With concern for environmental issues growing, defining the controversial relationship between business and the environment has become even more essential. … Continue reading Harvard Business Review on Business and the Environment
The Waste Crisis is unique in its attempt to analyze waste management in a broader societal context and to propose solutions based on basic principles. And by doing so, it encourages readers to challenge commonly held perceptions and to seek new and better ways of dealing with waste. As such, this book deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone who deals with or feels the need to confront the growing problems of waste management.
Environment and Toursim is an introductory text about the relationships between tourism, society and the environment. The book examines the meanings of ‘tourism’ and ‘environment’ and gives a historical overview of the growth of tourism.
A dictionary of ecology and the environment which has been totally revised and updated. The total wordlist has expanded with subsidiary words and expressions derived from them. All the words and expressions are defined in simple terms, and examples are given of how each word is used in context.
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Debating the Earth highlights the diversity of political responses to environmental issues by bringing together forty essential readings in environmental … Continue reading Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader
Is development still women’s best hope of social progress and equality? In this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives feminist … Continue reading Feminist Post-Development Thought: Rethinking Modernity, Post-Colonialism and Representation
How to manage the global economy is the most important international question of our time. The short and trenchant history of organizations that have promoted economic globalization?the World Bank, IMF, WTO and G-7?have quickly shown their manifest failings. Walden Bello discusses something other than marginal policy changes?the world requires a radical shift towards a decentralized, pluralistic system of economic goverance.
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The Great Lakes of North America are one of the world?s most important natural resources. The source of vast quantities of fish, shipping lanes, hydroelectric energy, and usable water, they are also increasingly the site of severe environmental degradation and resource contamination. This study analyzes how well governments and other stakeholders are addressing this critical problem.
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Anatomy of a Conflict explores the cultural aspects of the fierce dispute between activist loggers and environmentalists over the fate of Oregon?s temperate rain forest. Centred on the practice of old-growth logging and the survival of the northern spotted owl, the conflict has lead to the burning down of ranger stations, the spiking of trees, logging truck blockades, and countless demonstrations and arrests.
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Policy makers need to know as much as possible about the costs of taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As indispensable as this book will be to policy analysts, it is also an important primer for a wider range of readers interested in the economic implications of climate change.
Focuses specifically on environmental policy – the character and significance of the politics which underlie policy-making on the environment in Canada.
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The Political Economy of Nature draws extensively on current insights from sociology, ecology, economics, and earth science. Robert Boardman pools these diverse resources to argue that the investigation of environmental issues raises complex theoretical questions, which can only be answered through more sustained links between the natural and social sciences.
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