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  • Development and the Sustainable City

    The Limits of a Technical Approach

    by Nadège Gunia, Jean-Pierre Mignot, Marc-André Mequignon, Isabelle Bouchardy, Yann Ferguson ...
    Series series ISTE Consignment
    This book examines the city and its rapid growth, as well as the sustainability issues it poses, in several ways. First, there is a critical approach to development, as expressed by the concept of sustainable development. The city, as a complex system, primarily refers to questions of sustainability performance, which we believe to be capable of resolving problems and difficulties, even when ... Read more

    $188.99 CAD

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  • Exploring Degrowth

    A Critical Guide

    by Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson ...
    Series series FireWorks
    A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. This book is an introduction to the movement.As politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives, the degrowth movement demands ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Degrowth

    A Vocabulary for a New Era

    Edited by Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis ...
    Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Social Structures of the Economy

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the buying and selling of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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  • The New Spirit of Capitalism

    by Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello ...
    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
    New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalismIn this established classic, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello get to the heart of contemporary capitalism. Delving deep into the latest management texts informing the thinking of employers, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that beginning in the mid-1970s, capitalism ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Shock of the Anthropocene

    The Earth, History and Us

    by Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years.How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a “human species” that upset the Earth ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development

    Edited by Allen J. Scott, Michael Storper ...
    The world has seen a shift in socio-economic relations, in the patterns and processes of industrialization and regional development. The social regulation of the economic order, flexible production organization and industrial district formation have brought periods, places and pathways to the heart of economic debate.Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development provides a platform from ... Read more

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  • Ending Poverty

    A Basic Income for all Canadians

    by Francois Blais ...
    As Canada's social safety net continues to be eroded and the gap between rich and poor in our society continues to grow, it becomes increasingly urgent to confront the problems of poverty in fresh and creative ways.Political scientist François Blais offers a bold new proposal to assist the poorest and most disadvantaged in our society: a guaranteed basic income, or allowance, to be paid to every ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Ecology for the 99%

    Twenty Capitalist Myths Debunked

    by Frédéric Legault, Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier, Alain Savard ...
    Translated by Charles Simard ...
    If everyone—from Emmanuel Macron to Jeff Bezos, and even Coca Cola—is green, why is the environmental crisis growing at an alarmingly rapid rate? The world is already experiencing the impact of climate crisis, but we are not equally responsible for its violent effects. Some of those who claim to be helping the planet are actually making things worse. To avoid being duped by false allies and to ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Innovation and development in agricultural and food systems

    by Guy Faure, Yuna Chiffoleau, Frédéric Goulet, Ludovic Temple, Jean-Marc Touzard ...
    Series series Synthèses
    The book looks at innovation in agriculture and food systems against the backdrop of the great challenges facing humanity today. It does so by exploring the different dimensions of change and by focusing on the meaning accorded to innovation by these systems’ stakeholders. Innovation is apprehended in its cognitive, technical, organizational and institutional complexity. Methods and mechanisms to ... Read more

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  • Globalising the Climate

    COP21 and the climatisation of global debates

    Edited by Stefan Aykut, Jean Foyer, Edouard Morena ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    Frequently presented as a historic last chance to set the world on a course to prevent catastrophic climate change, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the Climate convention (COP21) was a global summit of exceptional proportions. Bringing together negotiators, scientists, journalists and representatives of global civil society, it also constituted a privileged vantage point for the study of ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD