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Tale of Trees: The Battle to Save Britain's Ancient Woodland
Hardback,
20/10/2016,
£14.99
£13.49
The extraordinary untold story of what happened to Britain's ancient woodland.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Paperback,
07/03/2015,
£8.99
£8.09
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. This is a book that redefines its era.
Sustainability
Paperback,
09/09/2012,
£14.95
£13.46
Sustainability - A Cultural History reassesses the concept of sustainability using a range of fascinating historical instances of its application. The author considers the vision of Hans Carl von Carlowitz, and the journey takes in Francis of Assisi`s thirteenth-century Canticle of the Sun, as well as Greek philosophers and Enlightenment scholars.
Philosophy of Walking
Paperback,
25/03/2015,
£9.99
£8.99
In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frederic Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B.
What are People for?: Essays 2ed
Paperback,
23/09/2010,
£12.99
£11.69
Whether suggesting standards for technical innovation or pointing to the ruinous effects of what has become everyday practice, Berry speaks bravely against thoughtlessness, measuring every word as he leads the way toward balancing our currently out-of-kilter society.
Uncommon Ground: A Word-Lover's Guide to the British Landscape
Hardback,
19/03/2015,
£16.99
£15.29
Offers a visual glossary of the British landscape: photographs and stories which take the reader from the waterlogged fens to the white sands of the Western Isles.
Limits to Growth Revisited
Paperback,
01/06/2011,
£44.99
£40.49
This book is the first study of the science, the politics and the polemics surrounding response to the 1972 book "The Limits to Growth," in particular the reactions of economists that marginalized its methods and conclusions for more than 30 years.
Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism
Paperback,
22/02/2013,
£9.95
£8.96
How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance.
Earth in Mind
Paperback,
30/07/2004,
£14.99
£13.49
In "Earth in Mind", environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education. Orr presents concrete proposals for reorganizing the curriculum to draw out our affinity for life.
Climate Change Ethics
Paperback,
29/10/2012,
£29.99
£26.99
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
Principles of environmental toxicology
Paperback,
08/04/1998,
£29.99
£26.99
This volume is intended as an introductory textbook for students of enviromental science, biology and ecology courses. It addresses first principles and current day concerns, to provide students with a grounding in environmental toxicology. This text complements the "Principles of Ecotoxicology".
Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment
Paperback,
28/09/2010,
£8.95
£8.06
An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
Paperback,
01/01/2011,
£8.99
£8.09
An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist.
50 Reasons to Buy Fair Trade
Paperback,
01/01/2007,
£7.99
£7.19
Fair Trade is a growing global movement. Why is Fair Trade so important? This book provides 50 reasons why everyone should buy fair trade. It gives an account of how every consumer can play a part in saving lives and improving the way global trade operates.
Remote Sensing for Ecology and Conservation
Paperback,
08/07/2010,
£36.00
£32.40
Remote sensing describes the technique of collecting information from a distance. This book describes the ways that remotely sensed data from research on biodiversity and its conservation can be captured and used, especially for evaluating human impacts on ecological systems.
Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know
Paperback,
30/01/2014,
£10.99
£9.89
Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know is a concise, well-informed primer on one of the most promising yet controversial methods of accessing natural gas and oil. Exploring the promises and pitfalls of fracking, Alex Prud'homme offers an even-handed introduction for an interested general reader.
Green Road into the Trees
Paperback,
21/03/2013,
£9.99
£8.99
Walking right across England, along ancient trackways and green grass roads, this book explores the way the country was and the way it is today: the legends, literature and natural world that define us, and the undercurrent of regret running throughout our history; what he calls 'the unicorn disappearing into the trees'.
Gecko's Foot
Paperback,
07/08/2006,
£11.99
£10.79
A cutting-edge science book in the style of 'Fermat's Last Theorem' and 'Chaos' from an exciting and accessible new voice in popular science writing.
