Environmental Policy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583227305Author Derrick JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 561g

'Unseen Beings is a magnificent, passionate, brilliantly written manifesto for our urgent reimagining of our relationship with every aspect of the creation... indispensable reading for anyone who longs for a just and balanced human future. Buy it and...

We live in a world where the drive for economic growth is crowding out everything that can't be given a monetary value. We're stuck on a treadmill where only the material things in life gain traction and it's getting harder to find space for the things...

Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refugees: these are the new conflicts and forces shaping the world of the 21st century. They no longer hinge on...

Nature produces energy by slow, cool, implosive means - by a centripeta inward motion, while our presnt culture uses explosive centrifugal (outwards) movement, which is wasteful and many times less powerful and effective. It aslo uses up the Earth's...

Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential - and unusual - eco-activist you might not have heard of. The Observer Simon Fairlie is the original hippie. The Idler This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in...

A Radical History of Development Studies traces the history of the subject from the late colonial period all the way through to contemporary focus on poverty reduction. In this now classic genealogy of development, the authors look at the contested...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679289Author John Bellamy FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 152g

Creative and practical free-market solutions to climate change In Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis and Capitalism Will Solve It: The Market Forces Catalyzing a Climate Technology Renaissance, distinguished author Kentaro Kawamori delivers a...

This practical guide for primary care provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good health-care delivery and provides easy-to-implement yet impactful actions that can be taken to reduce and mitigate the...

A clear and urgent call for the national, social, and individual changes required to prevent catastrophic climate change."An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113652Author Paul HawkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S...

Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life's...

As climate change begins to take a serious toll on the planet--with much more damage yet to come--a solution to our warming problems is hiding in plain sight. We need to commit to de-carbonizing our economy, and do so immediately, but so far we have...

In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-systemJames Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who conceived the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512386Author Amrc MoranoFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery Publishing

How does Nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things - including rocks and crystals - are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so...

The GND has the potential of becoming one of the largest global campaigns of our times, and it started in Ann Pettifor's flat. In 2008, the first Green New Deal was devised by Pettifor and a group of English economist and thinkers, but was ignored within...

James Lovelock's The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning is a prophetic message for mankind from one of the most influential scientists of our age. James Lovelock's Gaia theory, the idea that our planet is a living, self-regulating system, has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870098731Author Angela KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Green BooksPublisher Green Books

In Pursuit of Prosperity provides a much needed exploration of the evolution of environmental sustainability in U.S. foreign policy.Through expert analysis of nine countries and regions of strategic importance, David Reed and his stellar team of experts...

The climate movement has gathered some pace but what about the other, inextricably linked crisis in biodiversity? A radically hopeful manifesto, The Case for Nature sets out with clarity how we can use groundbreaking natural capital frameworks - ways of...

Thomas Friedman's phenomenal The World is Flat helped millions of people see globalization in a new way. Now he takes a fresh, provocative look at the biggest challenge facing us today - our hot, flat and crowded world.Climate change and rapid population...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408871Author Eyal WeizmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from Sao Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545614105Author Gregory WrightstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Wrightstone, GregoryPublisher Wrightstone, GregoryWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130918Author Liliana DoganovaFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999171407Author Paul WheatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shawn Klassen-KoopPublisher Shawn Klassen-KoopWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

'One of the most important books I've read this year. How Are We Going To Explain This? is a crystal clear treatise on where we are, and what we need to do right now. Especially recommended for those who feel hopeless.' Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia...

Lean Logic is David Fleming's masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years' work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain's most important intellectuals. A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming's...

Sustainability is one of the buzzwords of our times and a key imperative for economic growth, technological development, social equity, and environmental quality. But what does it really mean and how is it being implemented around the world? In this...

The last few years have witnessed a flurry of activity in global governance and international lawseeking to address the protection gaps for people fleeing the effects of climate change. This book discusses cutting-edge developments in law and policy on...

The question of ownership is the critical fault line of our times. During the pandemic this issue has only become more divisive. Since March 2020 we have witnessed the extraordinary growth of asset manager capitalism and the explosive concentration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789590883Author Frances WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Sacristy PressPublisher Sacristy PressWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees to enormous one-crop fields, we continue to try to reshape nature for our purposes - so much so it seems we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535755Author Howard J. HerzogFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation...

Examines the challenges of environmental governance in contemporary North America.What are the most important transnational governance arrangements for environmental policy in North America? Has their proliferation facilitated a transition towards...

Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Its basin is home to more than 70 million people and has for centuries been one of...

Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature...