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Mapping Nature across the Americas
ISBN: HB: 9780226696430, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 59 halftones, 2 tables
Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, maps are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. It is these very...
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£56,00
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Better Planet Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
ISBN: PB: 9780300255225, ISBN: HB: 9780300246247, Yale University Press, November 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need to address cr...
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£12,99
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£18,99
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Financing Our Common Future
ISBN: PB: 9783037786680, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
256 pp., 16x12 cm, 240 illus.
This book explains in simple but precise terms what finance is, and how its most innovative form, sustainable finance, can reconcile the well-being of mankind with the capacities of our planet. Bad news about climate change, shrinking resources, spec...
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£17,00
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Common Futures Social Transformation and Political Ecology
ISBN: PB: 9781551647739, ISBN: HB: 9781551647753, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What does the future hold? Is the desertification of the planet, driven by state and corporate authority, the final horizon of history? Is the dystopian future implied by the systemic degradation of nature and society inescapable? From marginal activ...
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£15,95
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£53,95
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How Green Became Good Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
ISBN: PB: 9780226739045, ISBN: HB: 9780226738994, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening. Formerly neglected urban spaces and new high-end developme...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Yellowstone Wolves Science and Discovery in the World's First National Park
ISBN: HB: 9780226728346, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 colour plates, 29 halftones, 24 line drawings
In 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the twentieth century took place: the reintroduction of wolves to the world's first national park, Yellowstone. Eradicated af...
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£28,00
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Cataclysms An Environmental History of Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780226609126, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclys...
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£28,00
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Into the Arctic Ice The Largest Polar Expedition of All Time
ISBN: HB: 9783791386706, Prestel Publishing, October 2020
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 160 colour illus.
Since September 2019, a team of 600 researchers from 19 countries have united in a common mission known as MOSAiC – the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate – whose mission is to chart conditions in the Arctic for on...
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£45,00
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Future Sea How to Rescue and Protect the World's Oceans
ISBN: HB: 9780226542676, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The world's oceans face multiple threats: the effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing, plastic waste, and more. Confronted with the immensity of these challenges and of the oceans themselves, we might wonder what more can be done to stop th...
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£18,00
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Tongass Odyssey Seeing the Forest Ecosystem through the Politics of Trees
ISBN: PB: 9781602234260, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2020
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 82 colour plates, 3 graphs, 3 maps
Tongass Odyssey is a biologist's memoir of personal experiences over the past four decades studying brown bears, deer, and mountain goats and advocating for conservation of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The largest national forest in the nation,...
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£24,00
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