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Ecology
Water 4.0 The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
Sedlak David L.
ISBN: PB: 9780300212679, Yale University Press, May 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.
Turn on the tap, and water pours out. Pull out the plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we're done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineer...
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From Precaution to Profit Contemporary Challenges to Environmental Protection in the Montreal Protocol
Gareau Brian J.
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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Climate Casino Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
Nordhaus William
ISBN: PB: 9780300212648, Yale University Press, April 2015
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 46 black&white illus.
Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still tim...
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Back to the Garden Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present
McGregor James H. S.
ISBN: HB: 9780300197464, Yale University Press, February 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.
The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden und...
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Diplomacy on Ice Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic
Pincus Rebecca, Ali Saleem H., Speth James Gustave
ISBN: HB: 9780300205169, Yale University Press, February 2015
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, most discussion has centred on the potential for conflict, environmental destruction, and upheaval from climate change. This important book shifts the conversation about the A...
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Mountains and Plains The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes
Knight Dennis H., Jones George P., Reiners William A., Romme William H.
ISBN: PB: 9780300185928, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 168 colour images, 77 black&white illus.
Many changes – some discouraging, others hopeful – have occurred in the Rocky Mountain region since the first edition of this widely acclaimed book was published. Wildlife habitat has become more fragmented, once-abundant sage grouse are now scarce,...
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Constructing Private Governance The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification
Auld Graeme
ISBN: PB: 9780300190533, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Recent decades have witnessed the rise of social and environmental certification programmes that are intended to promote responsible business practices. Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desi...
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Banned A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
Davis Frederick Rowe
ISBN: HB: 9780300205176, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Rachel Carson's seminal book Silent Spring, published in 1962, stands as one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Powerful and eloquent, the book exposed the dangers of indiscriminate chemical pesticide use. It also inspired importan...
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Question of Balance Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies
Nordhaus William
ISBN: PB: 9780300209396, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.
As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken centre stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues...
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Snail Darter and the Dam How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Fish and Killed a River
Plater Zygmunt J. B.
ISBN: PB: 9780300209419, ISBN: HB: 9780300173246, Yale University Press, November 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish is often invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the environmental lawyer who fought and won...
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