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  • Climate, Capitalism and Communities
    Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change.Climate, Capitalism and Communities focuses explicitly on that nexus, examining the injustices and inequalities - as well as the activist responses - that hav...
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    126,99 €

  • Climate Abandoned
    Jill Cody
    This is a Wakeup CallWe no longer have the luxury of ignoring climate change“What’s really breathtaking is how ill-prepared we are for such changes.” - Bill McKibben, “This is How Human Extinction Could Play Out,' Rolling StoneThere isn’t much time left. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that the “planet has only until 2030 to stem catastrophic cli...
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    18,32 €

  • Climate Engineering
    Daniel Callies / Daniel Edward Callies
    Climate Engineering: A Normative Perspective takes as its subject a prospective policy response to the urgent problem of climate change, one previously considered taboo. Climate engineering, the 'deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment in order to counteract anthropogenic climate change,' encapsulates a wide array of technological proposals. Daniel Edw...
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    122,45 €

  • DOLLAR DEMOCRACY ON STEROIDS
    Peter Mathews
    Big Corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many politicians through campaign donations and lobbying. These politicians vote to benefit their donors more than the people. They have outsourced our jobs; dismantled our public education and colleges; neglected our healthcare; destroyed our environment; brought us global warming and climate disruption; polluted our ...
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    19,28 €

  • Renewing Destruction
    Alexander A. Dunlap / Alexander Dunlap
    Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments. Wind energy development, in Mexico and most countries, fall into a ’roll out’ neoliberal strategy that is justified by climate change mitigation programs that are continuing a process of land and wind resources grabbing for profit. The result has been an exaggeration of pre-existing pro...
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    163,69 €

  • Renewing Destruction
    Alexander A. Dunlap / Alexander Dunlap
    Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments. Wind energy development, in Mexico and most countries, fall into a ’roll out’ neoliberal strategy that is justified by climate change mitigation programs that are continuing a process of land and wind resources grabbing for profit. The result has been an exaggeration of pre-existing pro...
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    54,32 €

  • Trump's Corrupt United Nations
    Pallavi Kakoti-McHugh
    FORMER UN STAFFER WHISTLE BLOWS ON RACISM, SEXISM, AND CORRUPTION AND COVER-UP OF THE UNITED NATIONS --Says millions of dollars of tax money used to fund corruption and racism and How President Donald Trump handled the situation in Trump's Corrupt United Nations.The only person in the world trained in the combination of environmental science, environmental law, internationa...
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    21,88 €

  • Water Wars
    Ph.D. Bruce J. Carter / Ph.D. Douglas Winslow Cooper / Ph.DBruce JCarter / Ph.DDouglas Winslow Cooper
    In this independently funded study, the authors address the future of the world’s supplies of clean water, exploring in depth the U.S.A.’s Colorado River Basin, where a variety of approaches have been used and proposed to manage provision and allocation of the Colorado River water. Increases in population and water usage, along with uncertainties associated with climate change,...
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    14,71 €

  • Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond
    Increasing depopulation is causing huge problems for rural communities, leading to a reduction in services and infrastructure in areas with ageing populations. This book examines the concept of the Smart Village, an ICT-conscious integrated strategy which provides a sustainable solution to these problems, helping to revitalize rural areas. ...
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    142,96 €

  • In the Name of the Great Work
    Doubravka Olsakova
    Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of nature." Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, captivating political elites and war-fatigued publics alike. By the time of St...
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    44,19 €

  • The Last Fish Swimming
    Gohar Petrossian
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    95,74 €

  • Play WholEarth Game
    Alanson Jared Charles / Nathan Hassall
    In 1985, at 25 years old, I began a journey to find my true purpose. I began a game of trust and sharing. The day I stepped into Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. How could I begin to compete with all these super talented artists?A simple idea came to me. For all living things, just five things: a home, clean water, healthy food, create energy to do something.My purpose...
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    9,43 €

  • The Wild and the Toxic
    Jennifer Thomson
    Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives, and science-based advocacy organizations about whose health matters most, ...
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    127,16 €

  • Financing Affordable Housing in Yangon
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides analysis and recommendations to support the Yangon Region Government to implement its affordable housing agenda and related policies.Myanmar’s housing sector is struggling to cope with rapid urbanization, internal migration, and new demand arising from recent economic growth. These challenges are most apparent in the Yangon Region, where estimates sugg...
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    31,97 €

  • SDG17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    Monica Thiel
    This book will address partnership challenges and opportunities to influence and develop the capacity of the private and public sectors, and political representatives, to fully implement the goal within local, regional, national, global, and transnational levels. ...
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    98,91 €

  • National Parks Our Living National Treasures
    Dr. Gil Lusk / DrGil Lusk
    The National Park Service, created in 1916 and now over one hundred years old, has become an immensely popular concept with visitation equal to the national population of the United States every year. Along the way, the Service has picked up a few issues and stresses that endanger the mission of the NPS. Its unique mission is to preserve and protect America's significant na...
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    15,83 €

  • Ecocriticism of the Global South
    Scott Slovic
    Using the rubric of the “Global South,” this volume allows scholars from underrepresented regions to offer commentary on the ecological conditions and environmental cultures in the developing world. ...
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    54,22 €

  • The Ecopolitics of Consumption
    HLouise Davis
    Today’s highly industrialized and technologically controlled global food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us, human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecol...
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    54,53 €

  • Energy Policy in the Emerging Economies
    Joachim Betz / Sören Scholvin
    Energy has always been essential to economics and politics. While global energy consumption increases, fossil fuels are depleting. The countries that will be hit hardest by declining energy resources are the emerging economies of the Global South, where the relevance of the industrial sector is only slightly declining (or, indeed, still on the rise) and where governments have s...
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    128,98 €

  • The Foreman’s Boys
    William Marcum
    Employment prospects for many were bleak at the height of the Great Depression. For unmarried recent high school graduates, the prospect of getting a job was mostly non-existent. President Rosevelt’s New Deal plan included the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program specifically targeted to provide employment for those whose job prospects were non-existent. This seventeen to twe...
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    15,66 €

  • Plutonium & People Don’t Mix
    LeRoy Moore
    Production of nuclear weapons began at Rocky Flats in 1952. For thirty-seven years it was the only plant in the country producing the fissile plutonium bomb cores for the U.S. arsenal.  But the plant also created a tradition of risk for people in the area. 3 ...
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    52,69 €

  • Surviving Global Warming
    Roger A. Sedjo / Roger ASedjo
    Though the Paris Agreement on climate change was a significant achievement, most authorities agree that its measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions will be insufficient to offset the forecasted increase in global warming. Even in the unlikely case of ideal compliance, the Earth will still experience major climate-driven damages. Given this reality, climate expert Roger A. S...
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    21,12 €

  • Facing the Apocalypse - Arguments for Ecosocialism
    Alan Thornett
    This book is a response to what is now a planetary ecological emergency. The special IPCC Report, published in October 2018, concluded that the increase in the temperature of the planet over preindustrial times due to global warming must be held below 1.5°C if dangerous destabilisations are to be avoided. This was the limit fought for in Paris by countries under direct threat f...
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    27,30 €

  • Throwaway Nation
    Jeff Dondero
    Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It’s befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste, and we’re now polluting outer space. Throwaway Nation ta...
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    44,52 €

  • Overcoming Disadvantage
    Brian Ross Roberts
    This extensive compilation with comprehensive index represents two decades of personal research on Indigenous culture and spirituality. It analyses group identity and seeks to highlight the fundamental building blocks or ‘essence’ of Aboriginal well-being. The author extracts the critical issues faced by Indigenous communities and relates these to mainstream behavioural norms b...
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    21,30 €

  • The Politics of Land
    Tim Bartley
    This volume renews the political sociology of land. Chapters examine dynamics of political control and contention in a range of settings, including land grabs in Asia and Africa, expulsions and territorial control in South America, environmental regulation in Europe, and controversies over fracking, gentrification, and property taxes in the USA. ...
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    189,61 €

  • International Organizations and Environmental Protection
    Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of...
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    44,00 €

  • Carbon Markets in a Climate-Changing Capitalism
    Gareth Bryant
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    141,49 €

  • Middle-ism World
    Fred Rouady
    The protection for the natural environment against human interference has stepped up since the early 1990’s. Most people in western countries have mistakenly considered the environment as only global warming, but tend to ignore other environmental issues. Like pollution of our oceans and water systems with plastic waste, over logging, etc. The earth has turned on humans lately ...
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    11,23 €

  • The Goldilocks Policy
    John R Fanchi
    This book makes the case for a grand energy bargain that recognizes the need to protect the environment from the combustion of fossil fuels while protecting the national and global economies during the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy.Our future energy mix depends on choices we make, which depends, in turn, on energy policy. Society is continuing a trend towar...
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    107,67 €


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