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Reducere. Rights of Nature Rights of Nature Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental ...

We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rate...

An examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisisPublisher: Yale University PressA...

David Boyd shows that recognition of the right to a healthy environment is not only growing, it is having a profound influence on public policy and...

Reducere. From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark FiegeForeword by: William CrononIn the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes t...

Reducere. One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. Bu...

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Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extr...

A comprehensive guide to the way that environmental rights are developing in terms of the standards of protection that they represent. This book co...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Pamela L. MartinIllustration(s): 8 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimens...

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies ...

Description"Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice."--Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and po...

Reducere. Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) is William Godwin's biography of his wife Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of A...

Reducere. This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place'...

Publisher: University of Arizona PressIllustration(s): 3 illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Collection: Critical Green EngagementsPublication date: 2...

What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that ...

The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar min...

Reducere. The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from mi...

DescriptionPresented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The Wo...

Publisher: Storey Publishing LLCAuthor(s): The Environmental Educators of Mass AudubonNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 28...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Dr Robert (The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center New York NY) MichelsIllustration(s): Illustrations, black a...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Mubbashir A. RizviNumber of pages: 224Collection: South Asia in MotionPublication date: 2019Dimensio...

Reducere. A complex and troubled history defines the borders of upstate New York beyond the physical boundaries of its rivers and lakes. The United States an...

Reducere. DescriptionWestern Oregon's Willamette Basin, once a vast wilderness, became a thriving community almost overnight. When Oregon territory was opene...

Reducere. A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religionIn the current popular imagination, Buddhis...

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair M...

First published in 1739 to an unenthusiastic British public, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" has since been referred to as one of the most sign...

Robin Attfield introduces environmental ethics, exploring the values involved in issues such as pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. Consid...

Reducere. Collected here in one affordable volume are the most important documents of the United States of America: The Constitution of the United States of ...

Reducere. DescriptionA complex and troubled history defines the borders of upstate New York beyond the physical boundaries of its rivers and lakes. The Unite...

DescriptionWhat does it mean to have a constitutional right in an era in which most rights must yield to 'compelling governmental interests'? After...

Reducere. North Carolina's Outer Banks are in constant motion, responding to weather, waves, and the rising sea level. Beaches erode, sometimes taking homes ...

Reducere. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Hume's most important work and one of t...

Reducere. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter J. BowlerThis authoritative volume chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins. Peter J. Bowler br...

Reducere. Learn all about environmental activism, from climate change to ending plastic pollution. Get a global look at the history of the movement, meet the...

DescriptionErick W. Nason's second book in his French and Indian War series furthers the exploits of Ranger Sergeant Jacob Clarke, as Jacob continu...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformation...

Reducere. Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation ...

An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome - Lukas Thommen

Reducere. The Truckee River is central to the survival of humanity that has long clustered around its banks. Yet it has often been treated as no more than a ...

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 ...

Christianity struggles to show how living on Earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond t...

Mary Wollstonecraft is remembered principally as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and there has been a tendency to view h...

This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It ...

Reducere. DescriptionCarefully leveled text coupled with primary-source images will encourage young readers to take a closer look at the U.S. Constitution's ...

Reducere. How can we help Mother Nature?Nature spirits, also known as elementals, are the unseen helpers who lovingly tend the elements of earth, air, fire, ...

Reducere. Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation...