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  • Environmentalism: An Evolutionary Approach
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    Environmentalism: An Evolutionary Approach

    Douglas Spieles

    The premise of this book is that our environmental dilemmas are products of biological and sociocultural evolution, and that through an understanding of evolution we can reframe debates of thought...
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  • Green Composites from Natural Resources
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    Green Composites from Natural Resources

    Vijay Kumar Thakur

    Global awareness of environmental issues has resulted in the emergence of economically and environmentally friendly bio-based materials free from the traditional side effects of synthetics. This book...
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  • Reimagining Climate Change
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    Reimagining Climate Change

    Paul Wapner

    Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments, corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of dollars to mitigation and adaptation, and their efforts represent one...
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  • Defying Dystopia
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    Defying Dystopia

    Ed Ayres

    To most, the collapse of modern civilization is the stuff of fiction. Yet, science confirms that misuse of technology and environmental abuse places our world in grave danger of ruin. The World...
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  • Case Against the Global Economy
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    Case Against the Global Economy

    Jerry Mander

    The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the...
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  • Tourism in Pacific Islands
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    Tourism in Pacific Islands

    Stephen Pratt

    Pacific Island Countries have been shown to be especially vulnerable to such external influences as natural disasters, political unrest and downturns in the global economy and their tourism...
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  • Three Mile Island
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    Three Mile Island

    Grace Halden

    Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island power plant on March 28, 1979. Though the disaster was ultimately contained, the...
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  • Universities and Global Human Development
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    Universities and Global Human Development

    Alejandra Boni

    This book makes the case for a critical turn in development thinking around universities and their contributions in making a more equal post-2015 world. It puts forward a normative approach based on...
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  • Water and Climate Change in Africa
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    Water and Climate Change in Africa

    Patricia E. Perkins

    In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be...
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  • 'One Planet' Cities
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    'One Planet' Cities

    David Thorpe

    This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.With four out of five...
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  • Locality and Identity
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    Locality and Identity

    Jane Holder

    First published in 1999, this volume is concerned with how issues of identity and locality – globalization and ethics, valuing the environment, environmental justice and the use of traditional and...
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  • Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation
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    Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation

    Laurence Delina

    To keep the global average temperature from rising further than 2°C, emissions must peak soon and then fall steeply. This book examines how such rapid mitigation can proceed – in the scale and speed...
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  • Limits of Law and Development
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    Limits of Law and Development

    Sam Adelman

    The book examines the well-established field of ‘law and development’ and asks whether the concept of development and discourses on law and development have outlived their usefulness. The...
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  • Three Mile Island
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    Three Mile Island

    Grace Halden

    Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island power plant on March 28, 1979. Though the disaster was ultimately contained, the...
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  • Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change
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    Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change

    Phoebe Godfrey

    Sociological literature tends to view the social categories of race, class and gender as distinct and has avoided discussing how multiple intersections inform and contribute to experiences of...
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  • Trade Investment and the Environment
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    Trade Investment and the Environment

    Halina Ward

    A discussion on the future of trade, investment and the environment. It sets out the trade, investment and environment agenda in the run-up to the Millennium Round of trade negotiations. Topics...
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  • Plantation Politics
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    Plantation Politics

    Caroline Sargent

    Plantations are playing an increasingly important part in the development and the economies of the South. Plantation Politics is the first book to examine their rationale and purpose, exposing the...
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  • Water Pollution Control
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    Water Pollution Control

    Richard Helmer

    This is a handbook for policy makers and environmental managers in water authorities and engineering companies engaged in water quality programmes, especially in developing countries. It is also...
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  • Toxicity of Nanomaterials
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    Toxicity of Nanomaterials

    Suresh Pillai

    Choice Recommended Title, April 2020This comprehensive book, edited by two leading experts in nanotechnology and bioengineering with contributions from a global team of specialists, provides a...
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  • Mortgaging the Earth
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    Mortgaging the Earth

    Bruce Rich

    This critique of World Bank operations examines the effects of this organization on the societies in which it operates. Highly critical of the Bank's practices in its 50 years of operation, the...
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  • Environmental Archaeology
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    Environmental Archaeology

