Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “julia jaeger”
Skip side bar filters

  • European Research on Sustainable Development

    Volume 1: Transformative Science Approaches for Sustainability

    Edited by J. David Tàbara, Carlo C. Jaeger, Julia Jaeger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides the reader with a state-of-the-art view of research on sustainable development. Its emphasis lies on the transformative dimension of this research: sustainable development can only be realized through a far-reaching transformation of the situation humankind finds itself in at the beginning of the third millennium. The contributions are written by leading world experts in the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Beyond Hope

    An Illustrated History of the Fraser and Cariboo Gold Rush

    by Beverley Boissery, Bronwyn Short ...
    Gold. With that one little word and its promise of fabulous wealth, people from all parts of the world came to British Columbia in the 1850s and 1860s. Most were ill equipped for the difficult terrain, the icy water, and the inhospitable climate. Some found the motherlode. Others settled for becoming rich merchants. Most became impoverished, and a large number lost their lives. With new roads and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Bioeconomics of Invasive Species

    Integrating Ecology, Economics, Policy, and Management

    Edited by Reuben P. Keller, David M. Lodge, Mark A. Lewis, Jason F. Shogren ...
    Biological invasions are one of the strongest drivers of global environmental change, and invasive species are now often in the public discourse. At the same time, economists have begun to take a real interest in determining how invasive species interact with economic systems, and how invaders should be controlled to optimize societal wealth. Although the work from ecologists and economists have ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Let Them Eat Carbon

    The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit From Them

    by Matthew Sinclair ...
    Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world companies are making billions out of the schemes governments have put in place saying they will curb global warming and protect us from the threat of climate change. There is little evidence that those policies are an ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How the World's Religions are Responding to Climate Change

    Social Scientific Investigations

    Edited by Robin Globus Veldman, Andrew Szasz, Randolph Haluza-DeLay ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    A growing chorus of voices has suggested that the world’s religions may become critical actors as the climate crisis unfolds, particularly in light of international paralysis on the issue. In recent years, many faiths have begun to address climate change and its consequences for human societies, especially the world’s poor. This is the first volume to use social science to examine how religions ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Reconstructing Sustainability Science

    Knowledge and action for a sustainable future

    by Thaddeus Miller ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    The growing urgency, complexity and "wickedness" of sustainability problems—from climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and persistent poverty and inequality—present fundamental challenges to scientific knowledge production and its use. While there is little doubt that science has a crucial role to play in our ability to pursue sustainability goals, critical questions remain ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • The Social Metabolism

    A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change

    by Víctor M. Toledo, Manuel González de Molina ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Over this last decade, the concept of Social Metabolism has gained prestige as a theoretical instrument for the required analysis, to such an extent that there are now dozens of researchers, hundreds of articles and several books that have adopted and use this concept. However, there is a great deal of variety in terms of definitions and interpretations, as well as different methodologies around ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization

    by Robert Ayres ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years on energy inputs from a finite storage of fossil fuels. In this book, you will learn about the three key requirements for wealth ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Climate Change Adaptation in North America

    Fostering Resilience and the Regional Capacity to Adapt

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Jesse M. Keenan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This edited book responds to the need for a better understanding of how climate change affects North America and for the identification of processes, methods and tools that may help countries and communities to develop a more robust adaptive capacity. It showcases successful examples of how to manage the social, economic and environmental complexities posed by climate change. The book attempts to ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Economics and Environmental Change

    The Challenges We Face

    by Clement A. Tisdell ...
    In this innovative book, Clement Tisdell adopts a holistic approach, combining economic, social, biophysical and historical considerations to analyse the economic origins of major contemporary environmental problems, especially those associated with climate change. The ability of humankind to respond effectively to these problems is assessed in a unique and lucid fashion. The depth and nature of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Role of Science for Conservation

    Edited by Matthias Wolff, Mark Gardener ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    The book integrates the knowledge and reflections of 30 scientists, of which many have dedicated a substantial part of their professional life to the Galapagos archipelago, to the conservation of its biodiversity and to the sustainable management of its resources. The book can be considered a milestone on the way to the successful conservation and sustainable development of this unique world ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Energy Transitions in Japan and China

    Mine Closures, Rail Developments, and Energy Narratives

    by Tai Wei Lim ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume focuses on the topic of energy transitions in the coal mining industries of China and Japan by adopting a Sino-Japanese comparative approach in area studies to examine the experiences between the two major East Asian economies. In China, rapid industrialization led to dramatic growth in energy demand and much of this energy demand was fueled by affordable coal energy. With growing ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD