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Dirt Persuasion: Civic Environmental Populism and the Heartland's Pipeline Fight by Derek Moscato 9781496208392
RRP: £54.00£43.41Dirt Persuasion examines a watershed moment in U.S. environmental politics: the fight over the Keystone XL Pipeline. The complex interplay of resources extraction industries with grassroots environmentalism and advocacy has transformed the role of... -
Historic Denali National Park and Preserve: The Stories Behind One of America's Great Treasures by Tracy Salcedo 9781493028917
RRP: £12.99£9.61Celebrating our national parks *Denali National Park celebrates its centennial anniversary in 2017 *The park attracts more than 400,000 visitors annually *More than 60 historic photographs throughout Historic Denali National Park is a vibrant... -
Slapped!: A Novel Based on a True Story by Paul Swenson 9781491801758
£27.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491801758Author Paul SwensonFormat HardbackPage Count 410Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 152g -
Environmental History and Ecology of Moreton Bay by Daryl McPhee 9781486307210
RRP: £57.00£47.06The south-east Queensland region is currently experiencing the most rapid urbanisation in Australia. This growth in human population, industry and infrastructure puts pressure on the unique and diverse natural environment of Moreton Bay. Much loved by... -
Saving the Tasmanian Devil: Recovery through Science-based Management by Carolyn Hogg 9781486307180
RRP: £103.00£87.86The Tasmanian devil is threatened by Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), a transmissible form of cancer that has reduced the population by over 80%. Hunting, extreme climate events, vehicle collision and habitat destruction also put pressure on this... -
Ten Commitments Revisited: Securing Australia's Future Environment by Steve Morton 9781486301676
£46.31What are the 10 key issues that must be addressed urgently to improve Australia's environment? In this follow up to the highly successful book Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment, Australia's leading environmental thinkers have... -
Endurance: Australian Stories of Drought by Deb Anderson 9781486301201
£41.31Endurance presents stories of ordinary Australians grappling with extraordinary circumstances, providing insight into their lives., their experiences with drought and their perceptions of climate change. The book opens with the physical impacts,... -
Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range by Erik Kojola 9781479815210
RRP: £25.99£20.84Honorable Mention, Outstanding Publication Award, given by the Environmental Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association A riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in... -
Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores by Orrin H. Pilkey 9781478005063
RRP: £83.00£72.11The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic... -
Biotechnology in the Sustainable Environment by Gary S. Sayler 9781461374633
£49.56The purpose of these proceedings was to address the technological, economic, insti- tutional and social questions raised by the rapidly evolving u se of biotechnology for the protection. restoration, and sustainability of our environment. The symposium,... -
The Cornerstone of Development: Integrating Environmental, Social, and Economic Policies by Jamie Schnurr 9781138465442
RRP: £120.00£104.01"Sustainable development" quickly became the universal goal for environmentalists in the 1990s, motivated by the 1988 Brundtland Report and the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. When the time came to bring theory into reality, sustainable development... -
Free-ranging Cats: Behavior, Ecology, Management by Stephen Spotte 9781118884010
RRP: £70.95£61.59Feral and stray domestic cats occupy many different habitats. They can resist dehydration for months by relying exclusively on the tissue water of their prey allowing them to colonize remote deserts and other inhospitable places. They thrive and... -
Catalysis for Sustainability: Goals, Challenges, and Impacts by Ph.D Umile 9781032652214
RRP: £45.99£40.13Catalysis for Sustainability: Goals, Challenges, and Impacts explores the intersection between catalytic science and sustainable technologies as a means to addressing current economic, social, and environmental problems. These problems include harnessing... -
The Last Beach by Orrin H. Pilkey 9780822357988
RRP: £85.00£74.21The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and their grim future if we... -
Knowing Global Environments: New Historical Perspectives On The Field Sciences by Jeremy Vetter 9780813548753
RRP: £56.00£48.48Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and... -
Confronting Ecological Crisis in Appalachia and the South: University and Community Partnerships by Stephanie McSpirit 9780813136196
£59.13Throughout Appalachia corporations control local economies and absentee ownership of land makes it difficult for communities to protect their waterways, mountains, and forests. Yet among all this uncertainty are committed citizens who have organized... -
Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal by Penny Loeb 9780813124414
RRP: £48.50£40.41Deep in the heart of the southern West Virginia coalfields, one of the most important environmental and social empowerment battles in the nation has been waged for the past decade. Fought by a heroic woman struggling to save her tiny community through a... -
Dirt Work by Christine Byl 9780807033272
RRP: £17.99£12.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807033272Author Christine BylFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 18mm -
Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park by Paul Schullery 9780803243057
£20.14Yellowstone National Park, a global icon of conservation and natural beauty, was born at the most improbable of times: the American Gilded Age, when altruism seemed extinct and society's vision seemed focused solely on greed and growth. Perhaps that is... -
Earth: A Tenant's Manual by Frank H. T. Rhodes 9780801478239
RRP: £23.99£21.24"It's impossible to grasp the whole planet or integrate all the descriptions of it. But because we live here, we have to try. This is not just an artistic compulsion or an existential yearning, still less an academic exercise. It's a survival issue... -
Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North by Timothy B. Leduc 9780776607504
£22.68Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with... -
Sea Change: Charting a Sustainable Future for Oceans in Canada by Ussif Rashid Sumaila 9780774869041
RRP: £39.00£34.12As climate change, resource overexploitation, and pollution leave ever more visible marks, ocean ecosystems, economies, and people are all affected. With coasts on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic, Canada faces a formidable challenge in building... -
Striving for Environmental Sustainability in a Complex World: Canadian Experiences by George Francis 9780774831390
RRP: £29.99£26.50A valuable resource for scholars across a number of sustainability fields, this book will also appeal to sustainability practitioners, including government researchers, policy makers, and parks managers, with its focus on sustainability, conservation,... -
Restoration of the Great Lakes: Promises, Practices, and Performances by Mark Sproule-Jones 9780774808712
RRP: £34.00£26.50The Great Lakes of North America are one of the world's mostimportant natural resources. The source of vast quantities of fish,shipping lanes, hydroelectric energy, and usable water, they are alsoincreasingly the site of severe environmental degradation... -
Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape: Patterns and Processes of Forest Landscapes in Ontario by Dr. Ajith H. Perera 9780774807500
RRP: £55.00£44.41The growing popularity of the broad, landscape-scale approach to forest management represents a dramatic shift from the traditional, stand-based focus on timber production. Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape responds to the increasing need of... -
Once Upon an Oldman: Special Interest Politics and the Oldman River Dam by Jack Glenn 9780774807128
RRP: £87.00£75.93Once Upon an Oldman is an account of the controversy that surrounded the Alberta government's construction of a dam on the Oldman River to provide water for irrigation in the southern part of the province. Jack Glenn argues that, despite claims to the... -
Biodiversity and Democracy: Rethinking Nature and Society by Paul M. Wood 9780774806886
RRP: £87.00£75.53The world's species, genes, and ecosystems are going extinct atan alarming and unprecedented rate, largely as a result of humanactivities. If this trend continues, human civilization itself is atrisk. Yet we remain either unaware or unconcerned. In... -
Life in 2030: Exploring a Sustainable Future for Canada by John B. Robinson 9780774805629
RRP: £78.00£67.86Life in 2030 is a ground-breaking, practical, and, aboveall, positive vision of life in twenty-first-century Canada. As we moveinto the next century, the development of sustainable andenvironmentally benign patterns of resource utilization... -
Achieving Sustainable Development by Ann Dale 9780774805568
RRP: £78.00£68.26The recent United Nations Conference on the Environment andDevelopment, popularly known as the Earth Summit, was a milestone eventfor sustainable development. In dealing with ecological anddevelopmental issues concurrently, it brought the... -
Earthcare: An Anthology in Environmental Ethics by David Clowney 9780742560475
RRP: £88.00£78.09This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are... -
Reading the Mountains of Home by John Elder 9780674748897
RRP: £28.95£22.90Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into... -
Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility by Shannon Cram 9780520395114
RRP: £80.00£61.89What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the regulatory infrastructures designed to answer it. Blending history, ethnography, and memoir, she... -
Microbial Machines: Experiments with Decentralized Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in India by Kelly D. Alley 9780520394315
RRP: £25.00£19.59Around 2004, members of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, science institutes, and private companies throughout India began brainstorming and then experimenting with small-scale treatment systems that could produce usable water from... -
Risk, Disaster, and Vulnerability: An Essay on Humanity and Environmental Catastrophe by S. Ravi Rajan 9780520392632
RRP: £21.00£16.63Over the course of the past century, there has been a sustained reflective engagement about environmental risks, disasters, and human vulnerability in our modern industrial world. This inquiry has raised a host of crucial questions. Just how safe is... -
Working across Lines: Resisting Extreme Energy Extraction by Corrie Grosse 9780520388406
RRP: £80.00£61.89How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future? Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis of climate justice coalitions in California and Idaho-two states with distinct fossil fuel histories,... -
After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California by Peter S. Alagona 9780520355545
RRP: £24.00£18.83Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists came to view the... -
Marine Historical Ecology in Conservation: Applying the Past to Manage for the Future by John Nils Kittinger 9780520276949
RRP: £55.00£43.31This pioneering volume provides a blueprint for managing the challenges of ocean conservation using marine historical ecology an interdisciplinary area of study that is helping society to gain a more in-depth understanding of past human-environmental... -
The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It) by Charles Saylan 9780520265394
RRP: £30.00£23.29At a time when wild places everywhere are vanishing before our eyes, Charles Saylan and Daniel T. Blumstein offer this passionate indictment of environmental education - along with a new vision for the future. Writing for general readers and educators... -
Leopold's Shack and Ricketts's Lab: The Emergence of Environmentalism by Michael J. Lannoo 9780520264786
RRP: £30.00£23.29Aldo Leopold and Ed Ricketts are giants in the history of environmental awareness. They were born ten years and only about 200 miles apart and died within weeks of each other in 1948. Yet they never met and they didn't read each other's work. This... -
The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference by Jonathan Hoekstra 9780520262560
RRP: £50.00£40.12Visually rich, up-to-date, and authoritative, "The Atlas of Global Conservation" is a premier resource for everyone concerned about the natural world. Drawing from the best data available, it is an unprecedented guide to the state of the planet and our...