Natural Resources category: 648 books
Mountain States Foraging
115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Alpine Sorrel to Wild Hops
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
“A stunning look at the natural abundance of the mountain states—with clear guidance on identification, gathering techniques, and uses.” —Jennifer McGruther, author of The Nourished Kitchen
The Mountain States offer a veritable feast for foragers, and with Briana Wiles as your trusted...
Collaborative Environmental Management
What Roles for Government-1
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Collaboration has become a popular approach to environmental policy, planning, and management. At the urging of citizens, nongovernmental organizations, and industry, government officials at all levels have experimented with collaboration. Yet questions remain about the roles that governments play...
by Lisa Crayford
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Let Master Photographer Lisa Crayford guide you to the top-ranked waterfalls in the state, as well as her "secret waterfalls." Your bucket list should definitely include these 117 gorgeous locales that decorate Minnesota's landscape, including bridge views, short hikes, secluded waterfalls...
Breaking the Ice
Canada, Sovereignty, and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
The Arctic seabed, with its vast quantities of undiscovered resources, is the twenty-first century’s frontier.
In Breaking the Ice: Canada, Sovereignty and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf, Arctic policy expert Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon examines...
Biodiesel
Growing a New Energy Economy, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
For anyone who is trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in the biodiesel industry, the second edition of Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy is an invaluable aid. The breathtaking speed with which biodiesel has gained acceptance in the marketplace in the past few years has been...
The New Consumers
The Influence Of Affluence On The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
While overconsumption by the developed world's roughly one billion inhabitants is an abiding problem, another one billion increasingly afflu"new consumers" in developing countries will place additional strains on the earth's resources, argue authors Norman Myers and Jennifer Kin this important new...
Crop Ecology
Productivity and Management in Agricultural Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Food security and environmental conservation are two of the greatest challenges facing the world today. It is predicted that food production must increase by at least 70% before 2050 to support continued population growth, though the size of the world's agricultural area will remain essentially unchanged....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Globalization has significantly redefined the nature of governance in the water sector. Non-state actors—multilateral and transnational donor agencies and corporations, non-government organizations, markets, and civil society at large—are assuming a bigger role in public policy-making for water...
Water for Food Water for Life
A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times - fundamental to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse ecosystem degradation. This Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, involving more than 700 leading...
The Deer Camp
A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
For readers of The Stranger in the Woods and H Is for Hawk, a beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy 100-acre piece of land in rural Michigan.
Some families have to dig hard to find the love that holds them together. Some have to grow...
Water, Culture, and Power
Local Struggles In A Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Water, Culture, and Power presents a series of case studies from around the world that examine the complex culture and power dimensions of water resources and water resource management.
Supply and Costs in the U.S. Petroleum Industry (Routledge Revivals)
Two Econometric Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Any discussion of the various facets of petroleum policy in the United States rests to a greater or less extent on the issue of sensitivity of petroleum exploration, and hence of new petroleum discoveries to economic incentives. Indeed, a principle argument in favour of having a special petroleum...
by Maury M. Haraway
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Maury Haraway tracks the course of nature across the seasons of the year and the landscape of North America. Trained as an expert in comparative psychology and animal behavior, and an avid birder for decades, Haraway chronicles the behavior and the adventures of the wild birds and mammals that share...
Surviving the Death of Technology: Prepper's Survival Guide with Tips to Prepping for Technology Collapse
Off the Grid Living Hacks
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Technology is all around us in almost everything that we own and use on a daily basis. We have technology in our homes, schools, work and even our modes of transportation. We use technology to communicate with one another and conduct business on a day to day fashion.
Now when we talk about...