Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

Jerusalem has for centuries been known as the spiritual center for the three largest monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000.

Ecological Politics in and Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck is an original analysis of ecological politics as one part of a renewed engagement with the domain of sub-politics.

The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life.

We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders.

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa.

Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices.

We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand.

In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism?

Immigration is the primary cause of population change in developed countries and a major component of population change in many developing countries.

What is environmental history?

Grains - particularly maize, rice, and wheat - are the central component of most people s diets, but we rarely stop to think about the wider role they play in national and international policy-making, as well as global issues like food security, biotechnology, and even climate change.

Waste is one of the planet s last great resource frontiers.

Climate change seems to be an insurmountable problem.

Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos.

The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015In recent years, immigration researchers have increasingly drawn on the concept of social capital and the role of social networks to understand the dynamics of immigrant experiences.

This bold and important new book presents current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change.

The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature.

This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.

tzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies.

According to current deabtes, individualization has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to globalization .

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries.

Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar business involving some of the world s largest mining companies, a million and a half artisanal diggers, more than a million cutters and polishers and a huge retail jewellery sector.

In this clear, concise, comprehensively revised and up-to-date introduction to environmental ethics, Robin Attfield guides the student through the key issues and debates in this field in ways that will also be of interest to a wide range of scholars and researchers.

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In a world of dwindling natural resources and mounting environmental crisis, who is devising ways of living that will work for the long haul?

Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being.

Geography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, men's interests have structured what counts as legitimate geographical knowledge.

Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities?

This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today.

Today s global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform to a low-carbon, efficient and environmentally harmless energy supply.

Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, offering new, unexpected signs of climate leadership.

Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change.

The planet is sick.

The relationship between feminism and ecology has grown in importance in recent years.

Feminist approaches within the social sciences have expanded enormously since the 1960s.

This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on three areas central to a range of disciplines.

This book introduces green ideas to students of the social sciences, showing how society affects and is affected by nature and assessing the future of the green movement.

Can sociology help us to tackle environmental problems?

With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwide seized the political imagination of friends and foes alike.

This book establishes whether contemporary social theory can help us understand the structural origins of environmental degradation and environmental politics.

Winner: Ullr AwardDownhill skiing is a vital economic engine for many communities in the Rocky Mountain states, attracting 20 million skier days per season.

A comprehensive overview of symbiotic relationships between insects and microbesInsects and Their Beneficial Microbes is an authoritative and accessible synthesis of insect associations with beneficial microorganisms.

'Nature' is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggesting intrinsic, unchanging reality.

The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.

In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment.

Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million.

Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment.

In Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities?