Environmental Sociology
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![The Global Challenge of Encouraging Sustainable Living]()
The Global Challenge of Encouraging Sustainable Living
Edited by Shane Fudge, Michael Peters, Steven M. Hoffman, Walter Wehrmeyer
This unique book illustrates that in order to address the growing urgency of issues around environmental and resource limits, it is clear that we need to develop effective policies to promote durable changes in behaviour and transform ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Forests and Climate Change
Anthony Hall
Controlling deforestation, which is responsible for about one-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, has become a major tool in the battle against global warming. An important new international initiative – Reduced Emissions fro...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society
Edited by Hans Westlund, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Social capital is often considered a key factor for local development. This book analyzes the role of social capital for rural areas’ survival and development in the current age of metropolitan growth – an era in which urban is the norm ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Climate Change and the Oceans
Edited by Robin Warner, Clive Schofield
Climate Change and the Oceans investigates the effects of climate change on the ocean environment and its implications for maritime activities, both globally and within the Asia Pacific region.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Furthering Environmental Impact Assessment
Edited by Anastássios Perdicoúlis, Bridget Durning, Lisa Palframan
The environmental impact of development projects is currently studied and mitigated from two distinct perspectives: before and after project implementation, with environmental impact assessment (EIA) and environmental management systems ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Low Carbon Communities
Edited by Michael Peters, Shane Fudge, Tim Jackson
Community action is a vital strategy in the fight against climate change and has increasingly informed government policy, academic inquiry and grassroots action since the start of this century. This timely and engaging volume explores bo...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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The Automotive Industry in an Era of Eco-Austerity
Peter E. Wells
This unique book seeks to combine economic analysis with the environmental research to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the forces that shape change in the automotive industry. It eschews the usual focus on technologies, and gi...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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New Directions in Social Impact Assessment
Edited by Frank Vanclay, Ana Maria Esteves
This important new book outlines current developments in thinking in the field of Social Impact Assessment (SIA). It advances the theory and practice of SIA, and argues that a dramatic shift is required in the way socioeconomic studies a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Climate Change and Human Security
Michael R. Redclift, David Manuel-Navarette, Mark Pelling
The challenge presented by climate change is, by its nature, global. The populations of the Mexican Caribbean, the focus of this book, are faced by everyday decisions not unlike those in the urban North. The difference is that for the pe...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Social Embeddedness of Industrial Ecology
Edited by Frank Boons, Jennifer Howard-Grenville
Most work on industrial ecology continues to emphasize its roots in engineering and the technological sciences. This book differs in that it explores the social context of industrial ecology and presents empirical work addressing how cog...eBook:Find out more$51.96
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Global Governance of the Environment
Afshin Akhtarkhavari
This timely book examines the role of environmental principles in changing international environmental law and politics, and argues for the importance of integrating environmental principles in the global governance of the environment.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Threats, Global Futures
Thayer Scudder
Global threats can be expected to cause a global environmental crisis and declining living standards for most people. Threats analyzed include poverty, cultural, economic, political and religious fundamentalism, consumption, population i...eBook:Find out more$49.56
