Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
Hardback. The project examines how three prominent philosophers of education - William Torrey Harris, John Dewey, and Gregory Bateson - each developed a world view that provides a philosophical basis for environmental education. Series: The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education. Num Pages: 109 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNA; JPHV; RNA; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 291.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484208
- ISBN
- 9781137484208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.13
€ 118.13
Hardcover. Towards a Sustainable University tackles the challenge of sustainability in universities. Universities are also a working environment and an organization in which sustainability can be experienced. This book shows how a sustainable university can shape future citizens and future managers following the sustainable paradigm. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNMN; KJD; KJG; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351920
- ISBN
- 9781137351920
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Condition: New
€ 61.95
€ 61.95
Climate Change and Order: The End of Prosperity and Democracy (Energy,...
Edmondson, Beth, Levy, Stuart
Hardcover. Beth Edmondson and Stuart Levy examine why it is so difficult for the international community to respond to global climate change. In doing so, they analyse and explain some of the strategies that might ultimately provide the foundations for appropriate responses. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPQB; JPS; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351241
- ISBN
- 9781137351241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. Globalism, colonialism, and consumerism have caused unjust suffering (han), for the earth's exploited peoples and the exploited lands. To reverse this tragedy, we need to work for a safer, sustainable planet and renew our inspiration from God as the transforming Spirit who gives, sustains and empowers life to all. Num Pages: 112 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRCM; JFFT; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 114
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346681
- ISBN
- 9781137346681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.56
€ 61.56
Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective: A Multidisc...
Achilles, Manuela, Elzey, Dana
Hardcover. Experts from business, academia, governmental agencies and non-profit think tanks to form a transnational and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the combined challenges of environmental sustainability and energy security in the United States and Germany. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; JPB; RNK; RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334473
- ISBN
- 9781137334473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.52
€ 119.52
Hardcover. Thijs Van de Graaf traces the history of international energy governance from the notorious 'Seven Sisters' oil-companies cartel to the recent creation of the International Renewable Energy Agency. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; JPSN; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320728
- ISBN
- 9781137320728
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Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790-1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a Northern nation, and key in unifying the expanding North Atlantic empire. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137311313
- ISBN
- 9781137311313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. Ralf Emmers assesses whether the joint exploration and development of resources can act as a means to reduce tensions in contested territories. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPH; JPQB; JPS; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310132
- ISBN
- 9781137310132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.51
€ 61.51
Hardcover. A powerful social science analysis and a compassionate philosophical perspective to face the twin challenges of environmental sustainability and human well-being. Num Pages: 126 pages, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPDF; RNA; RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308986
- ISBN
- 9781137308986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.07
€ 77.07
Hardcover. This book offers the first multi-case analysis of the politics of ethnic remixing in an expanding EU, including studies on Central Europe, the Balkans and Cyprus. Tesser explains the politics of minority return in a post-national Europe, with particular attention to the long-term aftermath of minority removal as a conflict resolution policy. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL1; JHMP; JPSN2; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308764
- ISBN
- 9781137308764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137307828
- ISBN
- 9781137307828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.26
€ 119.26
Hardcover. Geopiracy is a study of the 'Bowman expeditions'-a project through which geographers, with funding from the US Army, are mapping the 'human terrain' of foreign lands. Wainwright offers a critique of human geography today that draws on contemporary social theory to raise unsettling questions about the nature of geography's disciplinary formation. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JPA; KCP; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301734
- ISBN
- 9781137301734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.69
€ 61.69
Paperback. Benjamin K. Sovacool applies concepts from justice and ethics theory to contemporary energy problems, and illustrates particular solutions to those problems with examples and case studies from around the world. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFM; RNA; RNFY; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298652
- ISBN
- 9781137298652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.19
€ 129.19
Domestic Food Production and Food Security in the Caribbean: Building ...
Beckford, Clinton L., Campbell, Donovan R.
Hardcover. The book examines issues impacting food production and food security in the CARICOM region of the Caribbean and discusses strategies for building capacity in local food production systems. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; KNAC; RGC; RGL; RNFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137296986
- ISBN
- 9781137296986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.99
€ 118.99
Hardcover. 'Community-based development' (CBD) or'community-driven development' (CDD) has been the predominant approach to international development in recent years. Drawing on fieldwork and first-hand experience, this book explains why CBD/CDD produces outcomes that are incompatible with its underlying assumptions and intended objectives. Series: Africa Connects. Num Pages: 216 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; GTF; JHB; JP; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137281401
- ISBN
- 9781137281401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. By 2010, 260 million citizens were living outside of their permanent hukou location, a major challenge to the constrictive Mao-era system of migration and settlement planning. Jason Young shows how these new forces have been received by the state and documents the process of change and the importance of China's hukou system. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFM; JHBD; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137277305
- ISBN
- 9781137277305
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. This book develops a groundbreaking, novel approach to examining ethical consumer behaviour from the perspective of evolutionary theory, illustrating the deeply rooted potentials and limits within society for reducing environmental harm. Num Pages: 150 pages, 3 figures, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFT; JPVH1; RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137276797
- ISBN
- 9781137276797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.25
€ 72.25
Hardcover. Through policy and intervention national governments in Europe have long held an active interest in railways, an interest that has transferred to the supranational level via the EU commission. This book explores why the EU Commission has been so slow in creating an EU railway policy, pointing the finger at strong resistance by national governments Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; KNGT; RPT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274489
- ISBN
- 9781137274489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardcover. The Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 led Japan, and many other countries, to change their energy policies. David Elliott reviews the disaster and its global implications, asking whether, despite continued backing by some governments, the growing opposition to nuclear power means the end of the global nuclear renaissance. Num Pages: 153 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPB; RNP; RNQ; THK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274328
- ISBN
- 9781137274328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.71
€ 97.71
Hardcover. An illustrated history of the pastoral nomadic way of life in Mongolia, this book examines the many challenges that Mongolian herders continue to face in the struggle over natural resources in the post-socialist free market era. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPM; HBJQ; HBLC; HBLH; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269652
- ISBN
- 9781137269652
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.13
€ 119.13