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Performance on Behalf of the Environment
2013 Gebunden, 288 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 22mm, Sprache(n): eng Human degradation of the environment has been documented by scholars across a range of disciplines: the global temperature of the planet continues to rise, abandoned industrial sites stain once vibrant communities, and questions ab…
Rethinking Environmental History - World-System History and Global Environmental Change
2007 Kartoniert, 422 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 23mm, Sprache(n): eng This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a g…
Saving Forests, Protecting People? - Environmental Conservation in Central America
von John Schelhas, Max J. Pfeffer
2009 Kartoniert, 332 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 18mm, Sprache(n): eng Tropical forest conservation is attracting widespread public interest and helping to shape the ways in which environmental scientists and other groups approach global environmental issues. Schelhas and Pfeffer show that globally-…
Empowering Climate-Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan's Method
von John Raymaker
2014 Gebunden, 176 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 14mm, Sprache(n): eng This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses. Using Bernard Lonergan's functional specialization method, developed to facilitate collaboration among specialists, Raymaker and Du…
Computing Our Way to Paradise? - The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainabl…
von Robert Rattle
2010 Gebunden, 246 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 18mm, Sprache(n): eng Rattle's new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and i…
On Thin Ice - The Inuit, the State, and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty
von Barry Scott Zellen
2009 Gebunden, 268 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 20mm, Sprache(n): eng On Thin Ice explores the relationship between the Inuit and the modern state in the vast but lightly populated North American Arctic. It chronicles the aspiration of the Inuit to participate in the formation and implementation of d…
Clean Politics, Clean Streams - A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections
von Franklin L. Kury
2011 Gebunden, 294 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 20mm, Sprache(n): eng In this legislative autobiography Franklin L. Kury tells the story about his election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and later the Senate, against the senior Republican in the House and an entrenched patronage organi…
Rethinking Environmental History - World-System History and Global Environmental Change
2007 Gebunden, 422 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 27mm, Sprache(n): eng This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a gro…
The World's Scavengers - Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production
von Martin Medina
2007 Gebunden, 318 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 22mm, Sprache(n): eng Medina tells us that up to 2% of the urban population in developing countries survives by salvaging materials from waste for recycling, which represents up to 64 million scavengers in the world today. Despite these numbers, we know…
Climate Change Education - Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling
2024 Kartoniert, 254 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 15mm, Sprache(n): eng Climate Change Education: Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling offers innovative approaches to teaching about climate change through storytelling forms that appeal to today's students-climate fiction and…