Natural Resources category: 648 books

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Winning Together

The Natural Resource Negotiation Playbook

by Bruno Verdini Trejo
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017

Strategies for transboundary natural resource management; winner of Harvard Law School's Raiffa Award for best research of the year in negotiation and conflict resolution. Transboundary natural resource negotiations, often conducted in an atmosphere of entrenched mistrust, confrontation, and...
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by Raymond F. Mikesell
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013

This book discusses the problems of developing quality information on the availability of natural resources. Originally published in 1969
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by SoftTech
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015

Learning About Living Green For A Better Tomorrow Can Have Amazing Benefits For Your Life And Success! 10 Ways To Help Our Mother Earth! The Earth has a fixed amount of natural resources - some of which are already consumed. So as population development greatly strains our finite resources,...
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Coal: Its Role in Tomorrow's Technology

A Sourcebook on Global Coal Resources

by Charles Simeons
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

Coal: Its Role in Tomorrow's Technology: A Sourcebook on Global Coal Resources focuses on the increasing consideration of coal as an alternative energy source, taking into consideration the mining, production, and research and development programs of various countries on this mineral. The book first...
Cover of Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016

This book is a compilation of recent global measures to conserve bio-resources and manage biotic and abiotic stresses. It highlights emerging issues related to agriculture, abiotic and biotic stress factors, ethnic knowledge, climate change and global warming, as well as natural resources and their...
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Land and Resource Scarcity

Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World without Fossil Fuels

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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be...
Cover of The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted at senior level decision makers in agriculture as well...
Cover of Transformative EcoEducation for Human and Planetary Survival
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

Transformative ecoeducation is environmental education that is literally needed to transform and save our planet, especially during the global ecological crises of our present century. Such education demands inner transformation of many deeply rooted ideas, such as the following: the Earth exists...
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Environmental Communication and Community

Constructive and destructive dynamics of social transformation

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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016

As society has become increasingly aware of environmental issues, the challenge of structuring public participation opportunities that strengthen democracy, while promoting more sustainable communities has become crucial for many natural resource agencies, industries, interest groups and publics....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

The loss of biodiversity is a major environmental problem in nearly every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. This loss is accelerating driven by climate change, as well as by other causes including agricultural exploitation, fragmentation and degradation triggered by land use changes. The crucial issue...
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Energy

Sources, Utilization, Legislation, Sustainability, Illinois as Model State

by G Ali Mansoori, Nader Enayati, L Barnie Agyarko
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015

This 800-page premier book on energy focuses on energy sources, utilizations, legislations and sustainability as it relates to a state, a province, or a country, or a community within a state. This book presents various kinds of energy sources, ways to convert energy for end use, better use of energy...
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A Land Made from Water

Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado's Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions

by Robert R. Crifasi
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015

A Land Made from Water chronicles how the appropriation and development of water and riparian resources in Colorado changed the face of the Front Range—an area that was once a desert and is now an irrigated oasis suitable for the habitation and support of millions of people. This comprehensive history...
Cover of A Journey Toward Environmental Stewardship
by Michael Zagata
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017

Raised in upstate New York, Mike earned a BS and MS in secondary science at SUNY-Oneonta and Cornell and then a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology at Iowa State University.  His varied career included an assistant professorship at the University of Maine-Orono’s School of Forest Resources, Field Director...
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