Natural Resources category: 648 books
Food, Energy and Water Sustainability
Emergent Governance Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this uncertainty calls for new models that illuminate the intersections of civil society, public sector, and private sector resource management. This volume...
No Timber Without Trees
Sustainability in the tropical forest
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Much of the world's tropical timber is still supplied from natural forest, but under current systems of management the forests are rapidly becoming exhausted. Unless management practices change to become genuinely sustainable, neither the forests nor the essential contribution of the timber industry...
The World in a Grain
The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.
After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even...
by José Eli da Veiga
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Sustainability as a new value is a process that, in many aspects, is only beginning. It is based, however, on a path of more than four decades. This book aims to present the exact course of this story, its advances and retreats, as well as the traps that have prevented the building of a global governance...
Improving Natural Resource Management
Ecological and Political Models
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
The decision to implement environmental protection options is a political one. These, and other political and social decisions affect the balance of the ecosystem and how the point of equilibrium desired is to be reached. This book develops a stochastic, temporal model of how political processes influence...
Managing the Environmental Crisis
Incorporating Competing Values in Natural Resource Administration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Second edition
With a new foreword by Lynton Keith Caldwell
In Managing the Environmental Crisis William R. Mangun and Daniel H. Henning provide a balanced and comprehensive guide to the management of complex environmental and natural resource policy issues. Taking into account new developments,...
Rocky Mountain Futures
An Ecological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The Rocky Mountain West is largely arid and steep, with ecological scars from human use visible for hundreds of years. Just how damaging were the past 150 years of activity? How do currrates of disturbance compare with past mining, grazing, and water diversion activities? In the face of constant change,...
by S.C. Comunicación Sostenible
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Efectuar la recepción del corcho para su preparación. Ebook ajustado al certificado de profesionalidad de Fabricación de objetos de corcho
Machamba
A Agricultura Natural como Caminho
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 4, 2016
"Vivi com minha família em Moçambique por seis anos buscando colocar em prática alguns dos conceitos fundamentais da Agricultura Natural, preconizada por Mokiti Okada, no trabalho com a terra e com as pessoas. Depois de algum tempo compartilhando saberes e aprendizados, deparamo-nos...
Nature and the Marketplace
Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In recyears, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through...
The Swamp
The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection...
Consulting the Genius of the Place
An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A call to agricultural revolution from a locavore and author who is one of “the most prominent and effective advocates of American environmental thought” (Prairie Fire Newspaper).
For years, Wes Jackson has made it his mission to raise Americans’ awareness about where their food comes...
Alaska
Saga of a Bold Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!";...
Norwegian Wood
Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The latest Scandinavian publishing phenomenon is not a Stieg Larsson–like thriller; it’s a book about chopping, stacking, and burning wood that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Norway and Sweden and has been a fixture on the bestseller lists there for more than a year. Norwegian Wood provides...