ilość książek w kategorii: 5717
Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability: Lessons Across Natural Resource Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9780415523592 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability. Improved understanding is also essential to promote governance approaches that are underpinned by justice and equity principles and that aim to reduce inequality and benefit the most marginalised sectors of society. This book is concerned with enhancing the understanding of governance in relation to social justice and environmental sustainability... Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindli... |
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712,22 zł |
Rethinking Climate Change Research: Clean Technology, Culture and Communication
ISBN: 9781409428664 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The problems and debates surrounding climate change possess closely intertwined social and scientific aspects. This book highlights the importance of researching climate change through a multi-disciplinary approach; namely through cultural studies, communication studies, and clean-technology studies. These three dimensions taken together have the ability to constitute a positive agenda for climate change science in its broader understanding. To cope with the climate change challenge, not only do we need new energy efficient technologies, other ways of living, and new ways to communicate but...
The problems and debates surrounding climate change possess closely intertwined social and scientific aspects. This book highlights the importance of ...
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737,66 zł |
Reading the Tea Leaves: Tales from Behind the Great Wall
ISBN: 9781432776893 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading the Tea Leaves Tales from Behind the Great Wall Robert E. Jones A narrative that moves seamlessly from the present into the author's past as he travels across China and through time to examine such diverse subjects as the plight of migrant workers, religion in a supposedly godless society but potentially the largest soul-market on earth, the broken environment and climate change, resource colonialism as China reclaims its position as the Asian hegemon and challenges the United States in a reordering of the global pecking order. It is a timely, humanistic portrayal of contemporary...
Reading the Tea Leaves Tales from Behind the Great Wall Robert E. Jones A narrative that moves seamlessly from the present into the author's past as h...
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59,91 zł |
Greening Citizenship: Sustainable Development, the State and Ideology
ISBN: 9781137010308 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The greening of citizenship, the state and ideology has created both opportunities and bottlenecks for progressive political movements. Scerri argues that these are pursuing justice by making holistic demands for: fair distribution and status recognition, adequate representation and effective participation.
The greening of citizenship, the state and ideology has created both opportunities and bottlenecks for progressive political movements. Scerri argues ...
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389,98 zł |
The Transport Debate
ISBN: 9781847428561 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Responding to increased public awareness of transportation issues and the sustainability concerns they raise," The Transport Debate" offers an accessible look at how we have arrived at the transportation systems we have today. Covering both local and global issues, Jon Shaw and Iain Docherty balance a celebration of the advantages that modern transportation systems have brought with a critical look at the many poor conceptions and executions of transportation policy. Centering their study around the notion of the journey, they follow the fictitious Smith family on a trip, documenting the many...
Responding to increased public awareness of transportation issues and the sustainability concerns they raise," The Transport Debate" offers an accessi...
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91,52 zł |
Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change
ISBN: 9780415540650 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how much more the social sciences have to offer.
Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways o...
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737,66 zł |
Successful Adaptation to Climate Change: Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World
ISBN: 9780415524995 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does successful adaptation look like? This is a question we are frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged with the task of developing and implementing adaptation strategies. While adaptation is increasingly recognized as an important climate risk management strategy, and on-the-ground adaptation planning activity is becoming more common-place, there is no clear guidance as to what success would look like, what to aim for and how to judge progress. This edited volume makes significant progress toward unpacking the question of successful adaptation,... What does successful adaptation look like? This is a question we are frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged wi... |
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788,53 zł |
Japan's Interventionist State: The Role of the Maff
ISBN: 9780415649414 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japan's Interventionist State gives a detailed examination of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and its role in promoting, protecting and preserving the regime of agricultural support and protection. This account is integral to the author's extended and multidimensional explanation for why Japan continues to provide high levels of assistance to its farmers and why it continues to block market access concessions in the WTO and other agricultural trade talks.
Japan's Interventionist State gives a detailed examination of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and its role in promoti...
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218,70 zł |
Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society
ISBN: 9780415531528 / Angielski / Twarda / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, methods, and theoretical perspectives are being drawn both from long-established disciplines and from relatively young ones. From its origins in philosophical and political debates about the creation and use of scientific knowledge, STS has become a wide and deep space for consideration of the place of science and technology in the world, past and present. This title seeks to capture the dynamism and breadth of the field by presenting work which...
In the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, me...
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1093,76 zł |
Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780262518796 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated the natural world that safeguarding it from humans is no longer an option. Humanity's imprint is now everywhere and all efforts to "preserve" nature require extensive human intervention. At the same time, we are repeatedly told that there is no such thing as nature itself -- only our own conceptions of it. One person's endangered species is another's dinner or source of income. In Living Through the End of Nature, Paul Wapner probes... Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contamin... |
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156,61 zł |
Climate Change Politics: Communication and Public Engagement
ISBN: 9781604978230 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate Change Politics offers a critical, yet hopeful examination of political vitality in the politics of climate change and discusses how people use various forms of communication to challenge existing power hierarchies. Because the meanings of climate change and of the numerous aspects of reality associated with it are constructed through communication, we offer an analysis of communication practices and structures as constitutive of climate change politics. A broad variety of case studies demonstrate how the choices made within various forms of public engagement result from social...
Climate Change Politics offers a critical, yet hopeful examination of political vitality in the politics of climate change and discusses how people us...
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577,13 zł |
Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Cities: Economy, Environment and Community in Baltimore
ISBN: 9780415657198 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city. Sustainability, as a concept guiding public action, encourages city officials to integrate policy and programs addressing the economic, environmental, and social health of the community. City governments, including Baltimore, have adopted plans to integrate this new priority into local policy and program management. Reorienting city policy and programs to address an emergent concern like sustainability requires collaboration between city... Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city.... |
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737,66 zł |
Globalization and the Environment
ISBN: 9780742556584 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework for understanding the globalization of environmental problems and the highly uneven, often faltering, international political response. The authors develop linkages between economic globalization and environmental degradation and explore a range of key global environmental problems--focusing on the two most challenging of all: climate change and...
This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Mo...
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498,02 zł |
Eu Climate Policy: Industry, Policy Interaction and External Environment
ISBN: 9781409403555 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate policy is today a significant area of EU governance, providing important framework conditions for many industries. But how has EU climate policy developed? This book offers structured, comparative case studies of the development of four central climate policies: emissions trading systems, renewables, carbon capture and storage, and energy policy for buildings, examining the intriguing similarities and differences in how these have taken shape. Combining sociological New Institutionalism and political science theories in a novel and engaging way, Elin Lerum Boasson and JA, rgen...
Climate policy is today a significant area of EU governance, providing important framework conditions for many industries. But how has EU climate poli...
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737,66 zł |
The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada's Constitution
ISBN: 9780774824132 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution, David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada's green record. This important and provocative book provides a road map to protect... Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, ... |
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142,39 zł |
Power of the Talking Stick: Indigenous Politics and the World Ecological Crisis
ISBN: 9781612052908 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Power of the Talking Stick makes the case that, reaching back to the beginning of the nation-state and all through the current period of corporate-led globalization, our governments and social institutions have been engaged in activities that will ultimately extinguish the world's ecological life support systems. This book offers an alternative, listening to indigenous leaders and others whose voices often go unheard in the din of contemporary culture. Their warning is stark, but their insights are firmly grounded in traditional knowledge and provide a way to see past the politics and...
The Power of the Talking Stick makes the case that, reaching back to the beginning of the nation-state and all through the current period of corporate...
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839,40 zł |
Quarterly Essay 48, After the Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis
ISBN: 9781863955829 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Australia is home to many animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, making Australians caretakers of a unique heritage in a land that tolerates few mistakes. Yet, in "After the Future," Tim Flannery shows that this country is now on the brink of a new wave of extinctions, which threatens to leave our national parks as "marsupial ghost towns." Why are species becoming extinct despite the tens of millions of dollars being spent to protect nature? And what more should be done? In this passionate and illuminating essay, Flannery tells the story of the human impact on the continent. He... Australia is home to many animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, making Australians caretakers of a unique heritage in a land that tolerat... |
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91,34 zł |
Community Mobilization for Environmental Problems: How a Grassroots Organization Forms and Works
ISBN: 9781604978377 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the wealth of information describing social movement activity, studies that focus attention on the intricacies of community relationships within the mobilization process are few. Attention is given in this context to the community struggle to determine parameters of health and safety in the face of environmental contamination. This focused effort draws on detailed analysis of community relationships with the media, science, government and community members themselves. Over the course of five years, the author, sociologist Erin Robinson, has uncovered the ways in which community...
Despite the wealth of information describing social movement activity, studies that focus attention on the intricacies of community relationships with...
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529,03 zł |
The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada's Constitution
ISBN: 9780774824125 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution, David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada's green record. This important and provocative book provides a road map to protect... Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, ... |
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427,33 zł |
Making Meaning Out of Mountains: The Political Ecology of Skiing
ISBN: 9780774821971 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mountains bear the imprint of human activity. Deep scars from logging and surface mining crosscut the landmarks of sports and recreation - national parks and lookout areas, ski slopes and lodges. Although the environmental effects of extractive industries are well known, skiing is more likely to bring to mind images of luxury, wealth, and health. In Making Meaning out of Mountains, Mark Stoddart draws on interviews, field observations, and media analysis to explore how the ski industry in British Columbia has helped transform mountain environments and, in turn, how skiing has come to... Mountains bear the imprint of human activity. Deep scars from logging and surface mining crosscut the landmarks of sports and recreation - national... |
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157,71 zł |