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  • Tropical Nature

    Colonial and Post-Colonial Conservation in Africa and Asia

    Edited by Mathieu Guérin, Grégory Quenet, Guillaume Blanc ...
    Series Book 26 - Environment in History: International Perspectives
    Across Africa and South-East Asia, the impulse to protect nature often dovetails with the domination of local people. From mass displacement to severe restrictions on land use and daily acts of violence, conservation work risks reproducing Eurocentric modes of colonialism and worsening the effects of the climate crisis. In this insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Singapore

    A Modern History

    by Michael D. Barr ...
    Singapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D. Barr proposes a new approach to understand this development. From the pre-colonial ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Quarterly Essay 9 Beautiful Lies

    Population and Environment in Australia

    by Tim Flannery ...
    Series Book 9 - Quarterly Essay
    In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold damage to our river system for the sake of white immigration. The lie that rushing to preserve ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Conflict and Harmony

    by Syed Husin Ali ...
    With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of the masses. In articles spanning more than three decades, collected for the first time here, he ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Blue New Deal

    Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean

    by Chris Armstrong ...
    An urgent account of the state of our oceans today—and what we must do to protect themThe ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures, and, as we exhaust the resources to be found on land, it is becoming central to the global market. But today we are facing two urgent challenges at sea: massive environmental destruction, and spiraling inequality in the ocean ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire

    Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World

    by Corey Ross ...
    Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management-transformations that still visibly shape our world today-and ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Arid Lands

    History, Power, Knowledge

    by Diana K. Davis ...
    Series series History for a Sustainable Future
    An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered.Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts—a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Singapore Water Story

    Sustainable Development in an Urban City State

    by Cecilia Tortajada, Yugal Joshi, Asit K. Biswas ...
    Singapore´s journey during the past 45 years is an outstanding example that, in spite of multiple hardships, pragmatic policies, clear visions, long-term planning, forward-looking strategies and political will, as well as a relentless urge to improve, can result in strong foundations for sustainable development.This book describes the journey of Singapore´s development and the fundamental role ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • The Invention of Green Colonialism

    by Guillaume Blanc ...
    Translated by Helen Morrison ...
    The story begins with a dream – the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization – all of us carry such images in our heads, imagining Africa as a timeless Eden untouched by the ravages of modernity.But this Africa has never ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Forest and Labor in Madagascar

    From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere

    by Genese Marie Sodikoff ...
    A study of the demands of economic development and ecological conservation on the African island country.Protecting the unique plants and animals that live on Madagascar while fueling economic growth has been a priority for the Malagasy state, international donors, and conservation NGOs since the late 1980s. Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers who must make a living from ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against Extinction

    The Story of Conservation

    by William Bill Adams ...
    'Conservation in the 21st century needs to be different and this book is a good indicator of why.'Bulletin of British Ecological SocietyAgainst Extinction tells the history of wildlife conservation from its roots in the 19th century, through the foundation of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire in London in 1903 to the huge and diverse international movement of the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Geography Of Islands

    by Stephen A. Royle ...
    First Published in 2004. Islands have always fascinated people. They often seem remote and mysterious, set between the continents on which most people live. Indeed, many people choose islands for their perfect holiday idyll. In practice, however, the everyday social and economic reality is often very different. A Geography of Islands firstly examines the differing ways islands are formed. Despite ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD