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Dross City: Urban Metabolism Resilence and Drosscapes Recycling Project
ISBN: PB: 9788899854195, Bookport, ListLab, July 2020
334 pp., 24x17 cm, colour illus.
Dross is waste: solid impurities that form on the surface of the smelting pot. While most is thrown away, some is reusable or recyclable. Hence 'DrossScape', a term conceived by land economist Alan Berger. Working off Berger's theories, this book exp...
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£23,50
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Terrestrial Protected Areas of Madagascar Their History, Description, and Biota
ISBN: HB: 9782953892390, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, April 2019
1716 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, Set of 3 volumes, 804 figures, 392 tables
In 1989, a book written by Martin E. Nicoll and Olivier Langrand was published on the protected areas of Madagascar, which heralded in a new era of conservation for this island nation. In the subsequent three decades, there was an important increase...
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£150,00
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Land Bridges Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections
ISBN: PB: 9780226544298, ISBN: HB: 9780226544151, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 88 halftones
Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity. When they form, organisms are introduced into a new patchwork of species and habitats, forever altering the ecosystems into which they flow; and when land bridges disappear or fracture, organisms are se...
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£37,50
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£112,50
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Great Derangement Climate Change and the Unthinkable
ISBN: PB: 9780226526812, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since "In an Antique Land",...
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£11,50
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From Precaution to Profit Contemporary Challenges to Environmental Protection in the Montreal Protocol
ISBN: PB: 9780300213157, Yale University Press, April 2015
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.
The Montreal Protocol has been cited as the most successful global environmental agreement, responsible for phasing out the use of ozone-depleting substances. But, says Brian Gareau in this provocative and engaging book, the Montreal Protocol has fai...
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£30,00
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Extinct Madagascar Picturing the Island's Past
ISBN: HB: 9780226143972, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 21 colour plates, 87 halftones, 12 tables
The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar's mammal faun...
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£34,00
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Evaluacion Ecologica Rapida de la Biodiversidad de los Tepuyes de la Cuenca Alta del Rio Nangaritza, Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Tepuis in the Upper Nangaritza River Basin, Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador
ISBN: PB: 9781934151433, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, February 2013
135 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 3 maps, 29 colour illus.
This report contains the findings from a rapid biological assessment of the Tepuis in the Upper Nangaritza River Basin, Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador. The purpose of the survey was to provide data to support increased protection for the newly create...
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£15,00
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Environmental Leadership Equals Essential Leadership Redefining Who Leads and How
ISBN: PB: 9780300111347, Yale University Press, October 2012
160 pp., 21x14 cm
The important new approach to leadership that John Gordon and Joyce Berry explain in this book is built upon the experiences of environmental and natural resource organizations as they contend with complex, long-term problems. But the lessons learned...
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British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment
ISBN: PB: 9780226302034, ISBN: HB: 9780226302058, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones
Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions".British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment" reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the...
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£28,00
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£37,00
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Boll Weevil Blues Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South
ISBN: HB: 9780226292878, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
240 pp., 22x15 cm, 4 maps, 10 figures, 7 tables, 5 halftones
Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisi...
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£42,00
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