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Environment and Geography

NEW AND BESTSELLING TEXTBOOKS

Semester 1 | 2017

Social Ecology: Applying Ecological Understanding to Our Lives and Our Planet - David Wright, Catherine Camden-Pratt and Stuart Hill

Pbk | 336pp | 9781907359118 | 1/05/2011 | RRP (inc GST) A$59.95 | NZ$69 Hawthorn Press

Social Ecology addresses the burning question of how to apply ecological understanding to every aspect of our lives. It provides a holistic framework for change, based on the interralationships between the personal, social, environmental and 'spiritual'. It helps us to understand how we got here, and how to realise more sustainable futures. Students from all disciplines can use this valuable resource to help enrich their learning with social ecology insights and principles.

Statistical Methods for Geography: A Student's Guide 4ed Peter A Rogerson

Pbk | 424pp | 9781446295731 | 27/12/2014 | RRP (inc GST) A$89 | NZ$103 Sage Publications Ltd

How do beginning students of statistics for geography learn to fully understand the key concepts and apply the principal techniques? This text, now in its Fourth Edition, provides exactly that resource. Accessibly written, and focussed on studentlearning, it’s a statistics 101 that includes definitions, examples, and exercises throughout. Now fully integrated with online self-assessment exercises and video navigation, it explains everything required to get full credits for any undergraduate statistics module. It is the only text required for undergraduate modules in statistical analysis, statistical methods, and quantitativegeography.

Ancillary Materials

What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action - Per Stoknes

Pbk | 320pp | 9781603585835 | 1/05/2016 | RRP (inc GST) A$43.95 | NZ$49.95 Chelsea Green Publishing

The more facts that pile up about global warming, the greater the resistance to them grows, making it harder to enact measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare communities for the inevitable change ahead. It is a catch-22 that starts, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stoknes, from an inadequate understanding of the way most humans think, act, and live inthe world around them. With dozens of examples—from the private sector to government agencies—Stoknes shows how to retell the story of climate change and, at the same time, create positive, meaningful actions that can be supported even by deniers. In What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming, Stoknes not only masterfully identifies the five main psychological barriers to climate action, but addresses them with five strategies for how to talk about global

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet: 50 Low-Cost, Low-Tech, Nature-Based Practices for Combatting Hunger, Drought, and Climate Change - Courtney WhitePbk | 240pp | 9781603586177 | 8/10/2015 | RRP (inc GST) A$41.95 | NZ$47.95 Chelsea Green Publishing

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet profiles fifty innovative practices that soak up carbon dioxide in soils, reduce energy use, sustainably intensify food production, and increase water quality. White expands what he calls the "regenerative toolbox" to include holistic grazing, edible forests, biochar, weed-eating livestock, food co-ops, keyline plowing, restoration agriculture, bioenergy, aquaponics, animal power, Farm Hack, bees, bears, wildlife corridors, rainwater harvesting, native seeds, and various other projects from across the United States, as well as in Canada, Europe, and Australia. These short, engaging success stories will help readers connect the dots between diverse, exciting, and pragmatic practices, and inspire them to dig deeper into each individual story and concept, energized by the news that solutions do exist.

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere 4ed Robert Cox and Phaedra C Pezzullo

Pbk | 440pp | 9781483344331 | 19/05/2015 | RRP (inc GST) A$106 | NZ$121 Sage Publications Inc

The Fourth Edition of Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere remains the only comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication, ranging from an historical overview of key terms to important legal and technological developments. This innovative book focuses on how human communication influences the way we perceive and act in the environment. It also examines how we interpret environmental “problems” and decide what actions to take with regard to the natural world. Three-time president of the Sierra Club, the largest environmental group in the United States, lead author Robert Cox leverages his vast experience to offer insights into the news media, Congress, environmental conflict, advocacy campaigns, and other real-world applications of environmental communication.

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows

Pbk | 368pp | 9781931498586 | 1/06/2004 | RRP (inc GST) A$41.95 | NZ$48.95 Chelsea Green Publishing

In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update.

Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into

Theories of Development: Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives 3ed Richard Peet and Elaine Hartwick

Pbk | 370pp | 9781462519576 | 25/05/2015 | RRP (inc GST) A$88 | NZ$99 Guilford Publications Inc

This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals - what is economic growth, what is development, and what is the relationship between these two concepts? The authors examine orthodox theories of growth grounded in different schools of economics (classical, neoclassical, Keynesian, neoliberal) before considering critical alternatives (Marxist, socialist, poststructuralist, and feminist). The book elucidates the basic ideas that underpin contemporary controversies and debates surrounding economic growth, environmental crisis, and global inequality. It highlights points of contention among the various theories, links them to historical and current world events, and works toward envisioning a form of development that makes life better for all.

Thirst for Power: Energy, Water, and Human Survival Michael Webber

Hbk | 248pp | 9780300212464 | 7/06/2016 | RRP (inc GST) A$39.95 | NZ$47.95 Yale University Press

Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world's two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized. This farsighted book offers a new, holistic way of thinking about energy and water -a big picture approach that reveals the interdependence of the two resources, identifies the seriousness of the challenges, and lays out an optimistic approach with an array of solutions to ensure the continuing sustainability of both. The book is international in focus and rich in examples and anecdotes from North America, Asia, Australia, and elsewhere.

Age of Sustainable Development Jeffrey D Sachs

Pbk | 544pp | 9780231173155 | 10/02/2015 | RRP (inc GST) A$79 | NZ$92 Columbia University Press

This provocative work offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways they need to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. Based on Sachs's twelve years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals, and his recent presentation of these ideas in a popular online course, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and a clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice.

Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry (** ISE **) Daniel J Jacob

Hbk | 280pp | 9780691001852 | 1/01/2000 | RRP (inc GST) A$55.95 | NZ$64 Princeton University Press

Atmospheric chemistry is one of the fastest growing fields in the earth sciences. Until now, however, there has been no book designed to help students capture the essence of the subject in a brief course of study. Daniel Jacob, a leading researcher and teacher in the field, addresses that problem by presenting the first textbook on atmospheric chemistry for a one-semester course. Based on the approach he developed in his class at Harvard, Jacob introduces students in clear and concise chapters to the fundamentals as well as the latest ideas and findings in the field. Jacob's aim is to show students how to use basic principles of physics and chemistry to describe a complex system such as the atmosphere. He also seeks to give students an overview of the current state of research and the work that led to this point. Jacob begins with atmospheric structure, design of simple

Knowledge and Environmental Policy: Re-Imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics - William Ascher, Toddi Steelman and Robert Healy

Pbk | 280pp | 9780262514378 | 31/08/2010 | RRP (inc GST) A$55.95 | NZ$64 MIT Press

During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scientists were censored. The Obama administration has pledged to restore science to the policy making process. And yet, as the authors of Knowledge and Environmental Policy point out, the problems in connecting scientific discovery to science-based policy are systemic.William Ascher, Toddi Steelman, and Robert Healy analyze the dysfunction and offer recommendations for incorporating formal science and other important types of knowledge (including local knowledge and public sentiment) into the environmental policymaking process.

Material Geographies: A World in the Making Nigel Clark, Doreen Massey and Philip Sarre


Material Geographies shows that the present form of globalization has been actively 'made' by corporations, governments and international agencies, as well as through the combined efforts of many smaller actors.Taking a range of different perspectives -from financial institutions to nation states, global migration to local identity - this is a vivid exposition of how globalization works at different scales. Unique in teaching literature with its focus on the non-human, it demonstrates how globalization can be understood geographically.

Urban Theory: A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century - Alan Harding and Talja Blokland


This book explains relations between urban theory and modernity - the foundational concept in urban studies – in key ideas of the Chicago School, in spatial analysis, humanistic urban geography, and ‘radical' approaches like Marxism. It considers cities and the transition from industrial to informational economies, globalisation, the importance of urban growth machine and urban regime theory, the city as an “actor”. Spatial expressions of inequality - understood horizontally and vertically - and key ideas like segregation, ghettoisation, suburbanisation, gentrification, and “neighbourhood effects” are discussed. Socio-cultural spatial expressions of difference and key concepts like gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, public space; “culturalist” perspectives on identity, lifestyle, subculture are also covered. Finally, the book covers how cities should be understood as intersections of

Rural Geography Michael Woods


Rural Geography is an introduction to contemporary rural societies and economies in the developed world. It examines the social and economic processes at work in the contemporary countryside - including the more traditional: like agriculture; land use; and population; as well as wider themes like: rural health, crime, exclusion, commodification; and alternative lifestyles.

Conservation: Linking Ecology Economics and Culture Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and Peter Coppolillo

Pbk | 368pp | 9780691049809 | 29/11/2004 | RRP (inc GST) A$126 | NZ$144 Princeton University Press

Nearly 90 percent of the earth's land surface is directly affected by human infrastructure and activities, yet less than 5 percent is legally 'protected' for biodiversity conservation--and even most large protected areas have people living inside their boundaries. In all but a small fraction of the earth's land area, then, conservation and people must coexist. Conservation is a resource for all those who aim to reconcile biodiversity with human livelihoods. It traces the historical roots of modern conservation thought and practice, and explores current perspectives from evolutionary and community ecology, conservation biology, anthropology, political ecology, economics, and policy.

Ecological Thought Timothy Morton

Pbk | 184pp | 9780674064225 | 2/04/2012 | RRP (inc GST) A$38.95 | NZ$44.95 Harvard University Press

In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from the ecological entanglement, Morton contends, nor does aNaturea exist as an entity separate from the uglier or more synthetic elements of life. Realizing this interconnectedness is what Morton calls the ecological thought. In three concise chapters, Morton investigates the profound philosophical, political, and aesthetic implications of the fact that all life forms are interconnected. As a work of environmental philosophy and theory, The Ecological Thought explores an emerging awareness of ecological reality in an age of global warming. Using Darwin and contemporary discoveries in life sciences as root texts, Morton

Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and Practice Pamela Matson, William Clark and Krister Andersson

Hbk | 248pp | 9780691157610 | 1/04/2016 | RRP (inc GST) A$64 | NZ$73 Princeton University Press

Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with sustainability in particular sectors such as energy, food,water, and housing, or in particular regions of the world.

Key Methods in Geography 2ed Nicholas Clifford, Shaun French and Gill Valentine


Key Methods in Geography is an introduction for undergraduates to the principal methodological issues involved in the collection, analysis and presentation of geographical information. It provides an accessible overview, which will be used by students as a reference throughout their degree, on all issues from research design to presentation. A unique feature of the book is that it provides definitions of terms from both human geography and physical geography; especially relevant now that environment is so critical to our understanding of geography.

Key Methods in Geography 3ed Nicholas Clifford, Shaun French, Meghan Cope and Thomas Gillespie


Key Methods in Geography is the perfect student companion to geographical research methods, providing an overview of qualitative and quantitative methods for both human and physical geography. The third edition of this essential primer features: 9 new chapters representing emerging themes including online, virtual and digital geographical methods Video introductions for each section. The teaching of research methods is integral to all geography courses. Key Methods in Geography, 3rd Edition explains all of the key methods with which geography undergraduates must be conversant.

Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, People and Practices 2ed Stuart Aitken and Gill Valentine


A new edition of this classic student text. Organised in three sections, it overviews and explains the history and philosophy of human geographies in all its applications by those who practise it. Fully updated throughout and with eight brand new chapters -this is the core text for modules on history, theory, and practice in Human Geography. This edition is published with online video resources and teaching material making it even more accessible to students.

Sustainability through Soccer: An Unexpected Approach to Saving Our World - Leidy Klotz

Pbk | 200pp | 9780520287815 | 1/08/2016 | RRP (inc GST) A$47.95 | NZ$54.95 University of California Press

In the quest for sustainability, we strive to meet our present needs without sacrificing the same opportunity for future generations. Our success or failure depends on our ability to think in “systems,” integrating environmental, social, and economic considerations. But how do we learn systems-thinking? In a series of engaging, rapid-fire stories, Sustainability through Soccer takes readers on a journey through a progression of systems-thinking and sustainability concepts.

Introduction to Scientific Research Methods in Geography and Environmental Studies 2ed - Daniel Montello and Paul Sutton


This revised, updated, and extended second edition of An Introduction to Scientific Research Methods in Geography and Environmental Studies provides a broad and integrative introduction to the conduct and interpretation of scientific research,now covering both Geography and Environmental Studies. Fully updated, including references and further readings, the text includes links to relevant web sites.

Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency - Mark L Clifford

Hbk | 320pp | 9780231166089 | 1/04/2015 | RRP (inc GST) A$62 | NZ$71 Columbia University Press

One of Asia's best-respected writers on business and economy, Hong Kong-based author Mark L Clifford provides a behind-the-scenes look at what companies in China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand are doing to build businesses that will lessen the environmental impact of Asia's extraordinary economic growth. Clifford paints detailed profiles of what some of these companies are doing and includes a unique appendix that encapsulates the environmental business practices of more than fifty companies mentioned in the book.

Global Environment: Water, Air, and Geochemical Cycles 2ed (ISE) Elizabeth Kay Berner and Robert A Berner

Hbk | 488pp | 9780691136783 | 2/04/2012 | RRP (inc GST) A$85 | NZ$98 Princeton University Press

This newly revised edition of Global Environment discusses the major elements of the geochemical cycles and global fluxes found in the atmosphere, land, lakes, rivers, biota, and oceans, as well as the human effects on these fluxes. Retaining the strengths of the original edition while incorporating the latest discoveries, this textbook takes an integrated, multidisciplinary, and global approach to geochemistry and environmental problems and introduces fundamental concepts of meteorology, surficial geology (weathering, erosion, and sedimentation), biogeochemistry, limnology, and oceanography.

Geocomputation: A Practical Primer Chris Brunsdon and Alex Singleton


Geocomputation is the use of software and computing power to solve complex spatial problems. It is gaining increasing importance in the era of the ‘big data’ revolution, of ‘smart cities’, of crowdsourced data, and of associated applications for viewing and managing data geographically - like Google Maps. This accessible text has been specifically designed for those readers who are new to Geocomputation as an area of research, showing how complex real-world problems can be solved through the integration of technology, data, and geocomputational methods. This is the applied primer for Geocomputation in the social sciences.

Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age Robert N Bellah

Hbk | 784pp | 9780674061439 | 15/09/2011 | RRP (inc GST) A$89 | NZ$104 Harvard University Press

Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambitionaa wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution. How did our early ancestors transcend the quotidian demands of everyday existence to embrace an alternative reality that called into question the very meaning of their daily struggle? Robert Bellah, one of the leading sociologists of our time, identifies a range of cultural capacities, such as communal dancing, storytelling, and theorizing, whose emergence made this religious development possible. Deploying the latest findings in biology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology, he traces the expansion of

Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society Brad S Gregory

Hbk | 592pp | 9780674045637 | 1/01/2012 | RRP (inc GST) A$81 | NZ$93 Harvard University Press

In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerismaall these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West. Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformationas protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision,

Introduction to Green Criminology and Environmental Justice Angus Nurse


A comprehensive introduction to green criminology, this book is a discussion of the relationship between mainstream criminal justice and green crimes. Focused on environmental harm within the context of criminal justice this book takes a global perspective.

Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life Kari Marie Norgaard

Pbk | 304pp | 9780262515856 | 25/03/2011 | RRP (inc GST) A$56.95 | NZ$65 MIT Press

Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any action? In Living in Denial, sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question, drawing on interviews and ethnographic data from her study of and ldquo;Bygdaby, and rdquo; the fictional name of an actual rural community in western Norway, during the unusually warm winter of 2001-2002.

Teaching Geography (With CD-ROM) 3ed Phil Gersmehl

Pbk | 332pp | 9781462516414 | 20/06/2014 | RRP (inc GST) A$88 | NZ$101 Guilford Publications Inc

This widely adopted teacher resource and course text explains basic geographic principles and demonstrates how to bring them to life in engaging, challenging instruction for grades K–12. Accessibly written, the book is packed with instructional materials, teaching tips, and more than 100 maps and other graphics. Together with the companion CD-ROM, it presents effective ways to promote students' spatial-thinking skills while teaching them about the land, climate, economy, and cultures of places around the world.

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