive. A clue for our future success as a species lies in the fact that ecology has never really been tried in politics. Yet ecology holds the secret of success for ...
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    63,87 €

  • Succeeding and Failing in Australian Environment Policy
    Kathleen Anne Mackie
    Australia won wide recognition for its $42b stimulus response to the GFC. But the Home Insulation element of that package was a debacle. Succeeding and Failing in Australian Environment Policy sheds new light on that failure, and others including the failure to develop a prudent Population Strategy. Policymakers, environmentalists, researchers, and citizens, can distil its less...
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    24,15 €

  • Decoding Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
    Asian Development Bank
    The new framework for cooperative approaches and mechanisms under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement charts a path for the resurgence of carbon markets. However, the modalities, rules, and guidance are yet to be fully elaborated. Article 6 is a key part of the Paris Agreement. It allows Parties to voluntarily cooperate to meet their Nationally Determined Contributions, providing...
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    33,70 €

  • WACONOMICS
    Michael Zitron
    Water is in everything, connecting us all in one way or another, including our family’s wealth and health. But here’s the problem: water’s value went missing from the economy when the EPA came on the scene in the 1970s. The government gave water a much higher value, but it never disclosed that value to the American people. As a result, we have experienced water inflation ever s...
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    34,18 €

  • WACONOMICS
    Michael Zitron
    Water is in everything, connecting us all in one way or another, including our family’s wealth and health. But here’s the problem: water’s value went missing from the economy when the EPA came on the scene in the 1970s. The government gave water a much higher value, but it never disclosed that value to the American people. As a result, we have experienced water inflation ever s...
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    16,17 €

  • Planetary Improvement
    Jesse Goldstein
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    27,20 €

  • Eco-Justice
    Audrey M Dentith / David Flinders / John Lupinacci
    This is the second Theory and Practice from Eco-Justice Press. We present to you a wide range of topics relating to eco-justice, by authors from Europe, Africa, and the Americas. We are pleased to give the authors a new venue to present their thoughts and we appreciate their contributions. We also celebrate the contributions of Chet A. Bowers in the first essay. Table of Conten...
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    10,28 €

  • Small Town, Big Oil
    David W. Moore
    Narrative nonfiction account of the women who lead the citizens of Durham, New Hampshire to out-organize and out-maneuver the establishment and protect their community from big oil. ...
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    16,39 €

  • Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice
    Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level. Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students, as well as policy and com...
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    39,02 €

  • Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice
    Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level. Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students, as well as policy and com...
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    44,61 €

  • From Enemies to Partners
    Charles R. Bailey / Le Ke Son
    The impact and tragedy of war do not end when the guns fall silent...Ten to fifteen percent of all Vietnamese with disabilities are probably Agent Orange victims...Agent Orange is a humanitarian concern we are doing something about.More than four decades after the Vietnam War, the United States and Vietnam are just beginning to address the negative consequences of Agent Orange,...
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    17,76 €

  • From Enemies to Partners
    Charles R. Bailey / Charles RBailey / Le Ke Son
    The impact and tragedy of war do not end when the guns fall silent…Ten to fifteen percent of all Vietnamese with disabilities are probable Agent Orange victims…Agent Orange is a humanitarian concern we are doing something about. More than four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, the United States and Vietnam are just beginning to address the negative consequences of Agent...
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    34,07 €

  • Sustainable
    Tom DeWeese
    Sustainable: The WAR on Free Enterprise, Private Property and Individuals describes in detail the process being used at every level of government to reorganize our society under the excuse of environmental protection. Author Tom DeWeese pulls back the curtain to reveal the policies and the powers behind them that are systematically changing our culture and system of government ...
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    14,73 €

  • Small is Necessary
    Anitra Nelson
    Amidst crisis and fragmentation, the need for sociable, practical and sustainable housing is manifest ...
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    126,72 €

  • In defense of degrowth
    Giorgos Kallis
    Buy the book directly from the publisher at www.indefenseofdegrowth.comThe idea of degrowth is contentious, often misunderstood, and (perhaps paradoxically) growing in popularity. In this book, Giorgos Kallis, one of the movement's leading thinkers, presents an accessible, inspiring, and enjoyable defense. The book's chapters—a compilation of his opinion essays, newspap...
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    23,32 €

  • Today’s Environmental Issues
    Teri Walker
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    155,53 €

  • Beyond Politics
    Jonathan M. Gilligan / Jonathan MGilligan / Michael P. Vandenbergh / Michael PVandenbergh
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    43,43 €

  • Beyond Politics
    Jonathan M. Gilligan / Jonathan MGilligan / Michael P. Vandenbergh / Michael PVandenbergh
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    133,86 €

  • Saving Planet Earth
    Andrew S. Ball / David F. Smith / Duncan A. Rouch
    Planet Earth is a minuscule part of our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the only place where we humans can practically live. We all know this, but why are we so slow to fix the major environmental issues which are degrading the quality of life on this one planet? Here Dr Duncan Rouch, Dr David Smith and Professor Andrew Ball answer this question, with an exciting novel response that...
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    28,80 €


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