Natural Resources category: 648 books
What Is God Anyway?
God and Evolution A Great Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Actually,A child asked me , " What is God Anyway”. I didn’t know exactly how to answer her as I did not want to offend her scientist,atheist father. After we discussed the the subject a bit,I told her that I would write her a story. I attended all Catholic Schools through graduate school and was...
Slowsport
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Movement, Nature, Experience…in Milano Marittima, ItalyWe are glad to give a warm WELCOME to our Tour Operator Guests and share with you a little time in our amazing nature in Milano Marittim
by Cameron Holley, Neil Gunningham, Clifford Shearing
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
A bold and profoundly new way of governing environmental problems is palpable around the globe and aims to overcome the limitations of the interventionist state and its market alternative to offer more effective and legitimate solutions to today's most pressing environmental problems. The 'new environmental...
Managing Water for Australia
The Social and Institutional Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Australian water policy and management are undergoing rapid and immense change in response to drought, technological advances, climate change and demographic and economic shifts. The National Water Initiative and the 2007 Australian Government water policy statements propose a fundamental shift in how...
Land Allocation for Biomass Crops
Challenges and Opportunities with Changing Land Use
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This edited volume establishes a forum for international experts to explore cutting-edge questions associated with the land use and biomass production. Topics include ‘do we have enough land, either primary or marginal, to accommodate future production of biomass?’, ‘how are farming decisions...
Gaviotas
Ein Dorf erfindet die Welt neu
Language: German
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Sie hatten kein Geld, nur eine Idee. Sie gründeten ein florierendes Dorf namens Gaviotas – mitten im Nirgendwo. Hier versorgen sich die Menschen komplett selbst, erzeugen erneuerbare Energie, bereiten Wasser auf, entwickeln umweltfreundliche Maschinen. Bestsellerautor Alan Weisman erzählt die...
I semi e la terra
Manifesto per la cultura contadina
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Un contadino ci salverà!
La piccola agricoltura è l’unica garanzia
di cibo per tutti. Questo libro spiega perché
Questo libro traccia il solco per difendere l’agricoltura contadina e i piccoli agricoltori: quelli che coltivano la terra -da sempre, in tutto il mondo- per vivere dei suoi...
Our Common Seas
Coasts in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the world which is not dangerously polluted. Sewage, oil, plastics, industrial...
by Jay Mazoomdaar
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Endling noun The very last individual of a species. These are not trophy tales of the wildlife photographer or his ancestor, the hunter. Nor are these entreaties of the save-the-world variety. Curious and clinical, irreverent but reasoned, these essays and exposes by one of India's best-known investigative...
Wilderness Protection in Europe
The Role of International, European and National Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Europe still retains large areas which play host to numerous native and free-functioning ecosystems and lack roads, buildings, bridges, cables and other permanent manifestations of modern society. In the past such areas were considered wastelands, whose value lay only in their potential for cultivation...
The Dreamt Land
Chasing Water and Dust Across California
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
**"[An] exhaustive, deeply reported account... Few other journalists could have written a book as personal and authoritative... As Arax makes plain in this important book, it's been the same story in California for almost two centuries now: When it comes to water, 'the resource is finite. The greed...
by Normand Mousseau
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Un ouvrage essentiel pour quiconque s’intéresse au développement du Québec, mais aussi à la gestion de ressources non renouvelables sur une planète de plus en plus petite.
Ecocultures
Blueprints for Sustainable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The world faces a ‘perfect storm’ of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change. In order to cope with these, communities are struggling to transition to sustainable ways of living that improve well-being...