Natural Resources category: 648 books
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Every season has its own peculiar rains. What can be more refreshing or invigorating than the showers of spring? When the snows of February have disappeared, and the blustering winds of March have performed their office of drying up the excess of moisture, and preparing the earth for fruitfulness,...
Fields of Learning
The Student Farm Movement in North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Where will the next generation of farmers come from? What will their farms look like? Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America provides a concrete set of answers to these urgent questions, describing how, at a wide range of colleges and universities across the United States and...
European Landscapes in Transition
Implications for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
European rural landscapes as we experience them today are the result of ongoing processes and interactions between nature and society. These are changing fast: the future landscapes will be different from those we know currently. Written for academics, policy-makers and practitioners, this book is...
China and Europe’s Partnership for a More Sustainable World
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book gathers the main scientific outputs related to POREEN, a four-year project on partnering opportunities between Europe and China in the renewable energy and environmental industries, financed by the European Commission. It investigates the main challenges and opportunities related to Sino-European...
Sustainable Food Systems
Building a New Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. This book brings together an integrated range of key social science insights exploring the contributions and interventions necessary to build this...
Waterworlds
Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world...
Transition Handbook
From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
We live in an oil-dependent world, and have got to this level of dependency in a very short space of time, using vast reserves of oil in the process without planning for when the supply is not so plentiful. Most people don't want to think about what happens when the oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively...
Solar Power
A Practical Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
In recent years solar power has been on the march. Since the millennium global solar power generation capacity has grown from 1GW to 300GW and the growth curve is not linear; the last five years have seen a marked acceleration as technologies become more efficient, manufacturing prices come down and...
Peaceful Places: San Francisco
100+ Tranquil Sites in The City and the Greater Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The third book in a new series of city guides, Peaceful Places: San Francisco features over 100 unexpected sanctuaries, gardens, vistas, beaches, neighborhood strolls, and quiet cafés that can be found throughout The City by the Bay. It gently guides travelers who are searching for an escape from...
Taming the Sun
Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
How solar could spark a clean-energy transition through transformative innovation—creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems.
Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's...
Renewables
The Politics of a Global Energy Transition
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
A comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power, mapping an energy transition through theory, case studies, and policy.
Wind and solar are the most dynamic components of the global power sector. How did this happen? After the 1973 oil crisis, the limitations...
Energy and Security
Strategies for a World in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The second, completely updated edition of this widely read and respected guide is the most authoritative survey available on the perennial question of energy security. Energy and Security gathers today's topmost foreign policy and energy experts and leaders to assess how the United States can integrate...
by Midwest Journal Press, Edmund Morris, Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Contains:
Our Farm of Four Acres, by Miss Coulton
Ten Acres Enough, By Edmund Morris
Three Acres and Liberty, By Bolton Hall
The Home Acre, by E. P. Roe
A FARM, to many, can be a romantic idea.
For those few of us who were raised on one, and even fewer...
by Antonio Caro Sánchez-Lafuente, Miguel Ángel Sánchez Maza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Adquirir conocimientos sobre la manipulación de los productos alimentarios y mejorar en la manipulación responsable y de calidad, especificando las medidas a tener presentes ante la venta o suministro de chucherías, helados y productos de masa frita. Fomentar la concienciación de prácticas saludables...