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This volume provides an insightful overview of renewable and alternative energy technologies and policies in the United States and around the world.

Are renewable and alternative energy solutions needed to combat many of the negative effects of fossil fuel (including global warming)

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Introduces solar, wind, and micro-hydroelectric technologies and their economics in a market environment. Edinger and Kaul survey the technological state-of-the-art and economic aspects of renewable electricity generation, and outline the role of the other renewable sources, such as solar, wind, and micro-hydroelectric technologies.

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A comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power, mapping an energy transition through theory, case studies, and policy.

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By the turn of the millennium, it had become painfully apparent that the United States had made some serious misjudgments in its interactions with the natural world.

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We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings. One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vision of our new future.

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Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.

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A diverse and probing enquiry which aims to consider the nature of land use, abuse and degradation.

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Explores one of the crucial problems of the contemporary era - struggles over access to, and use of, the environment. This book combines insights from anthropology, history, and environmental studies, mounting an interdisciplinary challenge to contemporary accounts of "globalization."

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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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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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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.