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  • Super Polluters

    Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions

    by Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, Wesley Longhofer ...
    Series series Society and the Environment
    Power plants are essential to achieving the standard of living that modern societies demand and the social and economic infrastructure on which they depend. Yet their indispensability has allowed them to evade responsibility for their vast carbon emissions. Fossil-fueled power plants are the single largest sites of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, making them one of the greatest threats to our ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Super Polluters

    Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions

    by Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, Wesley Longhofer ...
    Series series Society and the Environment
    Power plants are essential to achieving the standard of living that modern societies demand and the social and economic infrastructure on which they depend. Yet their indispensability has allowed them to evade responsibility for their vast carbon emissions. Fossil-fueled power plants are the single largest sites of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, making them one of the greatest threats to our ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Environmental Sociology

    Edited by Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Andrew Jorgenson, Stephanie A. Malin, Lori Peek, David N. Pellow, Xiaorui Huang ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline. It offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of environmental sociology and its role in this era of intensified national and global environmental crises. Its timely frameworks and high-impact chapters will assist in navigating this moment ... Read more

    $371.99 CAD

  • Structural Human Ecology

    New Essays in Risk, Energy, and Sustainability

    by Nadine Bratchatzek, Paul Ehrlich, Sylvia Hiller, Roger E. Kasperson, Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, Allan Mazur, Ortwin Renn, Dirk Scheer ...
    The desire to understand people’s influence on ecosystems has inspired scientific studies and analyses of the stress individuals and communities place on the environment, human well-being, and the tradeoffs between them. As an emerging discipline, Structural Human Ecology is devoted to unlocking the dynamic links between population, environment, social organization, and technology. The new field ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rethinking Environmental History

    World-System History and Global Environmental Change

    by Joan Martinez-Alier, Stephen G. Bunker, William H. Fisher, Rafael A. Gassón, Stefan Giljum, N Thomas Håkansson, Josiah Heyman, J Donald Hughes, Andrew K. Jorgenson0, Robert B. Marks1, Jason W. Moore2, Roldan Muradian3, Janken Myrdal4, James Rice5, Joseph A. Tainter6, Immanuel Wallerstein7, Helga Weisz8, Mats Widgren9, Richard Wilk0, Michael Williams1 ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes. ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edited by Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    by Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Late Victorian Holocausts

    El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer).“ . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time . . . groundbreaking, mind-stretching.” —The IndependentExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Environmental Governance

    Institutions, Policies and Actions

    by Arild Vatn ...
    Environmental governance encompasses our relations to nature, spanning institutions and policies in fields such as biodiversity loss, climate change, land use and pollution. This book offers tools for the study of environmental conflicts, analyzes the current status of environmental policies and discusses why we are so far from resolving many of the issues we face. It also offers alternative ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Reason in a Dark Time

    Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future

    by Dale Jamieson ...
    From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Natural Experiments of History

    by Jared Diamond ...
    In eight case studies by leading scholars in history, archaeology, business, economics, geography, and political science, the authors showcase the “natural experiment” or “comparative method”—well-known in any science concerned with the past—on the discipline of human history. That means, according to the editors, “comparing, preferably quantitatively and aided by statistical analyses, different ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Companion to Development Studies

    Edited by Vandana Desai, Rob Potter ...
    The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the ... Read more

    $162.99 CAD