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  • Water Governance and Collective Action

    Multi-scale Challenges

    Edited by Diana Suhardiman, Alan Nicol, Everisto Mapedza ...
    Series series Earthscan Water Text
    Collective Action is now recognized as central to addressing the water governance challenge of delivering sustainable development and global environmental benefits. This book examines concepts and practices of collective action that have emerged in recent decades globally. Building on a Foucauldian conception of power, it provides an overview of collective action challenges involved in the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Paths to a Green World, second edition

    The Political Economy of the Global Environment

    by Jennifer Clapp, Peter Dauvergne ...
    A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes.This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Sustainability Policy

    Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy

    by Steven Cohen, William Eimicke, Alison Miller ...
    A complete guide to sustainability policy at the federal, state, and local levelsSustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy is a fundamental guide for public sector professionals new to sustainability policy development, implementation, strategy, and practice. Featuring detailed cases highlighting innovative sustainability initiatives, this book explores the elements that ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • High-Speed Rail and Sustainability

    Decision-making and the political economy of investment

    Edited by Blas Luis Pérez Henríquez, Elizabeth Deakin ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    High speed rail (HSR) is being touted as a strategic investment for connecting people across regions, while also fostering prosperity and smart urban growth. However, as its popularity increases, its implementation has become contentious with various parties contesting the validity of socioeconomic and environmental objectives put forward as justification for investment.High Speed Rail and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Future of Nature

    Documents of Global Change

    Edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sorlin, Paul Warde ...

    $26.99 USD

  • A Force for Nature

    The Story of NRDC and the Fight to Save Our Planet

    by John H. Adams, Patricia Adams, George Black ...
    The pioneering environmental activist recounts his decades-long fight for our planet through the NDRC—with a foreword by Robert Redford.In 1970, John H. Adams was fed up with the levels of pollution in New York City. How could he raise children in a place where layers of soot covered the windows? Working as a lawyer for the U.S. Attorney's office, he and fellow lawyers teamed up to form Natural ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • downstream

    reimagining water

    Edited by Dorothy Christian, Rita Wong ...
    Series series Environmental Humanities
    downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building peace and good relationships with one another and the planet. This book explores the key roles that culture, arts, and the humanities play in supporting healthy water-based ecology and provides local, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Back to the Future

    Advanced Nuclear Energy and the Battle Against Climate Change

    by Josh Freed ...
    The Golden Age of nuclear energy in the United States has passed, and the accidents, if not disasters, at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima have damaged nuclear power’s rise in some parts of the world. And yet today, as Third Way’s Josh Freed illuminates in the latest Brookings Essay, a flood of young engineers are exploring safer and cleaner nuclear energy technologies as the best ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Health and Climate Change

    Modelling the impacts of global warming and ozone depletion

    by Pim Martens ...
    'Understanding how complex ecological and climatic change can influence human health is the new challenge before us. The book confronts these multidimensional risk assessments head-on and will catalyse the important interdisciplinary and integrated approach that is the new paradigm now required for environmental and public health research.'Dr JONATHAN PATZJohns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Nazareth or Social Chaos

    by OP Fr. Vincent McNabb, Dr. Cicero Bruce ...
    Distilling the work of Father Vincent McNabb's years of preaching in London's Hyde Park, this challenging and entertaining book examines urbanized and industrialized life. The arguments claim that urban life has a deleterious effect on nature, community, family, and the spirit and offer a challenge to "flee to the fields," seeking a life not dominated by technology and artificial schedules but by ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Environmental Requirements for Electromechanical and Electrical Equipment

    by Samantha Tricker, Ray Tricker ...
    Environmental Requirements for Electromechanical and Electrical Equipment is the definitive reference containing all of the background guidance, typical ranges, details of recommended test specifications, case studies and regulations covering the environmental requirements on designers and manufacturers of electrical and electromechanical equipment worldwide. The recent introduction of the ... Read more

    $229.99 USD

  • Social Environmental Conflicts in Mexico

    Resistance to Dispossession and Alternatives from Below

    Edited by Darcy Tetreault, Cindy McCulligh, Carlos Lucio ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    What are the political economic conditions that have given rise to increasing numbers of social environmental conflicts in Mexico? Why do these conflicts arise in some local and regional contexts and not in others? How are social environmental movements constructed and sustained? And what are the alternatives? These are the questions that this book seeks to address. It is organized into three ... Read more

    $89.99 USD