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With the end of the Cold War, Russia's submarines were no longer needed to deter or fight Western navies and were very expensive to operate and maintain. Older submarines were taken out of service in large numbers, but without firm plans and infrastructure in place to remove and adequately care for their nuclear components, problems soon developed over the disposition of spent fuel assemblies. Problems arose also of course between Russia and the international community as to the best way to respond to the challenge. This book looks at those problems, first discussing Russia's economy, its environment, and the Russian Navy, and then covering in detail the spent fuel of Russian submarines and related nuclear problems. The engagement of the international community on the issue is then addressed. A theoretical analysis is offered on how Russia's fellow nations can help remedy a troubling environmental problem in a difficult country. ... Read more

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Nowhere on Earth is the challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more urgent, than in those parts of the globe where human activity is most intense - cities. People need to understand how cities work as ecological systems so they can take control of the vital links between human actions and environmental quality, and work for an ecologically and economically sustainable future. An ecosystem approach integrates biological, physical and social factors and embraces historical and geographical dimensions, providing our best hope for coping with the complexity of cities. This book is the first of its kind to bring together leaders in the biological, physical and social dimensions of urban ecosystem research with leading education researchers, administrators and practitioners, to show how an understanding of urban ecosystems is vital for urban dwellers to grasp the fundamentals of ecological and environmental science, and to understand their own environment. ... Read more

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I bought these books for my son who goes to college.I only looked at the books briefly.I was very happy with the books. ... Read more

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Psychology in Practice is the definitive six-part series on the practical applications of psychology to areas of everyday life, overcoming crime, education, health, sport organizations and the environment.Each book in the series examines one unit of the Applications of Psychology section of the OCR Syllabus. The social, political and human issues of how e live and interact are integral to the development of modern society.As the world population increases, questions of urban planning, renewal and housing design have become vitally important. IPsychology in Practice: Environment offers a unique insight into a range of social and environmental issues including the psychology of collective behavior, crowding and personal space, architecture, climate and environmental cognition. ... Read more

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This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native Environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistanceto environmental and cultural degradation. LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is born from long yearsof experience, and her analysis is deepened with inspiring testimonies by localNative activists sharing the struggle for survival. On each page of this volume, LaDuke speaks forcefully for self-determination andcommunity. Hers is a beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, andecological transformation. All Our Relations features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu,the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. ... Read more

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Great book for college students
I ordered this book for my college students to read before we visited the Navajo Nation.The book was informative and gave the students good background into the current struggles of the Native American people. Students found the book easy to read and to comprehend key issues and concerns.

Winona La Duke's ALL OUR RELATIONS Must Read
ALL OUR RELATIONS by Indigenous Activist Winona LaDuke is a must read for everyone who cares about our earth. LaDuke presents the state of the environment focusing on several land, treaty rights and toxic exposure struggles on reservations across North America and in Hawaii. Since I met Winona when she was an economics student at Harvard, she has been at the heart of struggles and gains made by indigenous communities, always bringing a keen intellect, diligent research, unswerving commitment, and a broad vision of the whole circle to community and tribal issues.
Because I've known many of the people involved in the essential work LaDuke describes in ALL OUR RELATIONS, it was a personal pleasure to read this book and catch up with what Susannah Santos and her cousins are doing on the Columbia River, be updated on Luana Busby and Melani Trask and the Hawaiian indigenous movement and to get the inside details of the complex political fight Winona's son's father and his people are up aqainst at St. James Bay. But this book will fascinate anyone who cares about our earth, families and communities. It is one to read from end to end, then keep around to re-read again and again.
LaDuke calls the work these tribal communities do to protect their people and landbase from pollution and corporate greed, "soul-retrieval." It is work that we all need to do whatever our ethnic background, since as LaDuke's reportage on the presence of PCBs in mother's breastmilk in the Northeast attests, everyone is affected by what we are doing to the earth. Winona is a mother who has no illusions about how the choices we make as consumers affect the earth and our communities' health. What is most inpiring about LaDuke's writing and life is that she offers solutions. Each chapter not only outlines the problem, but it talks about solutions that are being implemented and suggests others that should be employed. Winona walks her talk. LaDuke has been a strong proponent of wind energy and has worked to engage major corporations like Ben & Jerry in developing wind energy projects on Indian Reservations in South Dakota. Native Harvest and White Earth Land Recovery Project have reclaimed White Earth land and developed sustainable reservation businesses that employ and train White Earth tribal members. Winona LaDuke would be a great President because she is the only public figure who has a sensible plan for economic self-sufficiency, the clarity to explain it to the American people, and the discipline and steadfastness to enact it.

The ring of truth is heard loud and clear....
If I could, I would thank Winonah LaDuke in person for writing such an important, informative and engaging book on the travesty that is the North American government's view of native land and those who inhabit it.The numerous tribes who make the land their home are forced to co-exist with the insensitive, selfish and literally toxic decisions made by government and corporations who dump tons upon tons of toxic pesticides in their water and on "abandoned" land.These lands are also subject to divebombings from military jets.These are illegal decibel levels that drive those within hearing range to points of mental instability, as well as potential hearing loss.

One of the most important quotes from this book that I remember (since I read this book a couple of years ago in a Native/African-American Women's Studies course) was from a Seminole leader who said, "Selling your land for a price is like selling a piece of your mother."[I paraphrase this.]I couldn't agree more.When I remember that quote, I think about all of the animals, vegetation and tribes (consisting of families and friends) who have lived off of the land of the United States, as well as Canada.How can one possibly put a price on something that can't truly be owned by anyone and is its own autonomous entity.Even if people have the illusion that they can occupy land as territory (because of treaties, as an example) does not mean that it is ever their to keep.LaDuke makes several strong examples of this in the book.We can't continue to pollute, abuse and neglect land without paying a price environmentally or in terms of human quality of life and mortaiity.I believe everyone should read this book, regardless of occupation, national origin or territorial location.We need to face the damage done before more of it goes unacknowledged.Thank you, Winonah.

Becoming Native to America
Spoon-fed news by large media corps, few were aware that Winona LaDuke ran for the vice presidency under Ralph Nader in the 2000 elections. Even fewer know that she is also a Native American eco-philosopher with a critical perspective on the health and future prosperity of America. All Our Relations is particularly instructive, in that LaDuke surveys the entire American landscape (and by landscape, I am not merely referring to the political landscape), showing the deep connections that exist between local cultures, their environments, and the corporate-governmental giants that often compromise their health. Although LaDuke has specifically focused on Native American communities, the stories are engaging and instructive for Americans in general. Informative, powerful, and transformative, LaDuke here provides an antidote for our increasing alienation from the land and biota that sustain us. A must read for any conscious American.

Truth, told with powerful clarity
Winona Laduke ran as vice president alongside Ralph Nader.It would be truly amazing if this woman had become our vice president (for many reasons).It is my hope that some day she will be our vice president (or president).Her views on the environment and its effect upon animals and people (particularly babies, children and pregnant/nursing mothers) are exactly how I feel.She expresses these views eloquently in these quotes by Lil'wat grandmother Loretta Pascal, "Where did you get your right to destroy these forests? How does your right supercede my rights? These are our forests, these are our ancestors."(p.5), by Ted Strong, "If this nation has a long way to go before all of our people are truly created equally without regard to race, religion, or national origin, it has even further to go before achieving anything that remotely resembles equal treatment for other creatures who called this land home before humans ever set foot upon it...."(p.5), and by Katsi Cook, "Why is it we must change our lives, our way of life, to accommodate the corporations, and they are allowed to continue without changing any of their behavior?"(p.12).Reading this book you will feel sorrow, and be inspired to action.Most of what was said in this book I already knew a little about, but through this book I understood the depth and complexity of all the factors.I can not recommend this book enough.She tells the truth of our world with a powerful clarity.She tells the stories of many Native American Tribes throughout North America (Canada and the United States, including a chapter on Hawaii).She ends the book with the optimism that it is possible for us to make change, but it is up to us. ... Read more

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Discusses important concepts that undergrid community life and offers recommendations for collaborative planning across space and time. Examines how to translate broad ideas about livability into guidelines for policymaking. ... Read more

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Environmental Health Procedures has been completely updated and the 4th edition contains new procedures resulting from major changes to food control law involving the hygiene and safety of meat products, fishery products and shellfish, milk products and eggs. In some cases these procedures show both existing procedures and those to be implemented in the future. The provisions of the Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act 1993 and the Sunday Trading Act 1994 are incorporated as is the local authority role under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993. The edition also takes account of changes which are likely to result from the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994. The book will continue to provide an essential reference source for student and practising environmental health officers and all thoses who become involved in environmental health issues, particulary lawyers and consultancies. It removes the need to wade through legal encyclopedias and Acts of Parliament in order to check on a point of procedure and also portrays, through flow charts, the format and principals of every legal procedure used in the environment health control system. ... Read more

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The Earth's environment is interlaced with complex, constructed ecological pathways that link industrial facilities and human consumers. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago.

