Natural Resources category: 648 books
Fluid Arguments
Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
**Water—or the lack of it—**has shaped the contours of the American West and continues to dominate the region's development. From the incursions of the Spanish conquistadores to the dams of the New Deal era, humans have sought water in these arid lands as the key to survival and success. And as...
Community Seed Banks
Origins, Evolution and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Community seed banks first appeared towards the end of the 1980s, established with the support of international and national non-governmental organizations. This book is the first to provide a global review of their development and includes a wide range of case studies.
Countries that pioneered...
Paesaggi minerari in Sardegna
Architetture e immaginazioni tecnologiche per il sistema territoriale Montevecchio Ingurtosu Piscinas
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Collana PAESAGGI IN TRASFORMAZIONE diretta da Enrico Alfonso Corti L'infrastruttura mineraria del Sulcis Iglesiente Guspinese ha dispiegato i suoi effetti nel modo di essere e di abitare, rappresentando l'ossatura di base di un ordine sociale ed economico. Ecco perché la sua crisi è anche una crisi...
by Joseph Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
This is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 15 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don’t buy this booklet.
This is the author's account of his visit to Death Valley National Park. There are several color pictures.
The...
New Challenges to Food Security
From Climate Change to Fragile States
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Food security is high on the political agenda. Fears about societal insecurity due to food price increases and hunger, grave scenarios regarding the effects of climate change and general uncertainty about the impacts of investments in biofuels and so-call “land grabbing” on food prices and availability...
Nature's Saviours
Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Today's celebrity conservationists, many of whom made their reputations through television and other visual media, play a major role in drawing public attention to an increasingly threatened world. This book, one of the first to address this contribution, focuses on five key figures: the English naturalist...
Owning and Managing Forests
A Guide to Legal, Financial, and Practical Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Owning and Managing Forests is both an accessible overview of the privileges, rights, and obligations that accompany forest ownership and a guidebook to help active forest owners and managers use laws to their advantage and avoid the pitfalls of expensive and exhausting litigation. The book is a revised,...
Food Power from the Sea
The Seaweed Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Subtitled The Seaweed Story, this book by one of the great minds of eco-agriculture explains how we can produce our food by using seaweed and fish-based inputs rather than wasteful and unsustainable chemical fertilizers. Fryer and Simmons tell how growers can harness the sea's energy to extend...
by Norman Frumkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Now revised and expanded, this widely-used desk reference provides quick and easy access to current and reliable data on the major statistical measures of the U.S. economy. Equally useful for students, general readers, economists, analysts, journalists, and investors, the guide provides concise, jargon-free...
Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
The Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science provides an all-encompassing review of each contributor's study in topics such as food hygiene, agriculture, animal science, animal histology and embryology, and livestock production systems.
This...
by Pline l'Ancien, Émile Littré
Language: French
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique L'Histoire naturelle est une œuvre de 37 volumes de Pline l'Ancien, qui souhaitait compiler le...
Peaceful Places: Washington, D.C.
114 Tranquil Sites in the Nation's Capital and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Native Washingtonians Judy Colbert and Denis Collins have grown up and lived amid some of the most exciting sightseeing in the country--in their own grand urban backyard. They share this knowledge in Peaceful Places: Washington, DC. Now readers can enjoy the sights without being elbow-to-elbow with...
Ungulate Management in Europe
Problems and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
This book considers a number of problems posed by ungulates and their management in Europe. Through a synthesis of the underlying biology and a comparison of the management techniques adopted in different countries, the book explores which management approaches seem effective - and in which circumstances....
Water Rights and the Environment in the United States: A Documentary and Reference Guide
A Documentary and Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This sweeping study traces the development of water policy in the United States from the 19th century to the present day, exploring the role of legislation in appropriating access to water to the American people.
• Addresses recent events including the handling of Hurricane Katrina and the...