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  • American Agony
    Borel Helen
    Managing pain with opioids is a science—except politics, money, and overzealous law enforcement are denying American patients the relief they so desperately need. Demonizing the best pain reliever we have leads to needless suffering, even suicides, and it drives the rise in deadly street drugs. Helen Borel gathers and presents the evidence, the intimidation, the raids of clinic...
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    40,31 €

  • American Agony
    Helen Borel
    Managing pain with opioids is a science—except politics, money, and overzealous law enforcement are denying American patients the relief they so desperately need. Demonizing the best pain reliever we have leads to needless suffering, even suicides, and it drives the rise in deadly street drugs. Helen Borel gathers and presents the evidence, the intimidation, the raids of clinic...
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    25,53 €

  • Developing Ecological Consciousness
    Christopher Uhl
    Developing Ecological Consciousness is a unique environmental studies textbook. Rather than working through a list of environmental problems, it aims to help students become aware of the awe and wonder of our planet, understand some of the challenges facing it, and explore possibilities for action and change. This text is invaluable for courses in a variety of disciplines, incl...
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    122,10 €

  • The Snow Leopard and the Goat
    Shafqat Hussain
    Following the downgrading of the snow leopard’s status from “endangered” to “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2017, debate has renewed about the actual number of snow leopards in the wild and the most effective strategies for coexisting with these enigmatic animals. Evidence from Pakistan and other countries in the snow leopard’s home range s...
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    40,87 €

  • Developing Ecological Consciousness
    Christopher Uhl
    Developing Ecological Consciousness is a unique environmental studies textbook. Rather than working through a list of environmental problems, it aims to help students become aware of the awe and wonder of our planet, understand some of the challenges facing it, and explore possibilities for action and change. This text is invaluable for courses in a variety of disciplines, incl...
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    43,21 €

  • Postnormal Conservation
    Katja Grötzner Neves
    Explores the evolving role of botanic gardens from products and enablers of modernity and the nation-state, to their recent reinvention as institutions of environmental governance. ...
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    42,07 €

  • The Tao of Revolution
    Chris Taylor
    Finally, a book on climate & societal change that isn't about the coming chaos, but about how we learn to live with the future. This is for people who love these kinds of books but even more, for people who hate them. The system will not be overthrown: it will be overgrown. Here's how.The safest way to protect Nature is to return her to the Commons. Wherever people have...
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    11,75 €

  • Fighting Pollution and Climate Change
    Jr. Richard W. Emory / Richard W. Emory Jr
    Inside the U.S. government EPA (from 1979), scientists clearly saw climate change as a potentially horrific problem. Since 2017, U.S. tools of pollution control have been disassembled or left unused. Climate change is on the national agenda for the first time in the 2020 Presidential election. The western world sees the need to resuscitate the U.S. EPA to manage the “Green New ...
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    24,82 €

  • Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia
    Hans A Baer
    As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sus...
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    44,23 €

  • SDG6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
    Edward Morgan / Eva Kremere
    Bridging academic discussion and real-world case studies, this book considers the challenge, posed by SDG6, of balancing the provision of the basic human right of access to water whilst not eroding our capacity to live sustainably in a rapidly changing world. ...
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    84,98 €

  • Just Transitions
    In the field of ’climate change’, no terrain goes uncontested. The terminological tug of war between activists and corporations, scientists and governments, has seen radical notions of ’sustainability’ emptied of urgency and subordinated to the interests of capital. ’Just Transition’ is the latest such battleground, and the conceptual keystone of the post-COP21 climate policy w...
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    134,89 €

  • Behold This Compost
    Alex Ulysses Nickel
    Why is the Newtown Pippin the most important apple you’ve never heard of? How does anthropogenic climate change affect the Earth? Why does San Francisco send less waste to the landfill than any other major US city? Part science and part memoir, Behold This Compost: How City-Wide Compost Programs Work and Why We Need Them Now, More Than Ever delves into all of those questions an...
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    14,24 €

  • The Climate Crisis and Corrupt Politics
    Larry J. Schweiger / Larry JSchweiger
    There is only one earth and our world is undergoing dramatic changes brought on by the climate crisis and other human-induced ecological disruptions. The world's top scientists studying these threats and the forces behind them have been warning us for decades to end the use of fossil fuels or face catastrophic consequences. Countering the still small voices of science, our ...
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    37,47 €

  • Sociological Studies of Environmental Conflict
    Dian Jordan / Mehmet Soyer / Sebahattin Ziyanak
    The environmental studies about natural resource issues are often studied as conflicts; this book is carefully designed to expound on how resolutions are negotiated and maintained. A number of factors influence how conflicts are framed and how resolutions are determined regarding fracking, shared waters and environmental threats. This book explores the power, community activism...
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    45,05 €

  • Eco Eco
    Jane Robertson / John Robertson
    Ecology and economics share a common root: the Greek word oikos, meaning a house. Ecology is the way the natural world manages its house. Economics is the way society manages its house. The contentions of this book are that the natural world is the best guide to our economic activities, that supply and demand are insufficient determinants, that profit and loss are not alternati...
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    9,24 €

