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The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action when pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns.

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This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars to explore how urban social movements, localised practices of rights claiming, and diverse articulations of sanctuary are reshaping the governance of migration. -- .

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Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, this title shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed.

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The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a neutral broker rather than protecting the common good.

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National institutions involved in environmental policy planning respond more to the accommodation of special interests, whether vested, parochial, or societal, than to the realities of technological advances.

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We have a special relationship with the sea. Sea Change addresses such issues as pollution by sewage, nuclear waste and dumping at sea; destruction of marine environment, impacts of climate change, coastal erosion and rising sea levels;

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The personal history of a pioneer woman oceanographer and her role in the development of science during the Cold War

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Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley and four others sailed eight hundred miles in a small boat to the island of South Georgia, an astounding feat of navigation and courage.

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Through biographical examinations of some of the key figures in the debate on conservation, this book seeks to explore a range of subjects, such as the evolution of the conservation movement, its implications for policy-makers, and how it impacts the daily lives of people everywhere.

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A study of the Guadalupe, California, oil spill and what it reveals about society's disinclination to respond to chronic, festering environmental problems.

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This important book will be of great value to practitioners facing actual siting decisions, members of statewide siting boards, private sector parties wishing to site facilities, and those teaching courses in environmental policy or politics.

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Drawing upon the experiences of states trying to site new low level radioactive waste disposal facilities, the author argues that we need to think harder and look deeper, to understand and possibly solve the siting dilemma.

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Critically examining government land use policies and arguments supporting them, the contributors explore market alternatives to government land use planning.

Despite the apparent popularity of government restrictions on land use, the scholars writing for this volume advocate a more market-based approach.

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A fascinating insight into the current state of Britain that constantly surprises and overturns much received wisdom of today's society.

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Major changes have occurred in both the composition of energy supply and the choice of technology, especially in activities in which energy intensity has a significant bearing on the costs and competitiveness of goods and services.

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Outlines a bold and compelling vision for a world liberated from our dependence on fossil fuels and globalization.

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This book presents an accessible and easy-to-follow argument that the climate crisis is a side effect of inequality and injustice, and demonstrates how strategies such as large-scale social investment will prove far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas pollution than cap-and-trade or other forms of free-market environmentalism.

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With the US as the world's most prominent climate change outlaw, "Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy" offers a unique combination of state-level analysis, international comparison and domestic policy prescription, pointing the way to a productive federal-state partnership for climate change policymaking in the United States.

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From Angkor Wat to Agent Orange, Southeast Asia An Environmental History tells the story of some of the most dramatic effects humans have had on the natural and developed environment anywhere in the world and examines the ways in which environmental factors have helped shape the culture, politics, and societies of the region.

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This unique survey of the environmental history of the southern United States explores the ecological, social, and economic interaction between humans and the environment in the South over the last 20,000 years.