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Governing Disaster in Urban Environments provides a comprehensive account of relevant debates, conceptualizations, and practical considerations for the governance of disaster at multiple scales. In this interdisciplinary work, Julia Nevrez uses the example of Hurricane Sandy to analyze the complex phenomenon of climate change.

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Describes the diverse histories and the processes of Greek Jews that worked to make them emerge as a Greek collective. This book follows the Jews as they left Greece - as deportees to Auschwitz or emigres to Palestine/Israel and New York's Lower East Side.

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This landmark work lauds the benefits of decreased energy consumption, investigating its relationship to public policy and analyzing its potential billion-dollar benefits to the U.S. economy.

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Public deliberation over climate change has traditionally been dominated by the natural and physical sciences. Is the planet warming To what degree, and is mankind responsible How big a problem is this, really But concurrent with these debates is the question of what should be done.

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Argues that growth management in the United States is an institutionalized form of growth accommodation incongruous with sustainable behavior and that the growth accommodation imperative should be replaced by an imperative of ecological sustainability.

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Argues that growth management in the United States is an institutionalized form of growth accommodation incongruous with sustainable behaviour and that the growth accommodation imperative should be replaced by an imperative of ecological sustainability.

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A unique guide to little-known protected sites across America.

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This comprehensive overview of the first quarter-century of American environmental sociology introduces readers to the research and theoretical perspectives in this new field of study.

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Can you identify the "Bride of the Adriatic", the "Home of Bock Beer", or the "Sick Man of Europe" These nicknames and many others - appellations of countries, cities, mountains, rivers, capes and places of historical interest - are identified in Harold Sharp's concise volume.

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Coverage includes the development of ocean law, the evolving uses of oceans, data on living and non-living ocean resources, the environmental impact of pollution, and competing national claims over ocean exploration.

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Examining the role of science in toxic chemical regulation at the US Environmental Protection Agency, this book postulates that scientific knowledge and advice from experts outside of government is critical to the competence and credibility of regulations designed to protect public health.

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Examines the concept of landscape as a multitude of places and spaces haunted by spectres, memory, trauma and nostalgia in literature, art and film from Victorian times to the present.

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Examines the concept of landscape as a multitude of places and spaces haunted by spectres, memory, trauma and nostalgia in literature, art and film from Victorian times to the present.

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Describes a natural site or historic building in each state and four Canadian provinces that has become the focus for tales of apparitions, spooky presences, and other signs of haunting.

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This scientifically rigorous and philosophically sophisticated defense of environmentalism is meant to excite, educate, and alarm the reader. There is a widespread scientific and public recognition that the world is facing an environmental crisis of vast proportions.

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High mountains, polar expanses, volcanic peaks are special environments. This volume explores different aspects of these environments - disorientation, exploration, native knowledge, polar research. It is suitable for geographers, historians of science, and those interested in polar/mountain studies, landscape, culture and environment.

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The No Logo of climate change a book that shows how global warming is not a theory we should still debate, but something that has already happened on a global scale.

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"Hike the ABC's: A Journey through our National Parks" is a vibrant and engaging children's book that takes young readers on an exciting adventure through some of the most breathtaking National Parks across the United States.

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Historical Dictionary and Environmentalism, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries on organizations, people, issues, events, and countries shaping environmentalism.

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important events, issues, organizations, ideas, and people shaping the direction of environmentalism worldwide.

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In "Home from Nowhere", the author of the landmark book "Geography of Nowhere" not only shows that the original American dream--the desire for peaceful, pleasant places in which to work and live--still has a strong hold on our imaginations, but offers innovative, eminently practical ways to make that dream a reality. Photos & line drawings.

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This book examines how ideas about bodies, homes, and nature were deployed to serve three interrelated imperatives: the healthy population, the nation, and empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through an analysis of archive material it explores how the role of women in progressive reform was a form of governmentality.

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Explores the impact of nostalgia on the construction of individual and collective identity for diasporic South-Asians in the UK and US. It argues that in the postcolonial context the affect produced by this nostalgia can have radical potential as a form of resistance.