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Financing Our Common Future
ISBN: PB: 9783037786680, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
256 pp., 16x12 cm, 240 illus.
This book explains in simple but precise terms what finance is, and how its most innovative form, sustainable finance, can reconcile the well-being of mankind with the capacities of our planet. Bad news about climate change, shrinking resources, spec...
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£17,00
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Future Sea How to Rescue and Protect the World's Oceans
ISBN: HB: 9780226542676, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The world's oceans face multiple threats: the effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing, plastic waste, and more. Confronted with the immensity of these challenges and of the oceans themselves, we might wonder what more can be done to stop th...
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£18,00
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Fishing Lessons Artisanal Fisheries and the Future of Our Oceans
ISBN: HB: 9780226307459, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 9 line drawings
Fish bones in the caves of East Timor reveal that humans have systematically fished the seas for at least 42,000 years. But in recent centuries, our ancient, vital relationship with the oceans has changed faster than the tides. As boats and fishing t...
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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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Future of Conservation in America A Chart for Rough Water
ISBN: PB: 9780226542058, ISBN: HB: 9780226541860, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 7 halftones
This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America's natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and disparity of environmental justice, the challenge...
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£10,50
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£30,00
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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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Future of Nature Documents of Global Change
ISBN: PB: 9780300184617, Yale University Press, November 2013
592 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.
This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the science behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy and public perception. T...
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£27,00
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Fate of the Forest Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon (Updated Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226322728, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
408 pp., 21.3x14 cm, 7 maps, 6 halftones
The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To under...
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£22,50
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Flood Cycle Notes from a Changing Planet
ISBN: PB: 9781904955597, Signal Books, April 2009
64 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! 26.6.2008. 9.00 hours. Cloud level has risen sufficiently to see the heights of the island of Hoy. The margin of existence that I had noticed in North Ronaldsay, with its apparent make do approach to the problem of sea encroach...
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£6,99
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Forest Futures Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas
ISBN: PB: 9781905422524, ISBN: HB: 9781905422517, Seagull Books, February 2008
344 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 8 halftones, 4 maps, 10 tables, 13 figures
Under their slogan, "Ecology is permanent economy", the "Chipko Movement" drew world attention to the struggle over forest rights. Taking its name from the Hindi word for 'embrace', villagers hugged trees and prevented contractors´ from felling them....
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£75,00
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