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The Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Consumption Tim Jackson 9781844071647
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.88Sustainable consumption is a controversial concept: politically, socially and intellectually. Consumption drives our economies and defines our lives; making it sustainable is an enormous and... -
The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Agriculture Jules Pretty 9781844072361
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $39.53Our agricultural and food systems are not meeting everyone's needs, and despite great progress in increasing productivity over the past century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and... -
The Earthscan Reader on Risk Ragnar E. Lofstedt 9781844076871
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $42.43This new anthology is a comprehensive introduction to the field of risk theory. The introduction provides the ideal starting point for students and professionals new to risk studies and offers a... -
Self-Sufficient Agriculture: Labour and Knowledge in Small-Scale Farming by Robert Tripp 9781844072965
Booksplease Price: $59.97Low external-input technology (or LEIT) is an increasingly prominent subject in discussions of sustainable agriculture. There are growing calls for self-sufficient agriculture in an era experiencing... -
The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate Change E. Lisa F. Schipper 9781844075317
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.88Climate change is now upon us. While mitigation is essential to reduce the future severity of climate change, it will take time and some effects will inevitably continue for centuries. Consequently,... -
Developing Capacity Through Technical Cooperation: Country Experiences Stephen Browne 9781853839696
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $44.62Technical co-operation involving northern experts transferring expertise to the south has not always worked. In fact it has sometimes been counter-productive, fostering a dependency on outside help... -
Unwelcome Harvest: Agriculture and pollution by Gordon R. Conway 9781849710213
Booksplease Price: $154.62Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the... -
Tomorrow's World: Britain's share in a sustainable future Duncan McLaren 9781853835117
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $72.0320 per cent of the Earth's population currently consumes over 80 per cent of available resources. Whilst most Westerners lead lives of unprecedented material comfort fuelled by spiralling consumption... -
Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development by Rachel Sabates-Wheeler 9781849713252
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $40.24Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor people in developing countries are ill equipped to cope... -
Effective Ecological Monitoring David Lindenmayer 9781849711456
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Ecologists and managers of natural resources readily acknowledge the importance of long-term studies and monitoring for improved understanding and management of complex environmental systems... -
Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand Haydn Washington 9781849713368
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $36.62Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet denial is a delusion. When it impacts on the health of... -
The Ethical Travel Guide: Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays by Polly Pattullo
Booksplease Price: $95.06Do you want a holiday that bypasses too familiar haunts and gives you a greater depth of experience? Do you want a holiday that is enriching for you - and for the locals at your destination? If you... -
The Earthscan Reader in Poverty and Biodiversity Conservation Dilys Roe 9781844078431
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.59In the last decade biodiversity loss and persistent poverty in developing countries have been recognised as major international problems that require urgent attention. However, the nature and scale... -
The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles Farhana Sultana 9781849713597
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $72.03The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over... -
The Earthscan Reader in Forestry and Development by Jeffrey Sayer
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $39.53'Whether you are a seasoned conservationist or forestry professional, an aspiring student or simply a concerned citizen, this book is for you' David Kaimowitz, Director General, CIFOR Arrangements... -
Evidence for Hope: The Search for Sustainable Development Nigel Cross 9781853838552
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Since the Stockholm Environment Conference in 1972 and the Rio Summit in 1992, there has been unprecedented public concern for the future of the planet and a growing awareness that development needs... -
Blue Revolution: Integrated Land and Water Resources Management by Ian R. Calder
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $56.68'Blue Revolution upturns some environmental applecarts - not for the hell of it, but so we can manage our environment better.' Fred Pearce, New Scientist This updated and revised edition of The Blue... -
Managing the Planet: The Politics of the New Millennium by Norman Moss 9781844079971
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98An account and strategic overview of the major political changes underway in the face of global environmental issues. The book delineates a new era of planetary management, showing how national... -
Keeping the Lights On: Towards Sustainable Electricity by Walt Patterson 9781844077984
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $34.74This is such a timely book. Combining extraordinary historical insight with the sharpest analysis of where we are now, Walt Patterson carves out the most applied and practical of 'road maps' as to... -
Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Gabriele Bammer 9781844078516
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.59This is a major, and deeply thoughtful, contribution to understanding uncertainty and risk. Our world and its unprecedented challenges need such ways of thinking! Much more than a set of... -
