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Energy and civilization a history
Extensively updated and expanded edition of the author's Energy in world history (Boulder : Westview Press, 1994).Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy …
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- 9780262338301
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- 1 online resource (vii, 552 pages) :illustrations
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Liquid power :water and contested modernities in Spain, 1898-2010
Erik Swyngedouw explores how water becomes part of the tumultuous processes of modernisation and development. Using the experience of Spain as a lens to view the interplay of modernity and environmental transformation, he shows that every political project is also an environmental project. Offering an innovative perspective on the relationship of nature and society, 'Liquid Power' illuminates t…
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- 9780262326957
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 301 pages) :illustrations.
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The arid lands history power knowledge
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262333535
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- 1 online resource (xx, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color), maps.
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Winning together :the natural resource negotiation playbook
Strategies for transboundary natural resource management; winner of Harvard Law School's Raiffa Award for best research of the year in negotiation and conflict resolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343633
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- 1 online resource (viii, 322 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use, a…
Overview: How well do children navigate the ocean of information that is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and challenges for Internet-savvy kids, offering extraordinary potential for learning and social connection but little guidance on assessing the reliability of online information. This book reports on the first large-scale survey to…
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The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Develop…
"This book critiques what the author sees as a growing global cult of information through three case studies examining Indian anti-poverty initiatives"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262370370
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Harvesting the biosphere :what we have taken from nature
An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production. The biosphere—the Earth's thin layer of life—dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none …
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The bubble economy :is sustainable growth possible?
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, banks "too big to fail," financial regulation (or the lack of it), and the European debt crisis. Wall Street has discovered that it is more profitable to make money from other people's money than by investing in the real economy, which has limited ac…
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Kids and credibility :an empirical examination of youth, digital media use, a…
Overview: How well do children navigate the ocean of information that is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and challenges for Internet-savvy kids, offering extraordinary potential for learning and social connection but little guidance on assessing the reliability of online information. This book reports on the first large-scale survey to…
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- 026226658X
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 135 pages) :illustrations.
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Cosmopolitan commons :sharing resources and risks across borders
"With the advent of modernity, the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into regional, national, and even transnational space -- nowhere as visibly as in Europe, with its small-scale political divisions. This volume views these shared resource spaces as the seedbeds of a new generation of technology-rich bureaucratic and transnational commons. Drawi…
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