Perspectives on Global Change: The TARGETS Approach

Offers an outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy - both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. This book sets out the clean-technology breakthroughs the world needs.

A Poem which, in nineteen long cantos, tells the life of the Buddha, following traditional accounts of Newar and Nepali Buddhism.

Connects the food crisis, peak oil, and climate change to show that a world beyond a dependence on fossil fuel and globalization is both possible and necessary. This book shows how three crises are inherently linked and that any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.

Provides accounts of pollution at four sites - Kola Peninsula, northern Bohemia, upper Vistula Basin, and Katowice. This book examines the use of biomarkers to assess the environmental health of these areas and make recommendations on the future direction of remedial action.

The Problem of Civilization.

This, the second volume in the Endgame series, examines mankind's means of resistance.

In 1984, the Ok Tedi Mining Company Limited began mining copper and gold mineralization from Mt Fubilan. In 1990, mining begin at the Porgera gold mine located at the headwaters of the Strickland River. This book offers information to understand the environmental complexity and dynamics of this large and undisturbed tropical river system.

Looks to the future to discover what the world might be like, and how it would change, if humans disappeared. This book examines areas of the world that have been abandoned or never occupied by humans to see how they have fared without us and looks beyond to discover for how long, our cities, achievements and mistakes will last after we are gone.

* The only comprehensive book on peri-urban (rural-urban) areas of the developing world, home to hundreds of millions of people; written by the leading researchers and practitioners in the field * Complete coverage of core topics including resource sustainability, livelihoods, agriculture, urbanization, planning, and governance, and future action plans for research and problem solving* Vast case .

* The only comprehensive book on peri-urban (rural-urban) areas of the developing world, home to hundreds of millions of people; written by the leading researchers and practitioners in the field