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  • A Sustainable Future for the Mediterranean

    The Blue Plan's Environment and Development Outlook

    Edición de Guillaume Benoit, Aline Comeau ...
    'Here's a work arriving just at the right moment and contributingnew insights at precisely the time when public opinion remains sceptical of the not very promising future we are preparing for our children, when governments balk at explaining to their electorates the vital but unpopular decisions that have to be taken and when civil society, with few ways and means, is finally becoming involved. ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

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  • Planet of Slums

    de Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world’s leading urbanist offers a “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author).According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • How to Be a Better Birder

    Travel Stories

    de Michael A. Ketover ...
    With his first book, Better Birder, Michael Ketover emerges as an exciting voice in travel writing. Ketover, an expert in poverty reduction and social justice, chronicles inspiring, outrageous, and mundane assignments in international development work and his reflections on the resilience of the poorest of the poor. These interactions reveal his flaws and slowly remake him into someone better than ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Managing Natural Wealth

    Environment and Development in Malaysia

    de Jeffrey R. Vincent, Rozali Mohamed Ali ...
    The remarkably rich natural environment of Malaysia attracts the interest of both industry and the environmental community. Managing Natural Wealth analyzes major natural resource and environmental policy issues in the country during the 1970s and 1980s-a period of profound socioeconomic change, rapid depletion of natural resources, and the emergence of serious problems with pollution. Managing ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Gender and Natural Resource Management

    Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions

    Edición de Bernadette P. Resurreción, Rebecca Elmhirst ...
    This book is about the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment and natural resource management, especially where gender is understood as a political, negotiated and contested element of social relationships. It ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • No Timber Without Trees

    Sustainability in the tropical forest

    de Duncan Poore ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    Much of the world's tropical timber is still supplied from natural forest, but under current systems of management the forests are rapidly becoming exhausted. Unless management practices change to become genuinely sustainable, neither the forests nor the essential contribution of the timber industry to many economies will survive.Duncan Poore reviews the extent to which natural forests are already ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Water for Food Water for Life

    A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture

    Edición de David Molden ...
    Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times - fundamental to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse ecosystem degradation. This Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, involving more than 700 leading specialists, evaluates current thinking on water and its interplay with agriculture to help chart the ... Leer más

    Antes $89.99 USD Ahora $77.99 USD

  • Water Governance for Sustainable Development

    Approaches and Lessons from Developing and Transitional Countries

    de Sylvain Perret, Stefano Farolfi, Rashid Hassan ...
    The book examines how water policies, institutions and governance have shifted in recent years from supply-driven, quantitative, centrally controlled management to more demand-sensitive, decentralized participatory approaches. Such a move often also implies cost recovery principles, resource allocation among competing sectors, and privatization. The case studies demonstrate that the new policies ... Leer más

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  • The Southwest Under Stress

    National Resource Development Issues in a Regional Setting

    de Allen V. Kneese ...
    Southwest Under Stress examines the development-environment conflict in the four contiguous states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. It emphasizes three issues with implications that extend far beyond the Southwest: water---its quantity, quality, and allocation; environment---how and to what extent it should be preserved; and the future of Native American and other poverty-stricken ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Asking the Earth

    Farms, Forestry and Survival in India

    de Winin Pereira, Jeremy Seabrook ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    The need to produce food without the destructive chemical horrors of much modern farming, for an intelligent use of dwindling natural resources and for humane forms of production is universal, the practice is limited.This book is an account of one, large, instance of success in practice. Twenty-five years ago, Winin Pereira, a nuclear physicist abandoned academia to start a co-operative farm at ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • After the Green Revolution

    Sustainable Agriculture for Development

    de Gordon R. Conway, Edward B. Barbier ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made production more susceptible to environmental stresses and shocks. Now there is evidence of diminishing ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • World Water Actions

    Making Water Flow for All

    de Francois Guerquin, Tarek Ahmed, Mi hua, tetsuya Ikeda, Vedat Ozbilen, Marlies Schuttelaar ...
    This text is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the need for management to assess the challenges of water scarcity and plan changes based on proper valuation and financial instruments, international co-operation and efficient use. Part II analyses the problems of water scarcity and the available solutions in each main sector: water supply and sanitation, energy, health, agriculture, ... Leer más

    $120.99 USD