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The environment
Conserving the Commonwealth: The Early Years of the Environmental Move...
Peters, Margaret T.. Ed(S): Hass, Patricia Ce...
hardcover. Describes the earliest days of Virginia's environmental movement, recounting the efforts of a farsighted group of leaders to preserve Virginia's priceless resources - open land, waterways, and historic sites - and to create new parks within reach of all the state's citizens. Editor(s): Hass, Patricia Cecil. Num Pages: 144 pages, 17 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; RNK; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813927732
- ISBN
- 9780813927732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.19
€ 30.99
€ 27.19
Hardback. Looks at Virginia's status as the second-largest importer of trash in the United States and uses it as a touchstone for exploring the many controversies around trash generation and disposal. This book examines the garbage issue from a number of perspectives - including considering the links between environmental justice and trash management. Num Pages: 184 pages, 9 b&w photographs, 7 figures, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; RNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928241
- ISBN
- 9780813928241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.61
€ 71.61
Hardback. The geologically ancient Tidewater region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina rests precariously atop millions of years of erosion from the nearby Appalachian Mountains. An immense wetland at near sea level, it is host to every conceivable body of fresh water. This book delivers an ecohistory of this waterland. Num Pages: 10 pages, 20 b&w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 1KBBFV; RNF; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 10
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813929217
- ISBN
- 9780813929217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.98
€ 52.98
The Illusory Boundary. Environment and Technology in History.
. Ed(S): Reuss, Martin; Cutcliffe, Stephen H.
Hardback. Editor(s): Reuss, Martin; Cutcliffe, Stephen H. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RN; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813929880
- ISBN
- 9780813929880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.18
€ 85.18
Paperback. Comparing national efforts to preserve public lands, this title investigates how effectively and under what conditions governments can provide goods for future generations. It examines the effect of institutional structure on the public delivery of these goods. Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JPQB; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878407026
- ISBN
- 9780878407026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.95
€ 70.95
paperback. The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose humanity never disappears in her analysis. With her penetrating critical gift, Vendler assesses American poets from T. S. Eliot to Charles Wright. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674654761
- ISBN
- 9780674654761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.94€ 47.80
€ 51.94
€ 47.80
Paperback. Environmental history has traditionally told the story of Man and Nature. This book reintroduces gender as a meaningful category of analysis for environmental history, showing how women's actions, desires and choices have shaped the world and seeing men as gendered actors as well. Editor(s): Scharff, Virginia J. (Professor of History, University of New Mexico, USA). Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBT; JFSJ; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700612857
- ISBN
- 9780700612857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.38
€ 42.38
Paperback. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history. Series: Themes in Canadian History. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 12. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802048967
- ISBN
- 9780802048967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.77
€ 34.99
€ 33.77
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
€ 64.41
€ 64.41
Editor(s): O'Neill, Karen M.; Abs, Daniel J. van. Num Pages: 250 pages, 10 photographs, 14 maps, 11 figures, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RNR; RPC; TNF; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813573779
- ISBN
- 9780813573779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.16
€ 158.16
A memoir of home, nature, and change in the American West, Light in the Trees makes cultural and environmental topics personal through a narrator's travels between past and present, rural and urban. Growing up on a mountain foothill in western Washington, Gail Folkins offers a small-town viewpoint of the Pacific Northwest. Series: Voice in the American West. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; BM; RN; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896729513
- ISBN
- 9780896729513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.78
€ 35.99
€ 30.78
Paperback. This comprehensive analysis of key issues in North American environmental policy provides an overview of how the US, Mexico, and Canada differ in their environmental management approaches and capacity levels, and how these differences play into cross-border cooperation on environmental problems. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KLCM; JPQB; RN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442601796
- ISBN
- 9781442601796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 40.35
€ 42.99
€ 40.35
Paperback. Pummeled by a century of drought, depopulation, and soil erosion, America's Great Plains are in dire straits. Frank and Deborah Popper have a solution: create a Buffalo common by returning 139,000 acres in ten states to prairie and reintroducing the buffalo that once roamed there. Num Pages: 204 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RGBC; RNKH; RPG; WNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226510965
- ISBN
- 9780226510965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.73
€ 31.99
€ 24.73
hardcover. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed critical analysis in English of the tourism industry in Mallorca. With origins in the end of the nineteenth century, the emphasis is on the development of mass tourism since the mid-1950s and the attempts to manage its environmental impact and to introduce diversification into the market. Series: Aspects of Tourism. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DSEB; KNSG; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845411800
- ISBN
- 9781845411800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.31
€ 157.31
Paperback. Since the industrial revolution, progress has meant an increase in labour productivity. This title describes a different form of progress, resource productivity, a form which meets the overriding imperative for the future (sustainability). It shows how at least four times as much wealth can be extracted from the resources we use. Num Pages: 352 pages, Figures. BIC Classification: KCN; KJ; RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853834066
- ISBN
- 9781853834066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.78
€ 50.78
paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFS; RGC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571313249
- ISBN
- 9781571313249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.63
€ 15.99
€ 15.63
Paperback. Fishing in Contested Waters demonstrates the deep roots of contemporary conflicts over rights, sovereignty, conservation, and identity. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4, 3 maps. BIC Classification: RGC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442610965
- ISBN
- 9781442610965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.58
€ 33.99
€ 31.58
Paperback. Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development is key to understanding many of the issues in Canada's endeavour to live up to its energy-related environmental responsibilities. Editor(s): Doern, G. Bruce. Num Pages: 305 pages, 8 figures, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; KNB; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802085610
- ISBN
- 9780802085610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 43.63
€ 46.99
€ 43.63
Paperback. Thoughtfully engaging yet theoretically sophisticated, Into the Fire reveals how disasters bring traditional patterns of gender relations to light and often serve as catalysts for social change. Num Pages: 176 pages, 4. BIC Classification: JFSJ; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442614703
- ISBN
- 9781442614703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.39
€ 31.99
€ 29.39
hardcover. A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada builds on the premise that Canada is in need of an approach that effectively integrates domestic priorities and global policy imperatives. Editor(s): Brunnee, Jutta; Green, Andrew; Duff, David; Bernstein, Steven. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JPQB; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802098788
- ISBN
- 9780802098788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.74
€ 105.74