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  • Environmental Policy in Search of New Instruments

    Modifié par B. Dente ...
    Collections Livre 3 - Environment, Science and Society
    Environmental policy is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The problems connected with global change, the need for preventative action, and the growing importance of non-source pollution call for new courses of action and new institutional arrangements. In this situation, it is fairly obvious that both the traditional command and control policy instruments and the more modern financial and ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Waste and the Backyard

    The Creation of Waste Facilities: Success Stories in Six European Countries

    Modifié par B. Dente, Paolo Fareri, Josée Ligteringen ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Controversies concerning the siting of facilities for the disposal and treatment of hazardous but also domestic waste are widespread in all of the industrialized countries. The paradoxical situation of projects that are needed for environmental reasons and are opposed on environmental grounds has been addressed by scholars and by policy-makers searching for solutions. However, only in a few cases ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow on Trees

    par Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate the emergence of a new wave of environmental attention focused on “natural capital,†“ecosystem services†and “biodiversity,†things nature does for us. In What Has Nature ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Ten Billion

    Facing Our Future

    par Stephen Emmott ...
    Earth is home to millions of species. Yet just one dominates it. Us.Our cleverness, inventiveness, and activities have modified almost every part of our planet, impacting it profoundly. Indeed, our cleverness, inventiveness, and activities are now the drivers of every global problem we face. And every one of these problems is accelerating as we continue to grow towards a global population of ten ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Sorting the Beef from the Bull

    The Science of Food Fraud Forensics

    par Richard Evershed, Nicola Temple ...
    Horsemeat in burgers was hard to swallow, but there are far more sinister culinary crimes afoot...Chicken eggs that haven't come from chickens, melamine in infants' milk in China, nut shells in spices – these are just some examples of the food fraud that has occurred in recent years. As our urban lifestyle takes us further and further away from our food sources, there are increasing opportunities ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Modifié par Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Collections Livre 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

  • Are We Running Out?

    The Sustainability of the World's Resources

    par Ingrid Bryan ...
    Do we have the resources to produce enough food for an expected world population of over 9 billion in 2050? Are modern agricultural practices sustainable? Do we have enough fresh water? What do we understand about climate change? Can we decarbonize the world economy? Can we save the oceans? Are genetically modified crops bad for the environment? Are we entering a new era of resource wars? These ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Dirt on Worm Farming

    par Brenda Lotito ...
    Nestled snuggly in the corner of my basement, a covered wooden box sits on legs that stand four feet high. Most people passing by don't even notice it. There is no smell and no litter. The basement temperature is like baby bears porridge-just right. More importantly, the temperature inside the box is neither too hot nor too cold.As I lift the cover to show a friend the secret to my gardening ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • Successful Agricultural Innovation in Emerging Economies

    New Genetic Technologies for Global Food Production

    Modifié par David J. Bennett, Richard C. Jennings ...
    World population is forecast to grow from 7 to 9 billion by 2050, 1 in 6 is already hungry and food production must increase by 70-100% if it is to feed this growing population. No single solution will solve this problem but recent developments in the genetic technologies of plant breeding can help to increase agricultural efficiencies and save people from hunger in a sustainable manner, ... En savoir plus

    $68.99 CAD

  • Consulting the Genius of the Place

    An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture

    par Wes Jackson ...
    Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for the land, to speak for the soil itself. Here, he offers a manifesto toward a conceptual revolution: Jackson asks us to look to natural ecosystems—or, ... En savoir plus

    $22.39 CAD

  • Green Governance

    Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons

    par Burns H. Weston, David Bollier ...
    The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we treat 'the environment' as its own separate realm, taking for granted prevailing but outmoded ... En savoir plus

    $60.99 CAD

  • Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation

    par Thomas Henfry, Gil Penha-Lopes ...
    Permaculture is a design system for sustainable human habitats and basis of a worldwide citizen-led movement present in over 100 countries.For decades, permaculture practitioners have devised creative responses to changes in local climatic conditions. In doing so, they have developed a collective knowledge and experience invaluable to global efforts to address climate change.This book seeks to ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD