Social impact of environmental issues books

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Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises

Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary...

Author: Andrew Biro
ISBN: 9780802098405
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Critical Ecologies aims to redeem the theories of major Frankfurt thinkers-Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert...  Read More >>

Urban Diversities - Environmental and Social Issues

Urban Diversities - Environmental and Social Issues...

Author: Marino Bonaiuto ,  Mirilia Bonnes
ISBN: 9780889373853
Format: Paperback
$182.16

Biological and human-cultural diversity are crucial aspects of sustainable life on this planet, a fact that was...  Read More >>

Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison

Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison

Author: Jane Marie Hightower
ISBN: 9781610910026
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Animal Factory

Animal Factory

Author: David Kirby
ISBN: 9780312671747
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Exposes the devastating health and environmental impact of large-scale factory farms. This book follows three American...  Read More >>

Living with Herds: Human-Animal Coexistence in Mongolia

Living with Herds: Human-Animal Coexistence in Mongolia...

Author: Natasha Fijn (CASS Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra)
ISBN: 9780511976513
Format: Undefined
$435.60

After living with Mongolian herding families, Natasha Fijn has observed through firsthand experience both sides...  Read More >>

Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes

Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes

Author: Kevin M Simmons ,  Daniel Sutter
ISBN: 9781878220998
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Over the years economists Kevin M Simmons and Daniel Sutter have been studying the economic impacts and social consequences...  Read More >>

Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life

Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday...

Author: Kari Marie Norgaard (Associate Professor, University of Oregon)
ISBN: 9780262515856
Format: Paperback
$59.99

An analysis of why people with knowledge about climate change often fail to translate that knowledge into action....  Read More >>

Rising Waters: The Causes and Consequences of Flooding in the United States

Rising Waters: The Causes and Consequences of Flooding...

Author: Samuel D. Brody (Texas A & M University) ,  Wesley E. Highfield (Texas A & M University)
ISBN: 9780511921568
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This interdisciplinary book uses empirical research to explore the causes of flooding in the United States and the...  Read More >>

Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910

Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the...

Author: Jeffrey H. Jackson
ISBN: 9780230108042
Format: Paperback
$31.02

In the winter of 1910 the river that brought life to Paris became a force of destruction drowning Parisian streets,...  Read More >>

Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life

Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday...

Author: Kari Marie Norgaard (Associate Professor, University of Oregon)
ISBN: 9780262015448
Format: Hardback
$132.00

An analysis of why people with knowledge about climate change often fail to translate that knowledge into action....  Read More >>

Confronting Climate Change

Confronting Climate Change

Author: Constance Lever-Tracy
ISBN: 9780415576239
Format: Paperback
$77.99

An introduction to the predicted global impacts of climate change. Discussing how the social and natural sciences...  Read More >>

Confronting Climate Change

Confronting Climate Change

Author: Constance Lever-Tracy
ISBN: 9780415576222
Format: Hardback
$284.00

An introduction to the predicted global impacts of climate change. Discussing how the social and natural sciences...  Read More >>

Sustainability and Communities of Place

Sustainability and Communities of Place

Author: Carl A. Maida
ISBN: 9780857451460
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The concept of sustainability holds that the social, economic, and environmental factors within human communities...  Read More >>

Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia

Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological...

Author: Roy Ellen
ISBN: 9780857451453
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development,...  Read More >>

The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters

The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to...

Author: Charles Perrow
ISBN: 9780691150161
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Focusing on three causes of disaster - natural, organizational, and deliberate - this title shows that our best...  Read More >>

Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life

Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human...

Author: Peter H. Kahn Jr. (University of Washington)
ISBN: 9780262113229
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Why it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology.  Read More >>

Winds of Change: The Environmental Movement and the Global Development of the Wind Energy Industry

Winds of Change: The Environmental Movement and the...

Author: Ion Bogdan Vasi (Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Department of Sociology, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780199746927
Format: Hardback
$101.95

Winds of Change examines the global development of the wind energy industry from a political, social movements-based...  Read More >>

The Rising Sea

The Rising Sea

Author: Orrin H. Pilkey ,  Rob Young
ISBN: 9781610910040
Format: Paperback
$63.99

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Bodenversauerung und deren Auswirkung auf Wurzelsystem und Mykorrhiza

Bodenversauerung und deren Auswirkung auf Wurzelsystem...

Author: Sebastian Birk
ISBN: 9783640871544
Format: Paperback
$41.14

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2000 im Fachbereich Biologie - OEkologie, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Veranstaltung:...  Read More >>

Landscapes, Identities and Development

Landscapes, Identities and Development

Author: Zoran Roca ,  Paul Claval
ISBN: 9781409405542
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions

Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions...

Author: Katherine Richardson (University of Copenhagen) ,  Will Steffen (Australian National University, Canberra)
ISBN: 9780511973444
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Provides an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, from basic science to the...  Read More >>

Integrating Science and Policy: Vulnerability and Resilience in Global Environmental Change

Integrating Science and Policy: Vulnerability and Resilience...

Author: Roger E Kasperson ,  Mimi Berberian
ISBN: 9781844076062
Format: Paperback
$131.00

As progress towards a greater knowledge in sustainability science continues, the question of how better to integrate...  Read More >>

Integrating Science and Policy: Vulnerability and Resilience in Global Environmental Change

Integrating Science and Policy: Vulnerability and Resilience...

Author: Roger E Kasperson ,  Mimi Berberian
ISBN: 9781844076055
Format: Hardback
$305.00

As progress towards a greater knowledge in sustainability science continues, the question of how better to integrate...  Read More >>

Describing Socioeconomic Futures for Climate Change Research and Assessment: Report of a Workshop

Describing Socioeconomic Futures for Climate Change...

Author: Panel on Socio-Economic Scenarios for Climate Change Research and Assessment ,  Board on Environmental Change and Society
ISBN: 9780309161442
Format: Paperback
$76.56

"""The workshop that is the subject of this report was organized by the National Research Council's Committee on...  Read More >>

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