Natural Resources category: 648 books
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Environmental Collapse and the Future of Energy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
WE KNOW, from repeated failures to predict and prevent catastrophes ranging from the Great Tohoku Earthquake to the global financial crisis of 2008, that complex adaptive systems, such as those found in nature or in economies, are actually very hard to predict, much less influence. Today, we face...
Green Energy Economies
The Search for Clean and Renewable Energy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Green Energy Economies offers insight into the major drivers that are shaping a new future powered by clean energy sources. Assembling cutting-edge researchers as contributors, the book provides a comprehensive account of the shift underway, examining in detail the complexities and intricacies involved...
Regulating Shale Gas
The Challenge of Coherent Environmental and Energy Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Regulating Shale Gas discusses the regulatory context of shale gas in the European Union and draws conclusions on the EU’s broader approach towards the regulation of new technologies. Providing the first dedicated examination of the overall regulatory context of shale gas in the EU, Leonie Reins reveals...
Death in the Mines
Disasters and Rescues in the Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Since 1870, mining disasters have claimed the lives of over 30,000 men and boys who toiled underground in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania. The constant threat of fire, explosion, collapsed rock and deadly gas brought miners face to face with death on a daily basis. Sometimes they survived; many...
Peaceful Places: Chicago
119 Tranquil Sites in the Windy City and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The fourth in a new series, each one set in a U.S. metropolis, Peaceful Places: Chicago leads the reader on an unexpected path. Author Anne Ford uncovers hidden pockets of relaxation throughout the windy city. Her unique guide reveals the surprising gardens, vistas, sanctuaries, café respites, and...
by Robert A. Chilicky, Gerald D. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Across America, from big cities to small towns and rural hamlets, there are many stories of challenges, historic events, courageous people, tragedy, and success. Some of the best and most exciting tales may not be well known. Such is the case for the towns of Clifton and Morenci, Arizona. They survived...
Texas Market Hunting
Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From its earliest days of human habitation, the Texas coast was home to seemingly endless clouds of ducks, geese, swans, and shorebirds.
By the 1880s Texas huntsmen, or market hunters, as they came to be called, began providing meat and plumage for the restaurant tables and millinery salons...
Clean Air Act
Basic Practice Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Providing an efficient overview of the Clean Air Act and its implementing regulations, this handy guide covers all essential areas of the statute as well as important recent developments such as the Massachusetts v. EPA decision. Topics include: the National Ambient Air Quality Standards; processes...
by P SREEDHAR
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The city is reeling under consecutive droughts resulting in scarcity of water and electricity. Rahul has to step-in, to set things right and bring about changes. Will he be successful?
America's Water and Wastewater Crisis
The Role of Private Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book examines the role of private firms in the American water and wastewater industry. As more water infrastructure shifts from public- to private-sector control, vendors, consultants, and facilities are taking on more importance. Lewis D. Solomon presents an historical overview of water supply...
by Kenneth D. Frederick
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The authors assess alternative approaches to meeting long-term water needs and resolving conflicts among competing water users in five areas: the Columbia River Basin; Kern County, California; south California; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and northeastern Colorado. This book argues that America's water...
by Estella B. Leopold, Herbert W. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In the summer of 1969, a federal district court in Denver, Colorado, heard arguments in one of the nation’s first explicitly environmental cases, in which the Defenders of Florissant, Inc. opposed real estate interests intent on developing lands containing an extraordinary set of ancient fossils....
Sea Energy Agriculture
Nature's Ideal Trace Element Blend for Farm, Livestock, Humans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Reprinted by popular demand! Maynard Murray was a medical doctor who researched the crucial importance of minerals — especially trace elements — to plants and animals. Beginning in 1938 and continuing through the 1950s, Dr. Murray used sea solids — mineral salts remaining after water is evaporated...
Recycling Our Future
A Global Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Every day, every one of us contributes to the waste problem but, despite being a part of our lives, waste is poorly understood, even by those who should know better. We live in a throw-away society and yet what is discarded is a vital raw material and ingredient being traded as a valuable commodity...