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Building to Last: The challenge for business leaders by Colin Hutchinson 9781853834318
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $161.93The 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: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.64Following 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... -
Africa in Crisis: The Causes and Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy Lloyd Timberlake 9781853830136
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $49.22The first edition of this incisive text on the problems of drought and famine facing Africa won worldwide critical acclaim. Revised with a new introduction, Lloyd Timberlake's bestselling study is... -
Wasted: Counting the costs of global consumption by Michael Redclift
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $57.51Sustainable 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... -
The Virtuous Spiral: A Guide to Sustainability for NGOs in International Development Alan Fowler 9781853836107
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $95.63'The Virtuous Spiral is without doubt a most welcome addition to the body of knowledge that will continue to be highly valued in the NGO sector.' Ezra Limiri Mbogori, Director, Mwelekeo wa NGO... -
Understanding Sustainability Economics: Towards Pluralism in Economics Peter Soderbaum 9781844076277
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.05This highly readable yet challenging book provides a critical examination of the failings of mainstream economics and the resultant environmental problems we are facing. Most importantly, it... -
Feed-in Tariffs: Accelerating the Deployment of Renewable Energy by Miguel Mendonca
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $88.98A feed-in tariff is a renewable energy law that obliges energy suppliers to buy electricity produced from renewable resources at a fixed price, usually over a fixed period - even from householders... -
The Environmental Management of Low-Grade Fuels by Mary MacDonald
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $162.51The negative environmental impacts of energy use, particularly soil and water pollution, continue to present serious policy dilemmas. The release of emissions and effluents and the build-up of solid... -
The CBI Environmental Management Handbook: Challenges for Business by Ruth Hillary
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $215.28A guide to all aspects of environmental management for businesses. The volume offers information on state-of-the-art techniques, trends and developments taking a user's perspective, capturing key... -
Tapping the Green Market: Management and Certification of Non-timber Forest Products by Abraham Guillen
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $114.45There is a rapidly growing interest in, and demand for, non-timber forest products (NTFPs). They provide critical resources across the globe fulfilling nutritional, medicinal, financial and cultural... -
The Ecosystem Approach to Marine Planning and Management Sue Kidd (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) 9781849711838
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $113.86The marine environment is one of our most precious yet fragile natural resources. It provides a wide range of essential goods and services, including food, regulation of climate and nutrient cycling,... -
Building with Reclaimed Components and Materials: A Design Handbook for Reuse and Recycling Bill Addis 9781844072743
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $207.50Interest in green and sustainable design is growing throughout the world. Both national and local governments are active in promoting reuse and recycling in order to reduce the amount of waste going... -
Trade, Aid and Security: An Agenda for Peace and Development by Mark Halle 9781844074198
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08'A compelling contribution to our evolving understanding of the links between trade, aid and security and what the international community needs to do to ensure peace and development in the world.'... -
Ideas for Development Robert Chambers 9781844070886
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of climate change,... -
Beyond Conservation: A Wildland Strategy Peter Taylor 9781844071975
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $215.87After 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,... -
Futile Progress: Technology's empty promise by Ernest Braun 9781849710008
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $206.91Do 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... -
Global Corruption Report: Climate Change by Transparency International 9781849712828
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $71.33The global response to climate change will demand unprecedented international cooperation, deep economic transformation and resource transfers at a significant scale. Corruption threatens to... -
Climate Change Cooperation in Southern Africa by Ian H. Rowlands 9781853835209
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $57.51This volume, published in association with the United Nations Environment Programme, examines how co-ordinated action among neighbouring countries could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in ways which... -
Strategic Environmental Assessment Riki Therivel 9781853831478
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $57.51Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a new approach to environmental assessment, global in scope, which considers the environmental impacts of policies, plans and programmes. It is already in... -
Hazards Vulnerability and Environmental Justice by Susan L. Cutter
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $104.50From Hurricane Katrina and the south Asian tsunami to human-induced atrocities, terrorist attacks and the looming effects of climate change, the world is assailed by both natural and unnatural... -
The Pesticide Detox: Towards a More Sustainable Agriculture by Jules N. Pretty
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $162.51Since the 1960s, the world's population has more than doubled and agricultural production per person has increased by a third. Yet this growth in production has masked enormous hidden costs arising... -
