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Diet for a Large Planet Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology
ISBN: HB: 9780226697109, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones
We are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to vegan diets...
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£40,00
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Dross City: Urban Metabolism Resilence and Drosscapes Recycling Project
ISBN: PB: 9788899854195, Bookport, ListLab, July 2020
334 pp., 24x17 cm, colour illus.
Dross is waste: solid impurities that form on the surface of the smelting pot. While most is thrown away, some is reusable or recyclable. Hence 'DrossScape', a term conceived by land economist Alan Berger. Working off Berger's theories, this book exp...
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£23,50
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Dangerous Earth What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More
ISBN: HB: 9780226541693, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 24 halftones
The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions create land and produce fertile, nutrient-rich soil, but they can als...
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£20,00
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Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region
ISBN: PB: 9781602233973, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
225 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 figures, 38 halftone
The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), it encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in Nort...
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£24,00
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Discerning Experts The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy
ISBN: PB: 9780226602011, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 8 line drawings, 11 tables
"Discerning Experts" assesses the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at environmental assessments involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors exp...
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£27,00
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Downriver Into the Future of Water in the West
ISBN: HB: 9780226432670, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some...
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£19,00
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Dust Bowls of Empire Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300230208, Yale University Press, January 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm
The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the U.S. southern plains. Known as the Dust Bowl, this crisis has become a major referent of the cli...
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£25,00
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Dangerous Years Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward
ISBN: PB: 9780300234602, ISBN: HB: 9780300222814, Yale University Press, May 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm
A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and relat...
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£14,99
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£25,00
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Diplomacy on Ice Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic
ISBN: HB: 9780300205169, Yale University Press, February 2015
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, most discussion has centred on the potential for conflict, environmental destruction, and upheaval from climate change. This important book shifts the conversation about the A...
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£65,00
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Disconnected Rivers Linking Rivers to Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9780300194708, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
This important and accessible book surveys the history and present condition of river systems across the United States, showing how human activities have impoverished our rivers and impaired the connections between river worlds and other ecosystems....
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£21,00
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