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  • The Great Experiment in Conservation

    Voices from the Adirondack Park, Revised Edition

    Collections series New York State Series
    The Adirondack region of New York State is, in many respects, America’s cauldron of conservation. It was there, more than a century ago, that wanton exploitation of forests first aroused concern about human impact on the environment. It was there that Americans first began to set aside lands proclaimed as "forever wild." The establishment of the Adirondack Park created an immense landscape of 6 ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Progress Illusion

    Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics

    par Jon D. Erickson ...
    We live under the illusion of progress: as long as GDP is going up and prices stay low, we accept poverty and pollution as unfortunate but inevitable byproducts of a successful economy. In fact, the infallibility of the free market and the necessity of endless growth are so ingrained in the public consciousness that they seem like scientific fact. Jon Erickson asks, why? With the planet in peril ... En savoir plus

    $36.29 CAD

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    The Progress Illusion

    Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics

    par Jon D. Erickson ...
    Lu par David Colacci ...

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    8 heure 18 min

    In The Progress Illusion, Jon D. Erickson charts the rise of the economic worldview and its infiltration into our daily lives as a theory of everything. Drawing on his own experience as a young economist inoculated in the 1980s era of "greed is good," Erickson shows how pseudoscience came to dominate economic thought. He pokes holes in the conventional wisdom of neo-classical economics, ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Sea of Grass

    The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie

    A vivid portrait of the American prairie, which rivals the rainforest in its biological diversity and, with little notice, is disappearing even faster“This book describes—in loving, living prose—one of the world’s greatest and most important landscapes. And it does so while there’s still time to save some serious part of it.”—Bill McKibben, author of The End of NatureThe North American prairie is ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Nature Wars

    The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds

    par Jim Sterba ...
    This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one of more than 4,000 drivers who will hit a deer today, your child’s soccer field is carpeted with goose ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $12.99 CAD Maintenant $10.99 CAD

  • Down to Earth

    Nature's Role in American History

    par Ted Steinberg ...
    A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Biodiversity Planning and Design

    Sustainable Practices

    How do you measure biodiversity, and why should landscape architects and planners care? What are the essential issues, the clearest terminology, and the most effective methods for biodiversity planning and design? How can they play a role in biodiversity conservation in a manner compatible with other goals? These are critical questions that Jack Ahern, Elizabeth Leduc, and Mary Lee York answer in ... En savoir plus

    $62.69 CAD

  • Wild Roses Are Worth It

    Reimagining the Alberta Advantage

    A timely collection of provocative, personal, and thoughtful essays for an Alberta in transition.This selection of works by naturalist, hunter, conservation activist, and outdoors journalist Kevin Van Tighem will both inspire and provoke, because it offers an unflinching challenge to cherished myths and conventional wisdom in a troubled province beset with profound questions about its future. Even ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • American Environmental History

    An Introduction

    Collections series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Design with the Desert

    Conservation and Sustainable Development

    Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its future in a more ... En savoir plus

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  • Wild Roses Are Worth It

    Reimagining the Alberta Advantage - Updated Edition

    A timely collection of provocative, personal, and thoughtful essays for an Alberta in transition.This selection of works by naturalist, hunter, conservation activist, and outdoors journalist Kevin Van Tighem will both inspire and provoke, because it offers an unflinching challenge to cherished myths and conventional wisdom in a troubled province beset with profound questions about its future. Even ... En savoir plus

    $10.69 CAD

  • Restoring the Flow

    Confronting the World's Water Woes

    Try as we might, parts of North America may not escape the impacts of the global water crisis. The same kinds of water supply and quality issues that have appeared around our crowded planet are already beginning to present themselves here. Unfortunately, this is occurring at a time when, as a direct result of declining global food production, the world is beginning to rely more heavily than ever ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD