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The Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Consumption Tim Jackson 9781844071647
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.60Sustainable 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: €36.88Booksplease Price: €34.44Our 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: €40.45Booksplease Price: €37.12This 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
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21Low 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: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.60Climate 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: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.14Technical 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... -
Tomorrow's World: Britain's share in a sustainable future Duncan McLaren 9781853835117
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €63.4220 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: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.09Seasonality 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: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21Ecologists 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: €34.50Booksplease Price: €32.05Humans 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
RRP: €79.72Booksplease Price: €70.50Do 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: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.57In 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: €71.39Booksplease Price: €63.42The 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: €36.88Booksplease Price: €34.44'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: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.29Since 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: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.27'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: €113.04Booksplease Price: €98.82An 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: €32.12Booksplease Price: €30.04This 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: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.57This 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: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.36This 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: €61.87Booksplease Price: €55.68An 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: €45.21The 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... -
Water: The International Crisis Robin Clarke 9781853831058
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21Only 3 per cent of the world's water is freshwater and about one third of that is inaccessible. The rest is very unevenly distributed, parts of Canada and the Amazon, for example are both more than... -
Air Pollution and Health in Rapidly Developing Countries by Gordon McGranahan
RRP: €44.02Booksplease Price: €40.14In developing countries the price of rapid growth is all too often noxious airborne pollution, which annually contributes to a disturbing number of avoidable deaths. In recent decades, however, there... -
La Faim et la Sante: Collection: La Faim dans le Monde (2007) by World Food Programme
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.50First published in 2008, La Faim et la Sant is a valuable contribution to the field of Environment and Sustainability.Book InformationISBN 9781844075744Author World Food ProgrammeFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Art of City Making by Charles Landry 9781844072453
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.62City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic,... -
Handbook of Sustainable Refurbishment: Housing Simon Burton 9781849711982
RRP: €104.71Booksplease Price: €92.09Based on careful analysis and experience in all housing sectors and house types, this handbook explains and demonstrates how to incorporate the most effective energy saving measures in the existing... -
Earth Summit II: Outcomes and analysis by Derek Osborn 9781853835339
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €32.05In June 1997, heads of government and senior representatives from over 130 countries met in New York to consider what progress had been made since the first Earth Summit in 1992, and la decide upon... -
The Atlas of Religion: Mapping Contemporary Challenges and Beliefs by Joanne O'Brien 9781844073085
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.27The world's religions have emerged as one of the great geopolitical forces shaping our lives. Understanding these beliefs is crucial to understanding ethnic tension and the clash of cultures, as well... -
Flood Hazards and Health: Responding to Present and Future Risks by Roger Few
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.33Flood 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: €94.00Booksplease Price: €84.53Reducing 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: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.27Protected 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
RRP: €88.05Booksplease Price: €77.93This 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: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.36Social 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: €34.50Booksplease Price: €32.40This 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... -
Knowing Poverty: Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy by Karen Brock 9781853838996
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €38.13The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became increasingly common in the 1990s. This book focuses on the... -
Environmental Policy Integration in Practice: Shaping Institutions for Learning by Mans Nilsson
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.27Environmental 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: €113.04Booksplease Price: €98.82We 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: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.65In 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: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.24In 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...