Visit Sunny Chernobyl
Paperback,
02/05/2013,
£7.99
£7.19
The lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines. A vast vortex of plastic floating endlessly around the Pacific. An eerie abandoned town square in a radioactive Ukrainian wilderness. These are the places the tourist boards would rather you didn't see. The places that don't show up in any guide books.
Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: Natural History of an English Village
Paperback,
02/08/2012,
£8.99
£8.09
The village of Mark on the Somerset Levels is a watery wonderland, rich in wildlife: rooks and roe deer; sparrows and snowdrops; buzzards, badgers and butterflies; the iconic brown hare and the spectacular hummingbird hawk-moth. This title is both the story of a small corner of the West Country and a celebration of the natural world.
Dispersal Ecology and Evolution
Paperback,
27/09/2012,
£39.95
£35.96
Provides a timely and wide-ranging overview of the fast expanding field of dispersal ecology, incorporating the very latest research. The causes, mechanisms, and consequences of dispersal at the individual, population, species, and community levels are considered.
Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Paperback,
30/05/2013,
£9.99
£8.99
Following the tracks, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, the author discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
Paperback,
20/01/2011,
£9.99
£8.99
K2, August 1st, 2008. Thirty climbers are attempting the summit of the most savage mountain on Earth. They make it. But before they start their descent an ice shelf collapses, sweeping away their ropes. It is dark. Their lines are gone. They are low on oxygen. And it is getting very, very cold. How many will make it down alive?
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
Paperback,
05/06/2014,
£9.99
£8.99
How many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space beyond? That our mild, polite existence sometimes seems to crush the breath out of us? This book deals with these questions.
Development as Freedom
Paperback,
18/01/2001,
£11.99
£10.79
This title is a synthesis of the thought of economist Amartya Sen, who views economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an end in itself. By widening his outlook to include poverty, tyranny, lack of opportunity, individual rights, and political structures, Professor Sen provides a useful overview of the development process.
Atmosphere of Hope: Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Paperback,
08/10/2015,
£7.99
£7.19
The tools required to avoid a climate disaster already exist. Between emissions cuts and emerging technologies, we can do it. This book introduces us to the innovative new solutions being developed around the world, which work with the Earth's systems to combat climate change - and could safeguard our future.
Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape
Paperback,
03/07/2014,
£9.99
£8.99
Seeks to discover why we deny our children the freedoms of space, time and the natural world. Visiting communities as far apart as West Papua and the Arctic, as well as the UK, and delving into history, philosophy, language and literature, this book explores how children's affinity for nature is an essential and universal element of childhood.
From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone
Paperback,
30/07/2015,
£14.99
£13.49
Paul B. Thompson covers diet and health issues, livestock welfare, world hunger, food justice, environmental ethics, Green Revolution technology and GMOs in this concise but comprehensive study. He shows how food can be a nexus for integrating larger social issues in social inequality, scientific reductionism, and the eclipse of morality.
Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
Paperback,
19/05/2015,
£12.99
£11.69
The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented in the near future
Hungry Spirit
Paperback,
03/09/1998,
£8.99
£8.09
Analysing how materialistic capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, this work examines the false certainties of science and religion. It builds a theory of meaning, based on the research for identity the role of the arts and the idea of immortality.
Cod
Paperback,
06/05/1999,
£9.99
£8.99
From the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye, the author introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs and fisherman, whose lives have been interwoven with the prolific fish. He chronicles the cod wars of the 16th and 20th centuries. He shows how the most profitable fish in history is faced with extinction.
Europe's Long Energy Journey: Towards an Energy Union?
Hardback,
04/02/2016,
£25.00
£22.50
This book explores how far the European Union can go towards its goal of forming its 28 member states into an Energy Union. It looks at the tension between liberalization and state intervention, subsidy in markets, the revolution in the electricity sector, and the need for a new market design.
Our Common Future
Paperback,
27/04/1987,
£15.99
£14.39
The Commission was created by the UN in 1983 to formulate new proposals to deal with the important issues of environmental development facing the world. The Commission's findings are presented in this book.
Introducing Just Sustainabilities
Paperback,
09/05/2013,
£18.99
£17.09
This unique and insightful text offers an exploration of the origins and subsequent development of the concept of just sustainability, with a focus on solutions-oriented policy and planning initiatives that specifically address issues of equity and justice within the context of developing sustainable communities.
Arctic Dreams
Paperback,
27/02/2014,
£10.99
£9.89
Lopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises. A hostile landscape of ice, freezing oceans and dazzling skyscapes. Home to millions of diverse animals and people. The stage to massive migrations by land, sea and air. The setting of epic exploratory voyages.
Environment, Health and Sustainable Development
Paperback,
01/03/2006,
£24.99
£22.49
This book examines the underlying concepts, the history of environmental health, and the key factors that affect public health including air pollution, water contamination, industrial hazards and agricultural hazards. The increasing impact of global environmental issues is explored as they affect countries throughout the world.
Ash and the Beech
Paperback,
06/06/2013,
£9.99
£8.99
From ash die-back to the Great Storm of 1987, our much-loved woodlands seem to be under constant threat from a procession of natural challenges. The author reveals how we have appropriated and humanised trees, turning them into arboreal pets. She argues that respecting trees' independence may be the wisest response to their current crises.
Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong - and How to Fix it
Paperback,
02/06/2015,
£12.99
£11.69
First Ecology: Ecological Principles and Environmental Issues 3ed
Hardback,
29/11/2007,
£34.99
£31.49
First Ecology: ecological principles and environmental issues provides a critical and evaluative introduction to the science of ecology. Alan Beeby and Anne-Maria Brennan present a succinct survey of ecology, describing and explaining the relationship between living organisms and their environment.
Wilderness and the American mind
Paperback,
02/05/2014,
£18.99
£17.09
Includes a preface and epilogue that brings Wilderness and the American Mind into dialogue with contemporary debates about wilderness. This is a study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements.
Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet
Hardback,
01/05/2015,
£20.00
£18.00
Hard-hitting recommendations for what must be done to manage global natural capital and reverse environmental destruction
Can Science Fix Climate Change?: A Case Against Climate Engineering
Paperback,
25/04/2014,
£9.99
£8.99
Climate change seems to be an insurmountable problem. Political solutions have so far had little impact. Some scientists are now advocating the so-called Plan B , a more direct way of reducing the rate of future warming by reflecting more sunlight back to space, creating a thermostat in the sky.
Environment and Society
Paperback,
24/10/2002,
£19.99
£17.99
An introduction to the sociological study of the environment. It emphasises the ways in which our conceptualisation of the relationships between environments and human societies differ historically and cross-culturally.
10 Billion
Paperback,
11/07/2013,
£8.99
£8.09
A book about our failure: failure as individuals, the failure of business, and the failure of our politicians. It is about an unprecedented planetary emergency. It's about the future of us.
Global change in the Holocene
Paperback,
28/01/2005,
£31.20
£28.08
Excellent value paperback edition of this up-to-the minute reference on environmental change during the last 10,000 years.
Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
Paperback,
28/08/2001,
£26.99
£24.29
A controversial, wide ranging and clearly documented survey of the state of the global environment.
Harmony : A New Way of Looking at Our World
Hardback,
14/10/2010,
£30.00
£27.00
A practical guide to what we have lost in the modern world, why we have lost it and how easily it is to rediscover. Harmony is a blueprint for a more balanced, sustainable world that the human race must create to survive.
Rain Four Walks in English Weather
Hardback,
03/03/2016,
£12.99
£11.69
Reveals how rain is not just an essential element of the world around us, but a key part of our own identity too. In this book, the author explores our relationship with the weather as she follows the course of four rain showers, in four seasons, across Wicken Fen, Shropshire, the Darent Valley and Dartmoor.
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