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British Politics and the Environment

British Politics and the Environment

1st Edition

By John McCormick
February 13, 2013

Britain has an immense range of environmental law and the reputation for largely ignoring it. John McCormick describes the fascinating story of the political growth of that law, and the pressures, the compromises, the parliamentary and civil service opportunism that allowed the edifice to grow over...

Dirty Words Writings on the History and Culture of Pollution

Dirty Words: Writings on the History and Culture of Pollution

1st Edition

By Hannah Bradby
February 28, 2013

Did dinosaurs contribute to global warming? What is rubbish theory and what indeed is rubbish? And how did the whale become a cuddly toy? And why did we decide to saturate our land and food with pesticides? Dirty Words examines all of these questions and also includes a study of pollution in ...

Environmental Law and Citizen Action

Environmental Law and Citizen Action

1st Edition

By Alan Murdie
February 28, 2013

Never before have people been so aware of the importance of sound environmental law, as every week stories of controversial planning developments and prosecutions for the release of toxic substances feature in the news. Environmental Law and Citizen Action sets out and explains the ways that ...

Fax Messages from a near future

Fax: Messages from a near future

1st Edition

By Jorge Wilheim
February 28, 2013

'THIS SHORT BOOK IS A REVELATION AND AN INSPIRATION. USING THE SIMPLE BUT BRILLIANT DEVICE OF AN EXCHANGE OF FAXES FROM ACROSS TIME. IT REVEALS TO US WHAT THE FUTURE MAY HOLD' FROM THE FOREWORD BY SIR RICHARD ROGERS Originally published in 1996...

The Earthscan Action Handbook for People and Planet

The Earthscan Action Handbook for People and Planet

1st Edition

By Miles Litvinoff
February 28, 2013

We have poisoned the air and water on which our lives depend. Poor countries exhaust their land in the struggle to survive while rich countries demand more and more. The Earthscan Action Handbook spells out why things have gone so terribly wrong and what each of us can do to clean up the mess. ...

When the Bough Breaks... Our children, our environment

When the Bough Breaks...: Our children, our environment

1st Edition

By Lloyd Timberlake, Laura Thomas
April 11, 2013

TO ACCOMPANY A MAJOR ITV DOCUMENTARY We are poisoning our planet and destroying the lives of our children. In the west arguments rage over how much nuclear radiation and toxic dumping is safe, while children continue to breath filthy air and eat food full of pesticides. In the third World, over ...

Richer Futures Fashioning a New Politics

Richer Futures: Fashioning a New Politics

1st Edition

Edited By Ken Worpole
October 01, 2009

In all aspects of our lives - housing, education, food and health, transport, the quality and diversity of our environment - public policy is attracting criticism. In the face of unchecked and unregulated market forces, the renewed interest in community-based mutual-aid solutions is gaining force. ...

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