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  • Contemporary Environmental Politics

    From Margins to Mainstream

    Edited by Piers Stephens, John Barry, Andrew Dobson ...
    Series series Environmental Politics
    This new collection from the leading journal, Environmental Politics,presents an excellent overview of the key themes found in contemporary green political thought since the early 1990s.Bringing together the journal's major work, this new book charts a fascinating period in which environmental politics developed from a marginal position in society and the academy, to its current place in the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Perspectives on the Environment (Volume 2)

    Interdisciplinary Research Network on Environment and Society

    Edited by Sue Elworthy, Kevin Anderson, Ian Coates, Piers Stephens, Matt Stroh ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1995, the essays in this book are papers presented to the second conference of the Interdisciplinary Research Network on the Environment and Society (IRNES) held in Sheffield in September 1993. It follows "Perspectives on the Environment" (ed. Holder et al, 1993, Avebury) to continue the dissemination of the work of IRNES members to a wider audience. Part I explores the social ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • The Green Light

    A Self-Critique of the Ecological Movement

    by Bernard Charbonneau ...
    Translated by Christian Roy ...
    The Green Light ('Le Feu Vert') offers an original and profound exploration of the roots of environmental philosophy and the Anthropocene. Bernard Charbonneau situates the wellspring of the ecological movement in the dialectics of Nature and Freedom, and their needful but uneasy joining against the totalizing system of technological society that threatens them both. Using this paradoxical tension ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

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  • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

    by James C. Scott ...
    Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go ... Read more

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  • Sustainability

    A History

    by Jeremy L. Caradonna ...
    The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable development" as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "sustainable lifestyle." Seeming ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Climate Change

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    "A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."—Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of AmericaSince it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. Reprinted many times since its publication, it remains the only work that looks in detail at the political issues posed by global warming. This new ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • On Equilibrium

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    What does John Ralston Saul's influential philosophical trilogy Voltaire's Bastards, The Doubter's Companion and The Unconscious Civilization mean for the real lives of individuals? Is it possible to apply his groundbreaking theories to everyday life?On Equilibrium presents us with a virtual "how to" of the ways that ideas can translate into action. Saul explains how our different qualities give ... Read more

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  • Environmental Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elizabeth Fisher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer. Few people would actively argue for pollution or environmental destruction. Ensuring a clean environment is ethically desirable, and also sensible ... Read more

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  • The Green Halo

    A Bird's-Eye View of Ecological Ethics

    by Erazim Kohak ...
    The Green Halo is a highly readable introduction to the vast field of contemporary ecological thought. It is a basic education in environmental philosophy and a welcome propadeutic for understanding the most crucial problem facing humankind in the coming century: How can humans live on this earth so that they do not destroy the preconditions for their own existence? ... Read more

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  • How to Think Seriously About the Planet

    The Case for an Environmental Conservatism

    by Roger Scruton ...
    The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the over-exploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet, and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously About the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the ... Read more

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  • Globalization and the Environment

    by Peter Christoff, Robyn Eckersley ...
    Series series Globalization
    This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework for understanding the globalization of environmental problems and the highly uneven, often faltering, international political response. The authors ... Read more

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