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How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano 9781478020967
RRP: £92.00£74.21In How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture. Drawing on early geological writings, Indigenous and settler accounts of earthquakes, African American antislavery literature, and... -
The Foraging Behavior of the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera, L.) by John Purdy 9780323917933
RRP: £115.00£107.41The Foraging Behavior of the Honeybee (Apis mellifera, L.) provides a scholarly resource for knowledge on the regulation, communication, resource allocation, learning and characteristics of honeybee foraging behavior at the individual and colony level... -
The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage by Christy Spackman 9780520393554
RRP: £25.00£19.59Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure of tastes from drinking water over the twentieth century. It asks how dramatic changes in municipal water treatment have altered... -
Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees Are at Risk and What We Can Do to Save Them by Laurence Packer 9780062306463
RRP: £9.99£9.53From the jungles of South America to the deserts of Arizona, one thing remains consistent: bees are disappearing. A world without bees would be much less colourful, with fewer flowers. But that's not all-bees are responsible for up to one-third of our... -
Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China by Jesse Rodenbiker 9781501769009
RRP: £21.99£19.19Ecological States examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China's ecological civilization programs as a new... -
Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China by Jesse Rodenbiker 9781501768996
RRP: £108.00£93.40Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China's ecological civilization programs... -
Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments by David Fedman 9781501768781
RRP: £108.00£93.40Bringing together a multidisciplinary conversation about the entanglement of nature and society in the Korean peninsula, Forces of Nature aims to define and develop the field of the Korean environmental humanities. At its core, the volume works to... -
Failing Forward: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation by Robert Fletcher 9780520390683
RRP: £80.00£61.89Failing Forward documents the global rise of neoliberal conservation as a response to biodiversity loss and unpacks how this approach has managed to "fail forward" over time despite its ineffectiveness. At its core, neoliberal conservation promotes... -
Coastal Habitat Conservation: New Perspectives and Sustainable Development of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene by Free Espinosa 9780323856133
RRP: £91.95£86.14Coastal Habitat Conservation: New Perspectives and Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene offers the latest research and approaches to biodiversity conservation in coastal areas. The book synthesizes the background of foundational conservation views... -
Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation by Sarah E. Vaughn 9781478015482
£93.61In Engineering Vulnerability Sarah E. Vaughn examines climate adaptation against the backdrop of ongoing processes of settler colonialism and the global climate change initiatives that seek to intervene on the lives of the world's most vulnerable. Her... -
Amarakaeri: Connecting Biodiversity by Adriana Bravo 9781944466305
RRP: £44.00£37.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944466305Author Francisco DallmeierFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Smithsonian Institution Scholarly PressPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 2g -
Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley's Stand against Big Hydro by Sarah Cox 9780774890267
RRP: £19.99£17.54From award-winning journalist Sarah Cox comes the inspiring and astonishing story of the farmers and First Nations who stood up against the most expensive megaproject in BC history and the government-sanctioned bullying that propelled it forward.In 2010,... -
People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America by Kirsten M. Silvius 9780231127837
RRP: £42.00£33.44This book reviews wildlife management and conservation in Central and South America. The book discusses the threats to biodiversity in this area including habitat fragmentation, development, ranching, tourism as well as hunting. The book contains... -
Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment by Emily Huddart Kennedy 9780691239569
RRP: £28.00£21.80Why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the environmentWhen we picture the ideal environmentalist, we likely have in mind someone who dedicates herself to... -
Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind by Louise Dunlap 9781613321713
RRP: £74.00£64.45An insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may recognize and heal the harm done to the earth and the native peoples Inherited Silence tells the story of beloved land in California's Napa... -
More City than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas by Lacy M. Johnson 9781477325001
RRP: £31.00£28.36Shortly after Hurricane Harvey dumped a record 61 inches of rain on Houston in 2017, celebrated writer and Bayou City resident Lacy M. Johnson began collecting flood stories. Although these stories attested to the infinite variety of experience in... -
Globalization of Water Governance in South Asia by Vishal Narain 9780415710664
RRP: £135.00£117.28Globalization has significantly redefined the nature of governance in the water sector. Non-state actors-multilateral and transnational donor agencies and corporations, non-government organizations, markets, and civil society at large-are assuming a... -
Informing Water Policies in South Asia by Anjal Prakash 9780415710596
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book analyzes water policies in South Asia from the perspective of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). It seeks to address the problems of water scarcity, conflict and pollution resulting from the gross mismanagement and over-exploitation... -
Community Seed Banks: Origins, Evolution and Prospects by Ronnie Vernooy 9780415708050
RRP: £135.00£117.68Community seed banks first appeared towards the end of the 1980s, established with the support of international and national non-governmental organizations. This book is the first to provide a global review of their development and includes a wide range... -
Understanding Poverty and the Environment: Analytical frameworks and approaches by Fiona Nunan 9780415707596
RRP: £47.99£41.81Does poverty lead to environmental degradation? Do degraded environments and natural resources lead to poverty? Or, are there other forces at play? Is the relationship between poverty and the environment really as straightforward as the vicious circle... -
The Economics of Sustainable Urban Water Management: the Case of Beijing: UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis by Xiao Liang 9780415691734
RRP: £79.99£70.00Rapid population growth, limited water availability, climate variability and environmental pollution together cause a significant challenge to provide sufficient water to urban residents in a sustainable and effective way. Advanced water treatment... -
In-Situ Remediation of Arsenic-Contaminated Sites by Jochen Bundschuh 9780415620857
RRP: £120.00£104.01Providing an introduction, the scientific background, case studies and future perspectives of in-situ arsenic remediation technologies for soils, soil water and groundwater at geogenic and anthropogenic contaminated sites. The case studies present... -
Russia and the West: Environmental Co-operation and Conflict by Geir Honneland 9780415666275
RRP: £43.99£38.44Honneland assesses current environmental discourses and applies this analysis to look at the relations between Russia and the West with regards to environment problems. It includes three in-depth case-studies on environmental problems, living marine... -
Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos: Complexity Theory, Deleuze,Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis by Joseph Dodds 9780415666114
RRP: £115.00£99.36This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring contributions from Freudian, Kleinian, Object Relations, Self... -
Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Change by Jim Motavalli 9780415946568
RRP: £43.99£38.44For an increasing number of people, global warming is not an academic and scientific debate, but a matter of survival. As the planet warms at a rate of four degrees Fahrenheit per century, violent storms are increasing in frequency, icebergs are melting,... -
Nature's Spectacle: The World's First National Parks and Protected Places by John Sheail 9780415849685
RRP: £53.99£47.27National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the... -
The Justices and Injustices of Ecosystem Services by Thomas Sikor 9780415825399
RRP: £135.00£117.28Humankind benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by ecosystems, and collectively these benefits are known as ecosystem services. Interest in this topic has grown exponentially over the last decade, as biologists and... -
Freshwater Ecosystems in Protected Areas: Conservation and Management by C. Max Finlayson 9780415787000
RRP: £135.00£117.68Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species. This book shows that, rather than being a marginal part of terrestrial protected area management, freshwater conservation is central to sustaining... -
World Heritage Conservation: The World Heritage Convention, Linking Culture and Nature for Sustainable Development by Claire Cave 9780415728546
RRP: £135.00£117.68The UNESCO World Heritage Convention has become one of the most successful UN instruments for promoting cultural diplomacy and dialogue on conservation of cultural and natural heritage. This book provides an overview of the convention through an... -
Environmental Ethics for the Long Term: An Introduction by John Nolt 9780415535830
RRP: £135.00£117.68Broad in scope, this introduction to environmental ethics considers both contemporary issues and the extent of humanity's responsibility for distant future life. John Nolt, a logician and environmental ethicist, interweaves contemporary science, logical... -
Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land: The Politics of Natural Resource Governance in Africa by Fred Nelson 9780415520362
RRP: £43.99£38.84Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arrangements that define natural resource... -
Water Productivity in Rainfed Agriculture: Redrawing the Rainbow of Water to Achieve Food Security in Rainfed Smallholder Systems by Hodson Makurira 9780415601207
RRP: £96.99£84.05The challenge of water scarcity as a result of insufficient seasonal rainfall and dry spell occurrences during cropping seasons is compounded by inefficient agricultural practices by smallholder farmers where insignificant soil and water conservation... -
Remote Sensing for Sustainability by Qihao Weng 9780367871406
RRP: £84.99£73.85Driven by the societal needs and improvement in sensor technology and image processing techniques, remote sensing has become an essential geospatial tool for understanding the Earth and managing Human-Earth interactions. Remote Sensing for Sustainability... -
Remote Sensing of Impervious Surfaces in Tropical and Subtropical Areas by Hongsheng Zhang 9780367870621
RRP: £49.99£43.50Remote Sensing of Impervious Surfaces in Tropical and Subtropical Areas offers a complete and thorough system for using optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing data for improving impervious surface estimation (ISE). Highlighting... -
Advances in Responsible Land Administration by Jaap Zevenbergen 9780367872823
RRP: £49.99£43.50Advances in Responsible Land Administration challenges conventional forms of land administration by introducing alternative approaches and provides the basis for a new land administration theory. A compilation of observations about responsible land... -
Mine Safety and Efficient Exploitation Facing Challenges of the 21st Century: International Mining Forum 2010 by Liu Zegong 9780415598965
RRP: £58.99£51.48The International Mining Forum is a meeting of scientists and professionals for exchanging new ideas and experiences, evaluate previously implemented solutions, and discuss fresh ideas that might change the mining industry's image. In recent years... -
Ecology and Applied Environmental Science by Kimon Hadjibiros 9780367867768
RRP: £45.99£40.13Ecology and Applied Environmental Science addresses the impact of contemporary environmental problems by using the main principles of scientific ecology. It offers a brief yet comprehensive explanation of ecosystems based on energy, populations, and... -
Aerosols Handbook: Measurement, Dosimetry, and Health Effects, Second Edition by Lev S. Ruzer 9780367866112
RRP: £76.99£67.05With the rapid growth of the nanotechnology industry, the need to understand the biological effects of aerosol exposure has become increasingly important. Featuring contributions by leading experts in the field, Aerosols Handbook: Measurement, Dosimetry,... -
Drought in Brazil: Proactive Management and Policy by Erwin De Nys 9780367877958
RRP: £49.99£43.50Drought is a slow-onset natural hazard that is often referred to as a creeping phenomenon. The challenge of monitoring drought's onset and evolution, and identifying its termination or end is one that scientists, natural resource managers, and decision... -
Water, Sustainable Development and the Nexus: Response to Climate Change by Velma I. Grover 9780367776671
RRP: £49.99£43.50Water is intricately linked with food security, energy security, and sustainable development. As the world is moving towards sustainable development goals, it is critical to recognize the role of water in attaining these goals. The Water-Energy-Food...