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The Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Consumption Tim Jackson 9781844071647
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.84Sustainable 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: £30.99Booksplease Price: £28.94Our 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: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19This 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: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Low 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: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.84Climate 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: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Technical 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
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.84Agriculture 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: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.2920 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: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Seasonality 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... -
Flood Hazards and Health: Responding to Present and Future Risks by Roger Few
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Flood 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: £78.99Booksplease Price: £71.03Reducing 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: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Protected 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: £73.99Booksplease Price: £65.49This 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: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Social 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: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.23This 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... -
The Earthscan Reader in Environment Development and Rural Livelihoods by Samantha Jones 9781844070534
Booksplease Price: £55.67In the past decade the relationship between humans and the environment has taken centre stage in the quest for development that supports both ecological integrity and sustainable livelihoods. This... -
Knowing Poverty: Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy by Karen Brock 9781853838996
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04The 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... -
Water: The International Crisis Robin Clarke 9781853831058
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Only 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: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73In 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: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.19First 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... -
Scoones 3 Book Pack by Ian Scoones 9781844070626
RRP: £122.97Booksplease Price: £109.46Containing Sustaining the Soil, Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa; Understanding Environmental Policy Processes, Cases from Africa and Dynamic Diversity, Soil Fertility and Farming... -
The Art of City Making by Charles Landry 9781844072453
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.54City-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: £87.99Booksplease Price: £77.39Based 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... -
Rethinking Water Management: Innovative Approaches to Contemporary Issues by Caroline Figueres 9781853839993
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44If water resources are to be distributed efficiently, equitably and cost-effectively in this rapidly changing world, then it is clear that current water management practices are no longer feasible... -
Earth Summit II: Outcomes and analysis by Derek Osborn 9781853835339
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.93In 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19The 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... -
Environmental Policy Integration in Practice: Shaping Institutions for Learning by Mans Nilsson
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Environmental 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: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04We 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: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.24In 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... -
Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Energy and Agriculture by Worldwatch Institute
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04The world is on the verge of an unprecedented increase in the production and use of biofuels for transport. The combination of rising oil prices, issues of security, climate instability and... -
The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries by David W. Schindler
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54In 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: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34We 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... -
Trading with the Environment: Ecology, economics, institutions and policy by Thomas Andersson 9781844079605
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04Should there be firmer restrictions on trade, with more policies aimed at protecting its environmental impacts, or would the environment benefit most from unrestricted free trade? Do importing... -
Hunger and Health: World Hunger Series 2007 by United Nations World Food Programme 9781844075515
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.84Hunger 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: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Arguably 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
RRP: £87.99Booksplease Price: £77.09Despite 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: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.93'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: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04Stimulating growth through adjusting macroeconomic conditions remains the principal policy responses to pressing problems of unemployment, poverty and environmental degradation. However, are the... -
Effective Ecological Monitoring David Lindenmayer 9781849711456
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Ecologists 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: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.93Humans 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...