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Télécharger le livre :  Remaking Political Institutions: Climate Change and Beyond
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Remaking Political Institutions: Climate Change and Beyond


James J. Patterson


Institutions are failing in many areas of contemporary politics, not least of which concerns climate change. However, remedying such problems is not straightforward. Pursuing institutional improvement is an intensely political process, playing out over extended...

Parution : 2021-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Another End of the World is Possible
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Another End of the World is Possible


Gauthier Chapelle , Pablo Servigne , Raphaël Stevens


The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it. As individuals,...

Parution : 2020-11-18
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Human Rights in Earth System Governance
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Environmental Human Rights in Earth System Governance


Walter F. Baber , Robert V. Bartlett


Environmental rights are a category of human rights necessarily central to both democracy and effective earth system governance (any environmental-ecological-sustainable democracy). For any democracy to remain democratic, some aspects must be beyond democracy and must...

Parution : 2020-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  How Everything Can Collapse
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How Everything Can Collapse


Andrew Brown , Pablo Servigne , Raphaël Stevens


What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political...

Parution : 2020-03-27
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Food or War
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Food or War


Julian Cribb


Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history tells us that lack of food leads to war. But it also presents us with spectacular opportunities for fresh...

Parution : 2019-10-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Summary for Policymakers
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Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Summary for Policymakers


Un Environment


Published to coincide with the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, the Summary for Policymakers of the sixth Global Environment Outlook provides an evidence-based source of environmental information to help policymakers in government, local authorities and...

Parution : 2019-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and The Climate Crisis
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Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and The Climate Crisis


Jonathan Symons


Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and...

Parution : 2019-07-09
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Unsavory Truth
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Unsavory Truth


Marion Nestle


A James Beard Award-winner and the author of What to Eat and Soda Politics, leading nutritionist Marion Nestle exposes how the food industry corrupts scientific research for profit. Is chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates help...

Parution : 2018-10-30
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Uranium
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Uranium


Anthony Burke


Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power spacecraft and in nuclear medicine. But it is also at the heart of many...

Parution : 2017-07-03
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Resources
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Télécharger le livre :  Grains
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Grains


Bill Winders


Grains - particularly maize, rice, and wheat - are the central component of most people’s diets, but we rarely stop to think about the wider role they play in national and international policy-making, as well as global issues like food security, biotechnology, and even...

Parution : 2016-11-01
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Resources
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Télécharger le livre :  The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans
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The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans


John Hannigan


Long regarded as an empty and inhospitable environment, the deep ocean is rapidly emerging as an ecological hot spot with a remarkable diversity of biological life. Yet, the world?s oceans are currently on a dangerous trajectory of decline, threatened by acidification,...

Parution : 2015-11-30
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Climate Change
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The Politics of Climate Change


Anthony Giddens


"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."—Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America Since it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. Reprinted many...

Parution : 2013-04-23
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
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