Social impact of environmental issues
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Social impact of environmental issues
Paperback. Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWY; JHB; RGB; RNP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691176307
- ISBN
- 9780691176307
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€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Hardback. This book explores human adaptation to mountain systems using a range of viewpoints, including anthropology, ecology, and geography. It examines human effects on mountain systems, particularly in regard to human-caused climate change. Editor(s): Lozny, Ludomir. Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation. Num Pages: 410 pages, 15 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHM; RGBS; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 410
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461457015
- ISBN
- 9781461457015
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€ 129.66
€ 129.66
Hardcover. The authors critically evaluate the fair trade movement's role in pursuing a more just and environmentally sustainable society. Using fair trade as a case study of the shift toward non-state forms of governance, they focus on its role not only as a regulatory tool, but as a catalyst for broader social and political transformation. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFA; KNAC; RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137269843
- ISBN
- 9781137269843
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€ 128.09
€ 128.09
Hardback. Disasters cause economic as well as human losses, and the magnitude of this is ever increasing. This can largely be attributed to climate-related disasters, which intensify vulnerability in the poorest areas of the world. In this book, approaches to disaster risk management in developing countries are discussed, with particular focus on Costa Rica. Editor(s): Tsuneki, Hori; Shaw, Rajib. Series: Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; RNPG; RNR; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783509355
- ISBN
- 9781783509355
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Condition: New
€ 135.81
€ 135.81
Hardback.
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447310075
- ISBN
- 9781447310075
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Condition: New
€ 105.87
€ 105.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, notes. BIC Classification: AM; JH; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300035810
- ISBN
- 9780300035810
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€ 31.82
€ 31.82
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137517760
- ISBN
- 9781137517760
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Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardback. The Carbon Footprint Wars challenges current policies about how to deal with global warming, outlining their potentially disastrous side-effects on society and the environment and offers some radical solutions for dealing with climate change. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JPW; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748637669
- ISBN
- 9780748637669
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€ 44.99€ 39.85
€ 44.99
€ 39.85
Hardback. This book analyzes the role of local responses to natural disasters and conflict. Key issues such as the relationship between local and external knowledge in addressing disasters, the relevance of institutional and policy frameworks for community-based disaster response and the role of social capital and collective action are also addressed. Editor(s): Neef, Andreas; Shaw, Rajib. Series: Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: RNR; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781908204
- ISBN
- 9781781908204
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Condition: New
€ 135.81
€ 135.81
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803246898
- ISBN
- 9780803246898
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Condition: New
€ 40.21
€ 40.21
Paperback. This is a book about simplicity, not destitution, not parsimoniousness, not self-denial, but the restoration of wealth in the midst of an affluence in which we are starving the spirit. Num Pages: 112 pages, 7 woodcuts. BIC Classification: HPCF; RNT; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Green Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903998007
- ISBN
- 9781903998007
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Condition: New
€ 17.49
€ 17.49
Paperback. Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 line illustrations, 3 maps, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JFFR; RNF; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376. The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid it. 264 pages, illustrations. Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFFR; RNF; RNT. Dimension: 154 x 223 x 17. Weight: 370.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271234
- ISBN
- 9780520271234
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. The Pleistocene was the age of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Shepard sets out to show how much of what we call "culture" can be traced back through our evolution from that formative stage. Num Pages: 237 pages, tables. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Island Press United States
- Number of pages
- 237
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559635905
- ISBN
- 9781559635905
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€ 34.99€ 33.19
€ 34.99
€ 33.19
Paperback. An ethnographic account of the rapid mobilization of Chinese peasants into large cities, this text traces the profound transformations of space, power relations and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government's household registration system. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804742061
- ISBN
- 9780804742061
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€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
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Hardback. * Original and innovative guide to the sociology of the environment. * Covers all the key issues and debates including: society, nature and the enlightenment; industry and environmental transformation; commodification; consumption; the network society and human identity; human biology; citizenship; and new social movements. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JH; RNA; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 253 x 28. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745627953
- ISBN
- 9780745627953
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Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 491 pages. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- AK Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904859260
- ISBN
- 9781904859260
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Condition: New
€ 25.60
€ 25.60
Paperback. Goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: RNF; RNPG; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300205213
- ISBN
- 9780300205213
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.04
€ 23.99
€ 18.04
paperback. Editor(s): Moore, Jason W. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: JPF; KCS; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629631486
- ISBN
- 9781629631486
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.22
€ 27.99
€ 21.22
Hardcover. The energy world is dangerously divided between fossil fuel producers and environmentalists. A vicious head-on fight that affects everything - world poverty, governments, environmental catastrophe, big business. David Howell - Lord Howell of Guidlford - outlines the how we got here and the way ahead Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: KCN; KNB; RNB; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 218 x 32. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Gilgamesh Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908531636
- ISBN
- 9781908531636
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.64
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€ 20.64
Hardback. In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis. Editor(s): Hastrup, Kirsten; Hastrup, Frida. Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782389460
- ISBN
- 9781782389460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.27
€ 163.27