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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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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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Chile is frequently cited as a remarkable success story of neoliberal economic restructuring. In fact, countries around the world are encouraged to follow the Chilean model so that they can reap the extraordinary benefits of rapid growth and expanding export markets associated with the drastic economic reform in Chile.

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This thoroughly revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive survey of contemporary China. The authors consider past and current successes and challenges while placing China in its international context as a massive, developing, diverse nation that is meeting the needs of its 1.4 billion citizens while becoming a major global player.

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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 explores why cities exist, how they have evolved and the problems they have encountered, revealing how from the very beginning environmental management played a key role in urban life. Here, an acknowledged international authority addresses specific problems and explores sustainable solutions.

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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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The federal Superfund program for cleaning up America's inactive toxic waste sites is noteworthy not only for its enormous cost - $15.2 billion has been authorized thus far - but also for its unique design.

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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.

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In the rush to avoid or reduce the repercussions of climate change, we need to ensure that the burden is evenly distributed or run the risk of creating injustice. This book demonstrates that the problem of how to distribute the costs of climate change is fundamentally a problem of justice.

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This book explores Seattles current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings.

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This book explores Seattles current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings.

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In this book, James Painter analyses how the international media present the two issues of risk and uncertainty. He focuses on the coverage of recent projections of global temperatures and of the melting ice of the Arctic Sea, and includes six countries.

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Evaluates the role of ideas in the evolution of the politics of climate change. This book argues that Germany's federal system facilitated the political mainstreaming of popular environmental concerns that has led to the development of effective environmental domestic and foreign policy-making, influencing European and wider climate change policy.

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