Natural Resources category: 648 books
Midwest Medicinal Plants
Identify, Harvest, and Use 109 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
“This comprehensive, accessible, full-color guide includes plant profiles, step-by-step instructions for essential herbal remedies and seasonal foraging tips.” —Natural Awakenings Chicago
In Midwest Medicinal Plants, Lisa Rose is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting,...
by James Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Do you enjoy camping and hiking?
Do you want to learn strategies for planning, preparing and surviving by yourself in the wilderness?
While nature in the wild is often beautiful it can also be dangerous if you ever become stranded. If you got stranded tomorrow, would you have the necessary...
Oil and Nation
A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia’s contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia’s oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course...
by Robert William Sandford
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Robert William Sandford’s latest RMB manifesto invites the reader to separate the hype from the hope with respect to the outcomes of the 2015 Paris climate conference and in relation to humanity’s dangerous new era — the Anthropocene.
In responding to the urgency – and the opportunity...
Soul Full of Coal Dust
The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2020
In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Chris Hamby, uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down.
Decades have passed since black lung disease...
by Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Water is not only used in the domestic context, but also in agriculture and industry in the production of commercial goods, from food to paper. The water footprint is an indicator of freshwater use that looks at both direct and indirect use of water by a consumer or producer. The water footprint of...
The Infinite Resource
The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Climate change. Finite fossil fuels. Fresh water depletion. Rising commodity prices. Ocean acidification. Overpopulation. Deforestation. Feeding the world’s billions. We’re beset by an array of natural resource and environmental challenges. They pose a tremendous risk to human prosperity, to world...
Down the Drain
How We are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
An incisive critique of Canada's failed management of its water supply.
In this authoritative review of decades of independent critiques, accompanied by many riveting stories of water management failures, award-winning journalist Chris Wood and Canadian water policy expert Ralph Pentland explore...
by Satya Brata Das
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
This book talks about the possibility of having a green and clean energy in this century. Is green oil a myth? Or can we generate a clean and green future by using our non-renewable revenue resources? Taking us on a journey to these vital questions,the text is based on the politics and ethics involved in the development of Albertan oil sands in west Canada.
World Water Vision
Making Water Everybody's Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
More than a billion people cannot get safe drinking water; half the world's population does not have adequate sanitation; within a generation over three billion will be suffering from water stress. This text analyzes the issues in this crisis of management and shows how water can be used effectively...
Oil in the Environment
Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
What light does nearly twenty-five years of scientific study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill shed on the fate and effects of a spill? How can the results help in assessing future spills? How can ecological risks be assessed and quantified? In this, the first book on the effects of Exxon Valdez in fifteen...
Balancing Water for Humans and Nature
The New Approach in Ecohydrology
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Balancing Water for Humans and Nature, authored by two of the world's leading experts on water management, examines water flows - the 'blood stream' of both nature and society - in terms of the crucial links, balances, conflicts and trade-offs between human and environmental needs. The authors argue...
Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim
Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, two regions experiencing a severe crisis due to overexploitation of fisheries resources. The work of a group of researchers from Canada, Norway, and the United States, it examines the implications of common market integration, privatized resource...
by Midwest Journal Press, Bolton Hall, Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
By thought and courage, we can help ourselves to own a home, surrounded by acres of fruit and vegetables, flowers and poultry, and learn the best methods so as to insure success.
In olden times any one could "farm," but it is necessary to-day to teach people to obtain a livelihood...