ilość książek w kategorii: 5712
Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches
ISBN: 9781138235816 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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222,03 zł |
China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions: The Stabilisation of Energy Consumption and the Deployment of Renewable Energy
ISBN: 9781138244412 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China, a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world's population, will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon emissions. The aims of the Paris Agreement may stand or fall with China, both for its own contribution and the example it will set the developing world. China's Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions discusses the prospects for China achieving radical reductions in carbon emissions, within the context of the current economic and political landscape. With a particular focus on technologies such as such as wind power, solar power and... China, a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world's population, will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon... |
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656,16 zł |
Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues
ISBN: 9781138206489 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 6th edition of Environment and Society continues to connect issues about human societies, ecological systems, and environments with data and perspectives from different fields. The text looks at the environment from a primarily sociological viewpoint and is designed for courses in Environmental Sociology and Environmental Issues in departments of Sociology, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, and Human Geography. Clearly-defined terms and theories help quickly acquaint students from various backgrounds with the material. Every... The 6th edition of Environment and Society continues to connect issues about human societies, ecological systems, and environment... |
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933,77 zł |
Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change: New Northern Horizons
ISBN: 9781138283596 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking book investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop self-determination. Adopting an anthropological focus on Greenland s vision to boost extractive industries and transform society, the book examines how indigenous communities engage with climate change and development discourses. It applies a critical and comparative approach, integrating both local perspectives and adaptation research from Canada and Greenland to make the case for recasting the way the Arctic and Inuit are approached... This ground-breaking book investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop ... |
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227,08 zł |
The Community Planning Event Manual: How to Use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve Your Environment
ISBN: 9781138177376 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an opportunity to have their say and be involved - residents, businesses, professionals and politicians. It's effective and it's fun. From Nick Wates, author of the hugely successful Community Planning Handbook, comes this Event Manual, the first on the subject, which explains why and how to organize community planning...
Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people a...
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656,16 zł |
Sustainable Diplomacy: Ecology, Religion and Ethics in Muslim-Christian Relations
ISBN: 9781349528066 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on the disciplines of Islamic and Christian Ethics, International Affairs, Environmental Science, History and Anthropology, Sustainable Diplomacy is a highly constructive work proposing a new eco-centric approach to relations between nation-states and bioregions.
Drawing on the disciplines of Islamic and Christian Ethics, International Affairs, Environmental Science, History and Anthropology, Sustainable Diplom...
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504,67 zł |
Ecology, Soils, and the Left: An Ecosocial Approach
ISBN: 9781349471096 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soil degradation is real and global, even if the evidence is not so easy to glean. Degradation poses comparable risks to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and nonhuman animal extinctions. Few have noticed soil degradation as the problem it has become, except most indigenous peoples in their struggles for survival.
Soil degradation is real and global, even if the evidence is not so easy to glean. Degradation poses comparable risks to greenhouse gas emissions, def...
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388,20 zł |
Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity: Tackling Climate Change in a Neoliberal World
ISBN: 9781138283633 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It offers a rigorous critique of the mainstream neoliberal and ecological modernisation approaches, extending the concepts of Marxist social and employment relations theory to the climate realm. The book applies insights from employment relations to the political economy of climate change, developing a model for understanding trade union behaviour over climate matters. The strong interdisciplinary approach draws together lessons from both physical... This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It... |
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222,03 zł |
Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues
ISBN: 9781138206496 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 6th edition of Environment and Society continues to connect issues about human societies, ecological systems, and environments with data and perspectives from different fields. The text looks at the environment from a primarily sociological viewpoint and is designed for courses in Environmental Sociology and Environmental Issues in departments of Sociology, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, and Human Geography. Clearly-defined terms and theories help quickly acquaint students from various backgrounds with the material. Every... The 6th edition of Environment and Society continues to connect issues about human societies, ecological systems, and environment... |
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681,40 zł |
Climate Action in a Globalizing World: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North
ISBN: 9781138667280 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The existence and urgency of global climate change is a matter of scientific consensus. Yet the global politics of climate change have been anything but consensual. In this context, a wave of global climate activism has emerged in the last decade in response to the perceived failure of the political negotiations. This book provides a unique comparative study of environmental movements in USA, Japan, Denmark and Sweden, analyzing their interaction with the international climate institutions of the United Nations, with national governments, and with currents in the global climate... The existence and urgency of global climate change is a matter of scientific consensus. Yet the global politics of climate change have been anythin... |
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681,40 zł |
Climate Action in a Globalizing World: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North
ISBN: 9781138667303 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The existence and urgency of global climate change is a matter of scientific consensus. Yet the global politics of climate change have been anything but consensual. In this context, a wave of global climate activism has emerged in the last decade in response to the perceived failure of the political negotiations. This book provides a unique comparative study of environmental movements in USA, Japan, Denmark and Sweden, analyzing their interaction with the international climate institutions of the United Nations, with national governments, and with currents in the global climate... The existence and urgency of global climate change is a matter of scientific consensus. Yet the global politics of climate change have been anythin... |
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201,84 zł |
Universities and the Sustainable Development Future: Evaluating Higher-Education Contributions to the 2030 Agenda
ISBN: 9781138212527 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world. Although university involvement in sustainable-development research and outreach has increased substantially, systematic learning from higher-education engagements has been limited. Universities and the Sustainable Development Future offers institutions of higher learning around the world practical guidelines that can be applied contextually to produce credible... Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning hav... |
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656,16 zł |
Global Warming and Climate Change: Prospects and Policies in Asia and Europe
ISBN: 9781349315109 / Angielski / Miękka / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compendium looks at Asian and European policies for dealing with climate change, and possible impacts on conflicts and security. It clarifies the impacts of climate change on natural resources, on the frequency and expansion of natural disasters and the repercussions for environmentally-induced migration.
This compendium looks at Asian and European policies for dealing with climate change, and possible impacts on conflicts and security. It clarifies the...
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388,20 zł |
River by Design: Essays on the Boise River, 1915-2015 (Standard Edition)
ISBN: 9780990736332 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. River by Design marks 100 years since the Boise River emerged as an engineering sensation with the dedication of Arrowrock Dam. Sequenced like a tour with stops in Boise, Garden City, Eagle, Caldwell, and Parma, these essays collectively search for the politics and cultural values that drive engineering design.
River by Design marks 100 years since the Boise River emerged as an engineering sensation with the dedication of Arrowrock Dam. Sequenced like a tour ...
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98,25 zł |
River by Design: Essays on the Boise River, 1915-2015 (Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780990736325 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. River by Design marks 100 years since the Boise River emerged as an engineering sensation with the dedication of Arrowrock Dam. Sequenced like a tour with stops in Boise, Garden City, Eagle, Caldwell, and Parma, these essays collectively search for the politics and cultural values that drive engineering design.
River by Design marks 100 years since the Boise River emerged as an engineering sensation with the dedication of Arrowrock Dam. Sequenced like a tour ...
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198,65 zł |
Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades The Fourth Biennial Review, 2012
ISBN: 9780309259224 / Angielski / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twelve years into the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project, little progress has been made in restoring the core of the remaining Everglades ecosystem; instead, most project construction so far has occurred along its periphery. To reverse ongoing ecosystem declines, it will be necessary to expedite restoration projects that target the central Everglades, and to improve both the quality and quantity of the water in the ecosystem. The new Central Everglades Planning Project offers an innovative approach to this challenge, although additional analyses are needed at the interface... Twelve years into the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project, little progress has been made in restoring the core of the remaining Everglades... |
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239,09 zł |
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
ISBN: 9780143130444 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - New York Times bestseller - The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world "At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will...
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106,84 zł |
Universities and the Sustainable Development Future: Evaluating Higher-Education Contributions to the 2030 Agenda
ISBN: 9781138212534 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world. Although university involvement in sustainable-development research and outreach has increased substantially, systematic learning from higher-education engagements has been limited. Universities and the Sustainable Development Future offers institutions of higher learning around the world practical guidelines that can be applied contextually to produce credible... Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning hav... |
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201,84 zł |
An Interactive History of the Clean Air ACT: Scientific and Policy Perspectives
ISBN: 9780323165419 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out for the United States a basic, yet ambitious, objective to reduce pollution to levels that protect health and welfare. The Act set out state and federal regulations to limit emissions and the Environmental Protection Agency was established to help enforce the regulations. The Act has since had several amendments, notably in 1977 and 1990, and has successfully helped to increase air quality. This book reviews the history of the Clean Air Act of 1970 including the political, business, and scientific elements that went into establishing the Act, emphasizing... The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out for the United States a basic, yet ambitious, objective to reduce pollution to levels that protect health and wel... |
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322,98 zł |
Environmental Sustainability and American Public Administration: Past, Present, and Future
ISBN: 9781498509664 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Protecting the natural environment and promoting environmental sustainability have become important objectives for U.S. policymakers and public administrators at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Institutions of American government, especially at the federal level, and the public administrators who work inside of those institutions, play a crucial role in developing and implementing environmental sustainability policies. This book explores these salient issues logically. First, it explores fundamental concepts such as what it means to be environmentally sustainable, how economic issues...
Protecting the natural environment and promoting environmental sustainability have become important objectives for U.S. policymakers and public admini...
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557,87 zł |