Social impact of environmental issues books

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Hostels, Sexuality, and the Apartheid Legacy: Malevolent Geographies

Hostels, Sexuality, and the Apartheid Legacy: Malevolent...

Author: Glen S. Elder
ISBN: 9780821414927
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In the last decade, the South African state has been transformed dramatically, but the stubborn, menacing geography...  Read More >>

Environmental Change and Human Development: Controlling nature?

Environmental Change and Human Development: Controlling...

Author: Chris Barrow
ISBN: 9780340764046
Format: Paperback
$48.99

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Hostels, Sexuality, and the Apartheid Legacy: Malevolent Geographies

Hostels, Sexuality, and the Apartheid Legacy: Malevolent...

Author: Glen S. Elder
ISBN: 9780821414910
Format: Hardback
$131.87

In the last decade, the South African state has been transformed dramatically, but the stubborn, menacing geography...  Read More >>

Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis

Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis...

Author: Peter Bellwood ,  A. Colin Renfrew
ISBN: 9781902937205
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Linguistic diversity is one of the most puzzling and challenging features of humankind.  Read More >>

Landscape, Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives

Landscape, Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives...

Author: Pamela J. Stewart ,  Andrew Strathern
ISBN: 9780745319667
Format: Paperback
$61.95

American, Australian and British scholars examine the significance of the use of landscape for studies of identity...  Read More >>

Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth

Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth

Author: Tyler Volk
ISBN: 9780262720427
Format: Paperback
$63.36

Gaia's Body looks at the biogeographical regions, essential substances, and great chemical cycles that underlie...  Read More >>

Welfare, Inequality, and Resource Depletion: A Reassessment of Brazilian Economic Growth

Welfare, Inequality, and Resource Depletion: A Reassessment...

Author: Mariano Torras ,  Professor Steven Pressman
ISBN: 9780754631538
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book breaks new ground by accounting for the welfare implications of both severe inequality and environmental...  Read More >>

Population Ecology: An Introduction to Computer Simulations

Population Ecology: An Introduction to Computer Simulations...

Author: Ruth Bernstein (University of Colorado, USA)
ISBN: 9780470851487
Format: Paperback
$236.95

Explores, by means of computer simulations, the key areas of population dynamics through time. Using exercises,...  Read More >>

Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-wildlife Relations

Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study...

Author: John Knight
ISBN: 9780199255184
Format: Hardback
$330.00

A Japanese conservationist group has launched a campaign for the reintroduction of the wolf in Japan, arguing that...  Read More >>

Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis

Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of...

Author: Sheldon Krimsky (Professor, Tufts University) ,  Lynn Goldman
ISBN: 9780801872525
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Krimsky describes how this controversial theory was first elaborated and explores the complex factors that have...  Read More >>

Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America

Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental...

Author: Timothy Silver
ISBN: 9780807827550
Format: Hardback
$147.71

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Geography and the Human Spirit (POD)

Geography and the Human Spirit (POD)

Author: Anne Buttimer ,  Yi-Fu Tuan (John K. Wright and Vilas Professor of Geography, c/o Chaoyi Charles Chang, son and University of Wisconsin - Madison)
ISBN: 9780801872556
Format: Paperback
$73.99

In 'Geography and the Human Spirit', Buttimer ranges widely from Plato to Barry Lopez, from the 'Upanishads' to...  Read More >>

Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island

Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the...

Author: Dimitris Theodossopoulos
ISBN: 9781571815965
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Based on fieldwork on the socioeconomic aspects of conservation on the tourist destination of Zakynthos, Theodossopoulos...  Read More >>

The Good Life

The Good Life

Author: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299105440
Format: Paperback
$36.30

""[Tuan] explores answers to an old and unanswerable question: how should we live? . . . The Good Life is a little...  Read More >>

Sparing Nature: The Conflict Between Human Population Growth and Earth's Biodiversity

Sparing Nature: The Conflict Between Human Population...

Author: Jeffrey K. McKee
ISBN: 9780813531410
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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Dead Water Rites

Dead Water Rites

Author: Monty Joynes
ISBN: 9781571741905
Format: Paperback
$36.83

This novel reflects the hopes and fears of an American Indian tribe. Warned in a vision, the Pueblo Indians know...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, Social and Economic Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, Social...

Author: Peter Timmerman (IFIAS, Toronto, Canada) ,  Ted Munn (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9780470853641
Format: Hardback
$2153.95

Volume Five of the Encyclopedia is devoted to the social, political, economic, and spiritual - and thereby human...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, Causes and Consequences of Global Environmental Change

Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, Causes...

Author: Ian Douglas (University of Manchester, UK) ,  Ted Munn (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9780470853627
Format: Hardback
$2153.95

The character of the Earth's surface is constantly changing as a result of the interactions of the great circulations...  Read More >>

Integrating and Articulating Environments

Integrating and Articulating Environments

Author: F. Adaman ,  F. Goksen
ISBN: 9789058096166
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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What Nature Suffers to Groe: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920

What Nature Suffers to Groe: Life, Labor, and Landscape...

Author: Mart A. Stewart
ISBN: 9780820324593
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Explores the mutually transforming relationship between environment and human culture on the Georgia coastal plain...  Read More >>

Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science and Education

Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science...

Author: Alan R. Berkowitz ,  Charles H. Nilon
ISBN: 9780387952376
Format: Paperback
$211.07

A challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more urgent, than in those parts of the globe where human...  Read More >>

Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science and Education

Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science...

Author: Alan R. Berkowitz ,  Charles H. Nilon
ISBN: 9780387954967
Format: Hardback
$451.44

Nowhere on Earth is the challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more urgent, than in cities. This...  Read More >>

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