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Thirst for Power Energy, Water, and Human Survival
ISBN: PB: 9780300240245, Yale University Press, August 2018
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world's two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized. This farsighted book offers a new, holistic way of thinking about energy a...
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£13,99
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Dangerous Years Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward
ISBN: PB: 9780300234602, ISBN: HB: 9780300222814, Yale University Press, May 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm
A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and relat...
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£14,99
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£25,00
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Managing the Wild Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests
ISBN: HB: 9780300229332, Yale University Press, April 2018
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters's thirty-five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, "Local pe...
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Burn Out The Endgame for Fossil Fuels
ISBN: PB: 9780300234480, Yale University Press, March 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change. Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how...
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£12,99
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Free the Beaches The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline
ISBN: HB: 9780300215144, Yale University Press, March 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America's most exclusive beaches to minorities and the urban poor. That man was anti-poverty activist and one-time presidential candidate Ned Coll of C...
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£25,00
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Thirty-Eight The Hurricane That Transformed New England
ISBN: PB: 9780300230673, ISBN: HB: 9780300209518, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 38 black&white illus.
The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England's most damaging weather event ever. To call it "New England's Katrina" might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Isl...
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£14,99
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£19,99
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Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems Toward a Model for Understanding and Action
ISBN: HB: 9780300137033, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.
As the world faces ever more complex and demanding environmental and social challenges, the need for interdisciplinary models and practical guidance becomes acute. "The Human Ecosystem Model" described in this landmark book provides an innovative res...
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£40,00
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Cool Cities Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming
ISBN: HB: 9780300224207, Yale University Press, June 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm
A pointed argument that cities – not nation-states – can and must take the lead in fighting climate change Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to coo...
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£16,99
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Escaping the Dark, Gray City Fear and Hope in Progressive Era Conservation
ISBN: HB: 9780300115505, Yale University Press, May 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A compelling and long-overdue exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its lasting effects on American culture, politics, and contemporary environmentalism The turn of the twentieth century caught America at a crossroads, shakin...
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£30,00
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High and Dry Meeting the Challenges of the World's Growing Dependence on Groundwater
ISBN: HB: 9780300220384, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
An engaging call to understand and protect groundwater, the primary source of drinking water for almost half of the world's population. Groundwater is essential for drinking water and food security. It provides enormous environmental benefits by kee...
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