Natural Resources category: 648 books
Foraging for Survival
Edible Wild Plants of North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
As consumerism and a meat-heavy, processed diet become the norm and the world’s population continues to grow at an exponential rate, more and more people are looking toward a more sustainable path for food. Authors Douglas Boudreau and Mykel Hawke believe that the future of food lies in the wild...
Growing Community Forests
Practice, Research, and Advocacy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Canada is experiencing an unparalleled crisis involving forests and communities across the country. While municipalities, policy makers, and industry leaders acknowledge common challenges such as an overdependence on US markets, rising energy costs, and lack of diversification, no common set of solutions...
by Stephen Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Stephen McDonald offers a basic understanding of the goals and practices by which the federal government leases its fossil fuel resources and how these practices affect the economy. Originally published in 1979
Water Sheikhs and Dam Builders
Stories of People and Water in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Francesca de Chatel explores the problems and paradoxes of water resources in the Middle East and North Africa. She takes an entirely new angle on the much-discussed question of water scarcity by examining the history and culture of water from a human perspective. Unlike other books on the subject...
Perfect World 1
Paradise - Solve All Problems in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
The president changes the world by using a microphone; the Internet makes the world close; Facebook changes peoples communication; the movie can also change the world and peoples mind.
There are a lot of people in the world live in pains and sufferings because of many problems; the problems...
Toward Safer Food
Perspectives on Risk and Priority Setting
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
In 1998, a National Academy of Sciences panel called for an integrated, risk-based food safety system. This goal is widely embraced, but there has been little advance in thinking about how to integrate knowledge about food safety risks into a system- wide risk analysis framework. Such a framework...
by S.C. Comunicación Sostenible
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Adquirir y/o actualizar conocimientos sobre la recepción, cocido y corte de planchas de corcho natural para la obtención del certificado de profesionalidad. Ebook ajustado al certificado de profesionalidad de Fabricación de objetos de corcho.
Auf der Sonnenseite
Warum uns die Energiewende zu Gewinnern macht
Language: German
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Bereits ein Viertel unseres Bedarfs wird durch Öko-Strom gedeckt: Die Energiewende hat Deutschland zum Vorreiter alternativer Energiequellen gemacht. Doch warum sind wir immer noch von Öl, Gas, Kohle und Atomstrom abhängig? Warum stehen Lobbyisten weiter unter dem Schutz der Politik? Franz Alt...
Emergency Preparedness
Quick Reference To Emergency Essentials, Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Preparedness Evaluating The Us Department Of, Emergency Preparedness FEMA Faces Challenges Integrating Community Pre, Emergency Preparedness State Efforts To Plan For Medical
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
This handbook will help you to establish a practical disaster preparedness plan for your entire family. This book covers numerous of topics such as emergency preparedness, emergency essentials, disaster preparedness emergency preparaparedness evaluating the us department of, emergency preparedness fema...
Indicators of Catchment Health
A Technical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
The primary focus is to provide landholders, catchment groups, catchment and land protection boards, and rural communities with the best tools that science has so far developed for benchmarking and monitoring the condition of the land and water resources in the catchments. A diverse range of potential...
Cuidar la Tierra
Razones para conservar la Naturaleza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 11, 2015
¿Es importante conservar la Naturaleza? ¿Está en riesgo nuestro futuro? ¿Estamos ante una crisis ecológica de dimensiones desconocidas? ¿Qué respuestas se plantean ante esta crisis? ¿Cómo podemos reorientar nuestra relación con el entorno natural? Este libro expone la evolución de las ideas...
Branchée
Hydro-Québec et le futur de l’électricité
Language: French
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Pour la plupart des Québécois, Hydro, c’est la bébitte derrière le compteur qui charge un certain prix pour l’électricité, parfois plus cher, mais jamais moins. Pourquoi un tel fonctionnement? La raison pourrait vous surprendre…
by Emília Lana de Freitas Castro
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Este livro intenta demonstrar como o Direito Internacional dos Investimentos e o direito ao desenvolvimento podem contribuir para uma indústria fortemente caracterizada pela sua internacionalidade, qual seja, a indústria do petróleo e do gás natural. Com o fito de minimizar os impactos negativos...
Water to the Angels
William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.
In 1907,...