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  • Children of a Modest Star
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    Children of a Modest Star

    A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences. Deadly viruses, climate-changing carbon molecules, and harmful pollutants cross the globe unimpeded by national borders...
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  • Ethics for a Full World
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    Ethics for a Full World

    The global emergencies facing the inhabitants of our planet -climate change, biodiversity meltdown, ocean acidification, overfishing, land degradation and more - are symptoms of a common problem: the world is full. Humanity has already exceeded several...
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  • Snake Oil
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    Snake Oil

    The rapid spread of ‘fracking' (hydraulic fracturing) has temporarily boosted natural gas and oil production, particularly in the USA, but it has also sparked a massive environmental backlash in local communities. The fossil fuel industry is promoting...
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  • Biology Under the Influence
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    Biology Under the Influence

    How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it...
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  • Queen of the Sun
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    Queen of the Sun

    In Autumn 2006 an unnerving phenomenon hit the United States: honeybees were mysteriously disappearing from hives across the nation, with beekeepers reporting losses of between 30 and 90 per cent of their entire colonies. The problem soon spread to parts...
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  • Queen of the Sun
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    Queen of the Sun

    In Autumn 2006 an unnerving phenomenon hit the United States: honeybees were mysteriously disappearing from hives across the nation, with beekeepers reporting losses of between 30 and 90 per cent of their entire colonies. The problem soon spread to parts...
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change
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    Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change

    Mikhail Gorbachev is living proof that the word is mightier than the sword; that ideas, not armies, change the world. Dedicated to ridding humanity of the threat of nuclear annihilation, Gorbachev called for multilateral action to forge a common future...
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change
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    Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change

    Mikhail Gorbachev is living proof that the word is mightier than the sword; that ideas, not armies, change the world. Dedicated to ridding humanity of the threat of nuclear annihilation, Gorbachev called for multilateral action to forge a common future...
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  • Chill, A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory
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    Chill, A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory

    Although the world's climate has undergone many cyclical changes, the phrase 'climate change' has taken on a sinister meaning, implying catastrophe for humanity, ecology and the environment. We are told that we are responsible for this threat, and that...
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  • Green Christianity
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    Green Christianity

    The central message of this book is that religion has a special role to play in saving the planet. Religion has the unique power to fire the imagination and empower the will to break the cycle of addiction to nonrenewable energy. The environmental crisis...
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  • Climate Justice
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    Climate Justice

    Energy issues and climate change have loomed up from issues at the horizon to confront humanity directly and vitally. They are now pressing public-policy challenges of monumental scale and import. James Martin-Schramm draws on decades of involvement with...
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  • Understanding Environmental Issues
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    Understanding Environmental Issues

    'The arena of environmental issues is a minefield for undergraduate students seeking clarity about key problems and solutions. This is where Understanding Environmental Issues will play a major role, providing a stimulating guide through the wealth of...
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  • Recovering the Commons
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    Recovering the Commons

    An empowering application of critical social and ecological theoryProviding new practical and conceptual tools for responding to human and environmental crises in Appalachia and beyond, Recovering the Commons radically revises the framework of critical...
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  • Sustainable Marketing
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    Sustainable Marketing

    By recognizing marketing as the key to the success of ecologically sound products, this text seeks to define the paradigm of sustainable marketing, and offers criteria for sustainable marketing strategies and products, and more.'
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  • Sustainable Marketing
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    Sustainable Marketing

    By recognizing marketing as the key to the success of ecologically sound products, this text seeks to define the paradigm of sustainable marketing, and offers criteria for sustainable marketing strategies and products, and more.'
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  • The Primeval Forest
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    The Primeval Forest

    ''There, in this sorry world of ours, goes a great man.''–Albert Einstein, on Albert Schweitzer In July of 1913, thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor Albert Schweitzer gave up his position as a respected professor at the University of Strasbourg and...
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  • Fragments from the History of Loss
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    Fragments from the History of Loss

    The Anthropocene's urgent message about imminent disaster invites us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts...
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  • A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations
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    A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations

    ''Three months of camp life on Lake Tahoe would restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor, and give him an appetite like an alligator. I do not mean the oldest and driest mummies, of course, but the fresher ones. The air up there in the clouds is...
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  • The Height of Our Mountains
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    The Height of Our Mountains

    This is an anthology of nearly four centuries of nature writing about one of America's premier regions - the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Beginning with Captain John Smith's eager gaze westward in search of gold and ending with...
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  • Meltdown
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    Meltdown

    Why is news about global warming always bad? Why do scientists so often offer dire predictions about the future of the environment? In Meltdown, climatologist Patrick Michaels says it?s only natural. He argues that the way we do science today - when...
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  • Water for Sale
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    Water for Sale

    More than a billion people lack access to clean and safe water, causing 12 million deaths a year, as well as widespread poverty and disease. Government monopolies, underinvestment, inappropriate pricing, and insufficient property rights are to blame. Of...
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  • Scaling Conservation
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    Scaling Conservation

    How do we make protecting the planet more profitable than destroying it? Scaling Conservation presents a bold 'greenprint' for revolutionising the way we value nature. It is a transformative exploration of the complexities of natural capital, green...
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  • Scaling Conservation
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    Scaling Conservation

    How do we make protecting the planet more profitable than destroying it? Scaling Conservation presents a bold 'greenprint' for revolutionising the way we value nature. It is a transformative exploration of the complexities of natural capital, green...
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  • Scaling Conservation
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    Scaling Conservation

    How do we make protecting the planet more profitable than destroying it? Scaling Conservation presents a bold 'greenprint' for revolutionising the way we value nature. It is a transformative exploration of the complexities of natural capital, green...
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  • The Architecture of Change
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    The Architecture of Change

    The Architecture of Change is a collection of articles that demonstrates the power of the human spirit to transform the environments in which we live. This inspiring book profiles people who refused to accept that things couldn't change, who saw the...
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  • Nurses and Disasters
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    Nurses and Disasters

    This timely volume describes and analyzes the collaborative nursing response to a variety of historic and recent global disasters that occurred between 1908 and 2012, including Hurricane Sandy. The book is unique in its discussion of the trans-national...
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  • The Orphaned Land
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    The Orphaned Land

    Although most people prefer not to think about them, hazardous wastes, munitions testing, radioactive emissions, and a variety of other issues affect the quality of land, water, and air in the Land of Enchantment, as they do all over the world. In this...
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  • Vibrant Matter
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    Vibrant Matter

    In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of...
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  • Toxic Timescapes
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    Toxic Timescapes

    An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet. While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets,...
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  • Environmental Sciences
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    Environmental Sciences

    Unique in the reference literature, this Companion provides students with an introduction to all the major concepts and contemporary issues in the environmental sciences. The text is divided into six sections (Environmental Sciences, Environments,...
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  • Inescapable
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    Inescapable

    A portrait of people fighting for truth and accountability as they confront the environmental injustice of "forever chemicals." Invisible and nearly indestructible, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have seeped into the blood of almost every...
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  • Unsettling
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    Unsettling

    The time has come to reimagine our relationship to the environment before it is too late. As wildfires char the American West, extreme weather transforms landscapes, glaciers retreat, and climate zones shift, we are undeniably experiencing the effects of...
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  • Coal and Empire
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    Coal and Empire

    Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But, as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn...
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  • A Taste for Change
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    A Taste for Change

    A new paradigm for developing a sustainable solution for the economy and the food chain A Taste for Change argues that civil society must take the initiative to create a new paradigm of existence that centers on the common good, ecological transition,...
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  • The Work of Reform
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    The Work of Reform

    The Work of Reform interweaves literary, economic, and environmental history to trace the influence that William Langland's harsh vision of enforced agrarian labor in Piers Plowman had on later medieval and early modern thinking about land and...
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  • Water Resources
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    Water Resources

    The fair allocation and wise use of fresh water presents significant challenges across the world. To avoid unresolvable crises in the future, judiciously managing water resources in the twenty-first century is fundamentally important. Integrating the...
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  • International Wildlife Management
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    International Wildlife Management

    Habitat loss, disease management, predator-human conflict, illegal trade - these are among the many conservation challenges faced by wildlife experts around the world. But how wildlife professionals approach these issues has historically been...
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  • The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
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    The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

    At the end of the nineteenth century, North America suffered a catastrophic loss of wildlife driven by unbridled resource extraction, market hunting, and unrelenting subsistence killing. This crisis led powerful political forces in the United States and...
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  • Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation
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    Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation

    Renewable energy is often simply termed "green energy," but its effects on wildlife and other forms of biodiversity can be quite complex. While capturing renewable resources like wind, solar, and energy from biomass can require more land than...
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  • Yosemite
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    Yosemite

    This history of the first large land area to be set aside for preservation and public use by Congress follows Yosemite from its early Native American inhabitants, exploration, establishment as a national park in 1890, and through such controversial...
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  • The Housing Bomb
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    The Housing Bomb

    Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don't multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading...
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