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An idealistic twenty-something environmentalist. A retired right-wing finance minister. All their lives, they've happily ignored each other. Until now. Anna Rose, environmental crusader since the age of fourteen and co-founder of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, is on a mission. This is the story of her biggest challenge yet: a whirlwind journey around the world with conservative powerbroker and arch climate sceptic Nick Minchin. From a remote Hawaiian volcano to a cosmic ray laboratory in Geneva, Anna rolls out the biggest names in science to try and change Nick's mind.It's a journey to tell the story of what's happening to our climate—not just to one man, but to a nation divided on the biggest issue of our times. Nick and Anna challenge each other's views, provoking each other to confront closely held assumptions and question our responsibilities as citizens living in uncertain times.

Earth system science -- Earth's geosphere, biosphere, and climate -- The evolution of the biosphere -- Technosphere impacts on the global biogeochemical cycles -- Technosphere impacts on the biosphere -- Scenarios of global environmental change -- Globalization and ecological modernization -- Global environmental governance -- Global monitoring -- Socio-ecological systems -- Key concepts for a new planetary paradigm -- Lexicon of the spheres.

Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes and workplaces, the things we use each day. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our bodies, our genes, our grandkids, and all life on Earth. Julian Cribb describes the full scale of the chemical catastrophe we have unleashed. He proposes a new Human Right - not to be poisoned. He maps an empowering and hopeful way forward: to rid our planet of these toxins and return Earth to the clean, healthy condition which our forebears enjoyed, and our grandchildren should too.

The recognition that climate change is now a climate emergency has been endorsed by a wide range of scientists and the United Nations. Natural scientists focus on the aggregate impacts of human activity resulting from burning fossil fuels and producing food, and hence speak of anthropogenic climate change. Climate Emergency analyses the socio-economic and political forces driving the climate emergency, developing the complementary concept of 'sociogenic climate change' to show how societies both create the crisis and are challenged by it in different ways. Harvey demonstrates how societies inhabit different resource environments, whether for fossil fuel reserves, or for land, sun, and water, differences which condition their histories and cultures. In introducing the sociogenic approach to climate change, Harvey re-examines history through the lens of climate change, re-writing the climate impact of the British industrial revolution; US settler colonialism; slavery and Native American genocides; the electrification of societies and infrastructures for fossil-fuelled transportation; and changes in our eating habits. In the big historical picture, different societies and political economies have both created an unequal world and so continue to make an unequal contribution to climate change. This can only be understood by showing how societies have come to distinctively exploit planetary resources in different ways. Societies create the crisis and have to be politically involved in addressing the crisis.

The call for strong sustainability / Karl Johan Bonnedahl and Pasi Heikkurinen -- The long history of unsustainability : inter-species relations since the 1850s / Tarja Ketola, Tuomas Räsänen and Taina Syrjämaa -- Rethinking economic ontologies : from scarcity and market subjects to strong sustainability / Teppo Eskelinen and Kristoffer Wilén -- Rights of nature as a prerequisite for sustainability / Pella Larsdotter Thiel and Henrik Hallgren -- The energy ethic and strong sustainability : outlining key principles for a moral compass / Giovanni Frigo -- Ecosystem infrastructure for sustainability : revaluating nature through community-based water and land policies in Brazil / Mohammad Al-Saidi and Renata Buriti -- Urban ecosystem services and stakeholders : towards a sustainable capability approach / Anna Heikkinen, Hannela Mäkelä, Johanna Kujala, Jere Nieminen, Ari Jokinen and Hanna Rekola -- Meat consumption and the environmental unsustainability of economic growth : the case of China / Jennifer Rivers Cole and Suzanne K. McCoskey -- Business models based on strongly sustainable entrepreneurship : insights from a systemic literature review / Herman Stål -- Biodiversity as integral to strongly sustainable supply chains : review and exemplars in the natural resources sectors / Anne Quarshie, Asta Salmi, Joanna Scott-Kennel and Anni-Kaisa Kähkönen -- Sustainable investment and degrowth / Tommi Lehtonen -- Strongly sustainable consumption and a case of mistaken identity : a qualitative study on environmentally concerned individuals / Kristoffer Wilén and Tiina Taipale -- Being matters : a holistic conception of wellbeing in the shift towards strongly sustainable societies / Tuula Helne -- Relearning with permaculture : exploring knowledges of innovation for strong sustainability / Maxim Vlasov and Zsuzsanna Vincze -- Redesigning community as an ecovillage : lessons from Earthaven / Todd Levasseur and Lee Warren -- Dead ends and living futures : a framework for sustainable change / Pasi Heikkurinen and Karl Johan Bonnedahl.

Despite the expanding financial power of the global super-rich and their expansive control over natural resources as proprietors of an increasing number of large agricultural properties, geographers have only just begun to assess the influences of wealthy landowners on systems of environmental management. In this dissertation, I examine a set of ownership dynamics related to the acquisition of ranchland properties by high net worth (HNW) individuals in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, a charismatic conservation area in the Northern Rockies, USA. The dissertation deploys a mixed methods approach informed by social-ecological systems theory and insights from the literature on political ecology of the American West to assess HNW ownership regimes at the landscape and property scales from the perspective of an iconic regional resource institution: state-led elk management. The work follows a central conceptual logic related to the evolution of HNW land management, namely that ranch owners and properties interact with local ecologies, social actors, and resource institutions in ways that influence land use strategies and practices over time and space. At the landscape scale, patterns of land-use intensification (e.g., increased use of irrigation) have converged with growing diversification (e.g., increased residential development), to make elk management more complex, as elk encounter a range of push and pull factors across a shifting and diverse landscape of land-use values and practices. A defining characteristic of the trajectory for ranches of the super-rich is that HNW landowners ranch with, as opposed to for, money, though multiple social-ecological factors (markets, property lines, legal institutions, and unpredictable rangeland socio-ecologies) also shape HNW landowners' abilities to realize management goals and visions. Where HNW ownership regimes intersect with shifts in the political and moral economy, conflicts related to public access to wildlife on private lands have emerged. In this context, the work ...

How did climate change become an economic issue? Why is economic discourse so influential on the public policy of climate change? How can it best contribute to the scientific and public debates? Nine eminent scholars explain in this book both how economics has changed environmental understanding and how the study of climate change has modified the economy