Social impact of environmental issues books

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Global Climate Change and Human Life

Global Climate Change and Human Life

Author: M. A. K. Khalil (Portland State University)
ISBN: 9780470665787
Format: Paperback
$68.95

How warm will the Earth become and when? What effect will it have on human life? This book answers some of these...  Read More >>

Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene

Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene...

Author: Justin D. Edwards ,  Rune Graulund
ISBN: 9781517911232
Format: Paperback
$54.99

"""More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a vibrant, emergent perspective...  Read More >>

The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism...

Author: Matthias Schmelzer ,  Andrea Vetter
ISBN: 9781839765841
Format: Paperback
$32.99

We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars.  Read More >>

A Public Sociology of Waste

A Public Sociology of Waste

Author: Myra J. Hird (Myra J. Hird, Queen’s University)
ISBN: 9781529206555
Format: Hardback
$175.00

Critically analysing how waste is currently configured as a ‘household’ issue, this book illuminates the implications...  Read More >>

Global Climate Change and Human Life

Global Climate Change and Human Life

Author: M. A. K. Khalil (Portland State University)
ISBN: 9780470665794
Format: Hardback
$219.94

How warm will the Earth become and when? What effect will it have on human life? This book answers some of these...  Read More >>

Keeping the World’s Environment Under Review: An Intellectual History of the Global Environment Outlook

Keeping the World’s Environment Under Review: An Intellectual...

Author: Jan Bakkes (PBL Netherland Environmental Assessment Agency and TIAS, The Integrated Assessment Society) ,  Marion Cheatle (UNEP)
ISBN: 9789633864319
Format: Hardback
$212.18

How do we take stock of the state and direction of the world’s environment, and what can we learn from the experience?...  Read More >>

Global Warming of 1.5°C: IPCC Special Report on Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5°C above Pre-industrial Levels in Context of Strengthening Response to Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Efforts to Eradicate Poverty

Global Warming of 1.5°C: IPCC Special Report on Impacts...

Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
ISBN: 9781009157957
Format: Paperback
$194.04

This IPCC Special Report is a comprehensive assessment of our understanding of global warming of 1.5°C. It serves...  Read More >>

Making Things Happen: Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan

Making Things Happen: Community Participation and Disaster...

Author: Jane Murphy Thomas
ISBN: 9781800735613
Format: Hardback
$276.86

Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on...  Read More >>

Fixing the Planet: An Overview for Optimists

Fixing the Planet: An Overview for Optimists

Author: Michael Norton
ISBN: 9781914613111
Format: Paperback
$33.61

The guide to the greatest problems facing our planet today - from environmental to humanitarian, technological to...  Read More >>

A Path of Shadows

A Path of Shadows

Author: John Porter
ISBN: 9781916081260
Format: Hardback
$41.37

A Path of Shadows is writer and mountaineer John Porter's first poetry collection. Exploring the natural world,...  Read More >>

The Day the World Stops Shopping: How to have a better life and greener world

The Day the World Stops Shopping: How to have a better...

Author: J. B. MacKinnon
ISBN: 9781784709242
Format: Paperback
$22.99

We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future.  Read More >>

Dave and Greta Make the World Better!

Dave and Greta Make the World Better!

Author: Matt Carr ,  Matt Carr
ISBN: 9780702316067
Format: Paperback
$16.99

You're never too small to make a difference! Learn how to be an eco warrior with Dave and Greta as they find little...  Read More >>

Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss

Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological...

Author: Stephen Harrod Buhner
ISBN: 9780970869678
Format: Paperback
$47.50

"News reports appear every day now on the ecological state of our planetary home and the news is not good. Ecological...  Read More >>

Decolonizing Environmental Education for Different Contexts and Nations

Decolonizing Environmental Education for Different Contexts...

Author: Márcia Aparecida Amador Mascia ,  Hongyan Chen
ISBN: 9781433191749
Format: Paperback
$113.39

The authors in this book take up decolonizing methodologiesthat expand across theories of Indigenous Knowledges...  Read More >>

Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas: Hazards—Volume I

Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas: Hazards—Volume...

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292692780
Format: Paperback
$108.55

This atlas is composed of Hazards - Volume I and Exposures, Vulnerabilities, and Risks - Volume II containing spatial...  Read More >>

Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas: Vulnerabilities, and Risks—Volume II

Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas: Vulnerabilities,...

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292692810
Format: Paperback
$64.56

This atlas is composed of Hazards - Volume I and Exposures, Vulnerabilities, and Risks - Volume II containing spatial...  Read More >>

Running After Paradise: Hope, Survival, and Activism in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

Running After Paradise: Hope, Survival, and Activism...

Author: Colleen M. Scanlan Lyons
ISBN: 9780816540136
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Southern Bahia is at a crossroads: develop a sustainable, forest-based economy or run the risk of losing the identity...  Read More >>

In Our Backyard: Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric Development

In Our Backyard: Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric...

Author: Aimée Craft ,  Jill Blakley
ISBN: 9780887552946
Format: Hardback
$181.13

Tells the story of the Keeyask dam and accompanying development on the Nelson River from the perspective of Indigenous...  Read More >>

Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene

Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene...

Author: Justin D. Edwards ,  Rune Graulund
ISBN: 9781517911225
Format: Hardback
$316.80

"""More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a vibrant, emergent perspective...  Read More >>

Pokot Pastoralism: Environmental Change and Socio-Economic Transformation in North-West Kenya

Pokot Pastoralism: Environmental Change and Socio-Economic...

Author: Hauke-Peter Vehrs (Person)
ISBN: 9781847012968
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments...  Read More >>

Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative Global Solutions

Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative...

Author: Galen D. Newman ,  Zixu Qiao
ISBN: 9781032024561
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative Global Solutions

Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative...

Author: Galen D. Newman ,  Zixu Qiao
ISBN: 9781032024578
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road: New Thinking about Roads, People, and Wildlife

A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road: New Thinking...

Author: Darryl Jones
ISBN: 9781501763717
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"""Roads connect people but often isolate natural areas and populations. Animals attempting to cross roads face...  Read More >>

A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness: Success and Failure in the Fight to Save an Ecosystem of Critical Importance to the Planet. Volume 1: The Conventional Economy and the Drivers of Change

A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness: Success and...

Author: Timothy J. Killeen
ISBN: 9781912186235
Format: Paperback
$108.68

Explains the obstacles to conserving the world's most vital tropical forest.Ch. 1 explains the socioeconomic forces...  Read More >>

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