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While it remains to be seen whether public policy will respond effectively and in time to problems such as climate change, this book makes compellingly clear ...

For students, policymakers, and general readers, this book provides insight and accessibility to a subject that others might leave out-of-sight, out-of-mind, or ...

The book provides a blueprint for the start of a century in which our ultimate dependence on the environment will have to be at the heart of the business and ...

Assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity, with practical solutions ...

Papers presented at the Taller Internacional sobre "Valoración Económica en el Uso de los Recursos Naturales y el Medio Ambiente", held in Chillán, Chile, ...

This is a groundbreaking, essential book for our times.

Updated and Expanded Edition Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book Economist Herman Daly ...

Offers insight into consumption in America and the inherent pitfalls of a "growth at all costs" system that promotes obsolescence and replacing versus repairing ...

This exciting new book takes readers on a tour of 13 natural building methods, including straw bale, rammed earth, cordwood, adobe, earthbags, papercrete, ...

Illustrates the harmful effects of globalization on politics, society, and the environment, profiling the "transnational corporation" and warning readers that ...

In this work, he argues that corporate consolidation of power is merely one manifestation of what he calls Empire--the organization of society through hierarchy ...

The best-selling author of The Weather Makers offers a powerful argument for immediate action on climate change and a wide-range of ideas to help solve the ...

Among the stories in these pages are the evolution of Sweden's "Green Zone," Alcoa's water use reduction goals, GE's ecoimagination initiative, and Seventh ...

This work offers a fascinating portrait of the effects the world's 6 billion inhabitants have on the planet, as well as their various working and living ...

With Earth Democracy, her most extensive treatment of the struggles she helped bring to international attention - around genetic food engineering, cultural ...

The text builds a sense of foreboding in which each human detail is so persuasive, so right in its fidelity to the terrible evasions of the time, that it leaves ...

Six essays on sustainability and stewardship appear in this edition.

Introduction Women, Ecology and Health: Rebuilding Connections Vandana Shiva It is now twenty years since the 'environment' was put on the agenda of ...

This is a crucial updating of a major economist's work, and mandatory reading for people engaged in the debates about the environment.

Countless inspiring examples of the successful ecological transformation of cities in Sweden and North America.