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Environment, Scarcity, and Violence
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 35.00The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water, and forests. Thomas Homer-Dixon argues in this sobering book... more...
The Sustainable Network
O'Reilly Media 2009; US$ 23.99"Companies with a stake in the technology industry or that have staked on the Internet (ala Google or Amazon or any of the thousands of small ecommerce companies around the world) are likely to pluck multiple nuggets of wisdom from her book." -- Heather Clancy, business journalist What technologies do we need to solve the complex environmental,... more...
Nature's End
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 30.00Environmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts. more...
Developmental Geography & Economic Theory
Swastik Publishers & Distributors 2010; US$ 40.00Why do certain ideas gain currency in economics while others fall by the wayside? The author argues that the unwillingness of mainstream economists to think about what they could not formalize led them to ignore ideas that turn out, in retrospect, to have been very good ones. He examines the course of economie geography and development theory to shed... more...
Grounding Religion
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 43.95How do religion and the natural world interact with one another? Grounding Religion introduces students to the growing field of religion and ecology, exploring a series of questions about how the religious world influences and is influenced by ecological systems. Grounding Religion examines the central concepts of ?religion? and ?ecology? using... more...
Télédétection de l'environnement dans l'espace francophone
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1994; US$ 40.50Recueil d'articles scientifiques sur la télématique appliquée à la gestion des ressources, la surveillance de l'environnement et l'aménagement du territoire dans les pays membres de Sommets des chefs d'États et de gouvernements faisant usage du français. Descriptions des actions et situations où... more...
Le problème de l'homme chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1991; US$ 21.75Étude faite selon trois perspectives différentes soit : celle du Discours sur l'Inégalité, de l'Émile et de la Profession de foi du vicaire savoyard. L'auteur montre un Jean-Jacques Rousseau fidèle aux principes de liberté et de bonté naturelle dont l'oeuvre ne se comprend que par son anthropologie.... more...
Le territoire pensé
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 2003; US$ 29.25La trame du monde est géographique. Cet ouvrage propose une approche de la notion d'identité territoriale, de territoire, d'espace identitaire et des enjeux qui en découlent. Approche qui paraît pertinente à une époque où les commentateurs du phénomène de la mondialisation concluent, un peu vite,... more...
The Global Casino: An Introduction to Environmental Issues
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2008; US$ 54.95This new edition of the Global Casino has been fully updated and redesigned in colour. It is the essential introduction to environmental issues linking the physical environment to the political, social and economic contexts in which these issues occur. more...
Respacing Africa
BRILL 2009; US$ 87.00Drawing on the rich contributions from various disciplines to the so-called spatial turn this edited volume offers insights into the way Africa is changing in terms of contested sovereignities and new regimes of territoriality. more...









