Natural Resources category: 648 books
Environmental Justice and Land Use Conflict
The governance of mineral and gas resource development
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Conflict over the extraction of coal and gas resources has rapidly escalated in communities throughout the world. Using an environmental justice lens, this multidisciplinary book explores cases of land use conflict through the lived experiences of communities grappling with such disputes.
Drawing...
Dams and Development
A New Framework for Decision-making - The Report of the World Commission on Dams
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
By the year 2000, the world had built more than 45,000 large dams to irrigate crops, generate power, control floods in wet times and store water in dry times. Yet, in the last century, large dams also disrupted the ecology of half the world's rivers, displaced tens of millions of people from their...
Struggling for Air
Power Plants and the "War on Coal"
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, conservative politicians have railed against the President's "War on Coal." As evidence of this supposed siege, they point to a series of rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency that aim to slash air pollution from the nation's power sector...
Running Dry
Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The world’s water is under siege. A combination of corporate greed, the elite pursuit of political power, and our unrelenting reliance on carbon-based energy is accerlating a broad range of environmental and political crises. Potentially catastrophic climate change, driven primarily by the consumption...
by Christopher Rodgers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Providing a detailed account of the law of nature conservation, this book reviews and discusses the way in which the law promotes the conservation of species of animal, bird, and plant, and how it protects natural habitats for protected species. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book sets nature...
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters
Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city does not lack for either water or financial...
Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries
A Case for Adaptation Governance and Leadership in Building Climate Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
In the Arab countries, climate change is a risk to poverty reduction and economic growth, threatening to unravel many of the development gains that have been achieved. The Arab Region is already suffering adverse consequences from climate variability and change. This book provides information on climate...
Whidbey Island
Reflections on People & the Land
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
For generations, Whidbey Island's vivid beauty has made it a home for those drawn in by a rural landscape and thriving communities. Whether native tribes, pioneers, vacationers or retirees, all have enjoyed the island's legacy. Their stories illustrate Whidbey Island residents' devotion to their home....
Desert Water
The Future of Utah's Water Resources
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Hal Crimmel has brought the findings of science together with the experienced voices of environmental social scientists, humanists, and activists to provide perspective on Utah water issues. The matters discussed are relevant beyond this one state, as similar conditions and concerns, especially over...
Plantation Politics
Forest plantations in development
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Plantations are playing an increasingly important part in the development and the economies of the South. Plantation Politics is the first book to examine their rationale and purpose, exposing the misconceptions and myths that have surrounded their role, and describing the contribution they can make...
by Marion Clawson, Jack L. Knetsch
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book is one of the first to supply the means for evaluating recreational resources in economic terms. Originally published in 1967.
American Environmental Policy
The Failures of Compliance, Abatement and Mitigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
More than 40 years after the United States launched bold efforts to curb pollution and waste, American environmental management has stalled. Drawing extensively on recent environmental science, engineering, regulatory agency data and trade information, American Environmental Policy explores how environmental...
by Nathanial Pitt Langford
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
This classic text describes the discovery of the great national park, Yellowstone, and includes letters and correspondence from those who were instrumental in the establishment of Yellowstone as America’s greatest natural treasure.
Primitive Technology
A Survivalist's Guide to Building Tools, Shelters, and More in the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
From the craftsman behind the popular YouTube channel Primitive Technology comes a practical guide to building huts and tools using only natural materials from the wild.
John Plant, the man behind the channel, Primitive Technology, is a bonafide YouTube star. With over 8 million subscribers...