    Chris Turney

    Environmental Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches outlines and assesses the various methods used to reconstruct and explain the past interaction between people and their environment. ...
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  • Environmental Politics in Latin America
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    Environmental Politics in Latin America

    Benedicte Bull

    Since colonial times the position of the social, political and economic elites in Latin America has been intimately connected to their control over natural resources. Consequently, struggles to...
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  • Food Systems Law
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    Food Systems Law

    Marne Coit

    Food law is a rapidly developing area, with interest being driven at the consumer, handler and farm level. This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an...
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  • Global Tourism
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    Global Tourism

    William F. Theobald

    Pressure on national and local governments to rapidly develop their tourism potential to meet demand and produce benefits, makes it more essential than ever to plan carefully and consider the human...
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  • Digital Technology and Sustainability
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    Digital Technology and Sustainability

    Mike Hazas

    This book brings together diverse voices from across the field of sustainable human computer interaction (SHCI) to discuss what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how...
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  • British Electricity Experiment
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    British Electricity Experiment

    John Surrey

    In 1990, energy in the UK underwent a unique and fundamental transformation, with the privatization of the electricity supply industry. This is the first book to fully assess the experiment. It first...
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  • Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters
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    Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters

    Michael R Greenberg

    The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history. They should number about 90 million by mid-century, more than doubling their current size...
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  • Sustainable Tourism
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    Sustainable Tourism

    David Weaver

    Sustainable Tourism comprehensively examines the theoretical and applied dimensions of contemporary sustainable tourism from a global perspective. Using international case studies and examples, it...
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  • Environmental Management for Hotels
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    Environmental Management for Hotels

    David Kirk

    Environmental Management for Hotels is a textbook for hospitality students that covers the relatively new field of environmental management. The reader is guided in how to make decisions which allow...
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  • Urbanization and Climate Co-Benefits
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    Urbanization and Climate Co-Benefits

    Christopher Doll

    Urban areas are increasingly contributing to climate change while also suffering many of its impacts. Moreover, many cities, particularly in developing countries, continue to struggle to provide...
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  • Tourism and the Anthropocene
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    Tourism and the Anthropocene

    Martin Gren

    This book brings the field of tourism into dialogue with what is captured under the varied notions of the Anthropocene. It explores issues and challenges which the Anthropocene may pose for tourism,...
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  • Close to Home
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    Close to Home

    Vandana Shiva

    It is 20 years since environmental issues were first put on the international agenda at the Stockholm Conference, and concern for planetary survival has shifted from desertification to acid rain to...
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  • Responding to Climate Change in Asian Cities
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    Responding to Climate Change in Asian Cities

    Diane Archer

    The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the...
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  • Innovation in Environmental Leadership
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    Innovation in Environmental Leadership

    Benjamin W. Redekop

    Innovation in Environmental Leadership offers innovative approaches to leadership from a post-industrial and ecological vantage point. Chapters in this collection are written by leading scholars and...
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  • ResponsAbility
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    ResponsAbility

    Betsan Martin

    ResponsAbility challenges conventional thinking about our governance and legal frameworks. The cross-currents of persisting, established worldviews, knowledge systems, institutions, law and forms of...
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  • Practice of Sustainable Tourism
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    Practice of Sustainable Tourism

    Michael Hughes

    Sustainable tourism is a widely used term that has accumulated considerable attention from researchers and policy makers over the past two decades. However, there is still an apparently wide gap...
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  • Last Chance Tourism
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    Last Chance Tourism

    Harvey Lemelin

    Concerns over vanishing destinations such as the Great Barrier Reef, Antarctica, and the ice cap on Mt. Kilimanjaro have prompted some travel operators and tour agencies to recommend these...
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  • AI-Enabled Learning for Climate Action
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    AI-Enabled Learning for Climate Action

    Sheila Jagannathan

    AI-Enabled Learning for Climate Action brings together scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and innovators to examine how digital learning systems, data platforms, and emerging technologies,...
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