Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
$10.00 NZD
Category: Ecology
We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings . One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vison of our new future.
A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$16.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
Design for the Real World - Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
$15.00 NZD
Category: Design | Reading Level: very good
Design for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In this edition, Victor Papanek examines the attempts by designers to combat the tawdry, the unsafe, the frivol ...Show more
Safeguarding Our Oceans. Strengthening marine protection in New Zealand by Kate Mulcahy, Raewyn Peart and Abbi Bull
$20.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand is fortunate to have a very large and biodiverse marine area, hosting over 17,000 known marine species, with many thousands yet to be discovered. But this rich variety of marine life is coming under increasing pressure. Three endemic marine mammals are threatened, as are over sixty per cent ...Show more
Wonders of the Sea : The Protection of New Zealand's Marine Mammals by Kate Mulcahy and Raewyn Peart
$25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
A very diverse range of marine mammals live in New Zealand waters, representing almost half of the world's species. Maui's and Hector's dolphins and New Zealand sea lions are found nowhere else in the world. There are small resident populations of orca and bottlenose dolphins in New Zealand, and a group ...Show more
Beyond the Tide - Integrating the Management of New Zealand's Coast by Raewyn Peart
$25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
Based on a detailed study of the Hauraki Gulf and the Kaipara Harbour, this report investigates how the coast is currently managed and ways in which management can be strengthened in the future. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in better management of New Zealand's coasts.
Looking Out to Sea - New Zealand as a model for ocean governance by Raewyn Peart
$15.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand is a maritime nation, settled by some of the greatest seafaring peoples in the world. The country's ocean area is vast and has abundant marine life and mineral resources. New Zealanders are passionate about their coasts and oceans. New Zealand has been a world leader in some aspects of ocean ...Show more
Pathways To Prosperity by Marie A. Brown
$15.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand’s world-renowned natural heritage is in crisis, and efforts to safeguard it in a development context can be fraught. New Zealand relies on thriving biodiversity as it underpins our prosperity and substantial change is needed to turn the negative trends around. In the near term, much opportun ...Show more
A Careful Revolution: Towards a Low-Emissions Future by David Hall (editor)
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Climate change is happening and the potential long-term costs are incalculable. But how do we manage the short-term costs of mitigation? How do we undertake a low-emissions transition that wont undermine the public support that it relies upon? This book makes the case for a careful revolution and provid ...Show more
Environmental Law - Scientific, Policy and Regulatory Dimensions by Lee Godden; Jacqueline Peel
$30.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine
Environmental Law equips readers with the tools to understand environmental law in Australia. Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, it explores the rapid changes that law and policy in this area have gone through: to encompass broader notions of environment and a wider range of environmen ...Show more
Protected Areas and International Environmental Law by Alexander Gillespie
$20.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine
This volume seeks to provide the reader with a clear understanding to the way that protected areas are created, listed and managed in international law. In doing so, it provides a complete overview of the primary international and regional conventions in this area, and the decisions and resolutions that ...Show more
The Future Eaters - An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery
$15.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of how human beings have consumed the resources they need for their own future. It examines the original "future eaters" who were the first people to leave the Afro-Asian homeland and travel down the chain of islands to Australasia and became the Aboriginal, Maori and other Polynesian ...Show more