Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
Hardcover. Voice and Environmental Communication explores how people give voice to, and listen to the voices of, the environment. This foundational book introduces the relationship between these two fundamental aspects of human existence and extends our knowledge of the role of voice in the study of environmental communication. Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433732
- ISBN
- 9781137433732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Washington 101: An Introduction to the Nation's Capital
Daughtery, Laura, Matthew N. Green, Mazzenga,...
Hardcover. Washington 101 offers a layman's introduction to the richness and diversity of the nation's capital. An exploration of the history, politics, architecture, and people of the city and region, Washington 101 is a must-read for anyone curious to learn more about Washington. Num Pages: 281 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433381
- ISBN
- 9781137433381
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Condition: New
€ 129.05
€ 129.05
Hardback. Num Pages: 302 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JHBC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430762
- ISBN
- 9781137430762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.85
€ 117.85
Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization
. Ed(S): Lang, Thilo; Henn, Sebastian; Sgibne...
Hardback. This book presents a multifaceted perspective on regional development and corresponding processes of adaptation and response, focusing on the concepts of polarization and peripheralization. It discusses theoretical and empirical foundations and presents several compelling case studies from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. Editor(s): Lang, Thilo; Henn, Sebastian; Sgibnev, Wladimir; Ehrlich, Kornelia. Series: New Geographies of Europe. Num Pages: 368 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; JFFJ; JHBD; RGC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 595.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415073
- ISBN
- 9781137415073
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Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardcover. Through focusing on children's sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It explores children's responses in literacy and language, arts-based approaches, and indigenous studies as well as scientific pedagogies to provide a unique insight into how children learn. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNAM; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137408495
- ISBN
- 9781137408495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardback. The authors examine how far internal policies in the European Union move towards the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 80-95 per cent by 2050, and how or whether the EU's 2050 objective to 'decarbonise' could affect the EU's relations with a number of external energy partners. Editor(s): Dupont, Claire; Oberthur, Sebastian. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPSN2; KCN; RND; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406828
- ISBN
- 9781137406828
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Condition: New
€ 128.37
€ 128.37
Hardcover. This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society. Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFF; KNTJ; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406668
- ISBN
- 9781137406668
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Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. Policing Wildlife examines both the extent and enforcement of wildlife law, one of the fastest growing areas of crime globally. The book considers how enforcement regimes need to adapt to contemporary wildlife crime threats, particularly those posed by terrorism and organised crime. Series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JKV; LNKG; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400000
- ISBN
- 9781137400000
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.68
€ 195.68
Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests: Alternative Ontologies for F...
Veijola, Soile, Germann Molz, Jennie, Pyyhtin...
Hardcover. This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying to manage sustainability or tidy up tourist situations, the authors embrace the messiness of human relations and argue for more creative, embodied and ethical ontologies of tourism and mobility. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; KNSG; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399496
- ISBN
- 9781137399496
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Condition: New
€ 68.29
€ 68.29
Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project: The Ecocide...
