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The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application to a variety of environmental decision-making problems, ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental impact assessment of tourism infrastructures.

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Based on major research into transport-related carbon emissions, this book examines multiple levels of governance and policy networks to explore the politics of climate change.

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Based on major research into transport-related carbon emissions, this book examines multiple levels of governance and policy networks to explore the politics of climate change.

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With breathtaking speed, our species has undergone fundamental changes this last century. Entering this new millennium David Suzuki takes stock of the impact of these changes on our environment.

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This book follows the groundbreaking Kyoto Protocol from the time of its drafting in 1997 to analyze its viability as an environmental treaty. Dana R. Fisher uses a valuable combination of substantive interview data and country case studies to understand the complexity of the ...

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This book examines the impending Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami from a communications perspective, using similar experiences of natural disaster preparedness and outcomes as case studies. It is an interdisciplinary consideration of how communities communicate and make sense of natural disasters.

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This volume combines economics and ecology in a penetrating examination of the natural resources and environmental issues arising from economic growth, development, and change.

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This book is about encouraging children to get away from the television and out into nature.

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In this era, when climate change is the biggest global challenge to humanity, it is crucial to investigate the relationship between humans and the environment. The book will unfold the relevance of non-violence that is not only limited to the peaceful co-existence of humankind but also signifies the role played by non-violence to build a fundamental interconnectedness between humans and nature.

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A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing the vast and diverse continent that is North America.

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An engaging, personalized look at the interplay between people and nature in the northeastern and midwestern United States, from prehistory to the present.

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A fascinating handbook providing a rare synthesis of the environmental history of northern Europe from the Paleolithic era to the present day.

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A sweeping overview of the problems, politics, and policies of international and domestic management of the world's oceans.

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Outlines the history of change to Australia's environment and explains why so many plants and animals are now on a downward slide to extinction. This book examines what the main conservation approaches are, and how these are affected by law and politics.

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Presents climate change as potentially the 'best crisis we ever had'. This title maps the many opportunities for communities large and small, local and international, making the transition to a low carbon economy.

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An excellent handbook for community activists, planners, teachers, students and policy makers.

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This study compares household energy use, environmental awareness, and consumerism among residents of small towns in Sweden and America. The author, a cultural anthropologist, uses quantitative and qualitative data from fieldwork to formulate a holistic analysis.

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The author focuses on the ways that stakeholders think, talk and conventionally act with regard to the environmental issues at stake. Also explored are the roles of environmental partnerships as sites of personal transformations where participants can and do change.

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In another soon-to-be-classic, Richard Falk provides a hopeful call to action to avert sleepwalking toward a collective species death wish, and to reimagine allegiance to the nation state instead as a humane patriotism for sustainability and ecological viability.

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In another soon-to-be-classic, Richard Falk provides a hopeful call to action to avert sleepwalking toward a collective species death wish, and to reimagine allegiance to the nation state instead as a humane patriotism for sustainability and ecological viability.

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This book is a comprehensive examination of pesticide use, pesticide harm, and alternatives to harmful pesticides.

Levine highlights the role of farming, because a substantial majority70 percent or more annuallyof pesticides are applied in agricultural uses, thereby making their way into the food chain and into the water supply.