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Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Experts discuss the risks global environmental change poses for the human security, including disaster and disease, violence, and increasing inequity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259057
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- 1 online resource (x, 327 pages) :illustrations
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Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States
The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action when pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289580
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- 1 online resource (363 pages)
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Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence: Deliberative Environmental Law
A proposal for a philosophical foundation and a realistic deliberative mechanism for creating a transnational common law for the environment.In Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the necessary characteristics of a meaningful global jurisprudence, a jurisprudence that would underpin international environmental law. Arguing that theories of po…
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- 9780262258524
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- 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages)
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Philosophy, technology, and the environment
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262337991
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- 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages)
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Science in Environmental Policy: The Politics of Objective Advice
An analysis of the role & influence of scientists at the agenda-setting, legislative & implementation stages of environmental policy making, Keller draws on political theory & on empirical evidence from scientific reports, news coverage Congressional hearings & interviews.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258982
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- 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) :illustrations.
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Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and…
Changing Climates in North American Politics offers analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state & local levels, involving public private & civic actors.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259170
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages) :illustrations.
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Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
Changing Climates in North American Politics offers analysis of climate change policy innovations across North America at transnational, federal, state & local levels, involving public private & civic actors.
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- 9780262259125
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Frontiers : histories of civil society and nature
In Frontiers, Michael Redclift examines the relationship between nature and society in frontier areas--contested zones in which rival versions of civil society vie with one another, often over the definition and management of nature itself. Drawing on his own fieldwork and extensive archival research, Redclift presents five cases in which civil societies emerged in frontier areas either to mana…
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- 9780262282185
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- 1 online resource (x, 237 pages) :illustrations, map
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- 333 RED f
Garbage wars : the struggle for environmental justice in Chicago
A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago.In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encou…
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- 9780262281355
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- 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : illustrations.
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- 340 PEL g
Global environmental assessments : information and influence
A comparative analysis of global environmental assessments shows the importance of policy salience, scientific credibility, and social and political legitimacy in determining the influence of scientific assessments on global environmental policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279987
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) : illustrations.
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- 333 MIT g
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