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  • La Terre chauve

    Aliments pollués

    Maurice Pasquelot établit le bilan actuel de la pollution des aliments. Un bilan dramatique : nous nous empoisonnons chaque jour en toute inconscience. Les mesures prises à l’échelle nationale ou internationale sont totalement insuffisantes à enrayer le processus de dégradation chimique de ce que nous mangeons ou buvons. Dans soixante ans, quinze milliards d’hommes manqueront d’eau et s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Economic Analysis of Environmental Policies

    Series series Heritage
    A framework is concisely presented for the economic analysis of pollution problems and for evaluating proposed solutions. The substantial recent literature on environmental economics is reviewed and related to Ontario environmental policy. Topics include the theory of externalities as an explanation of environmental problems, policy objectives, costs of information and monitoring, and the impact ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • La protection des sites

    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • L'écologie contre le chômage

    Savez-vous qu’une politique économique privilégiant la protection de l’environnement, pourrait permettre de créer - aujourd’hui en France - 400 000 à 500 000 emplois nouveaux ? Ce n’est ni un rêve, ni un vœu pieux, mais l’un des résultats d’estimations très sérieuses, présentées par les Amis de la Terre dans ce livre. Face à la crise, les écologistes ont, en effet, des propositions à faire, et qui ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • La vie en vert

    Le mariage de l'économie et de l'écologie

    L’écologie n’est plus le fait de marginaux. Plus personne ne conteste la nécessité d’une politique écologique et la révélation du désastre des pays de l’Est ne fait qu’amplifier ce phénomène de prise de conscience. Dans ce nouveau contexte, le vieil antagonisme entre l’industriel qui pollue et l’écologiste pur et dur apparaît désuet. L’entreprise, en intégrant l’exigence écologique à ses produits, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Right Livelihood Award and Further Initiatives for a Sustainable Society

    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.The Right Livelihood Award, known as "the Alternative Nobel Prize," was established in 1980 "to honor and support individuals who are finding practical solutions to the most urgent challenges facing us today." Jakob von Uexkull describes the Award and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Ecologically Sustainable Economic Development: Not Just Another Pretty Face

    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.George Davis devoted his MacArthur fellowship to mapping the watershed of Lake Baikal, the largest fresh-water source on earth. Using zoning methods, conservation easements, and the community land trust model for the productive land, he has undertaken ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Food and Society

    A Sociological Approach

    The importance of food is undeniable. Yet, because it is so close and obvious, we often fail to pay attention to it. In Food and Society: A Sociological Approach, author William C. Whitt attempts to develop a multi-level, multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between food and the larger world.Organized from the experiences of food consumption through its preparation, distribution, storage ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Vers une révolution doublement verte

    by Collectif ...
    Jouer avec, et non contre la variabilité des systèmes, mettre en pratique dans l'agriculture les connaissances accumulées par l'écologie scientifique : la révolution doublement verte a pour ambition d'accroître les productions sans diminuer le potentiel des milieux et la biodiversité, de réduire la pauvreté et l'insécurité alimentaire en respectant les conditions d'une viabilité et d'une équité ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Les politiques de développement rural

    Des années de croissance au temps d'incertitude. 2e édition, revue et augmentée

    by Paul Houée ...
    Nourri d'expériences autant que de recherches, ce livre propose aux responsables, élus, enseignants ou étudiants qu'intéresse l'évolution des territoires ruraux, un ouvrage de synthèse pour l'action : partant des mesures administratives et des pratiques publiques, il remonte au contexte socio-économique et politique qui les a suscitées et qui, peu à peu, a modifié l'espace rural et les activités ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forest Gardening

    by Robert Hart ...
    Forest gardening is a way of working with nature which is not only productive and requires minimal maintenance, but also has fantastic environmental benefits.You don't need a forest for forest gardening. Based on the model of a healthy natural woodland, a forest garden incorporates a wide variety of useful plants, including fruit and nut trees, perennial herbs, and vegetables in vertical layers. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Building a Win-Win World

    Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare

    “She finds paths from competition to cooperation . . . from global abuse to grassroots solutions—and thus from isolated despair to communal action.” —Gloria SteinemWorld-renowned futurist Hazel Henderson extends her twenty-five years of work in economics to examine the havoc the current economic system is creating at the global level. Markets are now spreading worldwide—a spread which is often ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Myth of Green Marketing

    Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse

    by Toby Smith ...
    Series series Heritage
    In this groundbreaking study, Toby Smith analyses the role that social myths such as green marketing play in public understanding of the environmental crisis.This book introduces the concept of hegemony into environmental politics, using the concept to elucidate the political, economic, and social alliance that sustains our belief in industrial expansionism. The ecological crisis of the late ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • L'élevage dans la révolution agricole au Waalo, delta du fleuve Sénégal

    Deux ethnies : les Wolofs, agriculteurs sédentaires, et les Peuls, éleveurs transhumants, ont élaboré des modes de mise en valeur agricole parfois peu performants, mais bien adaptés à un environnement agricole et humain difficile. L'élevage est resté en dehors de la politique d'assistance et de subvention accompagnant la révolution agricole conduite depuis 30 ans par l'Etat sénégalais. Cependant, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tourism Collaboration and Partnerships

    Politics, Practice and Sustainability

    Series Book 2 - Aspects of Tourism
    This book explores the concept, techniques and implications of establishing stakeholder collaboration in sustainable tourism. The importance of involving a wide range of stakeholders in tourism planning and management is increasingly recognised. This reflects a move to less top-down, more decentralised and more inclusive forms of governance in tourism and in other policy fields. Twenty-two leading ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Lean and Green

    Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment

    When it comes to believing that business can be profitable and environmentally sensitive, cynics abound on both sides. But in Lean and Green, Pamela Gordon proves that capitalism and environmentalism are not mutually exclusive-quite the contrary. She shows how "green" business practices enable organizations to save millions, even billions of dollars each year. Lean and Gree chronicles over one ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Tourism in Peripheral Areas

    Case Studies

    Series Book 1 - Aspects of Tourism
    There has been little research on tourism in those European countries or regions which lie outside the continent’s main centres of production and population, even though tourism may be one of the few economic options open to them. This volume aims to fill a gap by presenting a range of case studies – including northern Sweden, the Orkneys, the tip of Norway and northern Cyprus – on tourism in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Agricultures en crise

    Populations, matières premières et ressources naturelles en Indonésie, 1996-2000

    Ce livre étudie l'impact de la crise écologique, monétaire et politique sur l'agriculture Indonésienne à partir de la situation et des stratégies des producteurs. En 1998, alors que des millions d'agriculteurs tournés vers l'exportation voient leurs revenus augmenter considérablement, les producteurs de cultures vivrières faisant face à une situation climatique et économique difficile, survivent ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Le poisson fumé sur la Petite Côte Sénégalaise

    Les auteurs étudient les systèmes techniques de transformation artisanale du keccax (sardinelle fumée, salée et séchée) au Sénégal, en mettant en évidence les processus d'acquisition et de transmission des savoir-faire, d'innovation et d'organisation de l'activité. Des enquêtes permettent d'appréhender les préférences des consommateurs, leurs critères de choix, ainsi que les tendances d'évolution. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Going Local: New Opportunities for Community Economies

    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Michael Shuman's lecture to the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires points to the shift that is occurring from a global economy focusing on cheap goods and the protection of private bottom lines to a local economy centering on place and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

    The Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a comprehensive presentation of definitions, philosophies, policies, models, and analyses of global environmental and developmental issues. With a wealth of comparative, multidisciplinary, and geographically varied perspectives on environmental governance, it also provides detailed and balanced discussions about specific ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Chemical Free Pest Control

    Hundreds of Practical and Inexpensive Ways to Control Pests without Chemicals

    by Robin Stewart ...
    Why use toxic and potentially harmful chemicals to control pests when chemical-free methods are equally effective - and much cheaper!This book contains everything you need to know to make pests unwelcome in your home - from ants, cockroaches, silverfish, slugs and snails, cane toads, rats, rabbits and foxes through to common household dust mites, bacteria, mildew and mould.Robin Stewart's Chemical ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Methanhydrate als Lösung des Knappheitsproblems fossiler Ressourcen ?

    by Markus Groth ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich VWL - Umweltökonomie, Note: 1,3, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre; Lehrstuhl für Ordnungs- und Prozesspolitik), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Ökologische Ökonomik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1.Einleitung Innerhalb vieler Millionen Jahre sind die fossilen Energievorräte der Erde entstanden. Doch nach nur ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Globale Schadstoffe und Migration - Ein Modell

    Ein Modell

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich VWL - Umweltökonomie, Note: 1,0, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Volkswirtschaftslehre), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Umweltprobleme, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts befindet sich die Welt im Wandel. Die alle Lebensbereiche umfassende Globalisierung stellt die Menschheit vor neue ... Read more

    $7.99 USD