Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
Paperback. Explores conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, a crucial unexamined actor in the state's violent history. This title provides insights into policy debates surrounding the recent global resurgence of peasant land reform movements as well as theoretical frameworks that have long guided the study of agrarian politics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 illustrations, 6 tables, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMP; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6147 x 4039 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340041
- ISBN
- 9780822340041
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
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
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.59
€ 31.99
€ 28.59
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822344834
- ISBN
- 9780822344834
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Paperback. Explores the cultural significance of the explosive growth of China s cities during the past three decades through interpretations of Chinese fiction, cinema, visual art, architecture, and urban design. Num Pages: 376 pages, 53 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822347286
- ISBN
- 9780822347286
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
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
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Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. Argues that maize biodiversity in central and southern Mexico is threatened as much by rural out-migration as by the flow of genes from genetically modified to local corn varieties. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 photo, 11 tables, 2 maps, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; KNAC; RNCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822349389
- ISBN
- 9780822349389
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Condition: New
€ 115.91
€ 115.91
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
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Condition: New
€ 122.90
€ 122.90
Paperback. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Bjorkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, politics is often about water. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 409.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822359692
- ISBN
- 9780822359692
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
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
€ 115.29
€ 115.29
Hardback. This volume's contributors examine the ways the legacies of socialism continue to shape and inform China's capitalist present, contending that contemporary China is shaped by an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices. Editor(s): Rojas, Carlos; Litzinger, Ralph A. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; KCM; KCP; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361770
- ISBN
- 9780822361770
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Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JMG; HBJF; JFSJ1; RNFF; RNQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361824
- ISBN
- 9780822361824
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Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. Lisa Messeri traces how planetary scientists-whether working in the Utah desert, a Chilean observatory, or the labs of MIT-transform celestial bodies into places in order to understand the universe as densely inhabited by planets, in turn telling us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the cosmos. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 248 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; PGS; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361879
- ISBN
- 9780822361879
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Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
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
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.82
€ 34.99
€ 31.82
Hardback. Kath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them. Series: Anima. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822362104
- ISBN
- 9780822362104
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Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
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
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Condition: New
€ 107.77
€ 107.77
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
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
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€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
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
€ 107.77
€ 107.77
Hardback. William E. Connolly expands his influential work on democratic pluralism to confront the perils of climate change by calling on us to deepen our attachment to the planet and to create a worldwide coalition of people from all demographics to contest the forces that prevent us from addressing climate change. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPW; RND; RNPG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 341.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363309
- ISBN
- 9780822363309
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Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
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
€ 118.23
€ 118.23
Paperback. Is nature undergoing fundamental change? What role does nature play in theological ethics? How might ethical deliberation proceed without nature in the future? This book brings leading natural and social scientists into conversation with prominent Christian theologians and ethicists to wrestle collectively with difficult questions. Editor(s): Albertson, David. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM; RNP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 647.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230709
- ISBN
- 9780823230709
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.17
€ 51.99
€ 46.17
Hardback. Analyzes global economic forecasts and the United Nations pattern of philanthropy Editor(s): Cahill, Kevin M. Series: International Humanitarian Affairs. Num Pages: 180 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPS; KCJ; MJCJ; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823250172
- ISBN
- 9780823250172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.31
€ 81.31
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 color illustrations; 50 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AMVD; HBJK; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 180 x 25. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823273577
- ISBN
- 9780823273577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.16
€ 95.16
Hardcover. Lagoons are characterized by an essential quality of uncertainty for use in resource management: these are physically vulnerable to various influences from not only the environment but also the adjacent marine and terrestrial areas. This book presents a variety of lessons learned from case studies from Asian countries (India, Japan and Thailand). Series Editor(s): Srinivas, Hari; Shaw, Rajib. Series: Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, maps, fig. BIC Classification: KNAF; RNFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780857241634
- ISBN
- 9780857241634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.90
€ 118.90