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A Contract with the Earth

By: Newt Gingrich,Terry L. Maple

Price: $4.98

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: October 2007

Seller ID: 233455

ISBN: 0801887801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

DJ intact, clean copy, light wear
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A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate

By: Marc Reisner

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: July 2004

Seller ID: 255007

ISBN: 0142003832

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Writing with a signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Marc Reisner leads us through California's improbable rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa. Reisner believes that the success of this last great desert civilization hinges on California's denial of its own inescapable fate: Both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas sit astride two of the most violently seismic zones on the planet. The earthquakes that have already rocked California were, according to Reisner,...
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Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis

By: Cynthia Barnett

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Beacon Press: September 2012

Seller ID: 121338

ISBN: 080700328X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what's now our largest crop--the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates our food, and produces our electricity. And most don't realize these freshwater sources are in deep trouble.

Blue Revolution exposes the truth about the water crisis--driven not as much by lawn sprinklers as by a tradition that has encouraged everyone, from homeowners to farme...
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Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics ofPossibility

By: Shellenberger, Michael,Nordhaus, Ted

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: October 2007

Seller ID: 313536

ISBN: 0618658254

Binding: Hardcover

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Current tactics can't solve today's complex global crises. The "bad boys of environmentalism" call for a bold and empowering new vision

Environmental insiders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with their self-published essay "The Death of Environmentalism," which argued that environmentalism cannot deal with global warming and should die so that a new politics can be born. Global warming is far more complex than past pollution problems, and American values have changed dramatically since the movement's greatest victories in the 1960s, but e...
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Bringing the Biosphere Home: Learning to Perceive Global Environmental Change

By: Mitchell Thomashow

Price: $16.50

Publisher: The MIT Press: April 2003

Seller ID: 152047

ISBN: 0262700999

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A guide for understanding the ecological and existential aspects of global environmental change.

This book shows how to make global environmental problems more tangible, so that they become an integral part of everyday awareness. At its core is a simple assumption: that the best way to learn to perceive the biosphere is to pay close attention to our immediate surroundings. Through local natural history observations, imagination and memory, and spiritual contemplation, we develop a place-based environmental view that can be expanded to encompass the biosphere. Interweaving globa...
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Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options

By: David G. Victor

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press: July 2004

Seller ID: 69248

ISBN: 0876093438

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Ever since withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol in 2001, the US has incurred criticism for its stance on climate change. Victor (energy and sustainable development, Stanford University) presents three alternative policy options the US could pursue, in the form of hypothetical presidential speeches. T
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Cost of community services studies: Making the case for conservation

By: Julia Freedgood

Price: $19.95

Publisher: American Farmland Trust: January 2002

Seller ID: 38043

ISBN: B0006S5VTQ

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Cost of community services studies: Making the case for conservation

By: Julia Freedgood

Price: $9.95

Publisher: American Farmland Trust: January 2002

Seller ID: 46296

ISBN: B0006S5VTQ

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Costly Tradeoffs: Reconciling Trade and the Environment (Worldwatch Paper ; 113)

By: Hilary F. French

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Worldwatch Inst: February 1993

Seller ID: 121030

ISBN: 1878071149

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Costly Tradeoffs: Reconciling Trade and the Environment (Worldwatch Paper ; 113)

By: Hilary F. French

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Worldwatch Inst: February 1993

Seller ID: 163574

ISBN: 1878071149

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Crossroads: Environmental Priorities For The Future

By: N/A

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Island Press: November 1988

Seller ID: 70410

ISBN: 093328067x

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The environmental movement today is at a critical crossroads. Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future is an in-depth assessment of the movement's successes and failures, and also offers prescriptions for the future. It includes contributions from some of the country's top environmental leaders and activists, including Barry Commoner, Stewart Udall, William K. Reilly, Gus Speth, Jay Hair, Lois Gibbs, Michael Frome, Chuck Little, and William Futrell.
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Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash

By: Tokar, Brian

Price: $8.98

Publisher: South End Press: July 1999

Seller ID: 285569

ISBN: 0896085570

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Since the early 1990s, activists, corporations, and government officials have battled for the heart and soul of the environmental movement. In Earth for Sale, Brian Tokar examines the economic issues, political divisions, and world views that have shaped this conflict, and their implications for a renewed ecological movement for the 21st century. Tokar demonstrates how national environmental groups -- from the Sierra Club to the National Wildlife Federation -- have time and time again compromised environmental integrity to become inside players in the corrupt backrooms of Washington politics. ...
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Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect

By: Orr, David W.

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Island Press: July 2004

Seller ID: 268364

ISBN: 1559634952

Condition: New

In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that: alienates us from life in the name of human domination; causes students to worry about how to make a living before they know who they are; overemphasizes success and careers; separates feeling from intellect and the practical from the theoretical; deadens the sense of wonder for the created world. is, first and foremost, an educational challenge. The a...
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Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect

By: Orr, David W.

Price: $17.98

Publisher: Island Press: July 2004

Seller ID: 270432

ISBN: 1559634952

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect

By: Orr, David W.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Island Press: August 1994

Seller ID: 294445

ISBN: 155963295X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In "Earth in Mind," noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem "of" education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that: alienates us from life in the name of human domination causes students to worry about how to make a living before they know who they are overemphasizes success and careers separates feeling from intellect and the practical from the theoretical deadens the sense of wonder for the created world The crisis we face, Orr explains, is one of mind, percep...
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Earth Rising: Ecological Belief in an Age of Science

By: David Oates

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Oregon State University Press: April 1989

Seller ID: 70411

ISBN: 0870713574

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An exploration of the ways in which the science of ecology has provided a basis for a contemporary worldview that combines an intuitive sense of wholeness with the validation of scientific truth.
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Earthbound: New introductory essays in environmental ethics

By: Tom ed. Regan

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Random House: January 1984

Seller ID: 180958

ISBN: 0394332687

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Earthly Goods: Environmental Change and Social Justice

By: N/A

Price: $3.98

Publisher: Cornell University Press: September 1996

Seller ID: 70341

ISBN: 080148362X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Global environmental change raises profound moral issues with which society has only begun to grapple. What does fairness mean in dividing responsibilities for problems of global warming between rich and poor nations? Does the environment itself have moral standing and, if so, how should its conflicts with the interests of people who depend on the land for their livelihood be resolved? How can the interests of the poor, of indigenous peoples, and of future generations be properly accommodated in a political discourse about environmental policy which is dominated by industrialized states? Th...
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Economics and the Global Environment

By: Charles S. Pearson

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: October 2000

Seller ID: 124368

ISBN: 052177988X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Economics and the Global Environment investigates if and how environmental resources, such as global climate, genetic diversity, and transboundary pollution can be managed in an international system of sovereign states without a Global Environment Protection Agency. It also considers traditional international economics--theory and policy--and explores how they can be expanded to accommodate environmental values. Until recently, trade theory and trade policy neglected pollution and environmental degradation. This situation has changed dramatically, and the controversial and corrosive issues of ...
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Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy

By: N/A

Price: $99.98

Publisher: MacMillan Reference Library: December 0000

Seller ID: 157983

ISBN: 0028661389

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The field of environmental ethics is a new but now well-established sub-discipline of philosophy. Emerging in the mid-1970s, the field coalesced with the inaugural volume of the journal Environmental Ethics in 1979 and developed rapidly. By the turn of the century, most colleges and universities offered courses, if not major programs of study, in this important discipline. The Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy addresses the needs of upper high school students, undergraduate researchers, teachers and professors, as well as general readers by examining the philosophical and eth...
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Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy

By: Joseph R. Desjardins

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co: December 1992

Seller ID: 158658

ISBN: 053420046X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book provides a readable, yet philosophically careful survey of the developing field of environmental ethics. It is comprehensive, covering topics from the relevance of Aristotle's ethics for environmental issues to Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism. Des Jardins has no philosophical ''axe to grind, '' so the survey is accurate and fair to the full range of current philosophical positions. Strengths and weaknesses of all of the positions are examined so that students can participate in the analysis of these philosophical debates
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Environmental Policy in the USSR