Chaudhuri, Una, Enelow, Shonni
Hardcover. Theatre is a uniquely powerful site for the kind of thinking called for by the crises of climate change. Encompassing academic research, theatre work-shopping, playwriting, dramaturgy, and theoretical writing, this book offers a practical, theoretical, and critical engagement with the urgent issue of making art in the age of climate change. Num Pages: 140 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ANF; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137396617
- ISBN
- 9781137396617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.93€ 73.08
€ 85.93
€ 73.08
Hardcover. Climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet. This book responds to human adversity by mobilizing climate justice as legal justice, to legitimize and realize a unified, transparent, comprehensible, accessible and responsive process that applies to all. Num Pages: 439 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCN; LBBP; LNKJ; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 30. Weight in Grams: 676.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394637
- ISBN
- 9781137394637
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Condition: New
€ 69.27
€ 69.27
Hardcover. Drawing on comparative country case studies, this book explores student mobility in Europe, incorporating original theoretical perspectives to explain how mobility happens and new empirical evidence to illustrate how students become mobile within their present educational and future working lives. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFN; JFFS; JNKS; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388506
- ISBN
- 9781137388506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.93
€ 66.93
Hardcover. Ryan examines outdoor recreation through the lens of ecological theory, providing a unique, alternative framework to the dilemmas of user impacts on nature, and the paradoxes inherent within this. Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBS; RNK; RNT; WSZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137385079
- ISBN
- 9781137385079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. Fixed and Marginal Costs in Electricity Markets lays out clear cost methodologies for understanding marginal price structures, further cementing electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KFF; RNFY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384799
- ISBN
- 9781137384799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.39
€ 128.39
Hardcover. What can 'assemblage' thinking contribute to the study of international relations theory? This study seeks to investigate how the various debates on assemblages in social theory can contribute to generating critical considerations on the connections and dissociation of political agency, physical world and international dynamics. Editor(s): Acuto, Michele. Num Pages: 156 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPA; JPS; RGC; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137383952
- ISBN
- 9781137383952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.47
€ 83.47
Hardcover. The author presents an anthropological analysis of the regulatory technologies that characterize contemporary resource frontiers. He offers an ethnographic portrayal of indigenous rights, resource extraction and environmental politics in the Peruvian Amazon. Series: International Relations and Development Series. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; KCM; RNF; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381842
- ISBN
- 9781137381842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science. How does the Commission react when confronted with knowledge? According to the author, the Commission functions as catalyst transforming knowledge into politics. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPSN2; KNBT; RNPG; THX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380258
- ISBN
- 9781137380258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Hardcover. This collection focuses on technology-driven changes in democracy and civic engagement in the design and development of the 'smart city', exploring new urban literacies and emergent social practices. Editor(s): Araya, Daniel. Num Pages: 288 pages, 43. BIC Classification: JFFP; JFSG; JPFK; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137377197
- ISBN
- 9781137377197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.44
€ 151.44
Hardcover. This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the property-development boom and its legacy, the impacts of neoliberal urban policy in reshaping the city, public resistance to the new urban policy and highlights salient points to be drawn from the Irish experience of neoliberalism. Editor(s): MacLaran, Andrew; Kelly, Sinead. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFSG; JPFK; JPRB; RGL; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137377043
- ISBN
- 9781137377043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.51
€ 129.51
Hardcover. This book focuses on various issues of energy, energy efficiency and environmental policy in China. It discusses different aspects on how China may maintain its fast economic growth through good management of energy consumption and development of various energy sources. Editor(s): Yao, Shujie; Herrerias Talamantes, Maria Jesus. Series: The Nottingham China Policy Institute Series. Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCG; KCN; RNFY; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 222 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372048
- ISBN
- 9781137372048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.75
€ 128.75
Hardcover. Can religions help us tackle the ecological crisis we are now facing? Can we redefine our relationship with the Earth, giving spiritual depth to ecological issues? This book attempts to answer these questions by exploring the relationship between ecology and theology. Editor(s): Reijnen, Anne Marie. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM; RNC; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137361752
- ISBN
- 9781137361752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.19
€ 68.19
Hardcover. Soil degradation is real and global, even if the evidence is not so easy to glean. Degradation poses comparable risks to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and nonhuman animal extinctions. Few have noticed soil degradation as the problem it has become, except most indigenous peoples in their struggles for survival. Series: Environmental Politics and Theory. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RBGB; RGB; RNA; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358219
- ISBN
- 9781137358219
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
Hardcover. As the National Park Service prepares for its 2016 centennial, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of philanthropy and the national parks - exploring the challenges faced when working with non-profit philanthropic partners. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPW; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358202
- ISBN
- 9781137358202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.29
€ 128.29
Hardcover. The author explores the fraught politics of energy transitions in an age of climate change. She does so through an ecological modernisation and corporate social responsibility lens which she contends shapes and underpins sustainability today. Case studies cover climate policy, unconventional gas and renewable energy. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJG; RNFY; RNPG; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 348 x 300 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352323
- ISBN
- 9781137352323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.79
€ 128.79