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  • Bioregional Economy
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    Bioregional Economy

    Molly Scott Cato

    In a world of climate change and declining oil supplies, what is the plan for the provisioning of resources? Green economists suggest a need to replace the globalised economy, and its extended supply...
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  • Coal Nation
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    Coal Nation

    Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

    Social science research is emerging on a range of issues around large and small-scale mining, connecting them to broader social, cultural, political, historical and economic factors rather than...
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  • Human Ecology as Human Behavior
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    Human Ecology as Human Behavior

    John W. Bennett

    Human interaction with the natural environment has a dual character. By turning increasing quantities of natural substances into physical resources, human beings might be said to have freed...
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  • Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture
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    Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture

    Fernando Vidal

    The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at...
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  • Aviation and Climate Change
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    Aviation and Climate Change

    Frank Fichert

    This book analyses the political, economic and managerial challenges for policy makers and the air transport industry as they face climate change.Based on an overview of the scientific background and...
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  • Tree Cultures
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    Tree Cultures

    Paul Cloke

    The relationship between nature and culture has become a popular focus in social science, but there have been few grounded accounts of trees. Providing shelter, fuel, food and tools, trees have...
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  • Measuring and Improving Social Impacts
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    Measuring and Improving Social Impacts

    Marc J. Epstein

    Identifying, measuring and improving social impact is a significant challenge for corporate and private foundations, charities, NGOs and corporations. How best to balance possible social and...
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  • Transport Revolutions
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    Transport Revolutions

    Richard Gilbert

    Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world...
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  • Heat Islands
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    Heat Islands

    Lisa Mummery Gartland

    Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materials and a lack of effective landscaping are their...
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  • Assessing Impact
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    Assessing Impact

    Jos Arts

    Written and edited by an authoritative team of internationally known experts in environmental impact assessment (EIA), this is the first book to present in a coherent manner the theory and practice...
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  • Environmental Crime in Transnational Context
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    Environmental Crime in Transnational Context

    Toine Spapens

    Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity. The increasing cross-border scope of environmental crimes and harms is one of the...
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  • Product Stewardship in Action
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    Product Stewardship in Action

    Helen Lewis

    Product Stewardship in Action describes how and why leading companies are taking responsibility for the environmental impact of their products and packaging. Product stewardship, often referred to as...
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  • Biochar
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    Biochar

    Yong Sik Ok

    Encompassing high priority research areas such as bioenergy production, global warming mitigation, and sustainable agriculture, biochar has received increased worldwide interest in the past decade...
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  • Creative Community Planning
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    Creative Community Planning

    Wendy Sarkissian

    Creative Community Planning provides clear access to emerging innovations in artistic, narrative, embodied and technological methods. Reflecting on the wide continuum of participatory practice, the...
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  • Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe
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    Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe

    Simon Bell

    Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity. This is the result of greater concern over urban...
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  • Natural Resources and Economic Growth
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    Natural Resources and Economic Growth

    Marc Badia-Miró

    The relationship between natural capital and economic growth is an open debate in the field of economic development. Is an abundance of natural resources a blessing or a curse for economic...
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  • Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability
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    Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability

    Geoffrey Lawrence

    As the threats of food insecurity loom ever larger, the world faces the sad irony of food shortages in the global South alongside a purported 'obesity epidemic' in the global North. The twin issues...
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  • How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies
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    How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies

    Philip Monaghan

    A taboo-shattering book, How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies sets out how visionary national and local leaders can transform unsustainable societies as they attempt to recover from an...
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  • Sustainable Development Handbook, Second Edition
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    Sustainable Development Handbook, Second Edition

    Stephen A. Roosa

    Gaining momentum globally, sustainable development is beginning to significantly redefine the policies of corporations and governmental entities. Updated throughout, the second edition of this...
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  • Tree Cultures
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    Tree Cultures

    Paul Cloke

    The relationship between nature and culture has become a popular focus in social science, but there have been few grounded accounts of trees. Providing shelter, fuel, food and tools, trees have...
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  • Global Environmental Harm
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    Global Environmental Harm

    Rob White

    This book brings together original cutting edge work that deals with global environmental harm from a wide variety of geographical and critical perspectives. The topics covered in the book are...
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  • Foraging and Farming
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    Foraging and Farming

    David R. Harris

    This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from...
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  • Geography of the Ocean
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    Geography of the Ocean

