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Télécharger le livre :  Food in a Just World
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Food in a Just World


Terry Gibbs , Tracey Harris


Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of food production, distribution, and consumption, where each step of the process is built on some form of exploitation. While highlighting the broken...

Parution : 2023-12-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  The Culture of Stopping
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The Culture of Stopping


Harald Welzer


Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no longer exist. We’re converting our planet from a natural one to an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects – houses,...

Parution : 2023-05-25
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Lichens
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Lichens


Vincent Zonca


Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their...

Parution : 2022-11-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Mutual Aid
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Mutual Aid


Gauthier Chapelle , Pablo Servigne


In the merciless arena of life, we are all subject to the law of the jungle, to ruthless competition and the survival of the fittest – such is the myth that has given rise to a society that has become toxic for our planet and for our and future generations. But today...

Parution : 2021-11-11
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Sustainability
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Sustainability


Maurie J. Cohen


Sustainability is one of the buzzwords of our times and a key imperative for economic growth, technological development, social equity, and environmental quality. But what does it really mean and how is it being implemented around the world? In this clear-eyed book,...

Parution : 2020-10-22
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Short Introductions
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Climate Policy Work
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Making Climate Policy Work


Danny Cullenward , David G. Victor


For decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to greater policy ambition, but the most widely promoted strategy to address the climate crisis – the use of market-based...

Parution : 2020-10-06
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Environmental Politics?
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What is Environmental Politics?


Elizabeth R. Desombre


Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the world’s natural resources at unsustainable rates, even though these activities cause known harm to both people and ecosystems?  Scientific knowledge and technological advances alone...

Parution : 2020-04-09
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : What is Politics
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Télécharger le livre :  Disasters
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Disasters


Kathleen Tierney


Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and on the global,...

Parution : 2019-05-20
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Animal Advocacy and Environmentalism
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Animal Advocacy and Environmentalism


Amy J. Fitzgerald


Many people consider themselves to be both environmentalists and supporters of animal welfare and rights. Yet, despite the many issues which bring environmentalists and animal advocates together, for decades there have been flashpoints which seem to pit these two social...

Parution : 2018-12-14
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Social Movements
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20,26
Télécharger le livre :  Green Utopias
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Green Utopias


Lisa Garforth


Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about how humans might live...

Parution : 2017-11-10
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Éditeur : Polity
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19,10
Télécharger le livre :  Defiant Earth
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Defiant Earth


Clive Hamilton


Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we...

Parution : 2017-06-05
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
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20,26
Télécharger le livre :  What is Environmental History?
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What is Environmental History?


J. Donald Hughes


What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition of his seminal student textbook, J....

Parution : 2015-11-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : What is History?
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Télécharger le livre :  The Age of Ecology
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The Age of Ecology


Joachim Radkau


This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today. Radkau shows that this is not a single story of the steady ascent of...

Parution : 2014-04-03
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  The Age of Ecology
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The Age of Ecology


Joachim Radkau


This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today. Radkau shows that this is not a single story of the steady ascent of...

Parution : 2014-04-03
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Climate Governance in the Developing World
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Climate Governance in the Developing World


David Held , Eva-Maria Nag , Charles Roger


Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, offering new, unexpected signs of climate leadership. Some scholars have gone so far as...

Parution : 2014-01-24
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecovillages
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Ecovillages


Karen T. Litfin


In a world of dwindling natural resources and mounting environmental crisis, who is devising ways of living that will work for the long haul? And how can we, as individuals, make a difference? To answer these fundamental questions, Professor Karen Litfin embarked upon a...

Parution : 2014-01-15
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Energy Dilemmas
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Global Energy Dilemmas


Mike Bradshaw


Today’s global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform to a low-carbon, efficient and environmentally harmless energy supply. In this rigorous and illuminating book, Michael...

Parution : 2013-11-20
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  The Governance of Climate Change
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The Governance of Climate Change


Angus Fane-Hervey , David Held , Marika Theros


Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies. In a world where the fate of countries is increasingly...

Parution : 2013-05-09
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Land
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Land


Derek Hall


Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so...

Parution : 2013-04-03
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Resources
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21,52

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