Natural Resources category: 648 books
by Gerard M Crawley
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Concerns about energy resources and the environmental impact of energy use will continue to be important globally. World Scientific's unique series of books on Current Energy Issues is intended, in part, as an expansion and update of the material contained in the World Scientific Handbook of Energy....
by Robert A. Marshalla
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Originally published in 1979. While the theory of non-renewable resources under competitive and monopolistic market regimes have been relatively well developed, almost no attention has been given to the development of a theoretical framework for analysis of the spectrum of mixed market structure between...
Rethinking Water Management
Innovative Approaches to Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
If water resources are to be distributed efficiently, equitably and cost-effectively in this rapidly changing world, then it is clear that current water management practices are no longer feasible. Innovative approaches are required to meet the increasing water demands of a growing world population...
Genes from the Wild
Using Wild Genetic Resources for Food and Raw Materials
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Tomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their wild relatives. A single wild species of rice has helped double rice production in Asia. Wild silk-worms are enabling India to expand its silk industry. A wild carp with resistance to cold has been used to extend Soviet carp production...
Thoreau on Nature
Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!” -Henry David Thoreau
Since his death in 1862, Henry David Thoreau has left an indelible mark on the American mind. A vocal champion of simple...
Dyeing Wool
The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes, Plant Dyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
The complete guide to making and using dyeing wool, natural plant dyes, plant dyes, natural dyes.
Collaborative Resilience
Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...
by Naazneen Barma, Kai Kaiser, Tuan Minh Le
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This volume focuses on the political economy surrounding the detailed decisions that governments make at each step of the value chain for natural resource management. From the perspective of public interest or good governance, many resource-dependent developing countries pursue apparently short-sighted...
Natural Connections
Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The mpromising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation...
by Steven E. Kraft, Christopher L. Lant, J. B. Ruhl
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services is the first comprehensive exploration of the status and future of natural capital and ecosystem services in American law and policy. The book develops a framework for thinking about ecosystem services across their ecologic, geographic, economic, social, and...
by Alan Millard
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
A consistent effort to destroy the natural environment, with a cultural influence that clashed with the Native American way of life, presently continues from European arrival. When we see land "developers," supported by government-funded contracts and zoning laws that accommodate turning...
Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa
From Concept to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book documents a decade of research, methodological innovation, and lessons learned in an eco-regional research-for-development program operating in the eastern African highlands, the African Highlands Initiative (AHI). It does this through reflections of the protagonists themselves—AHI site...
The Embattled Wilderness
The Natural and Human History of Robinson Forest and the Fight for Its Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky is one of our most important natural landscapes—and one of the most threatened. Covering fourteen thousand acres of some of the most diverse forest region in temperate North America, it is a haven of biological richness within an ever-expanding desert created...
Talking Taino
Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Keegan and Carlson, combined, have spent over 45 years conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas. Walking...