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Environment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a Synthesis
Leading researchers in evolutionary developmental biology seek linkages between, and a synthesis of, development, physiology, endocrinology, ecology, and evolution.Evolutionary developmental biology, also known as evo-devo or EDB, seeks to find links between development and evolution by opening the "black box" of development's role in evolution and in the evolution of developmental mechanisms. …
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 304 pages) :illustrations.
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Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to t…
Analysis and case studies from interdisciplinary perspectives explore the possibility and desirability of collaboration between the grassroots-oriented environmental justice movement and mainstream environmental organizations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282918
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) :illustrations.
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Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries: Transnational Relations and…
The first in-depth study of the politics of environmental policy reform in developing countries, with emphasis on Costa Rica and Bolivia.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284271
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- 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence
This book examines why some international environmental regimes succeed while others fail. Confronting theory with evidence, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, it compares fourteen case studies of international regimes. It considers what effectiveness in a regime would look like, what factors might contribute to effectiveness, and how to measure the variables. It determines th…
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- 9780262279796
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 508 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change
A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life. In Environmentalism Unbound , Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it fr…
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Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell
In Escape from Empire, Alice Amsden argues that the more freedom a developing country has to determine its own policies, the faster its economy will grow. America's recent inflexibility - as it has single-mindedly imposed the same rules, laws, and institutions on all developing economies under its influence - has been the backdrop to the rise of two new giants, China and India, who have built e…
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- 9780262267113
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- 1 online resource (vi, 197 pages) :illustrations
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Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning
"The MIT Press"This collection of essays, coauthored with other distinguished economists, offers new perspectives on saving, intergenerational economic ties, retirement planning, and the distribution of wealth. The book links life-cycle microeconomic behavior to important macroeconomic outcomes, including the roughly 50 percent postwar decline in America's rate of saving and its increasing weal…
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Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar: The Divers…
This book can be read on two levels: as a novel empirical study of wh- interrogatives and relative constructions in a variety of languages and as a theoretical investigation of chain formation in grammar.The book is divided into two parts. Part I investigates the distribution and interpretation of multiple wh- interrogative constructions, focusing on the workings of Superiority. Part II investi…
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- 9780262267229
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- 1 online resource (vii, 289 pages).
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Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness
"A Bradford book."Consciousness is at the very core of the human condition. Yet only in recent decades has it become a major focus in the brain and behavioral sciences. Scientists now know that consciousness involves many levels of brain functioning, from brainstem to cortex. The almost seventy articles in this book reflect the breadth and depth of this burgeoning field. The many topics covered…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 1192 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution and Culture: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
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