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“lisa glidden”

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  • Understanding Energy and Energy Policy

    by Timothy Braun, Lisa Glidden ...
    Activists, scientists and policymakers around the world have long argued that we need to find sustainable and secure solutions to the world's energy demands. At issue for citizens worldwide is whether we are scientifically literate enough to understand the potential policy choices before us.Understanding Energy and Energy Policy is a one-stop resource for understanding the complexities of energy ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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  • The Great Global Warming Blunder

    How Mother Nature Fooled the Worlds Top Climate Scientists

    by Roy W Spencer ...
    The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Should Trees Have Standing?

    Law, Morality, and the Environment

    by Christopher D. Stone ...
    Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing? was a rallying point for the then burgeoning environmental movement, launching a worldwide debate on the basic nature of legal rights that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, in the 35th anniversary edition of this remarkably influential book, Christopher D. Stone updates his original thesis and explores the impact his ideas have had on ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Icy Battleground

    Canada the IFAW and the Seal Hunt

    by Donald Barry ...
    Icy Battleground is the first comprehensive account of the forty-year political controversy over the seal hunt. With a foreword by the Honourable John C. Crosbie, it traces the rise of the anti-sealing protests, the emergence of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, its vigorous and unrelenting campaign to end commercial sealing, and its strategies in mobilising pressure in Canada and abroad. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Environment and Society

    A Critical Introduction

    by Paul Robbins, Sarah A. Moore, John G. Hintz ...
    Series series Critical Introductions to Geography
    Substantially updated for the second edition, this engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects.Features substantial revisions and updates for the second edition, including new chapters on E waste, mosquitoes and uranium, improved maps and graphics, new exercises, shorter theory chapters, and refocused sections on ... Read more

    $58.95 USD

  • Speaking for Ourselves

    Environmental Justice in Canada

    Edited by Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Pat O'Riley ...
    The concept of environmental justice has evolved over the past two decades to offer a new direction for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity and the environmental aspects of sustainability has been little studied in Canada.Speaking for Ourselves draws ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Lukewarming

    The New Climate Science that Changes Everything

    by Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger ...
    In Lukewarming, two environmental scientists explain the science and spin behind the headlines and come to a provocative conclusion: climate change is real, and partially man-made, but it is becoming obvious that far more warming has been forecast than will occur, with some of the catastrophic impacts implausible or impossible. Global warming is more lukewarm than hot. This fresh analysis is an ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Environmental Justice

    Concepts, Evidence and Politics

    by Gordon Walker ...
    Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises questions about how the environment impacts on different people’s lives. Does pollution follow the poor? Are some communities far more vulnerable to the impacts of flooding or climate change than others? Are the benefits of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Biting the Hands that Feed Us

    How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable

    by Baylen J. Linnekin ...
    Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks—these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Baylen Linnekin argues that, too often, government rules handcuff America’s most sustainable farmers, producers, sellers, and consumers, ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire

    Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes

    by Yaron Ayalon ...
    This book explores the history of natural disasters in the Ottoman Empire and the responses to them on the state, communal, and individual levels. Yaron Ayalon argues that religious boundaries between Muslims and non-Muslims were far less significant in Ottoman society than commonly believed. Furthermore, the emphasis on Islamic principles and the presence of Islamic symbols in the public domain ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change

    Intersections of race, class and gender

    Edited by Phoebe Godfrey, Denise Torres ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    Sociological literature tends to view the social categories of race, class and gender as distinct and has avoided discussing how multiple intersections inform and contribute to experiences of injustice and inequity. This limited focus is clearly inadequate.Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change is an edited volume of 49 international, interdisciplinary contributions addressing global climate ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Nation's Largest Landlord

    The Bureau of Land Management in the American West

    by James R. Skillen ...
    It is the largest landholder in America, overseeing nearly an eighth of the country: 258 million acres located almost exclusively west of the Mississippi River, with even twice as much below the surface. Its domain embraces wildlife and wilderness, timber, range, and minerals, and for over 60 years, the Bureau of Land Management has been an agency in search of a mission.This is the first ... Read more

    $23.99 USD