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Antarctic Resolution
ISBN: HB: 9783037786406, Lars Muller Publishers, May 2021
1020 pp., 26.4x20 cm, 1000 illus.
In the era of the Anthropocene, it's urgent to shift our collective attention southward. Antarctica, a continent that accounts for 10% of Planet Earth and 70% of the world's fresh water, represents at once the repository of planetary data essential t...
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£40,00
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All the Fish in the Sea Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management
ISBN: PB: 9780226701622, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 line drawings
Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken...
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£24,00
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Sustainable Jewellery Principles and Processes for Creating an Ethical Brand
ISBN: PB: 9788416851201, Hoaki, September 2018
176 pp., 23.9x17.8 cm, richly illustrated
In jewellery, the new consumer trends are demanding products that are crafted, personal, and created with respect to the environment. This implies a sustainability strategy that takes into account the entire supply chain, from the extraction of metal...
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£22,50
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Extinction Market Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It
ISBN: PB: 9781849046909, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The planet is experiencing alarming levels of species loss caused in large part by intensified poaching and wildlife trafficking driven by expanding demand, for medicines, for food, and for trophies. Affecting many more species...
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£20,00
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Meeting of Land and Sea Nature and the Future of Martha's Vineyard
ISBN: HB: 9780300214178, Yale University Press, March 2017
352 pp., 21.6x26 cm, 314 colour illus.
An eminent ecologist shows how an iconic New England island has been shaped by nature and human history, and how its beloved landscape can be protected. Full of surprises, bedecked with gorgeous photographs and maps, and supported by unprecedented h...
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£30,00
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In Wild Trust Larry Aumiller's Thirty Years Among the McNeil River Brown Bears
ISBN: HB: 9781602233232, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2017
200 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 colour plates, 3 maps
For thirty years, Larry Aumiller lived in close company with the world's largest grouping of brown bears, returning by seaplane every spring to the wilderness side of Cook Inlet, two hundred and fifty miles southwest of Anchorage to work as a manager...
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£25,00
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All the Boats on the Ocean How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing
ISBN: HB: 9780226443379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
Most current fishing practices are neither economically nor biologically sustainable. Every year, the world spends $80 billion buying fish that cost $105 billion to catch, even as heavy fishing places growing pressure on stocks that are already strug...
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£34,00
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Good That Transcends How US Culture Undermines Environmental Reform
ISBN: PB: 9780226326115, ISBN: HB: 9780226326085, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s, the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality, ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy. With these changes has also come an increased popular resistance t...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Irreplaceable Woodlands Some Practical Steps to Restoring Our Wildlife Heritage
ISBN: PB: 9781906506537, GMC Group, Papadakis, September 2014
240 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.
This book is not only a beautiful record of the ancient woodlands that, thanks to good management, have continued to thrive, it also constitutes a practical manual and provides inspiration for those working to preserve our existing ancient woodlands,...
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£25,00
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Hemlock A Forest Giant on the Edge
ISBN: HB: 9780300179385, Yale University Press, June 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 69 black&white illus.
The Eastern Hemlock, massive and majestic, has played a unique role in structuring northeastern American forest environments, from Nova Scotia to Wisconsin and through the Appalachian Mountains to North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. A "foundation...
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