By: Charles E. Ziegler

Price: $8.98

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press: January 1987

Seller ID: 115143

ISBN: 0870235419

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An interesting and very readable overview first published (hardcover) in 1987. The paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author (political science, U. of Louisville) bringing it up to date. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Ethical Choices and Global Greenhouse Warming

By: Lydia Dotto

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press: August 1993

Seller ID: 121000

ISBN: 0889202346

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

There are many things we can choose to do about climate change, including doing nothing at all. All of them have consequences, many of which will be unforeseen. If we could foretell more accurately what would happen to the climate in the future, our choices might be clearer, if not necessarily easier to make. Unfortunately, predicting future climate change is fraught with uncertainty, and we will be forced to make choices in the face of that uncertainty. To what extent are we motivated in this difficult process by a desire to do the "right thing"? And how do we decide what is the right thi...
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Expanding Partnerships in Conservation

By: N/A

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Island Press: November 1995

Seller ID: 252279

ISBN: 1559633514

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Protected areas around the globe national parks, wildlife reserves, biosphere reserves will prosper only if they are supported by the public, the private sector, and the full range of government agencies. Yet such support is unlikely unless society appreciates the importance of protected areas to its own interest, and the protected areas are well-managed and contribute to the national welfare in a cost-effective way.A crucial foundation for success is full cooperation between individuals and institutions. Based on papers presented at the IVth World Congress on National Parks and Protected Area...
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Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

By: Dawson, Ashley

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Verso: January 2019

Seller ID: 292871

ISBN: 1784780391

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis

How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today, the majority of the world's megacities are located in coastal zones, yet few of them are adequately prepa...
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Forcing the Spring: The Transformation Of The American Environmental Movement

By: Robert Gottlieb

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Island Press: November 1994

Seller ID: 260658

ISBN: 1559631228

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"Forcing the Spring" challenges standard histories of the environmental movement by offering a broad and inclusive interpretation of past environmentalist thought and a sweeping redefinition of the nature of the contemporary environmental movement. Robert Gottlieb demonstrates the centrality of environmental concerns to a wide range of social movements of the past century as he explores the connections between pressures on human and natural environments and the role of these pressures in shaping society. His analysis provides fundamental new insights into the past and future of the American en...
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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash

By: Elizabeth Royte

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Little Brown and Company: January 2005

Seller ID: 260605

ISBN: 0739464299

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Greening the North: A Post-Industial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity

By: Wolfgang Sachs, Reinhard Loske, Manfred Linz

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Zed Books: April 1998

Seller ID: 70728

ISBN: 1856495086

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

While sustainability is in danger of being reduced to a meaningless platitude, the brutal fact remains that industrial countries make a disproportionately large and negative impact on the environment. A serious transition to sustainability will require changing people's mindsets and social institutions, in addition to public policies, technologies and business practices.
This book presents a path-breaking analysis as well as highly innovative proposals for managing this transition. Emanating from Europe's foremost environmental policy think-tank, it has already stirred up a major new debat...
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Healing the Planet: Strategies for Resolving the Environmental Crisis

By: Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Perseus Books: September 1992

Seller ID: 32499

ISBN: 0201632241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

America's most eminent environmental scientists describe what is needed to repair the Earth. An important book that could serve to get society back on track in dealing with our serious environmental problems.--Science Books & Films. The Ehrlichs co-wrote The Population Explosion.
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Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment

By: N/A

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Monthly Review Press: September 2000

Seller ID: 226645

ISBN: 1583670165

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our food and water, and leave crops more vulnerable to pest outbreaks. The new and expanding use of genetically engineered seeds threatens species diversity.

