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Social impact of environmental issues

Hardback. We are on the brink of an ecological mega-crisis threatening the future of life on earth and our actions over the next few years may well determine the destiny of our descendants. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 243 x 30. Weight in Grams: 598.
Publisher
Watkins Media
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780289724
ISBN
9781780289724
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.07

Hardcover. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 249 x 21. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Familius LLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781942934707
ISBN
9781942934707
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.54

Paperback. Since the 9/11 attacks, many Western governments assume terrorism to be the greatest threat we face. This book shows why this approach has been such a failure, and how it distracts us from other, much greater, threats of climate change, competition over resources, marginalisation of the majority of the world and global militarisation. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: RNP; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90. Clean copy of an ex library book with a neat label on spine and usual markings
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KEX0226665
ISBN
9781846040702
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis. Editor(s): Hastrup, Kirsten; Hastrup, Frida. Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782389460
ISBN
9781782389460
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.95

Hardcover. The energy world is dangerously divided between fossil fuel producers and environmentalists. A vicious head-on fight that affects everything - world poverty, governments, environmental catastrophe, big business. David Howell - Lord Howell of Guidlford - outlines the how we got here and the way ahead Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: KCN; KNB; RNB; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 218 x 32. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Gilgamesh Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908531636
ISBN
9781908531636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.21

paperback. Editor(s): Moore, Jason W. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: JPF; KCS; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
PM Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629631486
ISBN
9781629631486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 20.31

Paperback. A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. Editor(s): Cronon, William. Num Pages: 560 pages, Photographs. BIC Classification: JFCX; RNK; RNP; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 774.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393315110
ISBN
9780393315110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.07

Paperback. Goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: RNF; RNPG; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300205213
ISBN
9780300205213
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 491 pages. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
AK Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904859260
ISBN
9781904859260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.68

Hardback. * Original and innovative guide to the sociology of the environment. * Covers all the key issues and debates including: society, nature and the enlightenment; industry and environmental transformation; commodification; consumption; the network society and human identity; human biology; citizenship; and new social movements. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JH; RNA; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 253 x 28. Weight in Grams: 686.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745627953
ISBN
9780745627953
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.68

Paperback. An ethnographic account of the rapid mobilization of Chinese peasants into large cities, this text traces the profound transformations of space, power relations and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government's household registration system. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804742061
ISBN
9780804742061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.66

Paperback. The Pleistocene was the age of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Shepard sets out to show how much of what we call "culture" can be traced back through our evolution from that formative stage. Num Pages: 237 pages, tables. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
237
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781559635905
ISBN
9781559635905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 line illustrations, 3 maps, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JFFR; RNF; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376. The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid it. 264 pages, illustrations. Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFFR; RNF; RNT. Dimension: 154 x 223 x 17. Weight: 370.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271234
ISBN
9780520271234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.94

Paperback. This is a book about simplicity, not destitution, not parsimoniousness, not self-denial, but the restoration of wealth in the midst of an affluence in which we are starving the spirit. Num Pages: 112 pages, 7 woodcuts. BIC Classification: HPCF; RNT; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Green Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903998007
ISBN
9781903998007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.28

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803246898
ISBN
9780803246898
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.51

Hardback. This book analyzes the role of local responses to natural disasters and conflict. Key issues such as the relationship between local and external knowledge in addressing disasters, the relevance of institutional and policy frameworks for community-based disaster response and the role of social capital and collective action are also addressed. Editor(s): Neef, Andreas; Shaw, Rajib. Series: Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: RNR; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781908204
ISBN
9781781908204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.00

Hardback. The Carbon Footprint Wars challenges current policies about how to deal with global warming, outlining their potentially disastrous side-effects on society and the environment and offers some radical solutions for dealing with climate change. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JPW; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748637669
ISBN
9780748637669
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.24

Hardback. Home to more than 70 million people, the Mekong basin is undergoing profound changes as a result of China's rise as a global economic power. Last Days of the Mekong explores the ways in which region's diverse patchwork of peoples are responding to these changes, and their struggles to save the Mekong's fragile ecosystem. Series: Asian Arguments. Num Pages: 163 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; GTF; JPSL; KCM; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783607204
ISBN
9781783607204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.98
€ 74.84

Paperback. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137517760
ISBN
9781137517760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.28

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, notes. BIC Classification: AM; JH; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300035810
ISBN
9780300035810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.80

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