Climate change has morphed from an environmental problem into a challenge to civilization
itself. As CO2 levels have continued to rise, the 8th Edition of this book is now more relevant …

Humanistic geography now has an established position in the intellectual development of
contemporary geography. However there has so far been little attempt to draw together the …

How much are we morally required to do to help people who are much worse off than us?
Philosophers have often raised this question in assessing the plausibility of particular moral …

This highly interdisciplinary book discusses the phenomenon of life, including its origin and
evolution, against the background of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information …

" A remarkable blend of geography, demography, sociology, development economics,
history, cultural anthropology, ecology, politics, sharia (Muslim religious law), and …

The original edition of Walter Youngquist's classic exposé of how minerals and
nonrenewable resources underpin the history of humankind and control our destiny even …

The Return of Malthus is the first comprehensive analysis of the post-war fear of scarcity.
Linnér traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of …

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First Published in 1993, this is part of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
series. This study which looks at whether scholars of international politics attempt to …

Culture conditions the ability to organize to provide food security, but social organization is
the immediate source of policies that prevent food insecurity or determine what happens …