Natural Resources category: 648 books
The Forest Service
A Study in Public Land Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Our National Park Policy
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
A legislative and administrative history on the social, cultural, and intellectual significance of the national park idea. Originally published in 1961
by Robert G. Healy, John S. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
An enlarged and revised book which looks at some programs of state land use control. Focusing on the problems that have caused the public to demand such controls, on the variety of legislative responses, and on the problems of implementation that arise, this study presents a rationale for the role of the state government in the land use field. Originally published in 1979
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect. But, despite widespread concern for...
Unwelcome Harvest
Agriculture and pollution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the �blue-baby� syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces...
by Edward A. Ackerman, George O.G. Loff
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Waterlogged Wealth
Why waste the world's wet places?
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Don't drain the swamp! Man's traditional response to swamps, marshes and bogs has been to drain them. But wetlands are not wastelands. Coastal marshes are among the world's most productive ecosystems. They make many commercial fisheries possible and protect coasts from floods and storm surges. Wetlands...
by Charles Walters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
What is the most important plant in the world? In terms of nutritive content, function within the ecosystem, and even medicinal properties, the answer to this question may very well be grass. In this wide-ranging survey of grass forages and pastureland, Charles Walters makes the case that grass...
Alternative Wastewater Treatment
Low-Cost Small Systems, Research and Development Proceedings of the Conference held at Oslo, Norway, September 7–10, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Following the end of World War II there was a major migra tion of population in the United States and Scandinavian countries to urban areas. As a result of this migration and in part due to the public works moratoria imposed during the war, a major pro gram of sewer construction was instigated,...
Fire Making
The Forgotten Art of Conjuring Flame with Spark, Tinder, and Skill
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A Richly Illustrated Guide to Making Fire Without a Lighter
If you ask outdoorsman Daniel Hume for the fastest, most practical way to start a fire, he’ll tell you: Use a match. But he probably won’t stop there. For Hume, conjuring flame is an art form, and seeking out the old ways is a...
Open Science
Sharing Knowledge in the Global Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Open Science is about how we address the profound challenges which now confront humanity: climate, the food crisis, environmental degradation, resource scarcity and disease; through science communication. These call for the sharing of scientific knowledge among billions of humans, on a scale never before...
The Last Oasis
Facing Water Scarcity
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper sanitation and each year four million children die of water-borne diseases. As most of the world?s major...
Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement
Reclaiming control
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, such as land grabbing, food prices volatility, agrofuels and climate change. Peasant social movements are trying to respond to these challenges by organizing...
Food Sovereignty in International Context
Discourse, politics and practice of place
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces. While literature on food sovereignty has proliferated since the first usage of the term in 1996 at the Rome Food Summit, most has been...