Visste du att en tredjedel av all mat i världen inte äts upp? Den hamnar i stället i soporna. Det kallas för matsvinn, och det är dåligt för både plånboken och klimatet. I den här boken kan du läsa om vad du kan göra för att minska matsvinnet! Nypon…
Klimatsmarta recept som minskar matsvinnet.Vi slänger mer än en tredjedel av all mat som produceras i världen. Är det inte dags att börja agera mot matsvinnet? Som svar på den frågan föddes idén om restaurangen Retaste, där kockarna Paul Svensson oc…
"En av de viktigaste böcker jag någonsin läst - en oumbärlig guide till hur man lär sig att se klart på världen." - Bill Gates När vi människor får frågor om globala trender svarar vi nästan alltid fel. Högskolestudenter, företagsledare, Nobelprista…
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty-a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre-took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life's work. Thrown into a profession o…
Boken beskriver olika sorters natursten och hur de kan användas i såväl större som mindre trädgårdar. Du får inspiration och praktiska tips hur man kan anlägga och utforma olika markytor, trappor, små dammar och murar i trädgårdsmiljö. Trädgårdens ö…
Det finns många viktiga utmaningar inom det miljötekniska området som är avgörande avseende långsiktig hållbarhet. Den globala befolkningsutvecklingen och en ökad materiell välfärd har lett till att behovet av material, energi och transporter har b…
Vad vi än gör så blir det nästan alltid sopor och när vi slänger dem så blir vi ändå inte av med skräpet! Vi människor bygger gigantiska sopberg och förvandlar havet till en plastsoppa. Vi fraktar bort avfall till fjärran länder och lämnar till och…
Allt började med nyfikenhet. En kompis till Andreas Jakobsson berättade lyriskt om en matbutik i Uppsala. Inte för att butiken var extra billig eller bra utan för att dess soprum var lika lättillgängligt som välförsett. Andreas sögs in i dumpstrarna…
Designed for the undergraduate, introductory environmental science course, the thoroughly updated and redesigned tenth edition of Environmental Science continues to present a comprehensive, student-friendly introduction to contemporary environmental…
A practical, systems-based approach for a more sustainable farming operationTo many people today, using the words "factory" and "farm" in the same sentence is nothing short of sacrilege. In many cases, though, the same sound business practices apply…
From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an a…
Waste is one of the planet's last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted from computer circuit boards, artisans and multinational corporations alike are finding ways to profit from waste while diverting m…
Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the world's natural resources at unsustainable rates, even though these activities cause known harm to both people and ecosystems? Scientific knowledge and technolog…
Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book Le Contrat Naturel , Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and i…
The idea of cultural heritage has become widespread in many countries, justifying government regulation and providing the background to disputes over valuable works of art and architecture. In this book, Derek Gillman uses several well-known cases f…
Uncovers the systemic problems that expose poor communities to environmental hazards From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be haza…
In this visionary book, chemist Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough challenge this status quo and put forward a manifesto for an intriguing and radically different philosophy of environmentalism. "Reduce, reuse, recycle".
Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the…
Fotbolls-VM spelas vart fjärde år. Det är en av världens största idrottstävlingar. I den här boken kan du läsa om lagen, spelarna och roliga händelser. Och om när Sverige slog ut Italien, och blev klart för VM i Ryssland 2018. Den här boken ingår i…
Vissa saker är så viktiga att det är nästan omöjligt att förstå hur viktiga de är. I Sverige har vatten blivit en ickefråga rent vatten kommer ur kranen och smutsigt vatten försvinner snabbt utom synhåll. Men det är inget vi kan ta för givet längre.…
Dricksvatten är vårt viktigaste livsmedel. Det måste vara hälsosamt och alltid finnas i tillräcklig mängd. Till vad använder vi dricksvattnet? Behöver vi hushålla med användningen av dricksvatten för att kommunernas vattentäkter eller din privata br…
From the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions.Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old c…
A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world's leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption o…
Environment and Politics 4th Edition is a concise introduction to this ever-expanding interdisciplinary field, explaining and illustrating how concepts, conflicts, movements, political systems and the practices of policy-making can be analysed in a…
Återbruk – Nya former i vår tid.AntologiRagnvi HyllstedtÅterbruk i stort och smått ligger i tiden. Att miljökonferensen i polska kolbrytningsstaden Katowice och att Årets Julklapp 2018 är ett återanvänt klädesplagg är ett tecken i tiden.Textil…
#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New Deal--explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.…
Includes access to the Student Companion WebsiteAppropriate for students with a general chemistry background, Principles of Environmental Chemistry helps students understand the underlying chemical processes that are operating in the environment whi…
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely un…
New exploration tools and techniques for a breakthrough paradigm of regional groundwater occurrence Fresh water is undoubtedly our most precious resource aside from the air we breathe, and the only commodity whose cost has steadily risen over time.…
Social work has been late to engage with the environmental movement. Often working with an exclusively social understanding of environment, much of the social work profession has overlooked the importance of environmental issues. However, recently,…
A comprehensive guide to understanding the biology and biological conditions of the treatment process Due to the importance of anaerobic digesters in wastewater treatment processes, a review of the microbiology of the bacteria and the operational c…
Environmental problems are firmly on the political agenda. The stark threat to the planet from climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution can no longer be ignored by governments, political parties, businesses or individuals. Responding to the c…
Esteemed philosopher John Broome avoids the familiar ideological stances on climate change policy and examines the issue through an invigorating new lens. As he considers the moral dimensions of climate change, he reasons clearly through what univer…
As climate change begins to take a serious toll on the planet--with much more damage yet to come--a solution to our warming problems is hiding in plain sight. We need to commit to de-carbonizing our economy, and do so immediately, but so far we have…
Politics and the Environment has established itself as one of the most comprehensive textbooks in this area. This new edition has been completely revised and updated whilst retaining the features and the theory-to-practice focus which made the first…
Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums...we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How di…
In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork i…
The first text available devoted completely to industrial ecology/green engineering, this introduction provides everything instructors need to teach a successful course-including visuals-in one source. The authors use industrial ecology principles a…
The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selec…
Den här boken handlar om de tekniska systemen i tätorterna med tanke på framtida uthållighet. Den tar upp historia, dagsläge och tendenser. Alla funktioner i samhället är beroende av att flöden av människor, material och meddelanden fungerar. Boken…
Most of today's decision makers will be dead before the planet suffers the full consequences of acid rain, global warning, ozone depletion, widespread desertification, and species loss. Most of today's young voters, however, will be alive.In this, p…
The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from ten years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, gover…
A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in an age of ecocide Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that…
»Stadens sopor är en rik och nyanserad bok med många empiriska förtjänster. För att vara en doktorsavhandling erbjuder den påfallande litet motstånd och bör hitta en läsekrets långt utöver den akademiska publiken.« Svenska Dagbladet Ylva S. Sjöstran…
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book…
It is difficult to believe that our planet has been weaponized before our very eyes, but that is exactly what has happened. First, we were seduced by the convenience of a wireless world; then, atmospheric weather experimentation in the guise of carb…
Donald Worster examines the development history of the American West, identifying the elite of technology and wealth who have controlled its most essential resource: water.
Vart åker kisset när du spolar? Hur renas dricksvattnet? Hur kan din sänglampa lysa? Var kommer elen ifrån? Det finns många så-funkar-det-böcker. Men det finns väldigt få så-hänger-det-ihop-böcker. I den här boken skildras hur några fiffigasystem hä…
Vinklar och rör ingår i en bokserie för yrkessvenska där totalt sex yrkesprofiler presenteras. Titlar i serien: * Bakom ratten - Att arbeta med transport * Förskolan Liljan - Att arbeta inom barnomsorg * Idas arbetsvecka - Att arbeta inom vård och…
"Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice."-Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and…
