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Social impact of environmental issues
Hardback. * Before his sudden death in January 2015, Ulrich Beck was one of the world s foremost sociologists. This new book is the last book he wrote before his death; it was completed in December 2014 * In this book Beck introduces a new concept 'metamorphosis' to describe what is happening in our world today. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: RNPG; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745690216
- ISBN
- 9780745690216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.45
€ 66.45
Hardback. Editor(s): Marsh, Alice. Num Pages: 161 pages. BIC Classification: RNC; RNF; RNP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634859325
- ISBN
- 9781634859325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 219.74€ 164.62
€ 219.74
€ 164.62
Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479850723
- ISBN
- 9781479850723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.82
€ 96.82
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.93
€ 134.93
Hardback.
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447310075
- ISBN
- 9781447310075
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.19
€ 105.19
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.66
€ 30.99
€ 22.66
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.76
€ 39.76
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.93
€ 134.93
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.97
€ 39.97
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.35
€ 16.99
€ 13.35
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.85
€ 34.99
€ 32.85
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.75
€ 78.75
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.81
€ 26.99
€ 24.81
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.88
€ 23.99
€ 17.88
Paperback. A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. Editor(s): Cronon, William. Num Pages: 560 pages, Photographs. BIC Classification: JFCX; RNK; RNP; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393315110
- ISBN
- 9780393315110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.78
€ 26.99
€ 23.78
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 20.72
€ 27.99
€ 20.72
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.44
€ 26.99
€ 20.44
Paperback. Since the 9/11 attacks, many Western governments assume terrorism to be the greatest threat we face. This book shows why this approach has been such a failure, and how it distracts us from other, much greater, threats of climate change, competition over resources, marginalisation of the majority of the world and global militarisation. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RNP; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90. Clean copy of an ex library book with a neat label on spine and usual markings
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KEX0226665
- ISBN
- 9781846040702
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99