Social impact of environmental issues
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Social impact of environmental issues
Hardcover. Given that it has major environmental impacts, can the use of fossil fuels be phased out? Is there a way forward using renewable energy sources while avoiding nuclear power? This book say 'yes' and offers an overview of the technical, economic and environmental issues associated with shifting to greener, cleaner energy sources. Num Pages: 120 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFR; RNQ; RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137584427
- ISBN
- 9781137584427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Hardback. Climate change appears increasingly on the top of policy agendas. This book examines the linkages between energy and the environment in the Northern European context, and sets the questions of energy and the environment in the North in the global context. Editor(s): Jarvela, Marja; Juhola, Sirkku. Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; KNB; RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461403494
- ISBN
- 9781461403494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.59
€ 124.59
Hardcover. Combining theory, case studies and speculative fiction, a range of contributors, from leading UK academics to pioneering renewable activists, create a compelling picture of the potential perks and pitfalls of a low carbon future. Editor(s): Herring, Horace. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 248 pages, 21 black & white halftones, 12 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JM; RNF; RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230282254
- ISBN
- 9780230282254
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardcover. This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development. Editor(s): Bruyninckx, Hans; Happaerts, Sander; Brande, Karoline van den. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JPA; RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230360525
- ISBN
- 9780230360525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.58
€ 64.58
Easy to use, effective, and safe: who couldn't love synthetic pesticides? Apparently most Americans still do. Why - in the face of dire warnings, rising expense, and declining effectiveness - do we cling to our chemicals? Michelle Mart's book, a cultural history of pesticide use in postwar America, offers an answer. Series: CultureAmerica. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RND; RNP; RNT; TVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700621286
- ISBN
- 9780700621286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.05€ 46.67
€ 50.05
€ 46.67
hardcover. The first systematic treatment of the spatial dimensions of the colonization of the prairie west, Improved Earth is a unique and thorough study certain to provoke new debates about the way space and time are imagined. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCS; 3JH; 3JJ; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802087829
- ISBN
- 9780802087829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.78
€ 63.78
Paperback. This edited collection brings together internationally renowned scholars to explore green criminology through the interdisciplinary lenses of power, harm and justice. The chapters provide innovative case study analyses from around the world that seek to advance theoretical, policy and practice discourses about environmental harm. Editor(s): Westerhuis, Diane; Walters, Reece; Wyatt, Tanya. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 figures, 3 colour illustrations, 9 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JKVC; RNP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273970
- ISBN
- 9781137273970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.04
€ 122.04
Hardcover. This edited collection brings together internationally renowned scholars to explore green criminology through the interdisciplinary lenses of power, harm and justice. The chapters provide innovative case study analyses from around the world that seek to advance theoretical, policy and practice discourses about environmental harm. Editor(s): Westerhuis, Diane; Walters, Reece; Wyatt, Tanya. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVC; RNP; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273987
- ISBN
- 9781137273987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61
Hardcover. Researchers and practitioners explore the effect of evolving global economic and political powers on energy security within the UK and puts forward practical options for moving towards a more energy secure system over both the short and long terms. Editor(s): Mitchell, Catherine; Watson, Jim; Whiting, Jessica; Britton, Jessica. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPSL; RNFY; RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298843
- ISBN
- 9781137298843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Hardcover. How and why do business organisations contribute to climate change governance? The contributors' findings on South Africa, Kenya and Germany demonstrate that business contributions to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change vary significantly. Editor(s): Borzel, Prof.Dr. Tanja A.; Hamann, Ralph. Series: Governance and Limited Statehood. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JPRB; KJG; RNPG; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302731
- ISBN
- 9781137302731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardcover. Academics and practitioners from across Asia and beyond revisit the issues and impact of climate change in Asia. They examine the preconditions for good governance regarding climate change, and the role of state and non-state actors in climate change governance, and explore different political-legal frameworks. Editor(s): Ha, Huong; Dhakal, Tek Nath. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JPR; RNA; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137325204
- ISBN
- 9781137325204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Hardcover. Climate change is increasing the severity of disasters and adverse weather conditions worldwide, with particularly devastating effects on developing countries and on individuals with lower resources. This book outlines areas of impact on human well being, consider specific populations, and shed light on mitigating the impact of climate change. Editor(s): Weissbecker, Inka. Series: International and Cultural Psychology. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBPK; RNPG; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490. Series: International and Cultural Psychology. 238 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Weissbecker, Inka. Climate change is increasing the severity of disasters and adverse weather conditions worldwide, with particularly devastating effects on developing countries and on individuals with lower resources. This book outlines areas of impact on human well being, consider specific populations, and shed light on mitigating the impact of climate change. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: MBPK; RNPG; RNT. Dimension: 240 x 169 x 19. Weight: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441997418
- ISBN
- 9781441997418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.99
€ 122.99
Hardcover. Ethnobotany of Mexico Editor(s): Lira, Rafael; Casas, Alejandro. Series: Ethnobiology. Num Pages: 900 pages, 60 black & white illustrations, 40 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; PST; RNCB; RNT; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 0. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461466680
- ISBN
- 9781461466680
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Condition: New
€ 328.09
€ 328.09
Paperback. How humans transformed mountains and other elevated areas into culturally rich living places through tangible and intangible social practices Editor(s): Scheiber, Laura L.; Zedeno, Maria Nieves. Num Pages: 264 pages, 33 illustrations, 24 maps. BIC Classification: HDDA; JHMC; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607814337
- ISBN
- 9781607814337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.86
€ 57.86
Paperback. Nature, science, religion. Each term carries with it claims to truth: nature inasmuch as it conveys our beliefs of how things naturally are and should be; science in and through its methods, evident results, and institutional prestige; and religion in its objects and the commitments they generate among devotees. Editor(s): Tucker, Catherine M. Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HRAM3; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- SAR Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934691526
- ISBN
- 9781934691526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.51
€ 38.99
€ 33.51
Paperback. Editor(s): Chen, Nancy N.; Sharp, Lesley A. Series: Advanced Seminar Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNR; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- SAR Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781938645426
- ISBN
- 9781938645426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.55
€ 44.99
€ 37.55
Implementing Climate Change Adaptation in Cities and Communities
. Ed(S): Leal, Walter; Leal Filho, Walter; Ad...
Hardback. Editor(s): Leal, Walter; Leal Filho, Walter; Adamson, Kathryn; Dunk, Rachel M.; Azeiteiro, Ulisses Miranda; Illingworth, Sam; Alves, Fatima. Series: Climate Change Management. Num Pages: 414 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 60 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: RGC; RNPG; RNR; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 783.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319285894
- ISBN
- 9783319285894
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.87
€ 125.87
Hardback. Series: Environmental Science and Engineering. Num Pages: 217 pages, 54 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 50 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVP; KNAT; RBGL; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 497.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319295398
- ISBN
- 9783319295398
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.21
€ 176.21
Hardback. The human condition is composed of culturally mediated biology, and this dual nature is key to our understanding of human/environment interaction. This book provides a view on the interrelationship between cultural strategies and their biological outcomes. It combines an ecosystems approach with cultural anthropological behavioural concepts. Series: Ecological Studies. Num Pages: 319 pages, 7 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 643.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540260851
- ISBN
- 9783540260851
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.09
€ 187.09
Hardback. The need for a sustainable environment has resulted in the increased recognition of the field of landscape ecology amongst policy makers working in the area of nature conservation, restoration and territorial planning. This title proposes a diagnostic methodology to investigate the ecological state and the pathologies of the landscape. Num Pages: 357 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCN; RNF; RNT; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 357
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540427438
- ISBN
- 9783540427438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.93
€ 192.93