Sustainable Landscape Planning: The Reconnection Agenda Paul Selman (University of Sheffield, UK) 9781849712637
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55This book takes as its starting point the need to examine critically the case for landscape reconnection. It looks at alleged disconnections and their supposed consequences. It explores the arguments... -
Climate Change: Financing Global Forests: The Eliasch Review Johan Eliasch 9781844077731
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $63.65An area of forest the size of England is cut down in the tropics each year. Forestry is responsible for a fifth of global carbon emissions - more than the entire world transport sector. Urgent action... -
Smog Alert: Managing Urban Air Quality by 9781853831928
Booksplease Price: $51.20The world's cities are choking on pollution from traffic and industry. With the health of over 1.6 billion people under threat, poor urban air quality is fast becoming one of them most pressing... -
Flood Hazards and Health: Responding to Present and Future Risks by Roger Few
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe, in terms of lives, well-being and livelihoods, and the public resources needed to plan for, and... -
Energy and the New Reality 1: Energy Efficiency and the Demand for Energy Services L. D. Danny Harvey 9781849710725
RRP: $101.90Booksplease Price: $96.03Reducing and managing humanity's demand for energy is a fundamental part of the effort to mitigate climate change. In this, the most comprehensive textbook ever written on the subject, L. D. Danny... -
Social Change and Conservation by Krishna B. Ghimire
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $56.68Protected areas and conservation policies ore usually established with only local nature and wildlife in mind. Yet they con have far reaching consequences for local populations, often undermining... -
The Earthscan Reader in Business and Sustainable Development by Richard Welford
Booksplease Price: $95.45This Reader contains a comprehensive collection of recent work by leading authors in the field of business and sustainable development. With 17 chapters organized thematically into sections covering... -
Social Learning in Environmental Management: Towards a Sustainable Future by Valerie A. Brown 9781844071838
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55Social Learning in Environmental Management explores and expands the approaches to collective learning most needed to help individuals, communities, experts and governments work together to achieve... -
The Earthscan Reader in Population and Development by Paul Demeny 9781853832758
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $37.33This reader provides information on population and development issues for those seeking the middle ground between technical and non-specialist material. It contains contributions to all the various... -
Environmental Policy Integration in Practice: Shaping Institutions for Learning by Mans Nilsson
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $56.68Environmental 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... -
Managing the Planet: The politics of the new millennium by Norman Moss
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98We are at a watershed of history. The human race is now so numerous and its technological power so great that we are having an unprecedented impact on the biosphere, the entire planet. The need to... -
The Earthscan Reader on NGO Management Michael Edwards 9781853838484
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $59.25In the last ten years, NGOs have become a force for transformation in global politics and economics. Their numbers and size have grown dramatically and they have assumed far more extensive... -
The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries by David W. Schindler
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49In 1974, John R. Vallentyne predicted that by the year 2000 we would be living in an environmental disaster he called the Algal Bowl. Just as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was created by misusing... -
Social Contours of Risk: Volume II: Risk Analysis, Corporations and the Globalization of Risk Roger E. Kasperson 9781844071753
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social... -
Hunger and Health: World Hunger Series 2007 by United Nations World Food Programme 9781844075515
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $118.01Hunger 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 Daily Globe: Environmental Change, the Public and the Media Joe Smith 9781853836640
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $45.72Arguably the greatest challenges facing humanity are environmental. However, they are routinely under-reported in the media. Pressure groups and governments trying to get information through to the... -
Coping with Population Challenges by Louise Lassonde 9781853834356
Booksplease Price: $116.98Despite rapidly decreasing rates of population growth caused by reduced fertility in the majority of world regions, demographers are predicting that the world's population will still double by the... -
Fish Markets and Fishermen: The Economics of Overfishing by Suzanne Iudicello 9781853836510
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $36.95'Part primer, part field report, part textbook, this is an intelligent synthesis pulled together by people who have paid their dues on the front lines of marine conservation.' Carl Safina, Ph.D,... -
Growth in Transition by Friedrich Hinterberger 9781849713955
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98Stimulating growth through adjusting macroeconomic conditions remains the principal policy responses to pressing problems of unemployment, poverty and environmental degradation. However, are the... -
A New Blueprint for a Green Economy Edward B. Barbier 9781849713535
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Published in 1989, Blueprint for a Green Economy presented, for the first time, practical policy measures for 'greening' modern economies and putting them on a path to sustainable development. This...