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“heather tallis”

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  • Natural Capital

    Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services

    Edited by Peter Kareiva, Heather Tallis, Taylor H. Ricketts, Gretchen C. Daily, Stephen Polasky ...
    In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services. It concluded that recent trends in ecosystem change threatened human wellbeing due to declining ecosystem services. This bleak prophecy has galvanized conservation organizations, ecologists, and economists to work toward rigorous valuations of ecosystem services ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Energy Sprawl Solutions

    Balancing Global Development and Conservation

    by Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Leandro Baumgarten, David Richard Cameron, Laura Crane, Jeffrey S. Evans, Joseph Fargione, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Tamayo, Peter Hawthorne, Mark Hebblewhite, Christina M. Kennedy, Eduardo Klein, Linda I. Krueger, Roger Eduardo Martinez Rivas, Bruce A. McKenney, Daniela A. Miteva, James Ross Oakleaf, Jeff Opperman, Juan Papadakis, Sophie S. Parker, John Randall, Kei Sochi, Heather Tallis, Kevin E. Doherty, Peter Kareiva, Amal-Lee Amin, Graham Watkins, Juan J. Cardenas Lopez, Gert J. Kramer ...
    Over the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. Parts of the energy sector are preparing to meet this demand by increasing renewable energy production, which is necessary to combat climate change. But many renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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    The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

    Edited by Paul Hawken ...
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    $19.99 CAD

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  • Creating A Sustainable And Desirable Future: Insights From 45 Global Thought Leaders

    by Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski ...
    The major challenge for the current generation of mankind is to develop a shared vision of a future that is both desirable to the vast majority of humanity and ecologically sustainable. Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future offers a broad, critical discussion on what such a future should or can be, with global perspectives written by some of the world's leading thinkers, including: Wendell ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Applied Choice Analysis

    by David A. Hensher, John M. Rose, William H. Greene ...
    The second edition of this popular book brings students fully up to date with the latest methods and techniques in choice analysis. Comprehensive yet accessible, it offers a unique introduction to anyone interested in understanding how to model and forecast the range of choices made by individuals and groups. In addition to a complete rewrite of several chapters, new topics covered include ordered ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

  • Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation

    by Thomas Henfry, Gil Penha-Lopes ...
    Permaculture is a design system for sustainable human habitats and basis of a worldwide citizen-led movement present in over 100 countries.For decades, permaculture practitioners have devised creative responses to changes in local climatic conditions. In doing so, they have developed a collective knowledge and experience invaluable to global efforts to address climate change.This book seeks to ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Blackout

    Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost entirely on coal-generated electricity.Coal currently looks like a solution to many of our fast-growing energy problems. However, while coal advocates are urging full steam ahead, increasing reliance on the dirtiest of all fossil ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecological Economics from the Ground Up

    Edited by Hali Healy, Joan Martínez-Alier, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter, Julien-François Gerber ...
    Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of internationally relevant topics, to teach the principles, concepts, methods and tools of these fields, which are seen as increasingly important in the context of the current triple social, economic and ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East

    Securing Livelihoods, Building Peace

    by Christopher Ward, Sandra Ruckstuhl ...
    The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity. One of the poorest countries in the world sits alongside two of the wealthiest, whilst the region's natural resources range from immeasurable oil and gas reserves to some of the scantiest natural endowments anywhere in the world. Yet through this diversity runs a common thread: water scarcity. Now, through the impact of human ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Enterprise

    Lessons from Frontrunner Companies

    by Rob van Tulder, Mara Francken, Rob Tilburg, Andrea Rosa ...
    In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the ‘business case’ for sustainability. Drawing on examples from 20 frontrunner companies located in the Netherlands, it builds upon a unique research project in which CEOs and middle-managers gave access not only to their decision-making process, but also revealed how their perceptions shaped the transition ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Environmental Change and Human Security in Africa and the Middle East

    Edited by Mohamed Behnassi, Katriona McGlade ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume brings together insights on the interactions between environmental change and human security in the Middle East and Africa. These regions face particular challenges in relation to environmental degradation, the decline of natural resources and consequent risks to current and future human security.The chapters provide topical analysis from a range of disciplines on the theory, discourse ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Broken Pumps and Promises

    Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health

    Edited by Evan A. Thomas ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume highlights some of the challenges in delivering effective environmental health interventions, and presents examples of emergent theories and case studies that can help close the gap between intent and impact. These include impact crediting systems, objective evidence gathering tools, and social businesses that service environmental health. The case studies presented cross disciplines, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD