Human Ecology, Anthropogeography
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How to Fix a Broken Planet: Advice for Surviving the 21st CenturyAuthor: Julian CribbPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/05/2023Pages: 130Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.46dISBN: 9781009333412This title is not returnable
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Tender Carnivore and the Sacred GameIn what may be his boldest and most controversial book, Paul Shepard presents an account of human behavior and ecology in light of our past. In it, he contends that agriculture is responsible for our ecological decline and looks to the hunting and gathering...
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Nature at Your Door: Connecting with the Wild and Green in the Urban and Suburban LandscapeWe are an integral part of the ecosystem where we live. In this book we learn that what we do in our yards matters just as much as the way our local parks and nature preserves are managed. Author and professor of landscape ecology...
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The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the WildIn this spirited memoir, world-renowned conservationist Enric Sala weaves fascinating tales of the natural world, revealing how connections in nature promise a thriving economy as well as a healthy planet. Enric Sala wants to change the world--and in this compelling book, he shows us...
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Evolution Under Pressure: How We Change Nature and How Nature Changes UsImmersive non-fiction with STEM and social justice themes that proves that the future of the environment is in our hands-and helps pave the way forward.Evolution isn't just a thing of the past. It is happening right now, in every species across the world-and our...
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Movement Matters: Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of MovementHuman beings have always moved for what they need until recently. We know how a lack of movement impacts our bodies but how does culture-wide sedentarism impact the world? Movement Matters is a Foreword Indies GOLD-winning collection of essays, in which biomechanist Katy Bowman...
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Evolution Under Pressure: How We Change Nature and How Nature Changes UsINTERSECTIONAL EVOLUTION: Unlike pretty much every other book about evolution, author Yolanda Ridge takes an intersectional approach to the topic. She goes beyond a purely scientific look to show how class, the difference between urban and rural living, and other human factors affect evolution....
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The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in NatureIn this extensively revised and enlarged edition of his best-selling book, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in nature and science -- from global warming to the science behind mother/baby interactions -- and examines what they mean for humankind's place in the...
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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of DeclinesTransitioning gracefully from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty. The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, human impacts on the environment increased dramatically. The 21st century ushered...
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Home!: A Bioregional ReaderBioregionalism is an exciting new vision for (re)making a more satisfying, ecological, sustainable society rooted in community and a celebratory culture of place. By providing tools to understand the land we live on and the sources of its natural regeneration, the more than 40...
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The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the AnthropoceneA dynamic aerial exploration of our changing planet, published on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day The Human Planet is a sweeping visual chronicle of the Earth today from a photographer who has circled the globe to report on such urgent issues as climate...
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Green Prosperity: Quit Your Job, Live Your DreamsLittle actual work is required to provide for most human needs such as shelter, clothing, warmth, food, and water, and even new necessities, such as mobile phones and transportation. Technological advances allow progressively fewer workers to produce essential goods and services necessary for society...
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The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of CapitalismOur Unsustainable Life: Why We Can't Have Everything We Want With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western mode of production...
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Nature: Collaborations in Design: Cooper Hewitt Design TriennialHow designers are collaborating with scientists and ultimately with nature itselfDesigners today are striving to transform our relationship with the natural world. Although humans are intrinsically linked to nature, our actions have frayed this relationship, forcing designers to think more intentionally and to consider...
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Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing WorldIncreasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for more of the same that created the situation in the first place: more...
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You Are the Earth: Know Your World So You Can Help Make It BetterThis lively collection of fascinating facts and fables, colorful cartoons, and dynamic illustrations explains how everything on Earth is connected. Since its original publication, concern for the environment has grown, and although environmental damage has increased, so too have green strategies. This new edition...
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Bottleneck: Humanity's Impending ImpasseAuthor: William R. Catton Jr.Publisher: XlibrisPublished: 05/06/2009Pages: 308Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781441522245This title is not returnable
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Global Resources and the EnvironmentIn the past few decades, sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues that surround them have become increasingly topical. This multidisciplinary book discusses the complex relationships between society, natural resources and the environment. Major resources including water, agriculture, energy, minerals and...
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Maximum Power: The Ideas and Applications of H.T. OdumMaximum Power is a synthesis of the creative genius of Howard Thomas Odum as seen through his own words and those of his students, many of whom are now applying his ideas to the world in diverse ways. Offering the holistic, system-oriented thinking of...
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Toxic Timescapes: Examining Toxicity Across Time and SpaceAn interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet.While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or generally coming...
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