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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a world of growing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, ensuring a safe Anthropocene for humankind is essential. Managing an increasingly "fragile" planet requires new thinking on markets, institutions, and governance built on five principles: ending the underpricing of nature; fostering collective action; accepting absolute limits; attaining sustainability; and promoting inclusivity. Rethinking economics and policies in this way can...
Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In The Blue and the green, anthropologist Jack Stauder analyzes how large-scale political, social, and environmental processes have transformed ranching and rural life in the West. Focusing on the community of Blue, Arizona, Stauder details how the problems of overgrazing, erosion, and environmental stresses on the open range in the early twentieth century coincided with a push by the newly created US Forest Service for the development of fenced...
9) The circular economy and the global south: sustainable lifestyles and green industrial development
Series
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, a group of 21 young people came together to sue the federal government for violating their constitutional rights by promoting the climate catastrophe that has already begun to deprive them of life, liberty and property without due process of law. The path breaking litigation, Juliana v United States, has had more success in the courts than many expected, but the federal government has repeatedly delayed the case from getting to trial. The...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From severe flooding in Louisiana to wildfires in the Pacific Northwest to melting permafrost in Alaska, catastrophic climate events are occurring more frequently--and severely--than ever. And these events are having a direct impact on the lives (and futures) of young people and their families. In the ongoing landmark case Juliana vs. United States, twenty-one young plaintiffs claim that the government's support of the fossil-fuel industry is actively...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sustainable development is a global priority, yet there needs to be more research that investigates the training of sustainable development practitioners to address critical multidisciplinary challenges. This disseration aims to analyze the ecosystem that trains development practitioners ; design a Masters in Sustainable Development Practice (MDP) program to train development practitioners and assess what their credentials should be to increase Jamaica's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 750L
Language
English
Description
"Marjory Stoneman Douglas didn't intend to write about the Everglades but when she returned to Florida from World War I, she hardly recognized the place that was her home. The Florida that Marjory knew was rapidly disappearing--the rare orchids, magnificent birds, and massive trees disappearing with it. Marjory couldn't sit back and watch her home be destroyed--she had to do something. Thanks to Marjory, a part of the Everglades became a national...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 800L
Language
English
Description
"The Florida Everglades are made up of nine different ecosystems supporting an astonishing variety of wildlife-panthers, manatees, snails, frogs, and a rainbow of bird species. But for years, the Everglades were threatened. They needed a voice to speak up for them. Marjory Stoneman Douglas became that voice. Her book "A River of Grass" helped the world see the irreplaceable beauty and value of the Everglades. Marjory's activism led to the creation...
Publisher
Bluewater Content, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"After 21 years of continuous failure in UN climate change negotiations 195 nations, 20,000 worldwide negotiators meet at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet."--