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  • Understanding Waste

    A Multidisciplinary Introduction

    by Hervé Corvellec, Mathieu Durand, Alison F. Stowell ...
    Waste is omnipresent, with consequences that are increasingly visible. Despite considerable efforts by the waste-management sector to keep it out of sight and out of mind, current waste levels pose a challenge to the welfare of today and tomorrow, from the squandering of resources to lasting environmental harm.Understanding Waste provides a multidisciplinary introduction to the diversity of waste, ... Read more

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  • Science and Technology for Development

    by James Smith ...
    Series series Development Matters
    How can science realize its potential and help us tackle global inequality, environmental change and crippling poverty? How can more appropriate technologies be developed for those most in need? Science has long promised much -- new crops, new medicines, new sources of energy, new means of communication -- but the potential of new technologies has frequently bypassed the poorest people and the ... Read more

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  • Canada's Waste Flows

    by Myra J. Hird ...
    From shipments of Canadian waste rotting in developing countries to overflowing landfills and ineffective recycling programs, Canada is facing a waste crisis. Canadians are becoming increasingly aware that waste is an acute environmental and human health issue – and a complex one, the solutions to which are often contradictory.Canada's Waste Flows is an honest look at the production and movement ... Read more

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  • Landscape and Sustainability

    Edited by John Benson, Maggie Roe ...
    This unique book addresses the issue of sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture, dealing with professional practices of planners, designers and landscape managers. This second edition contains updated and new material reflecting developments during the last five years and comprehensively addresses the relationship between landscape architecture and sustainability.Much in ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • People and Nature

    An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations

    by Emilio F. Moran ...
    Series series Primers in Anthropology
    Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world.Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a multi-disciplinary focus that also draws from geography, ecology, and environmental studiesAddresses new issues of importance, ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Architectures

    Cultures and Natures in Europe and North America

    Edited by Simon Guy, Steven A. Moore ...
    As buildings are responsible for fifty per cent of CO2 emissions, their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or ecologically responsible, buildings, and being able to assemble the social resources to do so, requires different forms of knowledge and practice. There is wide contestation over the optimal pathways to greener ... Read more

    $147.02 CAD

  • Turning up the heat

    Urban political ecology for a climate emergency

    Edited by Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler, Yannis Tzaninis ...
    Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the ‘city’ as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Living territories to transform the world

    by Patrick Caron, Elodie Valette, Tom Wassenaar, Geo Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge, Vatché Papazian ...
    What resources underpin the development of a territory? What does territorial management of resources mean? What specific characteristics and opportunities does territorial organization offer for agricultural production, regulation of sectors, and services? How are territorial public policies conceived and applied? But also, what are the limits of the territorial approach? How does a territorial ... Read more

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  • The Anthropology of Sustainability

    Beyond Development and Progress

    Edited by Marc Brightman, Jerome Lewis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for ... Read more

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  • Organising Responses to Climate Change

    The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering

    by Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright, Vanessa Bowden ...
    Climate change is the most important issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures increase, floods, fires and storms are becoming both more intense and frequent. People are suffering. And yet, emissions continue to rise. This book unpacks the activities of the key actors which have organised past and present climate responses – specifically, corporations, governments, and civil society ... Read more

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  • Design for Sustainability

    A Sourcebook of Integrated Ecological Solutions

    by Janis Birkeland ...
    With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost. Birkeland introduces systems design thinking that cuts across academic and professional boundaries and the divide between social and physical sciences to ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Enterprising Nature

    Economics, Markets, and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics

    by Jessica Dempsey ...
    Series series Antipode Book Series
    Winner of the 2018 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology!Enterprising Nature explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. To view Jessica's animation based on the book's themes please visit http://www.bioeconomies.org/enterprising-nature/Examines disciplinary apparatuses, ecologi... ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD