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  • The Natural West
    Dan Flores
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    30,87 €

  • Wilderness, A New Mexico Legacy
    Corry McDonald
    The growing awareness of the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s, along with the enactment of the Wilderness Act, precipitated local, regional, and national joint actions of the many outdoor recreation organizations. Wilderness enactments resulted from some of the more successful citizen attempts. The onrush of man’s capability to 'tame the wilderness' continues to ac...
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    17,39 €

  • Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire
    James Beattie
    19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today’s globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental changes never before experienced in history. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire explores how these networks shaped ecosystems, culture...
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    63,70 €

  • The Global Water Crisis
    David Newton
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    83,17 €

  • Everything In Its Place
    Constance Perin
    Interviews with bankers, civic leaders, politicians, and architects provide the basis for this searching analysis of the ways in which the physical arrangement of land expresses American ideals, assumptions, and beliefs.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from ...
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    179,83 €

  • Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy
    Benjamin K Sovacool / Marilyn A Brown / Scott V Valentine
    Energy sustainability and climate change are two of the greatest challenges facing humankind. Unraveling these complex and interconnected issues demands careful and objective assessment. Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy aims to change the prevailing discourse by examining fifteen core energy questions from a variety of perspectives, demonstrating how, for each of them, ...
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    46,55 €

  • Disrupted Landscapes
    Stefan Dorondel
    The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatiza...
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    205,00 €

  • Natural Gas
    Harald Osel
    Natural Gas: Exploration and Properties is the first volume in a series of textbooks to be continued with Natural Gas: Operations and Transport (second volume), as well as Natural Gas: Customers and Consuming Industries (third volume). This series will end with a fourth volume Natural gas: Economics and Environment. The aim of this series is to provide a student with the basic ...
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    132,77 €

  • Managing the Unknown
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    44,73 €

  • The Dilemma of Wilderness
    Corry McDonald
    Wilderness has and continues to have very different meanings for various groups of people. The 'dilemma' occurs because some special interest groups want to 'tame' and use wilderness resources while others demand a 'hands-off' preservation policy. To cope with these two extremes, government agencies have enacted a series of regulations and laws. Private citizens have banded tog...
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    14,44 €

  • PROGRESS ENVIRON ASSESSMENT POLICY & MGMT THEORY & PRACTICE
    THOMAS B FISCHER
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    166,65 €

  • Natural Resources Development Methodologies
    U Aswatha Narayana
    Any pathway for economic progress has to be both knowledge-driven, and job-led. Waters, soils and minerals constitute the most significant natural resources. Their use did provide immense benefits to the community, but there is a flip side to the picture in the form of severe environmental degradation, with adverse consequences on health and quality of life. The book draws atte...
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    70,69 €

  • Waterworlds
    In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors' detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives...
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    190,86 €

  • The Last Drop
    Marianella Yanes / Mike Gonzalez
    Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water. The Last Drop is a wake-up call to everyone who takes for granted what comes out of their kitchen tap. This book traces a path through the arguments that surround the question of water, setting out to make the scientific arg...
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    30,44 €

  • Water Rights and the Environment in the United States
    John Burch
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    159,65 €

  • Practising Feminist Political Ecologies
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    39,12 €

  • Sustainability in the Global City
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    95,05 €

  • Progressive Engineering Practices in Marine Resource Management
    Ivelina Zlateva / Nikola Nikolov / Violin Raykov
    There is overwhelming evidence that marine resources are being overexploited throughout the world. In an effort to conserve the natural resources of the world’s oceans, new methods, technologies, and practices in fishery and marine resource management must be implemented. Progressive Engineering Practices in Marine Resource Management combines scientific, ecological, and engine...
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    321,66 €

  • Harnessing Land and Water Resources for Improved Food Security and Ecosystem Services in Africa
    Africa is endowed with rich land and water resources, which significantly contribute to the development of many economies on the continent. However, land degradation and water pollution remain major challenges facing many African countries. Harnessing Land and Water Resources for Improved Food Security and Ecosystem Services in Africa examines challenges facing land and water r...
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    70,43 €

  • Five Acres and Independence
    Maurice G. Kains / Maurice GKains
    2015 Reprint of 1940 Edition Revised and Enlarged Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Everyone who has ever dreamed of getting back to the soil will benefit from Kains’ practical and straightforward discussions on what small-scale farming entails. Several generations have benefited from his practical advise and...
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    16,68 €

  • Principles for Building Resilience
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    63,59 €

  • Trees
    Sarah Johnson
    The fifth volume in the reader series, ’Themes in Environmental History’.Comprising essays selected from Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history through theoretical essays and case studies. The readers are attracting increasing interest from course-organisers. Trees addresses the roots of ...
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    38,75 €

  • Civilizing Nature
    'This book makes a unique contribution to the conservation literature by enhancing one’s understanding and appreciation of the cultural meaning of nature conservation through the lens of national park development. [...] Highly recommended.' · Choice'[This volume] brings together an appealing array of scholars to describe and discuss how the term ’national park’ has been perce...
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    44,27 €

  • The Social Life of Water
    John Richard Wagner
    'This book fills an important niche on water related issues in anthropology by focusing on social and cultural manifestations of water management, use, and conflict... The organization is appropriate and effective.' · Benedict J. Colombi, American Indian Studies Program, University of ArizonaEverywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to wa...
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    44,18 €

  • Landscapes Beyond Land
    'This thoughtful collection of essays on landscapes is largely inspired by the recent writings of Chris Tilley and Tim Ingold, whose own contributions bookend the other papers in the volume...What this volume does is open up some space for further imaginative wanderings and questions about the precise manner in which both residents and scholars are socially disciplined or cultu...
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    44,64 €

  • Recent Progress in Natural Resources
    Stacy Keach
    Natural resources are the building blocks of human life. Conservation of natural resources requires a cumulative effort at the individual, societal and governmental level. The researches included in this book, present studies from all over the world, which operate at these three levels. The book also brings forth advanced knowledge and innovative concepts in this field. 3 ...
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    181,47 €

  • Recent Progress in Natural Resources
    Stacy Keach
    Natural resources are the building blocks of human life. Conservation of natural resources requires a cumulative effort at the individual, societal and governmental level. The researches included in this book, present studies from all over the world, which operate at these three levels. The book also brings forth advanced knowledge and innovative concepts in this field. 3 ...
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    181,24 €

  • Recent Progress in Natural Resources
    Stacy Keach
    Natural resources are the building blocks of human life. Conservation of natural resources requires a cumulative effort at the individual, societal and governmental level. The researches included in this book, present studies from all over the world, which operate at these three levels. The book also brings forth advanced knowledge and innovative concepts in this field. 3 ...
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    181,32 €

  • Recent Progress in Natural Resources
    Stacy Keach
    Natural resources are the building blocks of human life. Conservation of natural resources requires a cumulative effort at the individual, societal and governmental level. The researches included in this book, present studies from all over the world, which operate at these three levels. The book also brings forth advanced knowledge and innovative concepts in this field. 3 ...
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    181,17 €

  • Recent Progress in Natural Resources
    Stacy Keach
    Natural resources are the building blocks of human life. Conservation of natural resources requires a cumulative effort at the individual, societal and governmental level. The researches included in this book, present studies from all over the world, which operate at these three levels. The book also brings forth advanced knowledge and innovative concepts in this field. 3 ...
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    181,17 €