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  • Blue Skies, Blue Seas

    Air Pollution, Marine Plastics, and Coastal Erosion in the Middle East and North Africa

    by Martin Heger, Lukas Vashold, Anabella Palacios, Alahmadi, Marcelo Acerbi ...
    Series series MENA Development Report
    While economic and social indicators in many Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries have improved over the past three decades, the region’s blue natural assets—clean air, healthy seas, and coastlines—have degraded virtually everywhere. Air pollution levels in the region’s cities are among the highest in the world. Per capita marine plastic pollution is among the highest in the world; ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Blue Skies, Blue Seas

    Air Pollution, Marine Plastics, and Coastal Erosion in the Middle East and North Africa

    by Martin Heger, Lukas Vashold, Anabella Palacios, Mala Alahmadi, Marjory-Anne Bromhead, Marcelo Acerbi ...
    Series series MENA Development Report
    This book documents the state of 'blue' natural capital in the Middle East and North Africa region, focussing on air pollution, marine plastics, and coastal erosion. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature's Frontiers

    Achieving Sustainability, Efficiency, and Prosperity with Natural Capital

    by Richard Damania, Stephen Polasky, Mary Ruckelshaus, Jason Russ, Markus Amann, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, James Gerber, Peter Hawthorne, Martin Philipp Heger, Saleh Mamun, Giovanni Ruta, Rafael Schmitt, Jeffrey Smith, Adrian Vogl, Fabian Wagner, Esha Zaveri ...
    Series series Environment and Sustainable Development
    This report examines the use of natural capital (natural resources and services) around the world. It finds that most countries are using these resources inefficiently, and closing these efficiency gaps can address many of the world's pressing economic and environmental problems. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature's Frontiers

    Achieving Sustainability, Efficiency, and Prosperity with Natural Capital

    by Richard Damania, Stephen Polasky, Mary Ruckelshaus, Russ, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, James Gerber, Peter Hawthorne, Martin Philipp Heger, Saleh Mamun, Giovanni Ruta, Rafael Schmitt, Jeffrey Smith, Adrian Vogl, Fabian Wagner ...
    Series series Environment and Sustainable Development
    The great expansion of economic activity since the end of World War II has caused an unprecedented rise in living standards, but it has also caused rapid changes in earth systems. Nearly all types of natural capital—the world’s stock of resources and services provided by nature—are in decline. Clean air, abundant and clean water, fertile soils, productive fisheries, dense forests, and healthy ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Common Wealth

    Economics for a Crowded Planet

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    “Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.” —The New York Times Book Review“Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces.” —Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United StatesIn Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • World on the Edge

    How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food ... Read more

    $13.69 CAD

  • This Is the Way the World Ends

    How Droughts and Die-Offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America

    by Jeff Nesbit ...
    "This is a must-read that lays out the clear and present dangers of climate change—and what we must do to avoid global catastrophe." —Rhea Suh, former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)Bustle 's "17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out in September 2018"The world itself won't end, of course. Only ours will: our livelihoods, our homes, our cultures. And we're squarely at the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Back to the Well

    Rethinking the Future of Water

    by Marq de Villiers ...
    Shortlisted, Donner Prize and Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction AwardDroughts, floods, and contamination of fresh water in the American Southwest, in the Great Lakes region, in Australia, in northern China, in the Middle East, and in India have brought the critical issue of water supply to the forefront of public consciousness. In dozens of countries, ordinary citizens have cause to worry about what ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • World on the Edge

    How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

    by Lester Brown ...
    In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • Water, Peace, and War

    Confronting the Global Water Crisis

    by Brahma Chellaney ...
    This pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security as well as possible ways to mitigate the crisis. Although water is essential to sustaining life and livelihoods, geostrategist Brahma Chellaney argues that it remains the world’s most underappreciated and undervalued resource. One sobering fact is that the ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

  • Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation And Cooperation (Second Edition)

    by Ariel Dinar, Shlomi Dinar, Daene C Mckinney, Stephen C Mccaffrey ...
    Series Book 11 - World Scientific Series On Environmental And Energy Economics And Policy
    Bridges over Water places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines, such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics. It demonstrates their application, using various quantitative approaches, such as river basin modeling, quantitative negotiation theory, and game theory. Case-studies ... Read more

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  • Water Politics

    Governing Our Most Precious Resource

    by David L. Feldman ...
    As the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire nations. In reality, however, water conflicts rarely result in violence and more often lead to collaborative governance, however precarious.In this comprehensive and accessible text, David Feldman introduces readers to the key issues, debates, and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD