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The Rights of Nature

A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World

by David R. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense...
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Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate

How Truth Became Controversial

by M. Mihkel Mathiesen
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2004

"Societies unravel when they lose the glue that holds them together." The opening words of Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate reveal author M. Mihkel Mathiesen's passionate struggle to reveal how the truth has become controversial in the modern community. Mathiesen explores...
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CO2 Rising

The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge

by Tyler Volk
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010

An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change. The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are...
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Carbon Shift

How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and our lives)

by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011

"We are now so abusing the Earth that it may rise and move back to the hot state it was in fifty-five million years ago, and if it does, most of us, and our descendants, will die." -James Lovelock, leading climate expert and author of The Revenge of Gaia "I don't see why people are so worried...
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Sustainability

An Environmental Science Perspective

by John C. Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017

This book presents an earth science-based overview of the challenges to sustainability. It provides a detailed study of climate change, as well as energy, food, and water security across different regions. The author uncovers the problems caused by current social and environmental practices, and offers...
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by Nicholas Cheremisinoff, Motasem B. Haddadin
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013

This book offers refineries a practical guide for implementing environmental management systems (EMS).The author, who has implemented hundreds of successful EMS programs throughout North America, Europe, Russia and the Middle East, provides a detailed explanation of what an EMS is and how it can benefit...
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Limits to Growth

The 30-Year Update

by Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century. Addressing the key threats of rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, coastal erosion and...
Cover of Environmental Health And Child Survival: Epidemiology, Economics, Experiences
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008

Each year, millions of children in developing countries fall sick and die from diseases caused by polluted air, contaminated water and soil, and poor hygiene behavior. Repeated infectious also contribute to malnutrition in children, and subsequently impacts future learning and productivity. This book...
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The Roads from Rio

Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations

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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012

At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the world’s leaders constructed a new "sustainable development" paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally sound economic and social development. Twenty years later, the...
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The Deepest Wounds

A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil

by Thomas D. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment...
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Everything Under the Sun

Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet

by David Suzuki, Ian Hanington
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012

A renowned scientist restores hope for a better future with his latest views on environmental challenges. In this latest offering from David Suzuki, the well-known scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the interconnectedness of the world's myriad environmental challenges. The solutions...
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Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments

Data Handling and Numerical Techniques

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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012

Numerical and statistical methods have rapidly become part of a palaeolimnologist’s tool-kit. They are used to explore and summarise complex data, reconstruct past environmental variables from fossil assemblages, and test competing hypotheses about the causes of observed changes in lake biota through...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014

Law's ideas of nature appear in different doctrinal and institutional settings, historical periods, and political dialogues. Nature underlies every behavior, contract, or form of wealth, and in this broad sense influences every instance of market transaction or governmental intervention. Recognizing...
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