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Uncovers the origins of the housing crisis across the global North and South, outlining the social challenges brought into the 21st century and the radical solutions needed to resolve it.

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An exploration of a century of controversy over prescribed burning and fire suppression in America. Looking at various fires, it uses the voices of those who were involved, of those who were early advocates, and of today's proponents to examine the role of controlled burning.

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A history of the public and private acquisition of land for conservation and an analysis of its effectiveness in protecting the environment.

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This comprehensive treatment of the environmental history of northern North America offers a compelling account of the complex encounters of people, technology, culture, and ecology that shaped modern-day Canada and Alaska.

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Studies the political, legal, social, medical, engineering and ethical problems that emerged when American leaders developed a nuclear arsenal to contain the USSR without considering the potential cost in innocent lives; intended for medical and public health personnel, policy-makers and others.

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Outsourcing climate breakdown shows how the impact of climate change, including the slow-burn disasters of droughts and floods, is traded out by wealthier countries and imported by less wealthy ones as the price of economic growth.

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This book, based on papers from a symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, shows the necessity of developing a new philosophy in place of the classical uniformitarianism based only on processes familiar in human experience. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again

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From acclaimed writer and physicist Bowen comes the true story of the Bush administration's censorship of the world's preeminent climatologist, and the science behind global warning that the government does not want the public to know.

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The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time. Beginning with the vessel's first c

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How Americans make energy choices, why they think locally (not globally), and how this can shape U.S. energy and climate change policy.

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Chemical Contamination and Its Victims is a comprehensive analytical study of three major problems surrounding chemical pollution: the medical and scientific aspects of chemical hazards;

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Viewing urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory; models and examples in scales from the local to the regional.

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This book examines how cities can use a public health frame of climate change to boost people's understanding of and concern about climate change and increase policy support for climate adaptation efforts at the local level. It also presents new tools for cities to enhance awareness of and facilitate prioritization of climate risk management choices.

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This book develops a groundbreaking, novel approach to examining ethical consumer behaviour from the perspective of evolutionary theory, illustrating the deeply rooted potentials and limits within society for reducing environmental harm.

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This intriguing book investigates the technical information quandary created by post-industrial changes, which have produced demands for citizen involvement in public policy processes while complex scientific and technical issues increasingly make public involvement difficult.

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The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve This collection of essays by leading classics scholars from the United States and Europe challenges the limits of the understanding of the term.

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The race is on to find ways to reduce our impact on the environment. Ben McNeil shows us how we can make the most of our natural advantages and how Australia businesses can benefit economically when adapting to the new environmental realities.

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A collection of essays that examine the significance of philosophical inquiry in relation to the issue of climate change. It presents ten essays by an international team of expert contributors, exploring the important contribution philosophical inquiry can make to debates to do with climate change and the global environment.