This penetrating set of essays explains why corporate agribusiness is a rising threat to farmers, the environment, and consumers. Ranging in subject from the politics of hunge...
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Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth

By: N/A

Price: $21.95

Publisher: AK Press: March 2006

Seller ID: 120993

ISBN: 1904859569

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Before his 1969 assassination, Chairman Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party in Chicago famously remarked that, 'When one of us falls, 1000 will take his place.' This book proves Fred's point. No matter the degree of repression visited upon it, the spirit of revolution cannot be quelled."--Ward Churchill, author of On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

As the destruction of nature reaches new extremes, resistance becomes ever more militant. Radical environmental groups are front page news. From laboratory bombings to the destruction of ski resorts, this emerging new militancy...
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Imagined Country: Environment, Culture and Society

By: John Short

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Routledge: April 1991

Seller ID: 27115

ISBN: 0415058309

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Attempts to describe the relationship between society and the physical world through representation. The analysis focuses on the North American cinema, British literature and Australian painting.
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In the Deserts of This Earth (A Harvest/HBJ book)

By: George, Uwe

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Bookthrift Co: March 1979

Seller ID: 319156

ISBN: 0156444356

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Institutions for Environmental Aid: Pitfalls and Promise (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation)

By: N/A

Price: $28.00

Publisher: The MIT Press: June 1996

Seller ID: 123553

ISBN: 0262611201

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The discrepancy between levels of environmental quality of rich and poor countries will continue as long as large per capita gaps in income persist. Institutions for Environmental Aid draws on research from economics, international relations, and development assistance, as well as the growing literature on international environmental relations, to evaluate the effectiveness of international institutions designed to facilitate the transfer of resources from richer to poorer countries, in conjunction with efforts to improve the natural environment. Looking at the Global Environmental Facility...
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Life in the Balance: A Companion to the Audubon Television Specials

By: Wallace, David Rains

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Harcourt: September 1987

Seller ID: 315975

ISBN: 0151515611

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Livable Neighborhood Program: About Making Life Better on the Street Where You Live

By: Global Action Plan for the Earth

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Global Action Plan for the: March 2002

Seller ID: 200337

ISBN: 0964437341

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Lochsa Story, The: Land Ethics in the Bitterroot Mountains

By: Moore, Bud,Moore knows a great deal about other forestry issues such as water quality, sustainable use of resources and the 'wholeness' of the land now termed 'ecosystem management.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Mountain Press: June 1996

Seller ID: 302157

ISBN: 0878423338

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Lochsa Story explores how the lessons drawn from two centuries of human interaction with northern Idaho's Lochsa country can affect management philosophies of similar regions across the continent and beyond.
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Man's Impact On The Global Environment: Assessment and Recommendations for Action (MIT Press Classics)

By: Study of Critical Environmental Problems (SCEP)

Price: $2.00

Publisher: The MIT Press: October 1970

Seller ID: 69282

ISBN: 0262690276

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

This Report of the Study of Critical Environmental Problems (SCEP) presents the results of a one-month interdisciplinary examination of the global climatic and ecological effects of man's activities.

This Report of the Study of Critical Environmental Problems (SCEP) presents the results of a one-month, interdisciplinary examination of the global climatic and ecological effects of man's activities. The disciplines represented by the fifty full-time participants include meteorology, oceanography, ecology, engineering, economics, social sciences, and law. The Study, which was spon...
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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.

By: Barnett, Cynthia

Price: $12.00

Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL: April 2008

Seller ID: 320745

ISBN: 0472033034

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

"In the days before the Internet, books like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' River of Grass were groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and politicians take notice. Mirage is such a book."

--St. Petersburg Times

"Never before has the case been more compellingly made that America's dependence on a free and abundant water supply has become an illusion. Cynthia Barnett does it by telling us the stories of the amazing personalities behind our water wars, the stunning contradictions that allow the wettest state to have the ...
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Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival

By: Thomas Prugh, Robert Costanza, John H. Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, Richard B. Norgaard

Price: $9.98

Publisher: International Society for Ecological Economic: September 1995

Seller ID: 70699

ISBN: 1887490019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Earth's endowment of natural capital is under severe strain from rapidly increasing human economic activity and population. Drawing on the theoretical insights and research experience of some of the world's leading ecological economists, Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival explains what natural capital is and why it is necessary for human economic survival, and proposes some revenue-neutral policy options that could restructure the economic system to encourage investment in natural capital
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