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Environmental Security Concepts, Challenges, and Case Studies
ISBN: PB: 9781944970413, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, November 2019
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 20 halftones, 10 maps
Security threats today are increasingly complex, dynamic, and asymmetric, and can affect environmental factors like energy, water, and food supply. As a result, it is becoming evident that the traditional model of nation-state based security is incom...
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£36,00
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Sustaining Lake Superior An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
ISBN: PB: 9780300244519, Yale University Press, May 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 34 black&white illus.
Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation. But in the past fifty years it has experienced a remarkable recovery an...
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£20,00
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Biodiversity and Climate Change Transforming the Biosphere
ISBN: PB: 9780300206111, Yale University Press, February 2019
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 9 colour illus., 71 black&white illus.
The physical and biological impacts of climate change are dramatic and broad-ranging. People who care about the planet and manage natural resources urgently need a synthesis of our rapidly growing understanding of these issues. In this all-new sequel...
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£30,00
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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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Hubbard Brook The Story of a Forest Ecosystem
ISBN: HB: 9780300203646, Yale University Press, May 2016
288 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 187 colour illus.
For more than 50 years, the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire has been one of the most intensely studied landscapes on earth. This book highlights many of the important ecological findings amassed during the lo...
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£35,00
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Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability Redefining Our Relationship with Nature
ISBN: PB: 9780300205817, ISBN: HB: 9780300151534, Yale University Press, April 2014
320 pp., 21.4x13.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Scientists turn to metaphors to formulate and explain scientific concepts, but an ill-considered metaphor can lead to social misunderstandings and counterproductive policies, Brendon Larson observes in this stimulating book. He explores how metaphors...
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£28,00
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Gulf Monarchies and Climate Change Abu Dhabi and Qatar in an Era of Natural Unsustainability
ISBN: PB: 9781849042673, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! At the heart of Mari Luomi's salutary book is whether oil- and gas-dependent authoritarian monarchies can keep their natural resource use and the environment in balance. She argues that the Gulf monarchies have already reached...
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£40,00
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World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity
ISBN: HB: 9780226481234, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
224 pp., 30x30 cm, 985 colour illus.
Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole world. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature – from cor...
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£34,00
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North by 2020 Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems
ISBN: PB: 9781602231429, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
784 pp., 25.5x18 cm, colour illus.
Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on...
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£52,50
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Economics of Climate Change Adaptations Past and Present
ISBN: HB: 9780226479880, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2011
368 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 47 tables, 3 halftones, 86 line illus.
While debates over the consequences of climate change are often pessimistic, historical data from the past two centuries indicate many viable opportunities for responding to potential changes. This volume takes a close look at the ways in which econo...
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£102,00
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