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Recovering lost species in the modern age :histories of longing and belonging
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- 9780262355711
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- 1 online resource (248 pages) :illustrations.
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To know the world :a new vision for environmental learning
"A practical and poetic manifesto promoting new concepts of environmental learning: why environment, inequity, democracy, and diversity are connected challenges, how to navigate the rapid pace of change in the Anthropocene, how to better understand social and ecological networks, how to think about migration both ecologically and culturally, and how to bring a cosmopolitan perspective to place-…
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- 0262361043
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The contamination of the earth :a history of pollution in the industrial age
Translation of: La contamination du monde : une histoire des pollutions ?a l'?age industriel by ?Editions du Seuil in Paris, 2017."Once the source of circumscribed local nuisances, the effects of human activities on the environment have turned into global pollution. The climate is warming, the seas are acidifying, the species are disappearing, the bodies are altered: to give an account from a h…
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- 0262358131
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 459 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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Rethinking environmentalism :linking justice, sustainability, and diversity
A multidisciplinary examination of alternative framings of environmental problems, with using examples from forest, water, energy, and urban sectors. Does being an environmentalist mean caring about wild nature Or is environmentalism synonymous with concern for future human well-being, or about a fair apportionment of access to the earth's resources and a fair sharing of pollution burdens Envir…
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- 9780262349925
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- 1 online resource (302 pages).
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Plastic capitalism :contemporary art and the drive to waste
An argument for the centrality of the visual culture of waste--as seen in works by international contemporary artists--to the study of our ecological condition. Ecological crisis has driven contemporary artists to engage with waste in its most non-biodegradable forms: plastics, e-waste, toxic waste, garbage hermetically sealed in landfills. In this provocative and original book, Amanda Boetzkes…
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- 9780262351188
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- 1 online resource (272 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Global environmental governance and the accountability trap
An examination of whether accountability mechanisms in global environmental governance that focus on monitoring and enforcement necessarily lead to better governance and better environmental outcomes. The rapid development of global environmental governance has been accompanied by questions of accountability. Efforts to address what has been called "a culture of unaccountability" include greate…
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- 9780262351874
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- 1 online resource (280 pages).
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Balancing Green :When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To)
An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345750
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Global Carbon PricingThe Path to Climate Cooperation
Why the traditional "pledge and review" climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a "pledge and review" approach: countries pledge (almost anything), subject to (unenforced) review. This approach ignores everything we know about human cooperation. In this book, le…
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- 9780262340380
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- 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages :)illustrations
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Natura urbana :ecological constellations in urban space
A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.Postindustrial transitions and changing cultures of nature have produced an unprecedented degree of fascination with urban biodiversity. The other nature that flourishes in marginal urban spaces, at one remove from the controlled contours …
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- 0262367467
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 416 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The greenest nation? :a new history of German environmentalism
This study provides an overview of the development of German environmentalism from the late nineteenth century to the present. Looking at Germany in an international context, it discusses the full range of environmental issues and how it evolved from a concern about pollution and natural monuments to global warming and biodiversity. It defines environmentalism broadly and looks at civic activis…
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