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  • Governing the Coastal Commons Governing the Coastal Commons
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    Governing the Coastal Commons

    Through detailed cases and analysis of broader global trends, this volume examines how coastal communities are adapting to environmental change and the attributes of governance that are required to build resilience and well-being.
    $147.00

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  • Pastoralism and Common Pool Resources Pastoralism and Common Pool Resources
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    Pastoralism and Common Pool Resources

    The grazing of animals on common land and associated property rights were the original basis of the concept of "the tragedy of the commons". Drawing on the classic work of Elinor Ostrom and the readings of political ecology, this book questions the...
    $410.00

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  • The Green Economy in the Gulf The Green Economy in the Gulf
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    The Green Economy in the Gulf

    Over the course of the book, academics and practitioners from various fields demonstrate why transitioning into a 'green economy' - a future economy based on environmental sustainability, social equity and improved well-being - is not an option but a...
    $131.00

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  • The Emerging Middle Class in Africa The Emerging Middle Class in Africa
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    The Emerging Middle Class in Africa

    The book analyses specific aspects of the lives of the middle class in Africa. It looks at how people become and remain in the middle class through a series of thematic chapters. It examines how behaviour changes in the process, in terms of consumption...
    $231.00

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  • Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities
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    Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities

    Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities addresses this gap by...
    $373.00

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  • An Introduction to Sustainability An Introduction to Sustainability
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    An Introduction to Sustainability

    An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing subject of sustainability. This is an essential textbook for any sustainability course.
    $487.00

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  • Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South
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    Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South

    This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally-scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation.  It provides a historical and...
    $121.00

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  • Feeding Cities Feeding Cities
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    Feeding Cities

    This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity.
    $385.00

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  • Phenomenological Bioethics Phenomenological Bioethics
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    Phenomenological Bioethics

    Emerging medical technologies are changing our views on human nature and what it means to be alive, healthy, and leading a good life. Reproductive technologies, genetic diagnosis, organ transplantation, and psychopharmacological drugs all raise...
    $111.00

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  • Public Policy and Land Exchange Public Policy and Land Exchange
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    Public Policy and Land Exchange

    This original contribution to the field is the first to bring economic sociology theory to the study of federal land exchanges. By blending public choice theory with engaging case studies that contextualize the tactics used by land developers, this book...
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  • Landscape and Utopia Landscape and Utopia
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    Landscape and Utopia

    This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. The period between the 1890s and the 1940s was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts...
    $333.00

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  • Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns
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    Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns

    This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations.Beyond being applied to sparsely populated farmland, pesticides have...
    $333.00

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  • Greater Exploits - 12 - Législation parfaite Greater Exploits - 12 - Législation parfaite
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    Greater Exploits - 12 - Législation parfaite

    Greater Exploits 12 est une continuation de Greater Exploits 11 avec plus de détails, en se concentrant sur la législation divine parfaite - Foi, autorité et pouvoir pour LÉGISLATER et écraser les catastrophes naturelles pour de plus grands exploits !!!...
    $48.00

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  • Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region
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    Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region

    This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region. It will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students in sustainability,...
    $105.00

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  • Wicked Problems of Water Quality Governance Wicked Problems of Water Quality Governance
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    Wicked Problems of Water Quality Governance

    This book explores the many dimensions of water quality problems in different parts of the globe, with focus on problems of governance, from legal frameworks to social discourses and compensation measures. The chapters in this book were originally...
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    Successful Development of Green Building Projects

    Focusing on office buildings, this book explores how Green Building (GB) development can be managed to achieve successful project outcomes. The book starts by highlighting the special requirements of GBs which distinguish them from traditional buildings...
    $436.00

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    Chemical Sensitivity and Sick-Building Syndrome

    Written by multidisciplinary experts in medicine, chemistry, and architecture, this book examines chemical sensitivity (CS). In 15 chapters fitted to 15 lectures, it discusses not only the medical explanation, but also the environmental factors of this...
    $126.00

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    Aquatopia

    Aquatopia documents Harmattan Theater's ecological interventions and traces its engagements with water-bound landscapes, colonial histories, climate change, and public space across New York City, Venice, Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Cochin. The volume uses...
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    Visualizations of Urban Space

