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Dead serious
Eli J. Knapp,A wild and informative romp through the jungle of forces surrounding the imminent extinction of some of Earth's most imperiled and beloved species.
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Behind the bears ears
R. E. Burrillo,An archaeologist's personal exploration of Bears Ears, a sacred and imperiled Utah landscape that shapes human lives and redefines the boundaries between tradition and science.
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The oasis this time
Rebecca Lawton,Illuminating essays on the history of water and oases, natural and faux, as barometers of community life in the West.
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New world coming
Alastair Lee Bitsóí, Brooke Larsen,Amid pandemic, racial uprisings, and climate crisis, frontline organizers and writers imagine transformative solutions for a just and thriving future.
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Sagebrush empire
Jonathan P. Thompson,Award–winning journalist Jonathan P. Thompson delves into the spectacular land, rich history, and twisted politics of a remote Utah county.
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The story of my heart
Richard Jefferies, Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke Williams, Scott Slovic,A nineteenth-century love letter to nature is rediscovered by Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams.
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Animal internet
Alexander Pschera, Elisabeth Lauffer,A bold and surprising exploration of how a new digital revolution will transform human ties with the natural world.
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Plastic
Allison Cobb,How the autobiography of plastic became the autobiography of all of us
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Edge of morning
Jacqueline Keeler,Native writers share their essential perspectives on the sacred Bears Ears landscape and threats to its cultural and natural wonders.
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Seasons
Ellen Meloy, Annie Proulx,Twenty–five never–before–published essays by National Book Critic Circle Award finalist Ellen Meloy, full of her signature wit, charm, and illuminations of human connection to nature.
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Blossom as the cliffrose
Karin Anderson, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky,An anthology of strikingly diverse poems and prose from inheritors of Mormon traditions edited by Danielle Dubrasky and Karin Anderson.
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Desert cabal
Amy Irvine,A fearless, heartfelt essay collection in which Amy Irvine celebrates environmental icon Edward Abbey—and gives him a talking to.
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A californian's guide to the trees among us
Matt Ritter, Peter H. Raven,Now expanded and updated: Californians’ favorite reference book to trees in our everyday lives."Anyone who is curious about trees is sure to find education and inspiration in these pages."—David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Trees and The Sibley Guide to BirdsFor more than ten years...
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Chronicles of dissent
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian,An Accessible Overview of Noam Chomsky's Political Thought.
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Notes on resistance
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian,The broad range and brilliance of Chomsky's thought and analysis is on full display in this collection of interviews with his long-time collaborator/interlocuter David Barsamian.
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Confronting injustice
Umair Muhammad,Urgent and powerful call to build the mass movements necessary to overcome global climate & save the planet.
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Kivalina
Christine Shearer,While corporate funded science continues to deny climate change, one native village is already facing total destruction at its hands.
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Cold-blooded murder
Craig Stanford,Craig Stanford tells the captivating stories of dozens of endangered reptiles and amphibians, depicting the ecological roles and unique characteristics of each species.
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Planning in a polycrisis
Emilia Oscilowicz, James J.T. Connolly, Isabelle Anguelovski,This report outlines strategies for integrating equity into climate and housing planning in five North American cities: Boston, Denver, Portland, Vancouver, and Washington, DC.
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Hope matters
Elin Kelsey,“This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW.” —Jane GoodallFears about climate change are fueling an epidemic of despair across the world: adults worry about their children’s future; thirty-somethings question whether they should have kids...
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Platforms and the planet
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Mervi Pantti, Olga Dovbysh,Developing a critical understanding of environmental responsibility and accountability of digital platforms, Platforms and the Planet focuses on the environmental responsibility of the so-called Big Tech, their digital media platforms and their role in the sustainability transition as a discursiv...
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Concrete cities
Rob Imrie,This accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he...
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The anthropocene and popular culture
Lee Barron,Adding to what is still a relatively small core of texts that link the Anthropocene to popular culture, author Lee Barron provides a new set of case studies in one text that brings together representations of the Anthropocene from the perspectives of literature, film, television, celebrity and en...
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Family planning and sustainable development in bangladesh
M. Rezaul Islam,Exploring tailored family planning strategies for marginalized groups, this work delves into comparative insights from Asian contexts, providing actionable approaches to empower and transform communities, foster sustainable development and improve reproductive health outcomes.
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The academic language of climate change
Evangelos Manolas, Walter Leal Filho,Offering an interdisciplinary introduction to climate change and its intersection with numerous industries and facets of life, this book provides a necessary and welcome introduction for undergraduate and graduate students, and any non-native English speakers seeking to engage with climate change...
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Building regulations, codes and standards
Mark Key,Building Regulations and Standards is a concise practical guide to requirements of the building regulations explaining how to achieve compliance to secure safe, sustainable and healthy developments.
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Mixed-income housing development planning strategies and frameworks in the global south
George Okechukwu Onatu, Wellington Didibhuku Thwala, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa,Functioning as a toolkit for inclusive urban planning, this book acts as both a model for understanding the planning and management of this framework, and a foundation for future research.
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Social and sustainable enterprise
With current environmental, social and financial challenges facing society and the economy, there has been a rapid growth in interest in the role of social and sustainable enterprise. This volume seeks to draw together contemporary entrepreneurial research which addresses social and environmental...
