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  • Tapestries of Life
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    Tapestries of Life

    The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate our crops; the kingfisher inspired the construction of high-speed trains. In Tapestries of Life, bestselling author Anne...
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  • Extraordinary Insects
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    Extraordinary Insects

    *The Sunday Times Bestseller*‘Extraordinary Insects is a joy’ The TimesA Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year 2019A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures we can’t live without. Insects influence...
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  • Meeting with Moths
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    Meeting with Moths

    Mossy greens, conker browns, cream, chocolate and deepest black; add stripes, swirls and splotches and you have some of the most striking wildlife Britain has to offer. In Meetings with Moths ecologist Katty Baird roams Scotland seeking out, documenting...
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  • Nature's Ghost
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    Nature's Ghost

    Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation ‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of...
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    Pests

    An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons—and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural worldA squirrel...
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  • Green Planet, Clean Future Green Planet, Clean Future
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    Green Planet, Clean Future

    Are you ready to reduce your carbon footprint? Do you want to make your home more energy-efficient? Are you curious about sustainable food choices? If you answered yes, keep reading.In a world where environmental concerns are at the forefront, this book...
    $45.00

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  • Renewable Futures Renewable Futures
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    Renewable Futures

    Renewable Futures: The Transition to Clean Energy by Maxwell Stonebridge delves into the profound challenges and transformative potential of shifting towards a sustainable economic system. As the world grapples with the urgent need to reduce...
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  • Sociologie des conseils scientifiques Sociologie des conseils scientifiques
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    Sociologie des conseils scientifiques

    Face aux incertitudes grandissantes, les politiques environnementales reposent sur la mobilisation massive de scientifiques. Cet ouvrage propose une sociologie des conseils scientifiques, en décrivant leur fonctionnement, leur organisation et leurs...
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  • Saved to Cloud Saved to Cloud
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    Saved to Cloud

    Memory, and looking back at a long life from the perspective of giving up on traditional religion - and possibly god - as inadequate to deal with concern for the planet. LGBTQ+ interest
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  • Arctic Abstractive Industry Arctic Abstractive Industry
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    Arctic Abstractive Industry

    Through diverse engagements with natural resource extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, contributors to this volume apprehend Arctic resource regimes through the concept of abstraction. Abstraction refers to the creation of...
    $52.00

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  • GIS Applications in Agriculture, Volume Three GIS Applications in Agriculture, Volume Three
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    GIS Applications in Agriculture, Volume Three

    While many "alien" plant and animal species are purposefully introduced into new areas as ornamentals, livestock, crops, and even pets, these species can escape into other areas and threaten agricultural and native ecosystems causing economic and...
    $462.00

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  • Which World Which World
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    Which World

    ?Today, humanity faces a fundamentally different challenge ? that of managing a planet and a global human civilization in ways that will sustain both indefinitely. What makes this task less than easy are the pace and complexity of change. Over the next...
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  • The Economics of the Sulphur Industry The Economics of the Sulphur Industry
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    The Economics of the Sulphur Industry

    Between the 1950's and 1970's, the Sulphur industry continued to grow despite occasional shortages and excesses. In this study originally published in 1970, Hazleton focuses on the Frasch sulphur industry to explore issues such as competing sources of...
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  • Pesticide Policy, Production Risk, and Producer Welfare Pesticide Policy, Production Risk, and Producer Welfare
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    Pesticide Policy, Production Risk, and Producer Welfare

    This title, first published in 1988, includes an application of the author's methodology to tomato production, in which Antle illuminates the roles that alternative methods of pest management play in producer welfare. He also develops a more general...
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  • Environmental Ethics and Behavioural Change Environmental Ethics and Behavioural Change
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    Environmental Ethics and Behavioural Change

    Environmental Ethics and Behavioural Change takes a practical approach to environmental ethics with a focus on its transformative potential for students, professionals, policy makers, activists, and concerned citizens. Proposed solutions to issues such...
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  • Animals as Biotechnology Animals as Biotechnology
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    Animals as Biotechnology

    In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by the emergence of two contradictory trends within our approach to...
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  • Food, Animals, and the Environment Food, Animals, and the Environment
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    Food, Animals, and the Environment

    Food, Animals, and the Environment: An Ethical Approach examines some of the main impacts that agriculture has on humans, nonhumans, and the environment, as well as some of the main questions that these impacts raise for the ethics of food production,...
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  • A Green History of the Welfare State A Green History of the Welfare State
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    A Green History of the Welfare State

    This book provides a green critique of the post-war history of the British welfare state, concentrating on the years from 1945 to 2010. In illuminating the principles, theoretical methods and analytical criteria which underpin that green critique, the...
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  • Transdisciplinary Solutions for Sustainable Development Transdisciplinary Solutions for Sustainable Development
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    Transdisciplinary Solutions for Sustainable Development