During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human who was transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved freely through mines, factory sites, and rice paddies and more directly into human bodies.

Toxic Archipelago explores the relationship between the causes of colossal toxic pollution and the manner in which pain caused by pollution insults porous human bodies. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: a killer pollution from insecticide saturations; poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining; congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents; and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos.

This powerful and thoughtful book demonstrates a deep understanding of how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years and the human and environmental consequences of that transformation. ... Read more

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The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology isa major interdisciplinary reference work on the developing field ofenvironmental sociology. It consists of over 30 specially commissionedessays by leading scholars from around the world. These originalessays examine a wide range of environmental issues in the developedand developing world as well as formerly centrally planned countriesto present a truly international perspective. Together they analyzetheory and concepts, philosophical and empirical issues as well asoffering practical policy advice.

The contributions range from general assessments to region specificanalysis, and provide international comparisons of environmentalproblems. In the first part the central focus is on theoretical andconceptual issues. In the second part the authors consider some of themajor areas of interest in the field including gender, environmentalconsciousness, economic growth and politics. Finally, the third partfocuses on explicit analyses of specific regions and countries.

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This book is a marvellous addition to my collection of books on the environment and sociology. It has brought a new focus to my research work. The "International Handbook of Environmental Sociology", contains a vast array of contributions from authors, with outstanding credentials, within the academic arena.

The book is one of the most comprehensive I have had the priveledge of reading within the discipline of environmental sociology and takes the reader through the academic developments in environmental sociology over the last two decades. I have not regretted acquiring a copy of "The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology". ... Read more

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Naming and Claiming
I didn't realize how much I was blinded in regards to ecological wisdom as a native. This book has opened my eyes and encouraged me in how other native people are doing something about the injustice.

If you read only one book on Native Amreican Studies- let it be this one.
I think that I have read over 20 books on Native American/ American Indian studies in the past year. Reading history from a native viewpoint can be very disheartening.
Recovering the Sacred does share the bad news of what the European immigration did to native populations and culture. But it also shares the good news of what natives are doing to recover their culture, foods, faith, land etc. This must read was on the United Methodist Women's reading list in 2008.

Heart and Respect
Heart-wrenching and heart-warming. Winona LaDuke's straightforward descriptions of how the indigenous plant, animal, and human peoples of North America were decimated will take your breath away and her inspiring accounts of the steps that are being taken to rebuild and restore will have you breathing a sigh of relief.

A discussion of the struggles Native Americans have made particularly in modern history
Two-time Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Winona LaDuke presents Recovering The Sacred: The Power Of Naming And Claiming, a discussion of the struggles Native Americans have made particularly in modern history to reclaim their rights and cave a path that balances personal, ecological, and cultural integrity. From "Vampire" biopiracy incidents such as taking samples of Native Blood under the pretext that it will be used to research diabetes and selling it to bidders who actually use it as evidence for the Bering Strait land bridge theory - in direct conflict with the religious beliefs of those who provided the donation - to corrupting public regard of Native tribes through using their names at sporting events (it would be unthinkable to wave crucifixes or the Torah at heated game, yet spiritual Native American objects such as the feather headdress are freely worn), to modern land grabs for any coal, oil, or valuable materials remaining on any Native reservation and more, Recovering The Sacred sheds a spotlight on the disdainful to hostile manner in which America regards its Native peoples. A carefully researched and persuasively presented accounting of the inequities of the past, what Native peoples are courageously doing now to protect their rights and their culture, and what challenges the future may bring. Highly recommended.

Recovering the Sacred from Materialist Reductionism
Leading activist/scholar writing from among the Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) of northern Minnesota, Winona LaDuke brings to all of us the ecological wisdom of Native Americans.

The sacred has to be "recovered" by "naming and claiming" a people's land, its holy sites, and its "relatives" among other creatures (such as sturgeon, horse, and manoomin or wild rice).

In a splendid blend of wit, good humor, necessary polemic, personal experience (not only as Founding Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, but also as world traveler), and copious research, this book lays down its assertive challenge to a dehumanizing materialism that has relegated "the sacred" to an allegedly peripheral irrelevancy.

LaDuke's book describes here how the Native American community has begun to "heal itself from the ravages of the past."Vigorous pro-active efforts emerge in her stories about naming and claiming what is sacred to that community. ... Read more