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This text provides an essential reference handbook for students of geography and related social sciences.

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Explore the magic and mystery of the world's tropical rainforests in this fascinating volume that brings to life the plants, animals, and people that inhabit this fragile ecosystem.

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One of the most versatile and familiar elements in the world, water is also one of the most mysterious.

The 236 entries in this book comprise an A-Z overview of water's manifold roles in human society and the natural world throughout history.

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Covers the range of history from prehistoric times to the present, offering biographical entries on the most famous real and fictional women travellers, explorers, and adventurers from all countries of the world.

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This bibliographical survey of energy and the development of West Africa contains 774 entries and materials on all but one country of the region.

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The emerging economies are critical for future energy consumption and climate change mitigation. This book sheds light on material conditions, energy demand and expansion plans, politico-economic constellations, energy-related know-how and climate policy in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, and South Korea.

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This broad-ranging text provides an analysis and assessment of the European Union's energy policy. It examines the components of the internal energy market alongside energy policy and politics on the international stage, and in doing so outlines the increasing importance of this global issue.

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This broad-ranging text provides an analysis and assessment of the European Union's energy policy. It examines the components of the internal energy market alongside energy policy and politics on the international stage, and in doing so outlines the increasing importance of this global issue.

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Energy Security and Environmental Sustainability in the Western Hemisphere examines the need to integrate sustainability at the core of national energy security strategy. With case studies from countries throughout the Western Hemisphere, it explains how energy strategies are central to the development of national economies and stable societies.

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The contributions he has chosen for this volume clarify key issues for formulating policy options toward long-range economic welfare.

The book includes an assessment of environmental policy during the Reagan administration and position statements by a prominent oil executive and a leading environmental conservationist.

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Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management is a wide-ranging and expert analysis of the ethics of the intentional management of solar radiation. This book will be a useful tool for policy-makers, a provocation for ethicists, and an eye-opening analysis f...

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Using examples, this work demonstrates why Americans should turn to entrepreneurs in the private sector rather than the federal government to guarantee the protection and improvement of environmental quality. It aims to offer alternatives to traditional thinking about the environment.

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Argues that the environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences - contributing to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest, and other forms of civil violence. This book develops a model of the sources of environmental scarcity. It shows that scarcities stem from the degradation and depletion of renewable resources.

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This book defines for readers the ecological epoch known as the Anthropocene and brings together an interdisciplinary roster of researchers and scholars to address key imminent challenges to human society posed by climate crisis. The work also analyzes and provides a constructive vision on the relationship between social justice and the media.

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This book defines for readers the ecological epoch known as the Anthropocene and brings together an interdisciplinary roster of researchers and scholars to address key imminent challenges to human society posed by climate crisis. The work also analyzes and provides a constructive vision on the relationship between social justice and the media.

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This book is an in-depth study on the use of social media in environmental activism in China. The author weaves together post-structuralist theory, media theory, social movement theory, and environmental communication studies to analyze concepts such as wild public networks and force majeure in the context of contemporary social movements.