Animal Welfare Sir Colin Spedding 9781853836725
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.14Awareness of the use of animals in human society in fields such as farming, biotechnology and sport is dogged by the lack of a clear and objective exposition of the issues involved and a sense of... -
Strategies for National Sustainable Development: A handbook for their planning and implementation by Jeremy Carew-Reid
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $49.22The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the... -
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity: A Planet in Peril by Ahmed Djoghlaf
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $95.63Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity provides an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the threats presented to human security and well-being by the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity... -
Sustainability: A Systems Approach Tony Clayton 9781853833199
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68The question of sustainability affects most areas of human activity. It is intrinsically complex and multi-disciplinary. Sustainable policies have to adapt to new knowledge and changing circumstances... -
State of the World's Cities 2010/11: Cities for All: Bridging the Urban Divide by United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.27The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban... -
Striking a Balance: A Guide to Enhancing the Effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organisations in International Development Alan Fowler 9781853833250
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08At a time of rapid global change, development NGOs are having to scale up their impact, diversify their activities, respond to long-term crises and improve their performance on all fronts. Striking a... -
Understanding the Common Agricultural Policy Berkeley Hill (Imperial College, University of London, UK) 9781844077786
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $102.84The majority of recent publications on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union address current issues and specific applications. There is little available which attempts to... -
From Here to Sustainability: Politics in the Real World Ian Christie 9781853837357
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $52.51For a large proportion of the electorate, national politics misses the real issues. As a result, membership of campaigning organizations has soared whilst party numbers have declined. This work... -
The Case Against the Global Economy: And for a Turn Towards Localization Jerry Mander 9781853837425
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the... -
The Reality of Aid 2000: An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance by Judith Randel 9781849710510
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $162.51NOW IN ITS SEVENTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid 2000 looks at how the performance of OECD donor countries on aid and development cooperation has matched up to the challenge of eliminating... -
Requiem for a Species Clive Hamilton 9781849710817
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $70.75This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining... -
A History of Energy: Northern Europe from the Stone Age to the Present Day by Bent Sorensen 9781849713856
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $102.84In this seminal book, Bent Sorensen views human society as driven by the quest for, and control of, energy. From allowing our prehistoric ancestors to survive harsh northern European winters to more... -
The Community Tourism Guide: Exciting Holidays for Responsible Travellers by Mark Mann 9781853836817
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $52.51The "Community Tourism Guide" will lead you to a new type of holiday. Tribal people and rural villagers in Africa, Asia, Australia, North and South America and the Pacific islands are setting up... -
Strategic Environmental Assessment in Transport and Land Use Planning by Thomas B. Fischer 9781853838125
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.14Assessing the full scale of environmental impacts is essential for effective planning of transport and land use. This is an analysis of transport and land-use planning using strategic environmental... -
State of the World 2009: Confronting Climate Change by Worldwatch Institute 9781844076949
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $44.83The year 2009 will be pivotal for Earth's climate. As scientists warn that we have only a few years to reverse the rise in greenhouse gas emissions if we are to avoid abrupt and catastrophic climate... -
Sharing the City: Community Participation in Urban Management by John Abbott 9781853833281
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $57.51While the rate of urbanisation in the developing world has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, governments' capacity to support urban growth has, in many cases, failed to keep up with this... -
Rights Resources and Rural Development: Community-based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa by 9781844070091
Booksplease Price: $74.08Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is an approach that offers multiple related benefits: securing rural livelihoods; ensuring careful conservation and management of biodiversity and... -
Hunger and Health: World Hunger Series 2007 by United Nations World Food Programme 9781844075461
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $51.46Hunger and Health explores the multiple relationships between hunger and poor health, and how they affect the growth of individuals, physiologically and psychologically, constraining the development... -
The Civil Corporation by Simon Zadek
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $82.37The Civil Corporation is top draw reading for business professionals, management students and academics, activists and public servants. It goes to the heart of the issue of business in society,...