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Conservation of the environment

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; RNK; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804011624
ISBN
9780804011624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Focuses on the issue of what must be done to mobilize and govern the necessary financial resources to combat climate change. This book shows how effective mitigation of climate change depends on a complex mix of public funds, private investment through carbon markets, and structured incentives that leave room for developing country innovations. Editor(s): Stewart, Richard B.; Kingsbury, Benedict; Rudyk, Bryce. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: L; RNA; RNK; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814741382
ISBN
9780814741382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Editor(s): Baldwin, A.Dwight; etc. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816623471
ISBN
9780816623471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, maps. BIC Classification: G; PSV; RNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816631551
ISBN
9780816631551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.63

Hardback. For more than a century, the world has recognized the extraordinary biological diversity of the forests of Tanzania's Usambara Mountains. This title unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape itself. Series: Ecology & History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15ill. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; RNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780821415535
ISBN
9780821415535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Hardback. Is Italy il bel paese - where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity's greed and nature's cruelty? This book presents the interplay of Italy's human history and its dramatic natural diversity is a subject appeal to a wide range of readers. Editor(s): Armiero, Marco; Hall, Marcus. Series Editor(s): Webb, James L. A., Jr. Series: Ecology & History. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780821419151
ISBN
9780821419151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Paperback. Collects essays that offer important reflections on the image and rhetoric of the rain forest. Attentive to such complexities, this title focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these representations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. Editor(s): Slater, Candace. Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 328 pages, 20 b&w photos, 8 maps. BIC Classification: RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4623 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822332183
ISBN
9780822332183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. This comparative frontier history explores the role that natural environments played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization Num Pages: 456 pages, 28 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JHMC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 653.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336891
ISBN
9780822336891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 408 pages, 36 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; JHMP; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822338475
ISBN
9780822338475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Traces Brazil's complex environmental politics as they have unfolded over time, from their mid-twentieth-century conservationist beginnings to the contemporary development of a distinctive 'socio-environmentalism' which seeks to address ecological destruction and social injustice simultaneously. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340317
ISBN
9780822340317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. Presents a framework for re-conceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, this book argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 photographs, 1 table, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JHMP; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344834
ISBN
9780822344834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. A rich ethnography of ecopolitics in Hong Kong in the late 1990s Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; 3JJPR; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822349310
ISBN
9780822349310
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Hardback. Offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of forestry "miracle" in Chile. This book narrates the century-long struggles among peasants, indigenous communities, large landowners, and the state over access to forest commons in the frontier territory. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBG; HBLW; JFC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822355984
ISBN
9780822355984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.20

Hardback. In Emergent Ecologies Eben Kirksey insists that we should turn our attention toward small-scale ecologies and search for hope in the efforts of individuals who are building new ecologies, and in the plants, animals, and fungi that are flourishing in unexpected places. Num Pages: 312 pages, 72 illustrations. BIC Classification: RNKH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360179
ISBN
9780822360179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.56

Paperback. In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multi-faceted conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, showing how race, class, and gender influenced its every aspect. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361985
ISBN
9780822361985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.13

Hardback. Moving away from a simplified food politics that is largely land based, Elspeth Probyn looks at food politics from an ocean-centric perspective by tracing the global movement of several marine species to explore the complex and entangled relationship between humans and fish. Num Pages: 200 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362135
ISBN
9780822362135
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.92

Hardback. Sean Cubitt offers a large scale rethinking of theories of mediation by describing the ecological footprint of media. He investigates the energy, material, and space needed to create, operate, and dispose of electronic devices, and shows how changing how we use media is the only solution to planetary devastation. Series: A Cultural Politics Book. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; PDR; RNK; UBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822362814
ISBN
9780822362814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.46

Paperback. David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as "ordinary" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it. Num Pages: 208 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; JHMC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822362982
ISBN
9780822362982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as "ordinary" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it. Num Pages: 208 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; JHMC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822363064
ISBN
9780822363064
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.92

Hardback. With a fresh, transdisciplinary approach, this title aims to probe the possibility of a green shift radical enough to permeate the ancient roots of our sensibility and the social sources of our practice. It explores our sense of how to proceed in the face of an ecological crisis that demands fresh thinking and acting. Editor(s): Kearns, Laurel; Keller, Catherine. Series: Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia S. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLP5; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 44. Weight in Grams: 989.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780823227457
ISBN
9780823227457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.11

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