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  • Climate Obstruction

    A Global Assessment

    Edited by J. Timmons Roberts, Carlos R. S. Milani, Jennifer Jacquet, Christian Downie ...
    Large-scale assessments, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have been crucial in advancing our understanding of climate change. They have affirmed that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is urgently needed to avoid its disastrous consequences and that we possess the scientific knowledge and technical ability to meet that challenge. Citizens around the world are ... Read more

    $37.19 CAD

  • Trouble in Paradise

    Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America

    by J. Timmons Roberts, Nikki Demetria Thanos ...
    Environmental degradation in Latin America has become one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The volume began to crescendo when space shuttle astronauts photographed five thousand fires on a single night in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia in 1985, and grew shrill when rubbertapper Chico Mendes was shot in 1988 trying to ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Climate Obstruction across Europe

    Edited by Robert J. Brulle, J. Timmons Roberts, Miranda C. Spencer ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Understanding climate obstruction is foundational to advancing effective action on the global climate crisis. Starting in the late 1980s, a broad range of actors- ... Read more

    $37.19 CAD

  • The Globalization and Development Reader

    Perspectives on Development and Global Change

    Edited by J. Timmons Roberts, Amy Bellone Hite, Nitsan Chorev ...
    This revised and updated second edition of The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the considerable success of a first edition that has been used around the world. It combines selected readings and editorial material to provide a coherent text with global coverage, reflecting new theoretical and empirical developments.Main text and core reference for students and professionals studying ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Globalization and Environment Reader

    Edited by J. Timmons Roberts, Pete Newell ...
    The Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting-edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can be made compatible with sustainable development.Offers a comprehensive collection of nearly 30 classic and cutting-edge readings spanning a broad range of perspectives within this increasingly important fieldAddresses the question of whether economic ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Greening Aid?

    Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance

    by Robert L. Hicks, Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts, Michael J. Tierney ...
    Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South. Why do donors provide this aid? What do they seek to achieve? How effective is the aid given? And does it always go to the places of greatest environmental need? From the first Earth Summit in Stockholm in 1972 to the G8 Gleneagles meeting in 2005, the issue of the ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • A Fragmented Continent

    Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change

    by Guy Edwards, J. Timmons Roberts ...
    Series series Politics, Science, and the Environment
    How Latin American countries became leading voices and innovators on addressing climate change—and what threatens their leadership.Latin American countries have increased their influence at the United Nations climate change negotiations and offered potential solutions on coping with global warming. But in the face of competing priorities, sometimes these climate policies are jettisoned, undermined ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Law Of Dynamic Exchange

    How an artist gave it all away and became wealthy

    by Robert Timmons ...
    Where art, mentorship, and deeper principles of life collide is where The Law of Dynamic Exchange begins.This book chronicles a twenty year creative and personal journey that reveals a truth few strategies ever teach. When effort alone stops working, giving becomes the gateway forward.Through lived experiences, meaningful mentorships, and moments that could never have been planned, the author ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Sociological Theory and the Environment

    Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights

    by Ted Benton, Frederick Buttel, William R. Catton Jr., Riley Dunlap, Peter Grimes, Rosemary McKechnie, Elim Papadakis, Timmons Roberts, Ornulf Seippel, Elizabeth Shove, Alan Warde, Peter Wehling, Ian Welsh, Steve Yearley, John Hannigan, Raymond Murphy ...
    Sociological Theory and the Environment is a comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their 'natural' biophysical environment. This book touches on and addresses virtually all of the major perspectives, focal points, and debates in environmental sociology today-classical and twentieth century social theories, macro-micro linkage issues, ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

  • Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin

    A Translation and a Study

    by Robert Boenig ...
    In Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin, Patricia Timmons and Robert Boenig present the first English translation of a twelfth-century Latin collection of miracles that Berceo, the first named poet in the Spanish language, used as a source for his thirteenth-century Spanish collection Milagros de Nuestra Señora. Using the MS Thott 128, close to the one Berceo must have used, ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building

    by Mizan R Khan, J. Timmons Roberts, Saleemul Huq, Victoria Hoffmeister ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building pioneers a new era of climate change governance, performing the foundational job of clarifying what is meant by the often ad-hoc, one-off, uncoordinated, ineffective and unsustainable practices of the past decade described as 'capacity building' to address climate change. As an alternative, this book presents a framework on how to build ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Power in a Warming World

    The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality

    by David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, Mizan R. Khan ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable climate outcomes.After nearly a quarter century of international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a crossroads. A new set of agreements is likely to fail to prevent the global climate's destabilization. Islands and coastlines face inundation, ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD