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Irrigation, Salinity, And Rural Communities In Australia'S Murray-Darling Basin, 1945â€“2020

by Daniel Rothenburg

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 Focusing on the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation district in the southwest of the Murray-Darling basin â€" the largest irrigation district in Australia â€" it explores the history of state-directed, large-scale engineering in the district, where the environment has been altered dramatically to facilitate white agricultural settlement inland.
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Irrigation, Salinity, And Rural Communities In Australia'S Murray-Darling Basin, 1945-2020

by Daniel Rothenburg

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 Focusing on the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation district in the southwest of the Murray-Darling basin - the largest irrigation district in Australia - it explores the history of state-directed, large-scale engineering in the district, where the environment has been altered dramatically to facilitate white agricultural settlement inland.
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Sky And Earth - Travelling With Dante Alighieri And Marco Polo

by Gaspare Polizzi e Giuseppe Mussardo

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 700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional contemporary, Marco Polo, who was equally curious about the geography of both earthly and celestial worlds.
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Social Entrepreneurship Strategies And Social Sector Sustainability - A Caribbean Context

by Ambica Medine e Indianna Minto-Coy

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 This book examines the social entrepreneurship strategies of nonprofit organizations (NPOs), with a focus on the Caribbean social sector.
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Capital And The Cosmos - War, Society And The Quest For Profit

by Peter Dickens

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 This book offers a new understanding of societyâ€™s relations with the cosmos. But these are being ignored and subverted by, for example, indigenous peoples. In short, this book setsout a new understanding of our relations with the cosmos.
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Invasive Predators In New Zealand - Disaster On Four Small Paws

by Carolyn M. King

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 The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. As a comprehensive historical perspective on the fate of an iconic endemic fauna, this book offers much-needed insight into one of New Zealandâ€™s longest-running national crises.
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The Myth Of Colorblindness - Race And Ethnicity In American Cinema

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 This book explores representations of race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema and the ways in which these depictions all too often promulgate an important racial ideology: the myth of colorblindness.
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Investigating Developmentalism - Notions Of Development In The Social Sphere

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 Compiling various strands of the dis/enchantment with development discourse in contemporary South Asia, with specific focus on the cases from India, this edited book brings together anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians to refresh the understanding of development.
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The Resilient City In World War Ii - Urban Environmental Histories

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 The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. As the first major study at the intersection of environmental, urban, and military history, The Resilient City in World War II lays the groundwork for an improved understanding of rapid change in urban environments, and how societies may adapt.
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Invasive Predators In New Zealand - Disaster On Four Small Paws

by Carolyn M. King

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 The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. As a comprehensive historical perspective on the fate of an iconic endemic fauna, this book offers much-needed insight into one of New Zealandâ€™s longest-running national crises.
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Invasive Predators In New Zealand - Disaster On Four Small Paws

by Carolyn M. King

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. As a comprehensive historical perspective on the fate of an iconic endemic fauna, this book offers much-needed insight into one of New Zealandâ€™s longest-running national crises.
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Resilient City In World War Ii - Urban Environmental Histories

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 The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. As the first major study at the intersection of environmental, urban, and military history, The Resilient City in World War II lays the groundwork for an improved understanding of rapid change in urban environments, and how societies may adapt.
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Moral Ecologies - Histories Of Conservation, Dispossession And Resistance

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 This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditryâ€"and how the â€˜banditsâ€™ fight back.
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The Myth Of Colorblindness - Race And Ethnicity In American Cinema

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 This book explores representations of race and ethnicity in contemporary cinema and the ways in which these depictions all too often promulgate an important racial ideology: the myth of colorblindness.
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Investigating Developmentalism - Notions Of Development In The Social Sphere

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 Compiling various strands of the dis/enchantment with development discourse in contemporary South Asia, with specific focus on the cases from India, this edited book brings together anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians to refresh the understanding of development.
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The Resilient City In World War Ii - Urban Environmental Histories

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 The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. As the first major study at the intersection of environmental, urban, and military history, The Resilient City in World War II lays the groundwork for an improved understanding of rapid change in urban environments, and how societies may adapt.
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El Nino In World History

by George Adamson e Richard Grove

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 This book examines the role of the El NiÃ±o Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society. In this volume, Richard Grove and George Adamson chart the dual history of El NiÃ±o: as a global phenomenon capable of devastating weather extremes and, since the 18th century, as a developing idea in science and society.
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Moral Ecologies - Histories Of Conservation, Dispossession And Resistance

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 This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditryâ€"and how the â€˜banditsâ€™ fight back.
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Environment, Modernization And Development In East Asia - Perspectives From Environmental History

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 Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.
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Arctic Environmental Modernities - From The Age Of Polar Exploration To The Era Of The Anthropocene

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 This book offers a diverse and groundbreaking account of the intersections between modernities and environments in the circumpolar global North, foregrounding the Arctic as a critical space of modernity, where the past, present, and future of the planetâ€™s environmental and political systems are projected and imagined.
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Selfie Citizenship

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 Contributions in this collection range from discussions of citizen engagement, to political campaigning, to selfies as forms of citizen witnessing, to selfies without a face.
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An Environmental History Of Southern Malawi - Land And People Of The Shire Highlands

by Brian Morris

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 This book is a pioneering and comprehensive study of the environmental history of Southern Malawi.
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Terania Creek And The Forging Of Modern Environmental Activism

by Vanessa Bible

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 This book tells the story of Terania Creek â€" the worldâ€™s first direct action blockade in defence of a forest, occurring in Australia in 1979. Contrary to claims that the Australian counterculture was a mere imitation of overseas models, the Australian movement, coalescing with a home-grown environment movement, came of age at Terania Creek.
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La Nina And The Making Of Climate Optimism - Remembering Rain

by Julia Miller

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 This book examines the deep connection Australians have with their climate to understand contemporary views on human-induced climate change. It is the first study of the Australian relationship with La NiÃ±a and it explains how fundamental this relationship is to the climate change debate both locally and globally.
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