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Recent New Titles Articles
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Enough is Enough January 2013 Launch
Enough is Enough by Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill is set to publish on January 10th 2013 and the UK launch is taking place on January 24th at the University of Leeds.
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Children, Citizenship and Environment
Children growing up today are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and a global economy marked by unprecedented youth unemployment and unsustainable resource extraction. Yet on streets everywhere, there is also a strong, youthful energy for change.
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Only One Earth
The goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved since then and what hasn’t. It reminds us of the planetary boundaries we must all live within and and what needs to be addressed for democracy, equity and fairness to survive.
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The Zeronauts
In this book, John Elkington introduces The Zeronauts; a new breed of innovator, determined to drive problems like carbon, waste, toxics and poverty to zero. He creates the first Zeronaut Roll of Honour, and spotlights 50 pioneers in the field of Zero. Zeronauts are innovating in an astonishing range of areas, tackling hugely diverse economic, social, environmental and governance challenges. If we learn from these pioneers, the twenty-first century could be our best yet.
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Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change
This volume addresses and challenges issues which question the core values of the science and practice of restoration ecology. It analyzes the paradox arising from the desire to produce ecological restorations that fit within an historical ecological context, produce positive environmental benefits and also result in landscapes with social meaning.
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Visualizing Climate Change
Carbon dioxide and climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is oftentimes remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps). Using spectacular visual imagery, 3D and 4D visualizations of future landscapes, community mapping, and iconic photographs, this book demonstrates new ways to make carbon and climate change visible where we care the most, in our own backyards and communities.
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Agricultural Development in China and Africa
This systematic comparative study of agricultural development in China and Africa provides a unique basis for African countries and international organizations seeking to understand agricultural development in China, and for China to understand agricultural development on the African continent. The book highlights experiences and lessons from China and, in particular, analyzes why Africa has not yet been able to emulate China's agricultural development trajectory.
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The Sociology of Food and Agriculture
As interest has increased in topics such as the globalization of the agrifood system, food security, and food safety, the subjects of food and agriculture are making their way into a growing number of courses in disciplines within the social sciences and the humanities, like sociology and food studies.
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Food Systems Failure
This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to achieve food security for the world's population.
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Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture
This book reviews the state of agricultural climate change mitigation globaly, with a focus on identifying the feasibility, opportunities and challenges for achieving mitigation among smallholder farmers
