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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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The first book to look at the planetary environmental crisis through the lens of the global ocean, Seasick dives down on a journey through the planet's hidden realms. Each chapter features a different group of researchers who explore the importance of ocean currents, the effects of acidification or the extinction of marine species.

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Provides both an exciting appraisal of New Zealand's environmental history and a long overdue exploration of the significance of grass in the processes of sowing empire.

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(Paperback)

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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Examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. This book shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social realities.

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(Hardback)

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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Shut Out provides a much-needed correction to the causes and consequences of financial crises and secular stagnation.

(Hardback)

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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This book provides a round-up of the state of the sub-discipline of social geography, capture recent themes and directions, and chart new questions and challenges for theory, politics and practice.

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Social Justice and the Power of Compassion explores the meaning of social justice by focusing on the people who have founded/created organizations aimed to help the public and build a better society and environment.

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Society, Space, and Social Justice investigates overt and covert social inequalities and social injustice issues across various geographic settings and scales as globalization continues to (re)construct society its structures and spaces. The examination is coupled with the identifying resistance and approaches toward a more just world.

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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.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

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

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(Hardback)

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.

(Hardback)

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.

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A major new introduction to the UK planning system. It outlines the evolution and use of the new spatial planning approach which is increasingly adopted at all levels of the UK planning system from European through to the national, regional, sub-regional and local level.