Confronting Climate Gridlock
How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future
ISBN: PB: 9780300271102,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
256 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An atmospheric scientist explains why global climate change mitigation and energy decarbonization demand American diplomacy, technology, and policy.
Professor of environmental engineering Daniel Cohan argues that escaping the gravest perils of clim...
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16.99 GBP
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Life
A Journey through Science and Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300264548,
Yale University Press,
February 2023
408 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 16 colour illus., 42 black&white illus.
408 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 16 colour illus., 42 black&white illus.
A renowned scientist and environmental advocate looks back on a life that has straddled the worlds of science and politics.
Acclaimed as a public scientist and as a spokesperson on pressing environmental and equity issues, Paul R. Ehrlich reflects o...
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20.00 GBP
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Trees Are Shape Shifters
How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9780300260373,
ISBN: HB: 9780300260380,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 70 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 70 black&white illus.
An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation.
In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces...
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30.00 GBP
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65.00 GBP
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Wild Visions
Wilderness as Image and Idea
ISBN: HB: 9780300260724,
Yale University Press,
November 2022
248 pp., 19,0x25,4 cm, 67 colour illus., 55 black&white illus.
248 pp., 19,0x25,4 cm, 67 colour illus., 55 black&white illus.
A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time.
Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild count...
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30.00 GBP
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Yellow River
A Natural and Unnatural History
ISBN: HB: 9780300238334,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
376 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 43 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.
376 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 43 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.
From Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its watershed have both shaped and been shaped by human society. Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unra...
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27.50 GBP
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Security and Conservation
The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade
ISBN: HB: 9780300230185,
Yale University Press,
June 2022
304 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 17 black&white illus.
304 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 17 black&white illus.
An exploration of the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns.
Debates regarding environmental security risks have generally focused on climate change a...
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25.00 GBP
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Ecology of Dakota Landscapes
Past, Present, and Future
ISBN: PB: 9780300253818,
Yale University Press,
April 2022
336 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 219 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
336 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 219 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
An illustrated review of the Northern Great Plains that blends natural history and human history.
W. Carter Johnson and Dennis H. Knight describe the natural and human histories of the Northern Great Plains in this comprehensive and handsomely illu...
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35.00 GBP
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Our Common Ground
A History of America's Public Lands
ISBN: HB: 9780300235784,
Yale University Press,
February 2022
736 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
736 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
America's public lands include more than 600 million acres of forests, plains, mountains, wetlands, deserts, and shorelines. In this book, John Leshy, a leading expert in public lands policy, discusses the key political decisions that led to this, be...
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35.00 GBP
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Genetically Modified Democracy
Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India
ISBN: HB: 9780300245905,
Yale University Press,
January 2022
328 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 3 black&white illus.
328 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 3 black&white illus.
Genetically modified or transgenic crops are controversial across the world. Advocates see such crops as crucial to feeding the world's growing population; critics oppose them for pushing farmers deeper into ecological and economic distress, and for...
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50.00 GBP
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King's Harvest
A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300255089,
Yale University Press,
January 2022
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
This book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China's early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China's agricultural systems and the transformation of its plai...
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30.00 GBP
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