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  • Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems

    Edición de C. S. Holling, Craig Allen ...
    Series series Complexity in Ecological Systems
    Following the publication of C. S. Holling's seminal work on the relationship between animal body mass patterns and scale-specific landscape structure, ecologists began to explore the theoretical and applied consequences of discontinuities in ecosystems and other complex systems. Are ecosystems and their components continuously distributed and do they adhere to scaling laws, or are they ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Rights to Nature

    Ecological, Economic, Cultural, and Political Principles of Institutions for the Environment

    de Narpat Jodha, Svein Jentoft, Bonnie McCay, Margaret McKean, Steven Sanderson, C. S. Holling, Elinor Ostrom, Jean Ensminger, Oran Young ...
    Property rights are a tool humans use in regulating their use of natural resources. Understanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are controlled is critical to designing and implementing effective strategies for environmental management and conservation.Rights to Nature is a nontechnical, interdisciplinary introduction to the systems of rights, rules, and responsibilities that ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Panarchy

    Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems

    Edición de Lance H. Gunderson, C. S. Holling ...
    Creating institutions to meet the challenge of sustainability is arguably the most important task confronting society; it is also dauntingly complex. Ecological, economic, and social elements all play a role, but despite ongoing efforts, researchers have yet to succeed in integrating the various disciplines in a way that gives adequate representation to the insights of each.Panarchy, a term ... Leer más

    $44.69 USD

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    Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems

    de Lance H. Gunderson ...
    ‘Panarchy’ is a new term coined from the name of the Greek god Pan, a symbol of universal nature and associated with unpredictable change. It represents an alternative framework for managing the issues that emerge from the interaction between people and nature. That interaction generates countless surprises, often the result of slow changes that can accumulate and unexpectedly flip an ecosystem or ... Leer más

    $13.69 USD

  • Foundations of Ecological Resilience

    Edición de Lance H. Gunderson, Craig Reece Allen, C. S. Holling ...
    Ecological resilience provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and recover from localized disturbances like hurricanes, fires, pest outbreaks, and floods, as well as large-scale perturbations such as climate change. Ecologists have developed resilience theory over the past three decades in an effort to explain surprising and nonlinear dynamics of complex ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Boom

    How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

    de Russell Gold ...
    The “best all-around book yet on fracking” (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: “Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporary journalism” (Booklist).First invented in 1947, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has not only become a major source of energy, it is changing the way we use energy, and the energy we use. It is both a threat and a godsend for the environment, and it ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today

    de John Thackara ...
    A visionary yet practical guide to building a more sustainable future, by one of the most important voices in environmentally aware designAre there practical solutions to the many global challenges—climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare—that threaten our way of life? Author John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs. In this clear-eyed ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The New Economics

    A Bigger Picture

    de Andrew Simms, David Boyle ...
    Economics sometimes seems to be stacked against social, environmental and individual well-being. But it doesn't have to be like this. A new approach to economics - deriving as much from Ruskin and Schumacher as from Keynes or Smith - has begun to emerge. Skeptical about money as a measure of success, this new economics turns our assumptions about wealth and poverty upside down. It shows us that ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Rethinking Private Authority

    Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance

    de Jessica F. Green ...
    Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Climate-Challenged Society

    de John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg ...
    This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is written "with attitude", ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • A Texan Plan for the Texas Coast

    de James B. Blackburn Jr. ...
    Series Libro 31 - Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
    In this powerful call to action, conservationist and environmental lawyer Jim Blackburn offers an unconventional yet feasible plan to protect the Texas coast. The coast is in danger of being damaged beyond repair due to the gradual starvation of freshwater inflows to its bays, the fragmentation of large tracts of land, and general public neglect. Most importantly, it is threatened by our denial ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Sustainable Tourism Futures

    Perspectives on Systems, Restructuring and Innovations

    Edición de Stefan Gössling, C. Michael Hall, David Weaver ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism
    A global industry and an important tool for economic development, international tourism is facing an increasingly uncertain future. Global environmental change, including climate change; increasing fuel prices; and growing criticism from environmental and social interest groups are posing substantial challenges to the belief that international tourism can be sustainable at current rates and ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD