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Judgment and Decision Making Baruch Fischhoff (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 9781849714457
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Behavioral decision research offers a distinctive approach to understanding and improving decision making. It combines theory and method from multiple disciples (psychology, economics, statistics,... -
The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and War Tony Vaux 9781853838798
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54Provides an analysis of some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades, helping us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important... -
The Sustainability Mirage: Illusion and Reality in the Coming War on Climate Change John Michael Foster 9781844075355
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This thoughtful and original study throws important critical light on the dominant orthodoxies about sustainable development, and suggests a radically new direction. Foster argues compellingly that... -
Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide Arnaud Brohe 9781844077274
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £106.41Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. This book is a comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding the opportunities offered by regulated and voluntary carbon markets... -
The Step-by-Step Guide to Sustainability Planning: How to Create and Implement Sustainability Plans in Any Business or Organization Darcy Hitchcock 9781844076161
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.39Sustainability is now the greatest business imperative, yet how do you actually develop and implement a sustainability plan if you aren't an expert? From the authors of the award-winning handbook The... -
Economic Development and Environmental Gain: European Environmental Integration and Regional Competitiveness by Keith Clement 9781853833007
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.93This volume contains detailed information and assessment of incentives and policy instruments available within Europe to encourage good practice, and of how to achieve environmental gain in regional... -
The Economical Environmentalist: My Attempt to Live a Low-Carbon Life and What it Cost Prashant Vaze 9781844078080
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.93Reducing your carbon emissions in an economic down-turn can be challenging, but saving the planet doesn't have to cost you more. Tough economic times need not relegate concerns for the planet to the... -
African Indigenous Vegetables in Urban Agriculture Charlie M. Shackleton 9781844077151
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge of the potential and challenges associated with the multiple roles, use, management and livelihood contributions of indigenous... -
The Politics of Asbestos: Understandings of Risk, Disease and Protest Linda Waldman 9781849711081
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Around the world, asbestos-related diseases are on the increase. Meanwhile, in many newly-industrializing and developing countries, asbestos use continues unabated. This book, based on... -
Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World by Alan AtKisson 9781849711715
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40A bestseller on Amazon.com within months of its first release, Alan AtKisson's debut book quickly became a modern classic of sustainability literature. Global companies, grassroots groups, university... -
The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr 9781844074105
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29Whether or not to embrace GM technologies is a fundamental and politically charged question facing humanity in the 21st century, particularly in light of rapidly growing populations and the unknown... -
The New Economics: A Bigger Picture Andrew Simms 9781844076758
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £87.29Economics sometimes seems to be stacked against social, environmental and individual well-being. But it doesn't have to be like this. A new approach to economics - deriving as much from Ruskin and... -
The Triple Bottom Line: Does It All Add Up by 9781844070152
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28The concept of the 'triple bottom line' (TBL) - the idea that business activity can simultaneously deliver financial, social and environmental benefits - was introduced in the early 1990s. A decade... -
A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis Marcel Mazoyer 9781844073993
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29A History of World Agriculture begins with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering. It shows how agricultural techniques... -
The Indoor Environment Handbook: How to Make Buildings Healthy and Comfortable Philomena Bluyssen (Delft University of Technology) 9781844077878
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.20Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers... -
Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods: Uniting Science and Participation by Ann Braun
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Management of local resources has a greater chance of a sustainable outcome when there is partnership between local people and external agencies, and agendas relevant to their aspirations and... -
Realizing Community Futures: A Practical Guide to Harnessing Natural Resources by Jerry Vanclay
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.55This revolutionary book is a practical guide for helping communities in any location or context - from a fishing community in England to a logging town in Canada to a farming village in India - to... -
Ecological Economics: Political Economics for Social and Environmental Development by Peter Soderbaum
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £66.88Ecological economics seeks to socially construct a political economics which will deal successfully with environmental problems and make the individual more visible in economic analysis. The author... -
Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability? Karen Scott (The Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, UK) 9781849714631
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54Improving wellbeing and sustainability are central goals of government, but are they in conflict? This engaging new book reviews that question and its implications for public policy through a focus... -
The Food System by Geoff Tansey