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Resistance, resilience, and recovery from disasters
Ma. Regina M. Hechanova, Lynn C. Waelde,This book showcases research in disaster response in Southeast Asia of particular interest for those studying disaster and mental health, and for providers of mental health and psychosocial support. Contributors cover topics ranging from resistance to disasters to resilience and recovery interven...
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The social consequences of climate change
Şuay Nİlhan Açıkalın, Şefika Şule Erçeti̇n,Investigating current scientific knowledge about climate change in public and policy discussions, as well as the connections between social, economic, and political discourse, this is a rich collection of reflections for how best to respond to a world of increasing climate extremes.
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Local disaster risk management in a changing climate
Hori Tsuneki, Rajib Shaw,Disasters cause economic as well as human losses, and the magnitude of this is ever increasing. This can largely be attributed to climate-related disasters, which intensify vulnerability in the poorest areas of the world. In this book, approaches to disaster risk management in developing countrie...
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Sustainability management strategies and impact in developing countries
Mohd Fadhil Md Din, Nor Eliza Alias, Norelyza Hussein, Nur Syamimi Zaidi,Strategies and Impact in Developing Countries emphasizes the research of sustainability management and strategies in developing countries providing information to the public, researchers, planners, and stakeholders dealing with sustainability management and strategies, particularly for developing...
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Social media use in crisis and risk communication
Harald Hornmoen, Klas Backholm,The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. Presenting research on social media use in crisis and risk cases: a terrorist attack, a natural disaster and an infectious disease of international concern, this book investigates how social media plays a cruci...
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Contemporary challenges of climate change, sustainable tourism consumption, and destination competitiveness
Timo Ohnmacht, Julianna Priskin, Jürg Stettler,This volume presents twenty updated and new theories of travelers’ decisions and behaviors. The volume describes the advances in theory construction and practical applications of theory in the disciplines of tourism, hospitality, leisure, and entertainment (THLE) research.
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Tree
David Suzuki, Wayne Grady, Peter Wohlleben,The story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks, even as its own life is ending.In this unique biography, David Suzuki and Wayne Grady t...
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Environmental criminology
Liam Leonard,Using sociological, criminological, anthropological, historical and media analysis, this multi-disciplinary volume examines local and regional issues in environmental criminology.
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Political ecologies of the far right
Irma Kinga Allen, Kristoffer Ekberg, Ståle Holgersen, Andreas Malm,This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect.
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Extraction to extinction
David Howe,Tracing our environmental impact through time, David Howe demonstrates how humanity’s exploitation of Earth’s natural resources has pushed our planet to its limit and asks: What’s next for our depleted planet?Everything we use started life in the earth, as a rock or a mineral vein, a layer of an ...
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Global agenda for social justice 2
Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, Heather Dillaway, David C. Lane, Manjusha Nair, Jason A. Smith and moreThe Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world’s most pressing social problems and proposes practicable international public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study o...
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Too hot to handle?
Rebecca Willis,Scientists are clear that urgent action is needed on climate change, and world leaders agree. Yet climate issues barely trouble domestic politics. This book explores a central dilemma of the climate crisis: science demands urgency; politics turns the other cheek. Is it possible to hope for a demo...
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Nafta and the environnment
Air and water pollution blighted northern Mexican cities long before the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a glimmer on the political horizon. Not surprisingly, when NAFTA became a political reality, environmentalists argued that commercial competition would weaken environmental sta...
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Buy-in for buyouts
Robert Freudenberg, Ellis Calvin, Laura Tolkoff, Dare Brawley,This report offers policy recommendations to increase participation in buyout programs and to make them more effective tools for building resilience in coastal communities. Based on a study of managed retreat following Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, the report provides an overview of flooding risk, ...
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The new meatways and sustainability
Minna Kanerva,By exploring the connections between practices and discourses, Minna Kanerva develops a conceptual approach enabling purposive change in unsustainable social practices. Radical transformation towards new meatways is necessary, yet complex psychological, ideological, and power-related mechanisms ...
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The five horsemen of the modern world
Daniel Callahan,A leading bioethicist explores the intractable threats to our well-being that persist despite the multigenerational effort to defeat them.
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Game theory and climate change
Parkash Chander,Parkash Chander argues that we can make progress on the climate-change impasse through incorporating the insights of game theory. Chander offers economic and game-theoretic interpretations of both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement and discusses the policy recommendations his framework ge...
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Time and the generations
Partha Dasgupta,Time and the Generations blends economics, philosophy, and ecology to offer an original lens on the difficult topic of global population. Partha Dasgupta provides tentative answers to two fundamental questions: What level of economic activity can our planet support over the long run, and what doe...
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Global warming and the world trading system
Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Steve Charnovitz, Jisun Kim,In 2006, a team led by the English economist Sir Nicholas Stern issued a striking report that analyzed the economic dimensions of global climate change and called for immediate collective action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This seminal report poses the critical question of how much ...
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Disasters and development
John C. Mutter, Sonali Deraniyagala,This primer provides readers with a fundamental understanding of disasters and their consequences.
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The ecocentrists
Keith Makoto Woodhouse,Keith Makoto Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmentalism in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, The Ecocentrists explores how it challenged civilization but glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defi...
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Hyping health risks
Geoffrey C. Kabat,The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and conf...
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