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In this historical and comparative study, Christopher McGrory Klyza explores why land-management policies in mining, forestry, and grazing have followed different paths and explains why public-lands policy in general has remained virtually static over time. According to Klyza, understanding the different philosophies that gave rise to each policy regime is crucial to reforming public-lands policy in the future. Klyza begins by delineating how...
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When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, and charitable foundations are all examples of social economies that emphasize mutual benefit rather than the accumulation of profit. While such groups often participate in market-based activities to achieve their goals, they also pose an alternative...
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This book confronts the planetary emergency produced by the accelerated ecological devastation of the last half-century. The human species is in a race against time to salvage and restore what it can of the environmental conditions that make a healthy existence possible. This task requires us to reconsider not only the type of energy that we use, but also the institutions, the technology, and the social relationships that determine what is produced,...
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Dans le mode de vie impérial qui est le ntre, à ce stade avancé du capitalisme marqué par l'impératif de la croissance, les moindres détails du quotidien, la construction de notre identité comme société et comme individus, tout repose sur la constitution d'un ailleurs o nos entreprises exploitent la force de travail comme elles ne peuvent le faire ici, et o nous faisons disparaître nos déchets et fructifier nos surplus.
Cette dynamique...
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Daniel McCool not only chronicles the history of water development agencies in America and the way in which special interests have abused rather than preserved the country's rivers, he also narrates the second, brighter act in this ongoing story: the surging, grassroots movement to bring these rivers back to life and ensure they remain pristine for future generations. The culmination of ten years of research and observation, McCool's book confirms...
26) Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, And Deception To Keep You Misinformed
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Liars-Al Gore, the United Nations, the New York Times. The global warming lobby, relentless in its push for bigger government, more spending, and more regulation, will use any means necessary to scare you out of your wits-as well as your tax dollars and your liberties-with threats of rising oceans, deadly droughts, and unspeakable future consequences of "climate change." In pursuing their anti-energy, anti-capitalist, and pro-government agenda, the...
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Out of Bounds, Out of Control measures the enforcement activities of the Environmental Protection Agency against that standard and finds them disturbingly deficient. Environmental regulation is so detailed and obscure that no one can identify all relevant mandates, let alone ensure compliance. EPA maintains broad discretion to define legal violations and resists any checks. Discretion is exercised retroactively or arbitrarily. People fear to dispute...
28) Power, Politics and People's Welfare: The Magnetron Technology – A New Window in Power Generation
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The book presents an admixture of treasured initiatives to make it a handy package:
- of vital tips on enduring social development;
- of inspiring stimuli for positive intellectual exploits;
- of delight to research and development (R&D) enthusiasts, environmentalists and the academia;
- of pointers to an exciting new field for exploration by corporate investors; and
- of good tidings on enhanced quality of life worldwide-
all carefully structured...
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Al Gore is bad for the planet... Talk about really inconvenient truths--that's one of the many you'll find in Iain Murray's rollicking exposé of environmental blowhards who waste more energy, endanger more species, and actually kill more people (yes, that's right) than the environmental villains they finger. Did you know that estrogen from birth control and "morning after" pills is causing male fish across America to develop female sex organs? Funny...
30) La revolución ciudadana en Ecuador (2007-2017): posneoliberalismo y (re)colonización de la naturalez
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Esta obra representa un esfuerzo por analizar, desde una perspectiva transdisciplinaria y multiescalar, una de las manifestaciones paradigmáticas de depredación ambiental en Abya Yala/ América Latina en los albores del nuevo milenio. En un recorrido por las vicisitudes del sistema-mundo moderno / colonial y sus transiciones hegemónicas la investigación buscó evidenciar los límites y contradicciones internas de un proyecto político que, contrario...
31) El maquiavelismo degollado: Por la cristiana sabiduría de España y de Austria Claudio Clemente S. J
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El maquiavelismo degollado, panegírico escrito por el jesuita Claudio Clemente en 1637, es mucho más que una curiosidad de la historia de las ideas políticas, representa en muchos sentidos la síntesis de la política del barroco; en él se conjugan las posturas más agresivas dirigidas a combatir el accionar «inmoral y anticristiano» de El príncipe de Maquiavelo, escrito en 1513. Así, desde la monarquía española, el imperio austriaco y el...
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Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, a team of national experts explores the book's historical...
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This book reviews the policies, adopted towards protection of environment, abatement of pollution, green initiative legislation in India under, the purview of several Ministries & other government bodies, and the basic approaches to Environmental Policy in general adopted in various Countries in the form of Eco-tax, Subsidies, Pollution Permits, Refundable Deposits for Pollution control, Allocation of Property Rights, Government Investment Programs...
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Comme la question environnementale préoccupe une large part de la population mondiale, l'environnement est désormais un champ d'action incontournable pour plusieurs gouvernements, et celui du Québec n'est pas en reste à cet égard. Cet ouvrage apporte un éclairage sur les idées, les institutions, les acteurs et les dynamiques en place qui entendent répondre aux défis et aux enjeux actuels. Ses auteurs étudient le rle des idées et des idéologies,...
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Este volumen comienza por examinar la historia de la ecología de Latinoamérica y el Caribe y su impacto en el desarrollo político. Continúa por explorar la idea de la naturaleza en la historia, una variable clave en el cómo las sociedades humanas interactúan con el medio ambiente, así como las actitudes hacia la producción y el consumo. Después hace una visión general de los temas principales en el estudio de las políticas ambientales:...
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Multiplication des ouragans. Disparition des glaciers. Prolifération des feux de forêt en Amazonie, en Australie et en Californie. Les désastres naturels font aujourd'hui partie intégrante de notre quotidien. À tel point que les nouvelles générations grandissent en sachant qu'au rythme o vont les choses, la Terre ne sera bientt plus habitable.
Mais un mouvement de transformation est en marche : celui de cette jeunesse, justement, qui lutte...
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The CAFO Reader is possibly the most powerful indictment of factory farming ever compiled, with essays from 30 of the world's leading experts. It also offers a vision for a food system that leaves behind the horrific 20th century model of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. The CAFO Reader brings the tragic world of industrial food production into sharp focus with essays on every facet of factory farming: health, environment, animal welfare, labor,...
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There's a whole new world of global warming science today, but few people hear about it. In recent years, an internally consistent body of scientific literature has emerged that argues cogently for global warming but against the gloom-and-doom vision of climate change. But those who merely call attention to this literature are intimidated, blacklisted, and even driven from prestigious scientific employment. Calling the current scientific environment...
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Science is under the greatest and most successful attack in modern history. An industry of denial, abetted by media more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate science-facts showing that human-caused emissions are warming the Earth. The industry of climate science denial is succeeding: public acceptance has declined even as the scientific evidence for global warming...
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Environmentalists want industrialized nations to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that warm the atmosphere. For more than twenty years, however, their pleas have been mostly ignored. Naval architects and ship designers can play a critical role in reducing greenhouse gases by designing effi cient ships that are safe and environment friendly. New innovations would enhance fuel effi ciency and encourage other industries to adopt new ways of thinking....
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