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Beyond Conservation: A Wildland Strategy Peter Taylor 9781844071982
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.04After 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: $60.62Booksplease Price: $54.49Urban 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: $92.87Booksplease Price: $82.29Renewable 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: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43From 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: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.39The 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: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.39Few 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: $34.82Booksplease Price: $32.56The 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: $108.35Booksplease Price: $95.45In 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: $76.10Booksplease Price: $67.65Can 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: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.82How 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... -
Localization: A Global Manifesto Colin Hines 9781853836121
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01Localization is a manifesto to unite all those who recognize the importance of cultural, social and ecological diversity for our future - and who do not aspire to a monolithic global consumer culture... -
Environmental Policy Integration: Greening Sectoral Policies in Europe Andrea Lenschow 9781853837098
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $68.74Integrating environmental policies into the policies of all other sectors is the core European environmental policy. But there has been no thorough investigation of the political process involved... -
The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future Hermann Scheer 9781844070756
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43The global economy and our way of life are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels, which not only threaten massive environmental and social disruption through global warming but, at present rates... -
Renewable Energy - The Facts Walter Witzel 9781849711609
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Interest in renewable energy has never been greater, but much uncertainty remains as to the role the various technologies will play in the transition to a low-carbon future. This book sets out the... -
Human Rights and the Environment: Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World by Lyuba Zarsky 9781853838156
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $54.49The impact of environmental damage on human rights - civil, political or welfare and labour rights - is becoming ever-more widely appreciated and has direct bearing on the behaviour of companies and... -
Globalizing Civic Engagement: Civil Society and Transnational Action by John D. Clark 9781853839894
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78'Informative and useful.' Development and Change Until recently, most civil society organizations (CSOs) operated at national or local levels. However, new global organizations and networks are... -
The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy by Norman J. Vig 9781853836459
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $36.95All serious environmental threats are now international in scope and more than one thousand international environmental agreements already exist. Yet the prospects for international cooperation... -
Wasted: Counting the costs of global consumption by Michael Redclift 9781853833601
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.12Sustainable development cannot be achieved solely at the international level. Without the creation of more sustainable livelihoods, it will remain a utopian and elusive goal. Yet given the huge... -
Integrating Science and Policy: Vulnerability and Resilience in Global Environmental Change by Roger E. Kasperson 9781844076062
RRP: $87.71Booksplease Price: $77.89As progress towards a greater knowledge in sustainability science continues, the question of how better to integrate scientific progress with actual decisions made by practitioners remains paramount... -
Seed Trade in Rural Markets: Implications for Crop Diversity and Agricultural Development by Leslie Lipper 9781844077854
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $59.97Markets have been found to be an increasingly important source of the seeds of crops and varieties low income farmers need to improve their livelihoods, encompassing both the formal and informal seed... -
Unnatural Selection: The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow's People Peter Healey 9781844076222
Booksplease Price: $59.24With ever-advancing scientific understanding and technological capabilities, humanity stands on the brink of the potential next stage of evolution: evolution engineered by us. Nanotechnology,... -
Revolutions in Development Inquiry Robert Chambers (University of Sussex, UK) 9781844076253
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43Robert Chambers returns with a new book that reviews, together for the first time, some of the revolutionary changes in the methodologies and methods of development inquiry that have occurred in the... -
Debating Climate Change: Pathways through Argument to Agreement by Elizabeth L. Malone
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01As greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated and contentious voices fill the air, the question gains urgency: How can people with widely varying viewpoints agree to address climate change? Each... -
Politics and the Environment: Risk and the Role of Government and Industry by Michael Howes
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01'An evenhanded, realistic and thoughtful approach to identifying environmental problems and management goals' Stephen Zavestoski, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies,... -
UN Millennium Development Library: Combating AIDS in the Developing World by UN Millennium Project
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger,... -
100 Per Cent Renewable: Energy Autonomy in Action by Dr. Peter Droege
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.30The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power. Our massive dependence on fossil fuels has upset the very climatic system that made human... -
Maritime Transport and the Climate Change Challenge Regina Asariotis 9781849712385
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.51International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also likely to be affected by wide-ranging and... -
Futile Progress: Technology's empty promise by Ernest Braun
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $31.45Do new innovations and products improve our lives? Has our relentless pursuit of technological progress eliminated the blight of poverty, of inequality, of discrimination, of crime, of war? Has the... -
Future Generations and International Law Emmanuel Agius 9781853835032
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01Sustainable development requires consideration of the quality of life that future generations will be able to enjoy, and as the adjustment to sustainable lifestyles gathers momentum, the rights of... -
Interpreting the Precautionary Principle Timothy O'Riordan 9781853832000
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $63.26Viewed from the perspective of environmental management, this study describes the implications and applications of the precautionary principle - a theory of avoiding risk even when its likelihood... -
Hijacking Environmentalism: Corporate Responses to Sustainable Development Richard Welford 9781853833991
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $34.74This text demonstrates how businesses and institutions continue to operate outside the ecological carrying capacity of the environment, and highlights the need for participation and social innovation... -
Environmental Policy Integration in Practice: Shaping Institutions for Learning Mans Nilsson 9781844073931
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $142.42Environmental values and concerns are meant to be reflected through environmental policy, which is then integrated into mainstream economic and social policy that serves to govern society and the... -
Doing Business in a New Climate: A Guide to Measuring, Reducing and Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Paul Lingl 9781844079087
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Around the world, a growing number of businesses are taking steps to reduce their climate impact by managing their greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, these businesses are discovering that... -
Selling Solar: The Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets Damian Miller 9781849712101
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.07To solve the climate crisis, the world must make a wholesale shift to renewable energy technologies. With surging growth in emerging markets, this transformation takes on even greater urgency. The... -
The Ethical Travel Guide: Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays by Polly Pattullo 9781844073214
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $33.66If you're tired of Tourist Traps and Guilt Trips, or just want to have a positive impact on local people and their environment, this book is for you. Find hundreds of new ideas for your next holiday... -
Farms Trees and Farmers: Responses to Agricultural Intensification by J. E. Michael Arnold 9781853834844
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $36.95This title aims to provide introductory and concluding surveys of the subject of farms, trees and farmers. Two central parts explore trends in farmer tree-growing and the factors which influence... -
The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy by Norman J. Vig 9781853836466
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.51All serious environmental threats are now international in scope and more than one thousand international environmental agreements already exist. Yet the prospects for international cooperation... -
Regulatory Realities: The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation by Andrew Gouldson 9781853834585
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $40.24Arguing that the performance of industrial environmental regulation is determined by the level and nature of the innovation it stimulates, this text aims to analyze the influence of different... -
Building to Last: The challenge for business leaders by Colin Hutchinson 9781853834318
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.12The major challenge for companies is to create a business that will last. This means they have to take seriously the issue of sustainable development, rather than simply having an environmental... -
The Future of Energy Use by Phil O'Keefe 9781844075058
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.68Following the success of its predecessor, this second edition of The Future of Energy Use provides essential analysis of the use of different forms of energy and their environmental and social...