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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.

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With global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, infrared forcing, popularly known as the greenhouse effect, has attracted worldwide concern.

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The green movement has got it very wrong.

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The politics of water have taken centre stage in global concerns about sustainable development. This book investigates a fresh mode of achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people who lack access to safe water and sanitation by 2015. It is suitable for those concerned with issues of water and sustainable development.

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This unique survey of the environmental history of the grasslands in the United States explores the ecological, social, and economic networks enmeshing humans in this biome over the last 10,000 years.

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A major new analysis and action plan to deal with two linked challenges to human ingenuity and human survival - the crisis of climate change and the world economic crash.

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Presenting a wide range of views and strategies, The Green Halo analyzes the problematic relations between humans and the rest of the natural world. The author looks at the views of thinkers including John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Al Gore, and suggests alternative ways to view nature, assign it value, and respond to ecological crises.

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Three existential crises confront global humanity: climate change, the environmental crisis and the arms race. This book argues their resolution will be through the development of a green socialism.

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Journalist Ross Gelbspan exposes the machinations of oil and coal companies and conservative politicians to undermine public confidence in science and thereby defer action against global warming.

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Fracking for gas trapped in shale could be a game changer in the quest to find alternatives to dirty fossil fuels, but it also has potential for harm. This book provides "one-stop shopping" for everyone who wants to know more about the issues.

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This book examines the geographical imaginaries that underpinned international efforts to create the first international organizations along the Rhine, Danube, and Congo Rivers. In doing so, these imaginaries helped constitute the early international order in the nineteenth century and continues to underpin modern global governance today.

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The ideal river offers a remarkable account of how three historic attempts to establish international commissions on transboundary rivers in the nineteenth century shaped our modern international order.

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This volume focuses on the impacts of the BRICS nations on world energy markets. In the analyses presented here, a variety of factors, such as national patterns of production and consumption, international energy trade, and the extent to which alternative and competing policies maintain or bring about change in the international order, are examined.

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A uniquely interdisciplinary examination of the way in which land use planning and administration must be understood and applied in the context of environmental and health issues.