    This book characterises the current limitations of scientific prediction for global environmental issues. It presents a review of the epistemology of this policy field including current policy responses (e.g. to abrupt climate change) then suggests...
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  • Climate Change Law in China in Global Context Climate Change Law in China in Global Context
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    Climate Change Law in China in Global Context

    In Climate Change Law in China in Global Context, seven climate change law scholars explain how the country's legal system is gradually being mobilized to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China and achieve adaptation to climate change...
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  • How Power Shapes Energy Transitions in Southeast Asia How Power Shapes Energy Transitions in Southeast Asia
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    How Power Shapes Energy Transitions in Southeast Asia

    An understanding of the role of energy-related governance systems and the conditions required for a shift towards renewables in developing countries is urgently needed in order to tap into the global potential of low-carbon development. Although...
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  • Sustainable Energy for All Sustainable Energy for All
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    Sustainable Energy for All

    This book demonstrates the weaknesses of both the existing academic literature on energy access and the dominant contemporary policy framings of the problem. Through detailed historical analysis it clearly demonstrates the value of a new theoretical...
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  • High-Speed Rail and Sustainability High-Speed Rail and Sustainability
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    High-Speed Rail and Sustainability

    High Speed Rail and Sustainability explores the environmental, economic and social effects of developing a HSR system, presenting new evaluations of the proposed system in California in the US as well as lessons from international experience. Drawing...
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  • Quest for the Unity of Knowledge Quest for the Unity of Knowledge
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    Quest for the Unity of Knowledge

    Is unity of knowledge possible? Is it desirable? Two rival visions clash. One seeks a single way of explaining everything known and knowable about ourselves and the universe. The other champions diverse modes of understanding served by disparate kinds of...
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  • Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
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    Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation

    Sustainable entrepreneurship has attracted growing attention in both scholarly and practitioner circles. Focusing on generating social, environmental and business value, the notion has been raised more recently to address the contribution of...
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  • Energy Security and Natural Gas Markets in Europe Energy Security and Natural Gas Markets in Europe
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    Energy Security and Natural Gas Markets in Europe

    Moving beyond most conventional thinking about energy security in Europe which revolves around stability of supplies and the reliability of suppliers, this book presents the history of European policy-making regarding energy resources,...
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  • Global Food Security Governance Global Food Security Governance
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    Global Food Security Governance

    Through an examination of the reformed Committee on World Food Security, this book provides new, empirically-informed insights into increased participation in global governance processes. 
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  • Humans and Lions Humans and Lions
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    Humans and Lions

    This book places lion conservation and the relationship between people and lions both in historical context and in the context of the contemporary politics of conservation in Africa. The killing of Cecil the Lion in July 2015 brought such issues to the...
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  • Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism
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    Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism

    Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism considers tourism public relations as elite reputation management, and applies models of political conflict and source-media relations to the analysis of the 'soft' genre of travel journalism. The book...
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  • Climate Change in South Asia Climate Change in South Asia
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    Climate Change in South Asia

    This volume studies the challenges of climate change in South Asia and examines the role of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in addressing them. It highlights the dangers posed by climate change in South Asia and underlines...
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  • Rethinking Authority in Global Climate Governance Rethinking Authority in Global Climate Governance
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    Rethinking Authority in Global Climate Governance

    The Reconfiguration of Authority in Global Climate Governance puts forward the argument that while transnational city networks, private certification schemes, and private self-regulation can surely contribute to solving the problem of climate change, the...
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  • Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters
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    Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters

    This book hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region. It offers students, academics, and the interested public fresh approaches to the interdisciplinary...
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  • Animal Welfare in World Religion Animal Welfare in World Religion
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    Animal Welfare in World Religion

    This unique and readable book examines the relationship between religion and animal welfare, taking a detailed dive into the teachings and practices of the major world religions.While there are many books expounding the beliefs of the major religions and...
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  • Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves
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    Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves

    Mobilising resources drawn from semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities, this book seeks a form of social theory from the mangroves; that is to think interstitiality from the perspective of mangroves themselves, exploring the crafty and...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance
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    Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance

    The book recognises UN calls for urgent action reflected in recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, Aug 2021) and convenes insights from leading legal academic experts and professionals on emerging issues in climate law.
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  • The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia
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    The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia

    This book reflects on Indonesia´s recent experience with REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), all set within a broader discussion of neoliberal environmentalism, hyper-capitalism and Indonesian carbon politics.
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  • Biology and Ecology of Groupers Biology and Ecology of Groupers
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    Biology and Ecology of Groupers

    Groupers are fascinating charismatic fishes commonly found in reef habitats around the world that sustain a global multimillionaire fishery. They are important top predator species and therefore of paramount ecological importance for reef system's...
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