Natural Resources category: 648 books
by Robert Paarlberg, F. Bailey Norwood, Michelle S. Calvo-Lorenzo
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In the conversation about the food we eat and where it comes from, this bundle, consisting of Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know and Agricultural and Food Controversies: What Everyone Needs to Know, tackles the questions that arise from conflicting opinions. Reflecting on the latest global food...
Hedges and Hedgelaying
A Guide to Planting, Management and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
In recent years there has been a much greater appreciation of the enormous contribution that hedges make to the countryside. Today, their beauty, their ability to provide wind protection and contain livestock, their environmental importance and their significance as a wildlife habitat, are all widely...
Playing with Fire
The Art of Chopping and Burning Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The blaze of a log fire on a cold night speaks to the heart in a way no other flame can. It has character and ever-changing form; it has vibrant color and a balletic movement. Indeed, it was the flame that transformed the way life was lived on earth, but now that primary driver of evolution finds...
From Abundance to Scarcity
A History Of U.S. Marine Fisheries Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
The managemof coastal and ocean fisheries is highly contentious. Industry interests focus on maximizing catches while conservationists and marine scientists have become increasingly concerned about dramatic declines in fish stocks and the health of ecosystems. Besides attempting to mediate among these...
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth
Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, "Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!" With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports,...
by Laura Jarauta Rovira
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
La certeza que el petróleo se acabará ya no es ciencia ficción. Los coches eléctricos, los parques eólicos, los biocombustibles, entre otras innovaciones, abanderan un cambio de modelo energético que se acerca de manera inevitable. Este libro propone un recorrido por el momento actual de las...
The Fish Market
Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
**Winner of the Oregon Book Award**
Gulf Wild — the first seafood brand in America to trace each fish from the sea to the table — emerged after grouper, the star of fried fish sandwiches, fell off menus due to overfishing. The brand was born when the government privatized the rights to...
The Challenge of Rural Electrification
Strategies for Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population densities...
Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction
Landscapes, People and Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty...
by Jeffrey A. McNeely
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Protected areas around the globe national parks, wildlife reserves, biosphere reserves will prosper only if they are supported by the public, the private sector, and the full range of governmagencies. Yet such support is unlikely unless society appreciates the importance of protected areas to its...
Energy Efficiency
The Definitive Guide to the Cheapest, Cleanest, Fastest Source of Energy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Energy risk has reappeared on the corporate and social agenda with a bang and the complexity of the issues has increased many-fold since the days of the last great wave of concern following the oil crises of the 1970s. Steven Fawkes’ Energy Efficiency is a comprehensive guide for managers and policy-makers...
Power
A Practical Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
With world electricity demand expected to double by 2030, the power sector is under increasing pressure to modernise and rise to the challenge of meeting global needs. While some countries are pressing ahead with conventional fossil-fuel based generation as a means of quickly meeting the needs of...
Conservation Through Cultural Survival
Indigenous Peoples And Protected Areas
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
For more than a century the establishmof national parks and protected areas was a major threat to the survival of indigenous people. The creation of parks based on wilderness ideals outlawed traditional ways of life and forced from their homelands peoples who had shaped and preserved local ecosystems...
by William Ascarza
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Southeastern Arizona has one of the most diverse mining localities in the state. Towns such as Bisbee, Clifton, Globe, Miami, Ray, Silverbell, and Superior have earned reputations as premier metal producers that are most notably known for their copper. Other mining towns that have made their marks in...