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“dina ionesco”

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  • The Atlas of Environmental Migration

    by Dina Ionesco, Daria Mokhnacheva, François Gemenne ...
    As climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities the need to study its impact on human migration and population displacement has never been greater.The Atlas of Environmental Migration is the first illustrated publication mapping this complex phenomenon. It clarifies terminology and concepts, draws a typology of ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

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  • The Great Global Warming Blunder

    How Mother Nature Fooled the Worlds Top Climate Scientists

    by Roy W Spencer ...
    The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow on Trees

    by Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate the emergence of a new wave of environmental attention focused on “natural capital,†“ecosystem services†and “biodiversity,†things nature does for us. In What Has Nature ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Quarterly Essay 9 Beautiful Lies

    Population and Environment in Australia

    by Tim Flannery ...
    Series Book 9 - Quarterly Essay
    In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold damage to our river system for the sake of white immigration. The lie that rushing to preserve ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Hydrogen Economy

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    "The road to global security lies in lessening our dependence on Middle East oil and making sure that all people on Earth have access to the energy they need to sustain life. Weaning the world off oil and turning it toward hydrogen is a promissory note for a safer world." -Jeremy RifkinRifkin's international bestseller presents the clearest, most comprehensive case for moving ourselves away from ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Grassroots Innovation Movements

    by Adrian Smith, Mariano Fressoli, Dinesh Abrol, Elisa Arond, Adrian Ely ...
    Series series Pathways to Sustainability
    Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and environmental sustainability for decades. Unencumbered by disciplinary boundaries, policy ... Read more

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  • Governing Animals

    Animal Welfare and the Liberal State

    by Kimberly K. Smith ...
    What is the role of government in protecting animal welfare? What principles should policy makers draw on as they try to balance animal welfare against human liberty? Much has been written in recent years on our moral duties towards animals, but scholars and activists alike have neglected the important question of how far the state may go to enforce those duties. Kimberly K. Smith fills that gap ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Betting the Earth

    How We Can Still Win the Biggest Gamble of all Time

    by John Charles Kunich, J.D. ...
    Series Book 4 - Our National Conversation
    "Betting the Earth explores the uneasy parallels between our contemporary environmental challenges and our national fascination with gambling. How much should we bet on preserving biodiversity? Should we bet more on responding to climate change? where should we place each bet: on federal or state laws, on acquiring public or private preserves, on preventing environmental harms or saving places of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Male Fertility Patterns and Determinants

    by Li Zhang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses the biological, methodological and sociological issues that have caused men to be overlooked in demographic and sociological literature of fertility. It explores the patterns and determinants of male fertility and studies male fertility rates as compared to those of females in 43 countries and places, over time. Data used in the aggregate level analysis come from multiple ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Nigerian Immigrants in the United States

    Race, Identity, and Acculturation

    by Ezekiel Umo Ette ...
    Africans in America come from different regions of the continent; they speak different languages and are from different faith traditions. Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Identity, and Acculturation attempts to generate an interest in the study of African immigrants by looking at issues of settlement and adjustment of Nigerians in the United States. The literature is scanty about ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Moving People

    Sustainable Transport Development

    by Peter Cox ...
    The local and global environmental impacts of transport are more apparent than ever before. Moving People provides an attention-grabbing introduction to the problems of transport and the development of sustainable alternatives, focusing on the often misunderstood issue of personal mobility, as opposed to freight. Re-assessing the value and importance of non-motorized transport the author raises ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Water and Social Policy

    by M. Pawar ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Manohar Pawar discusses the relevance and importance of social policy for water issues. By analysing several interrelated perspectives on water, he suggests core values as bases for formulating and implementing social policies so as to provide universal free access to safe drinking water for all, particularly for the most poor and disadvantaged. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD