Social impact of environmental issues books

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The Social and Behavioural Aspects of Climate Change: Linking Vulnerability, Adaptation and Mitigation

The Social and Behavioural Aspects of Climate Change:...

Author: Pim Martens ,  Chiung Ting Chang
ISBN: 9781906093426
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book argues that the inherent complexity of climate change will ultimately require a more integrated response...  Read More >>

Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports into America

Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports into...

Author: John Leland
ISBN: 9781570039584
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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The Sustainable World

The Sustainable World

Author: C. A. Brebbia (Wessex Institut of Technology)
ISBN: 9781845645045
Format: Hardback
$1636.80

This book contains a collection of papers presented at a series of meetings organised by the Wessex Institute of...  Read More >>

Medicina Con Plantas Sagradas: La Sabiduría del Herbalismo de Los Aborígenes Norteamericanos

Medicina Con Plantas Sagradas: La Sabiduría del Herbalismo...

Author: Stephen Harrod Buhner ,  Brooke Medicine Eagle
ISBN: 9781594773556
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Indigenous peoples the world over have been able to gather knowledge of plant uses by communicating directly with...  Read More >>

The Politics of Climate Change: A Survey

The Politics of Climate Change: A Survey

Author: Maxwell Boykoff (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780415613569
Format: Paperback
$98.99

On the cusp of a new commitment to international co-operation to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, this essential...  Read More >>

Bioregionalism and Global Ethics: A Transactional Approach to Achieving Ecological Sustainability, Social Justice, and Human Well-being

Bioregionalism and Global Ethics: A Transactional Approach...

Author: Richard Evanoff
ISBN: 9780415874793
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Develops a philosophical framework in which ethical questions related to interactions between self, society, and...  Read More >>

The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It

The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We...

Author: Julian Cribb
ISBN: 9780520271234
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century -...  Read More >>

The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It

The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We...

Author: Julian Cribb
ISBN: 9780520260719
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century -...  Read More >>

The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It

The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We...

Author: Julian Cribb
ISBN: 9780643100404
Format: Paperback
$29.95

A strong and positive call to action to address an impending planetary food crisis.  Read More >>

Under Corporate Skies: A sruggle between people, place and profit

Under Corporate Skies: A sruggle between people, place...

Author: Martin Brueckner ,  Dyann Ross
ISBN: 9781921361760
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Or the Immortality of the Human Soul, Proved from Scripture and Reason, in Two Discourses (1703)

The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Or the Immortality...

Author: Lawrence Smith
ISBN: 9781165091447
Format: Paperback
$52.69

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it...  Read More >>

Water: The Final Resource: How the Politics of Water Will Affect the World

Water: The Final Resource: How the Politics of Water...

Author: Robin Griffiths ,  William Houston
ISBN: 9781906659462
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Up to the turn of the century the world's population had grown with abundant water. Then everything changed. Ocean...  Read More >>

Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices

Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices...

Author: Eveline Durr ,  Rivke Jaffe
ISBN: 9781845456924
Format: Hardback
$85.00

Re-examining Mary Douglas' work on pollution and concepts of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of...  Read More >>

Ritualism, Doctrine Not Dress: Notes of Lectures on Ritualism, the Development of Tractarianism (1868)

Ritualism, Doctrine Not Dress: Notes of Lectures on...

Author: Thomas Oyler Beeman
ISBN: 9781164982395
Format: Hardback
$80.15

Published By Request, With Additions, Including Remarks On The Charge Of The Bishop Of Salisbury.  Read More >>

Fighting Sand Encroachment: Lessons from Mauritania

Fighting Sand Encroachment: Lessons from Mauritania...

Author: Charles Jacques Berte ,  Moustapha Ould Mohamed
ISBN: 9789251065310
Format: Paperback
$39.60

One of the main challenges of desertification is encroachment of moving sands, which has devastating environmental...  Read More >>

Baroness of Hobcaw: The Life of Belle W. Baruch

Baroness of Hobcaw: The Life of Belle W. Baruch

Author: Mary E. Miller
ISBN: 9781570039591
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Belle W. Baruch (1899-1964) could outride, outshoot, outhunt, and outsail most of the young men of her elite social...  Read More >>

Fauna des Mittelmeeres. Bestimmungsubungen in der Spritzwasserzone des Mittelmeeres: An der Kuste von Banyuls sur mer (Sudfrankreich)

Fauna des Mittelmeeres. Bestimmungsubungen in der Spritzwasserzone...

Author: Marcus Lupke ,  Marcus Lupke
ISBN: 9783640663842
Format: Paperback
$38.55

Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 1997 im Fachbereich Biologie - OEkologie, Note: 1.8, Universitat zu Koeln (Erziehungswissenschaftliche...  Read More >>

The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth

The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization...

Author: Dianne Dumanoski
ISBN: 9780307396099
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Noted environmental journalist Dumanoski provides a clear-eyed view of the current climate crisis and delivers an...  Read More >>

Genetics in the Wild

Genetics in the Wild

Author: John C. Avise ,  Trudy Nicholson
ISBN: 9781588342935
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Avise, an award-winning geneticist, guides this delightful voyage around the planet in search of answers to nature's...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society

Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society

Author: Steven Brechin ,  Seungyun Lee
ISBN: 9780415544764
Format: Hardback
$255.00

The Handbook of Climate Change and Society brings together the latest research on climate change from the social...  Read More >>

Rationality and the Environment: Decision-making in Environmental Politics and Assessment

Rationality and the Environment: Decision-making in...

Author: Bo Elling
ISBN: 9781849710787
Format: Paperback
$72.00

Environmental assessment and management involve the production of scientific knowledge and its use in decision-making...  Read More >>

The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World without Ice Caps

The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World without Ice...

Author: Peter Douglas Ward
ISBN: 9780465009497
Format: Hardback
$68.51

Rising sea levels will not extinguish humanity, but they will transform human life as we know it. An eminent scientist...  Read More >>

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