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Ecology

Carbon Crunch How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong - and How to Fix it

Helm Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9780300215328, Yale University Press, July 2015
304 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

In a new edition of his hard-hitting book on climate change, economist Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy.

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Climate Casino Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

Nordhaus William

ISBN: PB: 9780300212648, Yale University Press, April 2015
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 46 black&white illus.

Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still tim...

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Business & Economics

Ecology

Constructing Private Governance The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification

Auld Graeme

ISBN: PB: 9780300190533, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

Recent decades have witnessed the rise of social and environmental certification programmes that are intended to promote responsible business practices. Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desi...

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Ecology

Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation

Uekotter Frank

ISBN: PB: 9783593500287, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
272 pp., 22x14 cm

Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also the settings for some of the most powerful, consequential, and frequently destructive modes of production ever to have existed. T...

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Ecology

Consumed Food for a Finite Planet

Elton Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226093628, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same tim...

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Nature

Ecology

Crown Jewels Five Great National Parks Around The World and The Challenges They Face

Delehanty Randolph

ISBN: PB: 9781933253732, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, May 2013
220 pp., 22.9x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.

Since the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, the national park movement has spread quickly and internationally. There are now over seven thousand national parks in 140 countries, and these numbers continue to grow. But national parks...

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Ecology

Capturing Carbon The New Weapon in the War Against Climate Change

Mills Robin M.

ISBN: PB: 9781849040341, Hurst Publishers, May 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A new weapon is emerging to help us fight climate change. It is becoming feasible to take carbon dioxide from power stations and industry, and lock it away safely before it can enter the atmosphere. In the next few years, major...

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Constructed Climates A Primer on Urban Environments

Wilson William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226901466, ISBN: HB: 9780226901459, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
288 pp., 20.3x15.5 cm, 56 tables, 31 halftones

As our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments becomes more critical. Without a sense of what open spaces such as parks and gardens contribute, it's difficu...

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Cartography

Earth Sciences

Coast Lines How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226534039, University of Chicago Press, May 2008
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious cha...

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