Natural Resources category: 648 books
by Peter J Cook
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
With the general reader in mind, Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon outlines the global challenge of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. It covers the changing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide through time and its causes, before considering the promise and the limitations of a wide range of...
by Jim Bowyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
In The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise, Dr. Jim L. Bowyer clearly documents an ethically bankrupt position that underlies much of our environmental policy. High consumption in wealthy countries usually goes hand-in-hand with resistance to domestic raw materials extraction and half-hearted interest...
The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook
Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2007
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Al Gore's summer blockbuster An Inconvenient Truth, and crude oil prices soaring to all-time highs, more people than ever know the truth about our oil addiction. Global warming is here. M. King Hubbert's oil peak is fast approaching (or may already have arrived)....
Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy
Fifteen Contentious Questions
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Energy sustainability and climate change are two of the greatest challenges facing humankind. Unraveling these complex and interconnected issues demands careful and objective assessment. Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy aims to change the prevailing discourse by examining fifteen core energy...
Nature's Wealth
The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Increasing pressure from economic development and population growth has resulted in the degradation of ecosystems around the world and the loss of the essential services that they provide. Understanding the linkages between ecosystem service provisioning and human well-being is crucial for the establishment...
The Lobster Coast
Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
“A thorough and engaging history of Maine’s rocky coast and its tough-minded people.”—Boston Herald
“[A] well-researched and well-written cultural and ecological history of stubborn perseverance.”—USA Today
For more than four hundred years the people of coastal Maine have...
Global Environmental Governance
Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2006
Today's mpressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them?
Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines ten...
The Holy Earth
The Birth of a New Land Ethic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The agrarian tradition runs as an undercurrent through the entire history of literature, carrying the age-old wisdom that the necessary access of independent farmers to their own land both requires the responsibility of good stewardship and provides the foundation for a thriving civilization. At the...
Privatizing Water
Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource...
by David J. Sauve
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Discover Everything You Need To Know About Rainforest Deforestation and Depletion, The Relationship Between Human Population And Deforestation, Deforestation Solutions, Facts And Myths, Statistics Over Time and Climate Changes
The Burning Question
We can't burn half the world's oil, coal and gas. So how do we quit?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Take one complex scientific discipline. Add the future of energy, economics, and geopolitics. Season with human nature . . .
The Burning Question reveals climate change to be the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle in history. It shows that carbon emissions are still accelerating...
Climate Solutions
A Citizen's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Millions of Americans are demanding that all levels of government—local, state, and federal—take immediate and effective action to fight climate change. But there’s a big problem. Hundreds of policy ideas are floating about, and many of them aren’t very good. It’s quite possible that bad...
by Barry G. Rabe
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing from North American, European, and Asian case studies.
Climate change, economists generally agree, is best addressed by putting a price on the carbon content of fossil fuels—by taxing carbon, by...
Energy and Society
A Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Energy and Society is the first major text to provide an extensive critical treatment of energy issues informed by recent research on energy in the social sciences. Written in an engaging and accessible style it draws new thinking on uneven development, consumption, vulnerability and transition together...