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“maurice strong”

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  • Where on Earth Are We Going?

    by Maurice Strong ...
    A surprising call to action from a key business and environmental player at the dawn of the millenium.From the Report to the Shareholders, Earth Inc., dated January 1, 2030 that begins Where on Earth Are We Going?: world hunger, ecological and environmental disaster, global warming, massive shifts in weather systems, the re-emergence of diseases long thought controlled, and political turmoil in a ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Only One Earth

    The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development

    by Felix Dodds, Michael Strauss, with Maurice F. Strong ...
    Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows the continuing threat of our present way of living to the planet. It looks to the challenges that we ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

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    Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

    by Thomas L. Friedman ...
    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Businessweek Best Business Book of the YearA Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearIn this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment... ... Read more

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  • Global Governance and the New Wars

    The Merging of Development and Security

    by Mark Duffield ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    In this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse. Aid agencies have become increasingly involved in humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution and the social reconstruction of war-torn societies. Duffield explores the consequences of this growing merger ... Read more

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  • Arab Dawn

    Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring

    by Bessma Momani ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    In the West, news about the Middle East is dominated by an endless stream of reports and commentary about civil war, sectarian violence, religious extremism, and economic stagnation. But do they tell the full story? For instance, who knew that university enrolment in the war-torn Palestinian territories exceeds that of Hong Kong, or that more than a third of Lebanese entrepreneurs are women?Change ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

    Dispatches from the Front Lines

    by Michael Mann ...
    The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph—a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE. Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating that global temperatures have risen in conjunction with the increase in industrialization and the ... Read more

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  • Fools Rule

    Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change

    by William Marsden ...
    This eloquent, rage-inciting polemic about the global failure to deal with climate change will appeal to readers of Tim Flannery, George Monbiot and Bill McKibben - and anyone concerned with the economic and environmental future of our planet.Kyoto, 1997. Montreal, 2005. Copenhagen, 2009. Cancun, 2010. In Fools Rule, Marsden illustrates how inefficient and short-sighted political negotiations have ... Read more

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  • Aid, Technology and Development

    The Lessons from Nepal

    Edited by Dipak Gyawali, Michael Thompson, Marco Verweij ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Over the last 50 years, Nepal has been considered an experiential model in determining the effectiveness and success of global human development strategies, both in theory and in practice. As such, it provides a rich array of in-depth case studies in both development success and failure. This edited collection examines these in order to propose a novel perspective on how human development occurs ... Read more

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  • How To Protect Endangered Animals - Animal Book Age 10 | Children's Animal Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Endangered animals need everyone’s help - regardless of age, gender, race and social status. The first step to protecting endangered animals is to educate the young. The purpose is to make children become aware of what endangered animals are, where they can be found and what can be done to save them. Read this book with your 10-year-old today! ... Read more

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  • Into the Unknown eBook

    Explorations in development practice

    by Professor Robert Chambers ...
    Development is about change, and lives immersed in researching international development should be prepared for exploration, for discovering the unexpected, and for questioning the direction that ‘development’ is taking. Robert Chambers reflects on experiences, which led him to examine personal biases and predispositions, and he challenges readers to examine the pervasive significance of power in ... Read more

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    The Science, the Solutions, the Way Forward

    by Danny Chivers ...
    Series Book 3 - No-Nonsense Guides
    Just as the need for action on climate change becomes more urgent and overwhelming, the campaign to deny that humans are causing it has gained more traction. This completely new book meets the skeptics head on, offering a guide to the science, an insight into the politics of climate justice and a clear sense of the way forward.This is an ideal offering for students, academics and anyone interested ... Read more

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  • Justice and Security Reform

    Development Agencies and Informal Institutions in Sierra Leone

    by Lisa Denney ...
    Series series Law, Development and Globalization
    Justice and Security Reform: Development Agencies and Informal Institutions in Sierra Leone undertakes a deep contextual analysis of the reform of the country’s security and justice sectors since the end of the civil war in 2002. Arguing that the political and bureaucratic nature of development agencies leads to a lack of engagement with informal institutions, this book examines the challenges of ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD