Natural Resources category: 648 books
It's All for Sale
The Control of Global Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Five companies dominate the U.S. petroleum industry. Five control the worldwide trade in grain. Two have a corner on the private market for drinking water. In terms of actual dollars, trade in heroin, cocaine, and tobacco ranks alongside that in grain or metals. There are more slaves in the world...
The Nile Basin
National Determinants of Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The supply and management of fresh water for the world’s billions of inhabitants is likely to be one of the most daunting challenges of the coming century. For countries that share river basins with others, questions of how best to use and protect precious water resources always become entangled in...
by Prof. Elijah K Biamah, Eng. Michael K Biamah
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
In Kenya and Somalia, most of the population (over 80%) lives in rural areas and therefore derive their livelihoods and incomes from agriculture and livestock production. Thus it is pertinent that environmental and water management be give priority when coming up with suitable conservation technologies....
The Ripple Effect
The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious...
Ice
The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Like the adventurer who circled an iceberg to see it on all sides, Mariana Gosnell, former Newsweek reporter and author of Zero Three Bravo, a book about flying a small plane around the United States, explores ice in all its complexity, grandeur, and significance.More brittle than glass, at times...
by Nicholas Carter
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Have you ever wondered what would happen to you and the people living in your household (family, friends or even just acquaintances) if you lost your job tomorrow? Have you ever wondered what would happen if a natural disaster like a hurricane, flood, tsunami, scorching heat, drought, poverty, famine...
by Karl Boyd Brooks, Mark W. T. Harvey, Paul Milazzo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Decades before the environmental concerns of the 1960s and long before today’s quest for sustainability, Harry S. Truman’s presidency decisively changed the scope and pace of federal government interaction with the natural world. Determined to extend the prosperity promised by Roosevelt’s New...
by Graham Victor Frederick Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Skokholm is a remote island nature reserve located off the southwest coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales. Home to over 100,000 seabirds (including the third-largest Manx shearwater colony in the World), it was made famous by pioneer naturalist Ronald Mathias Lockley in the 1930s and 1940s as a result of...
Hope's Horizon
Three Visions For Healing The American Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
At a time of widespread environmental pessimism, Hope's Horizon goes on an inspirational offensive. In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, author Chip Ward tells of his travels among a new generation of activists who are moving beyond defensive environmental struggles and advocating pioneering,...
by Stephen Grace
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Written by Stephen Grace, the companion book to The Great Divide, a film by Havey Productions, is a sweeping, magnificently illustrated story of Colorado water from the region’s first inhabitants to the incoming settlers and developers to modern environmentalists. Times and places are covered from...
Renewable Resource Policy
The Legal-Institutional Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Renewable Resource Policy is a comprehensive volume covering the history, laws, and important national policies that affect renewable resource management. The author traces the history of renewable natural resource policy and managemin the United States, describes the major federal agencies and their...
The Peace of Blue
Water Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The Earth’s surface is mostly oceans, the human body is approximately 60% water, and the human imagination has been captivated by this life-giving, life-sustaining liquid from time immemorial.
According to Carl Hiaasen, Bill Belleville “writes gorgeously and straight from the heart. In...
Mountains and Marshes
Exploring the Bay Area's Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Described as a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers” by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention to one of the most distinctive corners of California: the San Francisco Bay Area. Weaving a complex and engaging story...
Economic Analysis for Ecosystem-Based Management
Applications to Marine and Coastal Environments
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Ocean and coastal management regimes are increasingly subject to competing demands from stakeholders. Regulations must not only address fishing, recreation, and shipping, but also sand and gravel mining, gas pipelines, harbor/port development, offshore wind and tidal energy facilities, liquefied natural...