    This book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where they connect to the digital world. It investigates relationships between urban visualizations, aesthetics, and politics in the context of...
    $97.00

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    Transdisciplinary Marine Research

    Drawing on the expertise of marine researchers from both the natural and social sciences, this book examines how we, as both scientists and societies, can return to a sustainable co-existence with the ocean and use the tools of transdisciplinarity to...
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  • Sustainability Communication across Asia
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    Sustainability Communication across Asia

    Sustainability Communication across Asia distils the core components of environmental communication in the diverse milieu of Asian nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and China.The chapters in this book engage readers in a...
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    The Positive Impact Mindset

    We are facing a new and urgent challenge when collaborating across organizations, and with broader stakeholder groups: how to overcome polarization. It has never been harder to find a common vision, when opinions are often considered as facts. This book...
    $85.00

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  • Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development
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    Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development

    This book studies the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an advocate for greater environmental responsibility and analyses the major achievements and outcomes of two landmark conferences - Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) - which...
    $347.00

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    Explaining Renewable Energy

    This undergraduate text aimed primarily at high schoolers and lower level undergraduates focuses on explaining how the various forms of renewable energy work and the current ongoing research. It includes sections on non-scientific aspects that should be...
    $76.00

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  • Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity
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    Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity

    By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all levels of society. "Sustainability" has become an increasingly...
    $60.00

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    Comparative CSR and Sustainability

    This book breaks new ground by providing a structured and cohesive set of contributions on the actions, developments, problems and theories of corporate social responsibility (CSR). With new case studies from the UN's Least Developed Countries (LDCs),...
    $128.00

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    Water Management and Violent Conflict in East Africa

    This book examines the complex interrelationships between water availability, governance and violent and non-violent conflicts, drawing on in-depth case studies of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and Lake Wamala in Uganda.When international economic endeavours...
    $97.00

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    Creating Resilient Landscapes in an Era of Climate Change

    This book delivers a realistic and feasible framework for creating resilient landscapes in an era of anthropogenic climate change. From across six continents, this book presents fifteen case studies of differing sociocultural, economic, and biophysical...
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    Sport Stadiums and Environmental Justice

    This book explores the local environmental impact of sports stadiums, and how that impact can disproportionately affect communities of color. Offering a series of review articles and global case studies, it illustrates what happens when sport...
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    Governing the Interlinkages between the SDGs

    Governing the Interlinkages between the SDGs: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges identifies the institutional processes, governance mechanisms and policy mixes that are conducive to devising strategies of integrated Sustainable Development Goal...
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    Green Academia

    This book studies the importance of adopting Green Academia as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against any form of impending pandemics in the post-COVID era and beyond. It argues that anti-nature and capitalistic knowledge systems have...
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    Infrastructure Development - Theory, Practice and Policy

    This compendium presents the papers presented in the conference 'Infrastructure Development Theory, Practice, and Policy' held on  29th and 30th April, 2021. It brings together the select papers from the conference and other contributions from...
    $102.00

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    Technologies in Decline

    The central questions of this book are how technologies decline, how societies deal with technologies in decline, and how governance may be explicitly oriented towards parting with 'undesirable' technology.Surprisingly, these questions are fairly novel...
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    Effective Forms of Environmental Diplomacy

    This book holistically covers the issue of environmental diplomacy by building a firm foundation for readers to understand the different dimensions of the topic.The book begins by exploring the progress the world community has made in understanding the...
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    Contemporary Issues in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour

    This third edition of Contemporary Issues in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour has been revised and updated to reflect the fast-changing world we live in. The new state of the art chapter on digital marketing digs deeply into two new frontiers of...
    $385.00

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    Community Food Initiatives

    This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations and contestations.
    $347.00

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    Foundations of a Sustainable Economy

    This book addresses current practices related to sustainable development, its challenges and the future. People belonging to different genders regardless of their age, social class and education should be equal as citizens and individuals, and identical...
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    Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa

    This book investigates the social and cultural dimensions of climate change in Southern Africa, focusing on how knowledge about climate change is conceived and conveyed. Despite contributing very little to the global production of emissions, the African...
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    Climate Obstruction

    In Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylhä bring together crucial insights from environmental history, sociology, media and communication studies...
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    The Shaping of Greenland's Resource Spaces

    The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.It discusses how Greenland's resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface...
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