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Dangerous Earth What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More
ISBN: HB: 9780226541693, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 24 halftones
The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions create land and produce fertile, nutrient-rich soil, but they can als...
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£20,00
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Science for the Sustainable City Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology
ISBN: PB: 9780300246285, ISBN: HB: 9780300238327, Yale University Press, January 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.
In a world of more than seven billion people – who mostly reside in cities and towns – the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneer in modern urban social-ecological science. After two decades of research, education, and community engagem...
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£22,00
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£50,00
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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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£25,00
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City Riffs Urbanism, Ecology, Place
ISBN: PB: 9783037785003, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2017
160 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 30 illus.
City Riffs traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also considers trans-disciplinary aspects of urbanism; formal and informal growth in Kumasi and Caracas, post-...
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£20,00
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Walden Warming Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods
ISBN: PB: 9780226272290, ISBN: HB: 9780226682686, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be...
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£11,50
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£21,00
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Diplomacy on Ice Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic
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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£65,00
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Snail Darter and the Dam How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Fish and Killed a River
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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£19,99
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£25,00
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Peru: Ere-Campuya-Algodon Rapid Biological and Social Inventories, Volume 25
ISBN: PB: 9780982841938, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, February 2014
380 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates
In October 2012, an international and multidisciplinary team of experts conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Ere, Campuya, and Algodon watersheds of northern Amazonian Peru. Team members working on the social inventory studied the...
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£22,50
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