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This provocative book presents compelling evidence that the fundamental problem behind environmental destruction-and climate change in particular-is the operation of liberal democracy.

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The Climate Change Debate: A Reference Handbook provides an in-depth look at climate change facts and statistics.

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Explains why the Kyoto Protocol was never likely to become an effective legal instrument. This book explores how its collapse offers opportunities to establish a more realistic alternative. It proposes a hybrid in which governments set targets for both emission quantities and tax levels.

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This Columbian exchange, between the Old World and the New, changed the history of our planet drastically and forever.

The book The Columbian Exchange changed the field of history drastically and forever as well.

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This Columbian exchange, between the Old World and the New, changed the history of our planet drastically and forever.

The book The Columbian Exchange changed the field of history drastically and forever as well.

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An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.

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New approaches to managing the commons, based on recent theoretical and empirical research.

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Finally, section four looks to the future of and new approaches to business and environmental problems, considering the need to move environmental issues into the business school and to retool cultures for an ecologically sound future.

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The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States provides an in-depth analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. It explains why very few of these markets have succeeded even after close to twenty years of scholarly enthusiasm, federal funding and concerted efforts by NGOs, government agencies and businesses.

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The Dirty Dozen are the 12 organochloride pesticides and industrial chemicals that comprise the short list for elimination by the Stockholm Convention. In this volume, Johansen offers undergraduates and general readers an account of the toxins and what toll they have taken.

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A comprehensive overview of Earth's biosphere, written with scientific rigor and essay-like flair.

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The papers collected here, originally presented at a seminar cosponsored by the East-West Center and the Asian Productivity Organization, address the links between energy sector performance and economic development in the Asia-Pacific region.

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A fascinating look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes, and public policy from the 17th century to the present.

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Increasingly, the planet is threatened by a wide variety of real and potential complex environmental problems, including the warming of the earth, the loss of biodiversity, waste mismanagement, deforestation, desertification, hazardous waste disposal, acid precipitation, and pollution of many sorts.

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This resource, by a professor of ecology and environmental science, features the latest information on the global environmental crisis in the 20th century.

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The Environmental Protection Agency is a young and dynamic federal agency facing the challenges of modern environmental protection.

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Synthesizing studies of parental care in a wide variety of animals, this book provides general answers to the following important questions: Why does the extent of parental care vary so widely between species Why do only females care for eggs and young in some animals, only males in others, and both parents in a few

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Examining the Greens' contribution to the changing nature of German local politics, this book reveals the effect of local political involvement upon the Greens themselves. It also shows how the established 'unpolitical' nature of Germany's local politics has given way to overtly political and confrontational approaches.

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"Fascinating, imaginative, and stimulating, The Ghosts of Evolution is a wonderful piece of writing-well worth reading by anyone interested in nature and its myriad components." -Michael J. Balick, The New York Botanical Garden.

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This detailed analysis of the global food system looks at the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed in an effort to create a more equitable and healthful system worldwide.

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The Global Warming Combat Manual describes the practical measures that readers can take in their daily lives to reduce their carbon footprints, while showing how to link one's personal choices with the big-picture science and the big-scale campaigns to combat global warming on the political, legal, economic, and technological fronts.