Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement, Hardcover - Michael Mendez

An urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy Although the scienc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Luke W. ColeAuthor: Sheila R. FosterWhen Bill Clinton signed an Executive Order on Environmental Justice in 1994, the pheno...

Reducere. This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, ...

This handbook examines human responses to climatic and environmental changes in the past, their impacts on disease patterns, nutritional status, mi...

Does climate change cause conflict? Did it cause the Syrian uprising? Some policymakers and academics have made this claim, but is it true? This st...

Reducere. Both the perceived successes and failures of the Maya are often linked to their relationship with the local environment and their response to episo...

Reducere. A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North C...

Publisher: Resistance BooksIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 286Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 140 x 229 x 18Cover ty...

'Will open the minds of even the most ardent denier of climate change and/or systemic racism. If there's one book that will help you to be an effec...

Reducere. This young adult adaptation of acclaimed geochemist and geobiologist Hope Jahren's highly respected nonfiction work is the perfect book for those i...

Reducere. On September 9, 1921, a tropical depression stalled just north of San Antonio and within hours overwhelmed its winding network of creeks and rivers...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): E. C. H. (Umea University, Sweden) KeskitaloIllustration(s): 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustra...

Policymakers, academics and the media have claimed that climate change causes conflicts. This study presents an innovative framework to evaluate th...

This book is a practical guide on what you can do to combat climate change. The amazing thing is that it only takes 3.5% of a population to act in ...

The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mec...

Despite growing discussions on the relationship between sustainability and finance, so far little attention has been given to the relation linking ...

"Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for." --Nature "A superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove...

Reducere. A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book One of the Daily Beast's 5 Essential Books to Read Before the ElectionA collection of the New Yorker's groun...

Reducere. "White people should be less white." "Whiteness is white supremacy." "Silence is violence." "You can never overcome your racism." You've heard thes...

The 1921 flood that put a spotlight on environmental and social inequality in a southwestern cityPublisher: Trinity University Press, U.S.Author(s)...

Reducere. All the Feelings Under the Sun: How to Deal With Climate Change is a timely, thoughtful book that will help young readers work through their feelin...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 18 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 6 Tables, black and white; 21 Illu...

Reducere. The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of t...

Reducere. The Story of Climate Change introduces one of the most important issues facing our world today, and tells you what you can do to help make a change...

When Ziella Bryars was in the midst of heartbreak, a conversation with her neuroscientist best friend changed everything. This warm and witty self-...

DescriptionAs climate change is warming our planet, the ice in Earth's cryosphere is melting --- from glaciers to mountaintop patches to permafrost...

An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable ...

Reducere. Why should you care about climate change? Weather affects your everyday life and climate change can have major impacts. Discover how scientists stu...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Michael CurleyIllustration(s): 20 Line drawings, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...