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The poems in Fuel pick at the weave of oil-fueled world orders to interrogate the ways capitalist death-drive seeps into our unconscious lives.Traversing the underworld of Central Valley oil fields and champagne rooms, Stockton articulates blurry modes of extraction, consent, gender, and labor as they interact and overlap in the shadow of environmental and social collapse. Fuel illuminates the ways oil lubricates, saturates, and even drives our most intimate relations, ultimately infecting our inner worlds with fantasies of “The End.”

"More than thirty years ago, when Sherri Goodman became the Pentagon s first Chief Environmental Officer, no one would have imagined this role for our armed forces. Indeed, for much of the twentieth century, the Department of Defense (DOD) was better known for containing the Soviet nuclear threat than protecting the environment. And yet, today, the military has moved from an environmental laggard to a clean energy and climate leader, recognizing that a warming world exacerbates every threat--from hurricanes and forest fires, to competition for increasingly scarce food and water, to terrorism and power plays by Russia and China. The Pentagon now considers climate in war games, disaster relief planning, international diplomacy, and even the design of its own bases. What was the key to this dramatic change in military thinking? What keeps today s generals and admirals up at night? How can we safeguard our national defense and our planet?"--

The definitive field guide to the floristic wonder of the Alps. Walking through an Alpine meadow in late spring is one of Europe's great wildlife experiences - the variety of flowers can be both dizzying and magical, while the prospect of identifying them can appear intimidating. This brilliant guide book provides the answer. Alpine Flowers covers every species that occurs in the alpine and subalpine zones - more than 1,000 are covered with detailed descriptions and photographic coverage, with images of a further 700 rarer or accidental species included. Photographs have been carefully selected to allow key identification criteria to be pinpointed. Range maps are also included to show at a glance where the plants can regularly be found. Comprehensive yet portable, this book belongs in every Alpine naturalist's backpack.

Nuclear war is a far greater immediate threat to humanity's survival than climate change, but why is no one talking about it?A blip comes onto radar screens, followed by another. False alarm? System malfunction? Or is a massive missile about to hit? With America's 'launch on warning' policy, the US president has as little as six minutes to decide whether to mount a nuclear response. The world teeters constantly on the brink of nuclear annihilation - and yet nobody is even talking about it. There are no marches, no COPs, no nuclear Greta, but nuclear war is a greater immediate threat to humanity's survival than climate change. A full nuclear exchange would literally mean the end of civilisation , destroying in a week what has taken millennia to build. In the post-nuclear global darkness there would be no photosynthesis. The biosphere would be wiped out in a mass extinction rivalled only by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Temperatures would fall below freezing for months on end. Virtually the entire global human population would starve, and there would be no reliable refuge. Ignoring the issue is no more of a solution to the nuclear threat than it was to the climate one. Six Minutes to Winter outlines the horror but also proposes a solution - the building of an international political movement fighting for the total global abolition of these terrible weapons. And the time to start is now.

This book offers readers a diversity of perspectives, experiences and practical examples from various facets of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) that can propel practice, further research and inform decision-making in the region, thus making for more cogent and effective ESE.

How should we be putting a price on carbon, particularly in developing countries? This volume takes up this contested issue and examines how different economic instruments might apply in developing countries, with a special focus on South Africa. The papers included address a variety of themes in this area: Emissions trading, carbon taxes, fiscal and non-fiscal instruments, policy and institutional dimensions, and lessons from the Clean Development Mechanism. Presenting the very latest research, the volume will be of interest to academics and policymakers in economics, policy and development.

An ethnography of the lives of the super-rich housewives of Delhi, this book delineates the ways in which these elite women construct their class and femininity.

Are we winning or losing the battle for safe environments? In 1984, leading disaster risk management professionals and researchers met in Jamaica for the Ocho Rios conference on Disaster Mitigation. In this collection, key experts reflect on the progress made in disaster risk reduction since that conference, with a particular emphasis on the Caribbean. Areas of focus include: trends in disaster risk managementthe links between disaster risk management and developmentthe development of community based actionsthe efficacy of regulations to achieve safetythe evolution of risk management institutions. The resulting volume provides a comprehensive overview of progress in the field and will be of interest to all those involved in disaster risk management and development.

This book draws on case studies from rural communities across the Global South to understand how previous experiences with the Green Revolution can be used to inform new agricultural developments. Its aim is to enable socially just and environmentally sustainable futures for rural communities in a rapidly changing world.It was published a

This book is a compilation of studies that explore opportunities for profitability for aquaculture practitioners through the creation and delivery of value from cost leadership and/or product differentiation. The studies focus on producer and consumer issues as well as trade.This book was published as a special issue of Aquaculture Ec

This collection explore the stability and cohesion of Pakistan through issues of political Islam, minorities, wider political trends, and the economic impacts of the recent floods to seek to explain some of the key drivers of change within Pakistan, and to reflect on the dynamics of US-Pakistan relationships and Pakistan's rethinking of its regi

As one of the first interdisciplinary and multi-perspective investigations, Disaster risk reduction for natural hazards: putting research into practice provides a practical yet intellectually challenging investigation into the emerging field of disaster risk reduction.This book was published as a special issue of Environmental Hazards

For communities to benefit from sustainable development, strong and lasting partnerships between the agricultural and the broader community are necessary. This book combines lessons learned from both sustainable agriculture and community development interests in moulding sustainable development strategies.This book was published as a

This book brings together several systems-level approaches to look at the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource management and participatory action research on sustainable development.

This collection examines "regional rhetorics," or discourses relating to both geographical and imagined regional spaces.This book was originally published as a special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

Drawing from discussions that pulled together child researchers working near the borders of Mexico, the United States and Canada, the essays in this collection explore how material and metaphoric borders give way to young people's experimentations with cultural, social and political change.This book was published as a special issue o

Street Computing develops tools and techniques that will help urban residents help themselves. Metaphorically speaking, it is taking computing to the street by giving the general public - rather than just researchers and professionals - the power to leverage available city infrastructure and create solutions tailored to their indiv

This is the first book to examine the development of post-communist social movements of the last decade focusing specifically on various types of rights-based civic activism (ranging from disability organizations and human rights activism to animal rights, gay rights and women's movements) in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia.

This book examines how over the last twenty years two basic types of post-communist parliaments have persisted, with underlying changes in their party systems, and how they function in practice.This book was published as a special issue of Journal of Legislative Studies.

This ground-breaking collection proposes a 'regimes of mobility' framework that addresses the relationships between mobility and immobility, localisation and transnational connection, experiences and imaginaries of migration, and rootedness and cosmopolitan openness.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Jo

Beyond Shelter after Disaster critiques past approaches and explores future options for improving practice in one of the most complex areas of post disaster relief and recovery.This book was originally published as a special issue in Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions.

This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology, a creative industry, and a vibrant cultural form that is "at large" in South Asia.This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

This international collection provides a diverse yet coherent range of new scholarship and opinion on this fascinating and often perplexing post-Soviet country. Revolution, war, great power politics, civil society and peacemaking, as well as crime and corruption, all receive intensive and fresh evaluation from leading analysts.This book i

This book illustrates the complexities of building civil dialogue and the difficulties of integrating diverse interests within new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.This book was published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.

The book provides a detailed account, from the perspective of evolutionary economics, of the ways in which new technological pathways in renewable energy technologies may be created in historical conditions of path dependence and lock-in.This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.