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The environment

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The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. Wehave to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Westernworld. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745669779
ISBN
9780745669779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.56

Hardcover. The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: RNT; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745669762
ISBN
9780745669762
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.27

Paperback. Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, offering new, unexpected signs of climate leadership. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFG; RNF; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745662770
ISBN
9780745662770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.92

Paperback. Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RNP; RNT; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745654010
ISBN
9780745654010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.28

Hardback. Land is one of the world s most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so complex, it can be difficult to think them through in a unified way. Series: Polity Resources Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JPSL; JPVH3; RG; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745652764
ISBN
9780745652764
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Hardback. Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change. Indeed, climate-changing pollution is increasing globally, and will do so for decades to come without far more aggressive action. Series: What's Wrong?. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; JPQB; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745652504
ISBN
9780745652504
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.49

Hardback. Translation of: Klimakriege: wofeur im 21. Jahrhundert geteotet wird, 2008. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745651453
ISBN
9780745651453
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.07
€ 60.83

Hardback. * Natural disasters regularly reach a high degree of prominence in the media, but we rarely see the political aspects of the ways that disasters are managed and dealt with. * This book offers a comprehensive survey of the political history of disaster management, from World War I onwards. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JPS; RNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745650685
ISBN
9780745650685
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Paperback. * An impressively comprehensive analysis of today s key energy issues by a leading expert in the field. * Insightful and probing, this volume usefully refuses any simple solutions to very complicated problems. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: RNFY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745650654
ISBN
9780745650654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.40

Hardback. * An impressively comprehensive analysis of today s key energy issues by a leading expert in the field. * Insightful and probing, this volume usefully refuses any simple solutions to very complicated problems. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: RNFY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745650647
ISBN
9780745650647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.40

Paperback. * This is a new title in Polity's Resources' series - a range of short, accessible books designed to introduce readers to the geopolitical battles over the world's most crucial resources. * Examines key issues such as the impact of climate change on supply, water pollution, and efforts to privatize water supplies. Series: Polity Resources Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, map. BIC Classification: KNBW; RBK; RNFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745650333
ISBN
9780745650333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.66

Hardback. * This is a new title in Polity's Resources' series - a range of short, accessible books designed to introduce readers to the geopolitical battles over the world's most crucial resources. * Examines key issues such as the impact of climate change on supply, water pollution, and efforts to privatize water supplies. Series: Polity Resources Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPSL; RNFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745650326
ISBN
9780745650326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.65

Hardback. Series: Polity Resources Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745649313
ISBN
9780745649313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.38

Hardback. Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFS; RNC; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 231 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745647227
ISBN
9780745647227
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, facsims.,. BIC Classification: RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 37. Weight in Grams: 738.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745646886
ISBN
9780745646886
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.46

Paperback. 'The world of the future will be a tighter and tighter struggle against the limits of our intelligence', announced Norbert Wiener. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; RNPG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745645056
ISBN
9780745645056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.03

Hardback. 'The world of the future will be a tighter and tighter struggle against the limits of our intelligence', announced Norbert Wiener. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; RNPG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745645049
ISBN
9780745645049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.65

Hardback. Offers an account of the challenges we face in responding to security and environmental change. This work argues that to understand climate change and the dislocations of global ecology, it is necessary to look back at how ecological change is tied to the expansion of the world economic system over the last few centuries. Series: Dimensions of Security. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745642918
ISBN
9780745642918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.02

Paperback. This book shows how sociologists have responded to the challenge of environmental issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, biodiversity loss and marine pollution. It also covers sociological ideas such as risk, interpretations of nature, environmental realism, and globalization. It assumes no specialist knowledge on the part of readers. Num Pages: 202 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171 x 12. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745634333
ISBN
9780745634333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.89

Hardback. This book shows how sociologists have responded to the challenge of environmental issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, biodiversity loss and marine pollution. It also covers sociological ideas such as risk, interpretations of nature, environmental realism, and globalization. It assumes no specialist knowledge on the part of readers. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1. BIC Classification: JH; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 17. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745634326
ISBN
9780745634326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Paperback. * 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, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; RNA; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 171 x 17. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745627960
ISBN
9780745627960
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.21

Paperback. aeo A clear and wide--ranging analysis of modernity and the a moderna from the perspective of geography. aeo Argues that there are three a prime modernitiesa which have been defined by the development of the modern world: from mercantile modernity to industrial modernity and then to todaya s consumer modernity. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBTP; JH; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745621302
ISBN
9780745621302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.23

Hardback. This book shows why political theorists must take account of ecological concerns as part of their core enterprise, and how they can do so. It mounts a challenge to the received wisdom, of political theorists and their ecological critics alike, that specifically ecological values go against human interests. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JPA; RNC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745618081
ISBN
9780745618081
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.40

Paperback. aeo A lively, accessible introduction to the history of nature and the environment. aeo An outline of the major understandings of a naturea in the western world since classical times from nature as higher authority to its more recent meaning of a threatened form of life. Series: Themes in History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; RNC; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745616568
ISBN
9780745616568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.88

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