    Anne-Flore Laloë

    Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth’s surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines the ocean-space and our knowledge...
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  • Transport Revolutions
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    Transport Revolutions

    Richard Gilbert

    First released in 2007, the bestselling Transport Revolutions argued that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of...
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  • Leading Change toward Sustainability
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    Leading Change toward Sustainability

    Bob Doppelt

    As the world struggles to cope with the growing threat of a global carbon crisis, Doppelt has revised one of the best books ever written about change management, leadership and sustainability to...
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  • Making Waves
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    Making Waves

    Katrina Brown

    Coastal zones are critical multiple-use resources, under pressure from constant demands from different sources - conservation, economic growth and social welfare. This book identifies the dilemmas of...
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    Capitalism

    Jonathon Porritt

    As our great economic machine grinds relentlessly forward into a future of declining fossil fuel supplies, climate change and ecosystem failure, governments are at long last beginning to question the...
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  • Design for Sustainability
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    Design for Sustainability

    Janis Birkeland

    With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy,...
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  • Wild Product Governance
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    Wild Product Governance

    Sarah A. Laird

    Products from the wild, also known as non-timber forest products (NTFPs), are used as medicines, foods, spices, and a multitude of other purposes. They contribute substantially to rural livelihoods,...
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  • Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia
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    Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia

    Ravi Baghel

    The dramatic transformation of our planet by human actions has been heralded as the coming of the new epoch of the Anthropocene. Human relations with water raise some of the most urgent questions in...
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  • Public Policies for Environmental Protection
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    Public Policies for Environmental Protection

    Paul Portney

    The first edition of Public Policies for Environmental Protection contributed significantly to the incorporation of economic analysis in the study of environmental policy. Fully revised to account...
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  • Ecological Masculinities
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    Ecological Masculinities

    Martin Hultman

    Around the globe, unfettered industrialisation has marched forth in unison with massive social inequities. Making matters worse, anthropogenic pressures on Earth’s living systems are causing alarming...
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  • Transdisciplinary Sustainability Studies
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    Transdisciplinary Sustainability Studies

    Katri Huutoniemi

    Arising out of human-environment interaction, sustainability problems resist disciplinary categories and simple solutions. This book offers a fresh approach to practical and methodological concerns...
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  • Hazardous Air Pollutants
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    Hazardous Air Pollutants

    Dong-Chun Shin

    Hazardous Air Pollutants: Case Studies from Asia examines the variety of public health problems, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, increased mortality, and impaired mental health,...
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  • Countryside Planning
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    Countryside Planning

    Kevin Bishop

    Not since the 19th century has the future of the countryside been such a focus of political and public attention, nor of profound uncertainty and anguished debate. A watershed has now been reached,...
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  • Community Planning Event Manual
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    Community Planning Event Manual

    Nick Wates

    Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to...
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  • Leadership for Sustainability
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    Leadership for Sustainability

    Judi Marshall

    Those who advocate moving towards sustainability debate how change can be achieved. This book focuses on what it means to take up leadership for sustainability, from a variety of organizational and...
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  • Situated Practices of Strategic Planning
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    Situated Practices of Strategic Planning

    Louis Albrechts

    All over the world societies are facing a number of major problems. New developments, challenges and opportunities cause these issues and yet cases tell us that traditional spatial planning responses...
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  • Sustainable Entrepreneurship
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    Sustainable Entrepreneurship

    Adam Lindgreen

    The way organizations manage entrepreneurship has changed dramatically over the past decade. Today, organizations take account of economic issues, but they also adopt a broader perspective of their...
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  • Keeping it in the Family
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    Keeping it in the Family

    John R. Baker

    As the largest group of natural resource managers on the planet, farmers are at the interface of the changing relationship between humans and the environment. Typically organised around what might be...
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  • Pastoralism and Common Pool Resources
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    Pastoralism and Common Pool Resources

    Sandagsuren Undargaa

    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...
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  • Exploring Green Criminology
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    Exploring Green Criminology

    Michael J. Lynch

    Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglected by criminology. Others have suggested that green...
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  • Biomass Processing Technologies
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    Biomass Processing Technologies

    Vladimir Strezov

    This book is a thoroughly up-to-date treatment of all the available technologies for biomass conversion. Each chapter looks at the viability and implementation of each technology with examples of...
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  • Sustainability Handbook
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    Sustainability Handbook

    William R. Blackburn

    The Sustainability Handbook covers all the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and other organizations. It provides a blueprint for how organizations...
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