Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities
<p>The world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change. In order to cope...
View ArticleSustainability in the Global City
Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability...
View ArticleL'Afrique et son capital carbone
A l'heure des grands d?fis climatiques et des bouleversements ?cologiques, le carbone forestier s'impose comme l'une des cl?s d'un avenir commun. Alors que les rejets de dioxyde de carbone (CO2)...
View ArticleFlore nordique du Qu?bec et du Labrador 01
La FLORE NORDIQUE, une source d'information essentielle sur le patrimoine v?g?tal du Qu?bec-Labrador nordique. Cet ouvrage est le premier de quatre volumes consacr?s ? la Flore des plantes vasculaires...
View ArticleHuman Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming control
<p>Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, such as land grabbing, food prices...
View ArticleThis Land, This South: An Environmental History
Here is the story of the long interaction between humans, land, and climate in the American South. It is a tale of exploitation and erosion, of destruction, disease, and defeat, but also of the...
View ArticleEcosystem Services
Despite the growing popularity of the concept of ecosystem services, policy makers and practitioners continue to struggle with the challenge of translating it into practice. Drawing on a range of...
View ArticleNatural Resources Governance in Southern Africa
Questions regarding the governance of natural resources will become more politicised in the face of growing international and domestic pressure for access to these increasingly scarce resources....
View ArticleThe Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered...
We live in a world of seeds. From our morning coffee to the cotton in our clothes, seeds support diets, economies, lifestyles, and civilizations. In <I>The Triumph of Seeds</I>,...
View ArticlePrinciples for Building Resilience
As both the societies and the world in which we live face increasingly rapid and turbulent changes, the concept of resilience has become an active and important research area. Reflecting the very...
View ArticleNegotiating Water Governance: Why the Politics of Scale Matter
Recently, efforts to understand the relationship between water and political boundaries have come to the fore of water governance debates: how and why does water governance fragment across sectors and...
View ArticleFrench Rural History (Routledge Revivals): An Essay on its Basic Characteristics
<p>First published in Britain in 1966, <I>French Rural History </I>is a study initially given as lectures in Oslo in 1929. It focuses on the fundamental problems of French agrarian...
View ArticleWho Killed the Grand Banks? The Untold Story Behind the Decimation of One of...
In almost the blink of an eye, Canada's east coast cod fishery collapsed completely. The famous Grand Banks fishery was dead. First sounded by European explorers in the late 15th century, the banks...
View ArticleWater to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the...
<p>The author of <i>Last Train to Paradise</i> tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct—a story...
View ArticleCapitalism Is Fallen - A Guide to Economic Principles for Success
Over the centuries economies have risen and fallen. In modern times, capitalism has delivered great advances, has great potential but now the system is failing. There is growing inequality, the middle...
View ArticleMarx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective
Marx's treatment of natural conditions possesses an inner logic, coherence, and analytical power which has not been previously recognized
View ArticleIt's the Crude, Dude: Greed, Gas, War, and the American Way
<p>George W. Bush says he invaded Iraq to bring democracy to the Middle East. Some people believe that. But if you have nagging doubts, you'll be intrigued by the story unraveled in <i>It's...
View ArticleSimple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
<p>In his bestseller <i>Affluenza</i>, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In <i>Simple Prosperity</i> he shows readers...
View ArticleTransforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and...
In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties...
View ArticleFrom Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492
In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape:...
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