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Yin Lun
Climate Change and Traditional Knowledge

This book offers a profound examination of how mountain ethnic groups and local communities, particularly those in the Tibetan regions of the Eastern Himalayas, utilize traditional knowledge to confront t…

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Violent Atmospheres

"In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who…

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Grassroots Responses to Extractivism

"This volume aims to make visible the many innovative resistances, alternatives and cosmologies emanating from the Global South. Detailing case studies from Asia, Africa, and the Americas, the contri…

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Seeding Urban Transformation

Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity. A collection of case studies across …

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The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 3

The Sustainability Handbook: The Body of Knowledge around Disruptive Sustainability Innovation, Volume Three provides a comprehensive and holistic understanding of sustainability, bridging the gap between…

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Sunil Amrith
The Burning Earth

In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on a…

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John Gaventa, Gabe Schwartzman
Power and Just Transitions

Struggles over power and justice in the Clear Fork ValleyPublished in 1982, John Gaventa's award-winning Power and Powerlessnessexamined the dominance of the absentee coal industry in Central Appalachia. …

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U. Sunday Tim (Associate Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA), Sugam Sharma (Researcher, Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA)
The Geography of Climate Change Vulnerability

Geography of Climate Change Vulnerability: Exposure, Sensitivity and Adaptation explores the geographic dimensions of vulnerability of human- environmental systems to climate change. It provides informati…

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Manissa Maharawal
Anti-Eviction

A galvanizing story of how everyday people built a powerful anti-eviction movement in gentrified San Francisco.In the early 2010s, San Francisco experienced a tech boom that created both great wealth and …

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Andrew Furman
Of Slash Pines and Manatees

Through stories of nature near at hand, a South Florida writer offers a unique view of humans and the environment amid development and changeWings and talons clatter against a windowpane. Foxes den under …

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Lavar Pope
American Rap Scenes

"Rap in America examines the factors of geography, migration, movements, music, and technology on the origins, persistence, and legacy of rap music in 25 local music scenes. By studying how each of t…

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Tao Leigh Goffe
Dark Laboratory

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that i…

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Vijay Kolinjivadi, Aaron Vansintjan
The Sustainability Class

"A sustainability apartheid is emerging. More than ever, urban residents want to be green, yet to cater to their interests, a green-tech service economy has sprung up, co-opting well-intentioned conc…

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Philip Parker, Collins Books
History of Cities in Maps

A fascinating cartographic study of urban development, perfect for map and history lovers.

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Zoran Nikolic
The Atlas of Microstates

An ideal gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities.Defined as sovereign states with a very small population, land area, or both, microstates serve as fascinating case studies of geopol…

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Cairo Securitized

"A compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page."---Contemporary Sociolog…

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Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria

A sustained critique of postwar reconstruction in Syria as a politically neutral processIn 2011, emboldened by the Arab Spring, the Syrians rose up against their government. The Syrian regime used violenc…

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Robert N Spengler
Nature's Greatest Success

The 15,000-year story of how grass seduced humanity into being its unwitting labor force--and the science behind it.Domesticated crops were not human creations, and agriculture was not simply invented. As…

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Kevin Glynn, Julie Cupples
Transmedia Geographies

Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological…

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Kevin Glynn, Julie Cupples
Transmedia Geographies

Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological…

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