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Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreemen...

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Berättelsen om den stora gröna omställningen är vacker, men den scen där pjäsen spelas är bräckligare än på mycket länge. För det är vad vi bör se en större berättelse om världen som utspelas i ett koncentrerat format i norra Sverige. Det är en be...

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The battle against climate change is no longer just an environmental or social issue. As shareholders demand corporations protect assets against climate change and the economic impact of environmental disasters suck billions of dollars out of the ...

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Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the hist...

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This concise, accessible, market-leading textbook brings together the wide-ranging fundamentals students need to understand rocks and minerals, and shows them how they relate to the broader Earth, materials and environmental sciences. Designed spe...

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With one famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein proved all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere and it is everything. In this newly updated and engaging introduction, renowned scientist Vaclav Smil explores energy in all its facets from t...

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Environmental politics is an established part of the political landscape, covering a host of different issues and impacting society, businesses, and individuals. Andrew Dobson explores the various actions, ideas, and dimensions that shape environm...

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En bok om hopp och lösningar Under sin utveckling har människan gått från att leva av vad naturen ger, till att ta mer av naturen än vad den tål. Resultatet är underpresterande ekosystem och att mänskligheten står inför stora och farliga utmaninga...

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Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity that provides answers so simple that any curious person can understand. In conversational prose, Pollack lays a simple foun...

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Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources...

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Oil is the lifeblood of the modern world. Without it, there would be no planes, no plastic, no exotic produce, and a global political landscape few would recognise. Humanitys dependence upon oil looks set to continue for decades to come, but what ...

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A small guide for those seeking a life of beauty, simplicity, and sustainability. In this simple and inspiring lifestyle handbook, Mary Kingsley – novelist, wife, mother, homesteader and co-founder of Lady Farmer – briefly discusses th...

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How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What progress has been made towards reducing resource use and waste, and what are the prospects...

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Collectors have long admired uranium and thorium minerals for their brilliant colors, intense ultraviolet fluorescence, and rich variety of habits and associates. Radioactive minerals are also critically important as our source of nuclear energy. ...

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Värnandet av jordens klimat är en av vår tids allvarligaste utmaningar, även om det just nu ser ut att vara coronapandemin och den arbetslöshet som växer fram i dess spår. Ska vi kunna hantera sådana kriser krävs en ny och utvidgad syn på våra dem...

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The earth is in great peril, due to the corporatization of agriculture, the rising climate crisis, and the ever-increasing levels of global poverty, starvation, and desertification on a massive scale. This present condition of global trauma is not...

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"We've got climate change in real time now and I think farmers are also aware the weather is changing. The increase in nitrogen fertilizers has just woken up everybody to the urgency of it. So, what was a transition that was going to happen o...

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In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of peoples lives, practices, and stories. Contributors detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ...

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A celebrated biologists manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change Jo Handelsman is a national treasure, and her clarion call warning of a looming soil-loss catastrophe must be heard. Add ...

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The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been unif...

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Provides a coherent overview of the theory of single population dynamics, discussing concepts such as population variability, population stability, population viability/persistence, and harvest yield while later chapters address specific applicati...

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"We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled Ameri...

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Principles of Environmental Economics and Sustainability was the first textbook to make a serious attempt to systematically integrate ecological and economic principles. It successfully introduced ecological perspectives to the study of environmen...

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According to Schauberger, water is akin to blood in the human body - the most important life-giving and energy-empowering substance on the planet. Yet, with incorrect, ignorant handling, it becomes diseased, affecting human, animal and vegetable l...

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Conservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology with the principal aim of disseminating cutting...

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Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, including improved 'r...

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This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological...

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This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The multiple purposes of nature livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists have turned environmental governance in Latin America...

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A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes. This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focus...

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"I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi-it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four...

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