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29Food is a massive industry and the many key players involved have very different interests. In wealthy nations those interests can range from corporate survival and maintaining profitability in a... -
Farmer Innovation in Africa: A Source of Inspiration for Agricultural Development by Chris Reij
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.24One of Africa's major untapped resources is the creativity of its farmers. This book presents a series of clear and detailed studies that demonstrate how small-scale farmers, both men and women,... -
Internally Displaced People: A Global Survey Janie Hampton 9781853839528
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34The number of internally displaced people far outnumbers estimated refugees who have fled their countries. The majority of displaced populations survive with very little security or legal protection... -
Beyond Developmentality: Constructing Inclusive Freedom and Sustainability by Debal Deb
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.54History tells us that industrial development with all of its pollution, inequity and exploitation is the inevitable destiny of human societies. Yet is this really the case or are we trapped in a... -
The Global Greenhouse Regime: Who Pays? by Kirk R. Smith
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.54Effective policies to prevent global warming and climatic change are urgently required by the world community. However, international negotiations on this issue repeatedly come up against the... -
Animal Breeding, Welfare and Society Jacky Turner 9781844075898
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The determination of when, how, how often and with whom an animal breeds is moving rapidly away from evolutionary pressures and towards human purposes: these include the breeding of around 50 billion... -
Climate Change and Energy Insecurity: The Challenge for Peace, Security and Development by Felix Dodds 9781844078561
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Climate change is now recognised as one of the greatest challenges facing the international community and when coupled with energy production and use - the most significant contributor to climate... -
How to Win Campaigns: Communications for Change Chris Rose 9781849711937
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.70How to Win Campaigns is a practical guide for creating and running successful campaigns. Written for the new campaigner and the experienced communicator alike, it explores what works (and what... -
Against the Grain: Genetic Transformation of Global Agriculture Marc Lappe 9781853836572
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.93The world's food production is undergoing a rapid and revolutionary transformation, but little is known about it and less is being done to question the wisdom of it. Within a very few years, much of... -
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba by Julia Wright 9781844075720
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.70When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the... -
The Management of Water Quality and Irrigation Technologies by Jose Albiac
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.34This book is an outcome from the International Expo 'Water and Sustainable Development' held in Zaragoza (Spain) in 2008. Support from the Spanish Ministry of Environment, Caja Rioja, Government of... -
Beyond Conservation: A Wildland Strategy Peter Taylor 9781844071982
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49After decades of operating off-the-backfoot and protecting and conserving nature perceived as under threat, conservationists are becoming proactive and creative in the face of habitat loss,... -
Agropolis: The Social, Political and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture by Luc.J.A. Mougeot
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular practice in cities worldwide. A sustainable future for it is critical, especially for the urban poor of the developing world. This book presents the first... -
Switching to Renewable Power: A Framework for the 21st Century by Volkmar Lauber
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £63.79Renewable energy has enjoyed relatively good - and sometimes extraordinary - growth in recent years, in particular photovoltaics and wind; but it will be difficult to sustain such rates of diffusion... -
The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community Nabeel Hamdi 9781844078035
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists... -
NGO Management: The Earthscan Companion Alan Fowler 9781849711203
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29The task environment of NGOs is changing rapidly and significantly, making new demands on their management and leadership. This Companion discusses the complexities involved. It illustrates how NGOs... -
Engineering Genesis: Ethics of Genetic Engineering in Non-human Species Donald Bruce 9781853835704
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29Few issues have aroused so much public attention and controversy as recent developments in biotechnology. How can we make sound judgements of the cloning of Dolly the sheep, genetically altered... -
The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development by Warren C. Sanderson
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.24The 20th century was the century of explosive population growth, resulting in unprecedented impacts; in contrast, the 21st century is likely to see the end of world population growth and become the... -
People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management by Guy Bessette
RRP: £83.99Booksplease Price: £73.99In natural resource management research, best practice implies the participation of community members, research or development teams and other stakeholders to jointly identify research and... -
Renewable Electricity and the Grid: The Challenge of Variability Godfrey Boyle 9781844077892
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Can renewable energy provide reliable power? Will it need extensive backup? The energy available from wind, waves, tides and the sun varies in ways that may not match variations in energy demand... -
How to Win Campaigns: Communications for Change Chris Rose 9781849711142
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.19How to Win Campaigns is a practical guide for creating and running successful campaigns. Written for the new campaigner and the experienced communicator alike, it explores what works (and what...