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The Roots of Japan's International Environmental Policies
ISBN: 9780815339502 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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860,79 zł |
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Adirondack Cabin Country
ISBN: 9780815602750 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Throughout his career as a photographer, writer and conservationist, Paul Schaefer has been the Adirondack's leading spokesperson and the driving force behind negotiating New York State's forever wild laws. In this autobiography, Schaefer recalls life in the mountains.
Throughout his career as a photographer, writer and conservationist, Paul Schaefer has been the Adirondack's leading spokesperson and the driving forc...
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85,89 zł |
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The Extraordinary Adirondack Journey of Clarence Petty: Wilderness Guide, Pilot, and Conservationist
ISBN: 9780815608707 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The biography of an Adirondack legend whose tireless efforts are credited with much of today's preservation policies in the Adirondacks.
The biography of an Adirondack legend whose tireless efforts are credited with much of today's preservation policies in the Adirondacks.
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85,89 zł |
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Perspectives on the Adirondacks: A Thirty-Year Struggle by People Protecting Their Treasure
ISBN: 9780815608950 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Public activism vs. political rigidity: the untold story behind the battle for the environment in New York State's magnificent Adirondacks.
Public activism vs. political rigidity: the untold story behind the battle for the environment in New York State's magnificent Adirondacks.
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107,42 zł |
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Environmental Governance: A Report on the Next Generation of Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9780815702559 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume anticipates the politics of the next generation of environmental policy. Contributors assess the tension between competing policy goals and governmental responsibilities, how conflict and collaboration will shape policy options, and how the nation's political institutions will respond.
This volume anticipates the politics of the next generation of environmental policy. Contributors assess the tension between competing policy goals an...
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104,29 zł |
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Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes
ISBN: 9780816623471 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Addresses challenges inherent in landscape restoration from a broadly interdisciplinary perspective. The theory of preservation assumes humans are different from and opposed to the rest of nature. This book argues that humans are entwined with nature and have an effect on the entire ecosystem.
Addresses challenges inherent in landscape restoration from a broadly interdisciplinary perspective. The theory of preservation assumes humans are dif...
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114,72 zł |
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Wilderness Within : The Life of Sigurd F. Olson
ISBN: 9780816628421 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Olson is best known for his many essays that express the wonder, awe, and peace he found in the wilderness. Olson's popular books, including The Singing Wilderness, Listening Point, and Reflections from the North Country, are beloved by generations of readers, and frequently appeared on best-seller lists across the nation. The lyricism and evocative beauty of his prose became a model for nature writers like Barry Lopez and Annie Dillard. Olson was a recipient of the John Burroughs Medal, the highest honor in nature writing. A Wilderness Within looks beyond the environmental battles and books...
Olson is best known for his many essays that express the wonder, awe, and peace he found in the wilderness. Olson's popular books, including The Singi...
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281,72 zł |
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Planning a Wilderness: The Regenerating of the Great Lakes Cutover Region
ISBN: 9780816635795 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In Planning a Wilderness, we see how the technical challenges that taxed the expertise of foresters, land economists, game managers, and regional planners were only one part of the enormous task. Kates tells of the equally arduous undertaking of selling reforestation to the public, a campaign in which the experts and their allies in the mass media invoked popular myths of frontier individualism.
In Planning a Wilderness, we see how the technical challenges that taxed the expertise of foresters, land economists, game managers, and regional plan...
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125,15 zł |
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Signs Of Danger : Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat
ISBN: 9780816637621 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A rising ocean. A falling building. A toxic river. Species extinguished. A nuclear landscape. In a world so configured, the state of contemporary ecological thought and practice is woefully--and perilously--inadequate. Focusing on the government's nuclear waste burial program in Carlsbad, New Mexico, "Signs of Danger begins the urgent work of finding a new way of thinking about ecological threat in our time. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad began receiving shipments in 1999. With a proposed closing date of 2030, this repository for nuclear waste must be secured with a sign, the...
A rising ocean. A falling building. A toxic river. Species extinguished. A nuclear landscape. In a world so configured, the state of contemporary ecol...
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260,85 zł |
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Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat Volume 26
ISBN: 9780816637638 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Van Wyck (communication, Concordia U., Montreal, Quebec) uses the example of one specific government nuclear waste burial program the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico to search for a modern new way of thinking about ecological threats. Coverage includes an overview of several basic points what waste is, what nuclear wastes
Van Wyck (communication, Concordia U., Montreal, Quebec) uses the example of one specific government nuclear waste burial program the Waste Isolation ...
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104,29 zł |
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Nature and Madness
ISBN: 9780820319803 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Through much of history our relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence--we not only enjoy and appreciate the forces and manifestations of nature, we seek to plunder, alter, and control them. Here Paul Shepard uncovers the cultural roots of our ecological crisis and proposes ways to repair broken bonds with the earth, our past, and nature. Ultimately encouraging, he notes, "There is a secret person undamaged in every individual. We have not lost, and cannot lose, the genuine impulse."
Through much of history our relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence--we not only enjoy and appreciate the forces and manifestation...
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146,18 zł |
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Great New Wilderness Debate
ISBN: 9780820319841 / Angielski / Miękka / 712 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "The Great New Wilderness Debate" is an expansive, wide-ranging collection that addresses the pivotal environmental issues of the modern era. This eclectic volume on the varied constructions of wilderness reveals the recent controversies that surround those conceptions, and the gulf between those who argue for wilderness "preservation" and those who argue for "wise use." J. Baird Callicott and Michael P. Nelson have selected thirty-nine essays that provide historical context, range broadly across the issues, and set forth the positions of the debate. Beginning with such well-known... "The Great New Wilderness Debate" is an expansive, wide-ranging collection that addresses the pivotal environmental issues of the modern era. This ... |
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162,70 zł |
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Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People
ISBN: 9780820322063 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Using Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" and its characters Prospero and Caliban as structural metaphors representing the master-slave relationship between humans and chimpanzees, authors Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall collaborate in this exploration of our interaction with the species that shares more than 98 percent of our genetic makeup. After introducing us to an animal that fashions and uses tools, exploits forest medicines, transmits learned cultural behaviors, and exhibits human-like emotions, Peterson and Goodall present an illuminating, frequently startling study of the current... Using Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" and its characters Prospero and Caliban as structural metaphors representing the master-slave relationship b... |
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120,33 zł |
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Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho
ISBN: 9780821416136 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and treeless wasteland. The nation's spectacular gullying has concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century, In Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho, Kate B. Showers documents the truth behind this devastation. Showers reconstructs the history of the landscape, beginning with a history of the soil. She concludes that Lesotho's distinctive erosion chasms, called dongas, often cited as an example of destructive land-use practices by African farmers, actually were...
Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and treeless wasteland. The nation's spectacular gullying has concerned e...
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344,32 zł |
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Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho
ISBN: 9780821416143 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and treeless wasteland. The nation's spectacular gullying has concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century, In Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho, Kate B. Showers documents the truth behind this devastation. Showers reconstructs the history of the landscape, beginning with a history of the soil. She concludes that Lesotho's distinctive erosion chasms, called dongas, often cited as an example of destructive land-use practices by African farmers, actually were...
Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and treeless wasteland. The nation's spectacular gullying has concerned e...
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151,24 zł |
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The Expendable Future: Us Politics and the Protection of Biological Diversity
ISBN: 9780822310716 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Species are disappearing from the earth at a rate of hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of times greater than every before witnessed. According to many scientists, this rapid destruction will lead to irreversible changes in the earth's ecosystem. "The Expendable Future" provides a comprehensive and critical evaluation of the politics of biological diversity in the United States and of state and federal policies on endangered species from the early 1960s to the present.
Drawing on congressional hearing and debates, previously unpublished public opinion surveys, interviews with state officials... Species are disappearing from the earth at a rate of hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of times greater than every before witnessed. According to many ...
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114,72 zł |
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Protection of Global Biodiversity: Converging Strategies
ISBN: 9780822321880 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The rate of extinction of biological species is greater today than at any time in the last 65 millions years--threatening two-thirds of all living species within the next century. Contributors to this volume provide workable solutions that can be implemented regionally, nationally, and locally to counteract the problem.
The rate of extinction of biological species is greater today than at any time in the last 65 millions years--threatening two-thirds of all living spe...
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130,37 zł |
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The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Restless Ribbons of Sand
ISBN: 9780822322085 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands" is the latest volume in the series, "Living with the Shore." Replacing an earlier volume, this thoroughly new book provides a diverse guide to one of America's most popular shorelines. As is true for all books in the series, it is based on the premise that understanding the changing nature of beaches and barrier islands is essential if we are to preserve them for future generations.
Evidence that the North Carolina shore is changing is never hard to find, but recently the devastation wrought by Hurricane Fran and the perilous situation... "The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands" is the latest volume in the series, "Living with the Shore." Replacing an earlier volume, this thor...
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453,87 zł |
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The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Restless Ribbons of Sand
ISBN: 9780822322245 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands" is the latest volume in the series, "Living with the Shore." Replacing an earlier volume, this thoroughly new book provides a diverse guide to one of America's most popular shorelines. As is true for all books in the series, it is based on the premise that understanding the changing nature of beaches and barrier islands is essential if we are to preserve them for future generations.
Evidence that the North Carolina shore is changing is never hard to find, but recently the devastation wrought by Hurricane Fran and the perilous situation... "The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands" is the latest volume in the series, "Living with the Shore." Replacing an earlier volume, this thor...
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119,94 zł |
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Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society
ISBN: 9780822340317 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Greening Brazil "challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment, and the interplay of those efforts with transnational environmentalism. The authors trace Brazil's complex environmental politics as they have unfolded over time, from their mid-twentieth-century conservationist beginnings to the contemporary development of a distinctive...
"Greening Brazil "challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E....
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119,94 zł |
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