  • Shattered Earth
    Dr. Ian Prattis / TBD
    Author Dr. Ian Prattis opens Shattered Earth in the not too distant future with a futuristic analysis of Climate Change and “the inevitable fate provided by the suicide pact engineered by corrupt corporations for most of humanity.”From there, the award-winning writer examines destructive environmental trends and practices and explores ways to protect and preserve planet Earth.D...
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    30,01 €

  • Shattered Earth
    Dr. Ian Prattis
    Author Dr. Ian Prattis opens Shattered Earth in the not too distant future with a futuristic analysis of Climate Change and “the inevitable fate provided by the suicide pact engineered by corrupt corporations for most of humanity.”From there, the award-winning writer examines destructive environmental trends and practices and explores ways to protect and preserve planet Earth.D...
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    11,21 €

  • Getting the transport right - for what?
    Mathilde Rehnlund
    “Get the transportation right. Then let things happen.” Sir Peter Hall, Professor of Urban Planning, once gave this advice on planning cities for a sustainable future.In research and politics, ‘right’ is increasingly coming to mean ‘sustainable.’ There is a wide consensus that transport is a crucial component of  sustainability efforts and an approximate agreement about what me...
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    27,42 €

  • An Appetite For Change?
    Philip Richardson
    The production of food is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Unprecedented human demand for food, particularly for meat and milk, presents a huge challenge to farmers who, at the same time face increasing pressure to conserve the environment. This book explains how farmers across the world must learn to cope with increasing climatic change and mounting environment...
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    17,66 €

  • The WTO and Environment-Related International Trade Disputes
    David C Cook / Janet Haddock-Fraser / Robert W Fraser
    We live in a world that is increasingly dependent on international trade in a context of substantial regional/national political tensions. Adding to this is an emerging understanding and concern about the social impact of biosecurity and ecosystem services risks associated with such trade. As the key international trade 'arbiter', the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ...
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    118,22 €

  • The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes
    A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, 'The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes' addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones. ...
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    57,32 €

  • SDG16 - Peace and Justice
    Vesela Radovic
    This book details how interested parties can, must and are getting ahead of the curve to promote peace, provide access to justice and build accountable institutions for all. It envisions a hopeful future in which the impacts of SDG16 are likely to be far more positive, transformational, and visible much more quickly, than we might have imagined. ...
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    85,11 €

  • The Technical History of China’s Grand Canal
    Jun Deng / Xuming Tan / Yunpeng Li
    Based on the past 30-years' research on the technical and cultural values of China's Grand Canal, this book, based on interdisciplinary research, studies the natural and social background of the evolution and development of different sections of the Grand Canal in different historical periods, as well as the interrelations between the Grand Canal and the Chinese politic...
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    142,27 €

  • 2030 - The Year Civilisation Will Die
    Bill Butterworth
    This book is not about global warming and whether it is taking place or not, how fast it is and what effects it will have. Nor is it about population growth. Nor is it about running out of effective vaccines and antibiotics. Those issues, in isolation, are covered in great depth by many other sources. This book brings the three together, considering the possibility of the triad...
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    19,82 €

  • The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States
    Mattijs van Maasakkers
    The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States provides an in-depth analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. It explains why very few of these markets have succeeded even after close to twenty years of scholarly enthusiasm, federal funding and concerted efforts by NGOs, government agencies and busi...
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    54,70 €

  • Leave It in the Ground
    John Berg
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    82,64 €

  • What Does Green Mean?
    James GS Marshall
    Canadians have seen Liberal governments. They’ve seen Conservative governments. And they’ve seen New Democrat governments. But as of 2019 they still have yet to see a Green government.Around the rest of the world, however, Green Parties have formed governments many times. In many countries they have been an established part of the political domain for decades. And they’re not s...
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    42,52 €

  • What Does Green Mean?
    James GS Marshall
    Canadians have seen Liberal governments. They’ve seen Conservative governments. And they’ve seen New Democrat governments. But as of 2019 they still have yet to see a Green government.Around the rest of the world, however, Green Parties have formed governments many times. In many countries they have been an established part of the political domain for decades. And they’re not s...
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    31,99 €

  • Rowing Between the Rooftops
    Rejimon Kuttappan
    ‘Rejimon writes in a highly readable manner [of these]…heart-warming anecdotes of the valour of our coastal communities…whose members are well deserving of the highest praise and admiration from a grateful society. A work to cherish!’—Dr Shashi Tharoor, MPIn August 2018, when the worst floods in a century hit Kerala, fishermen risked their lives, their boats—their only source o...
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    10,33 €

  • SDG3 - Good Health and Wellbeing
    SDG3 - Good Health and Wellbeing: Re-Calibrating the SDG Agenda will explore topics surrounding the contemporary discussions concerning the implementation of the goal. It will cover concepts and concerns, and include practical case studies of how SDG3 has been implemented in different regions of the world. ...
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    84,71 €


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