Ecology category: 3266 books
The American West at Risk
Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense,...
by Bob Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
"Greener Materials and the Markets that Use Them" provides a comprehensive overview of the products, raw materials, and end users that are leading a transformation to a 'greener' more environmentaly friendly America.
Claims about environmentally friendly products and initiatives fall...
Hold Your Water
68 Things You Need to Know to Keep Our Planet Blue
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Hold Your Water offers insight into the water and world around us. Taking a conversational approach to conservation, it dives into simple ways that even little old you can make a difference--all with a witty, and at times whimsical, slant on the world in which we live.
The Wyland Foundation...
Sowing Seeds in the City
Ecosystem and Municipal Services
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Urban agriculture has the potential to change our food systems, enhance habitat in our cities, and to morph urban areas into regions that maximize rather than disrupt ecosystem services. The potential impacts of urban agriculture on a range of ecosystem services including soil and water conservation,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
This ebook reproduces two Energy Department publications: Hydrogen from Coal Program, Research, Development, and Demonstration Plan through 2016, and the Office of Fossil Energy Hydrogen Program Plan, Hydrogen from Natural Gas and Coal, the Road to a Sustainable Energy Future.
by Brian Dawson, Matt Spannagle
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
For anyone trying to separate the fact from the fiction, The Complete Guide to Climate Change is an indispensable resource. Taking you through the A to Z of the key scientific, geographical and socio-political issues involved in the study of the environment and the implications of mankind’s effect...
Coming of Age at the End of Nature
A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom of humanity’s...
by Eric Dinerstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
When you look out your window, why are you so much more likely to see a robin or a sparrow than a Kirtland's warbler or a California condor? Why are some animals naturally rare and others so abundant? The quest to find and study seldom-seen jaguars and flamboyant Andean cocks-of-the-rock is as alluring...
Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene
An Emerging Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically—even fatally—on the boundless production and consumption of goods and services without heed to environmental consequences....
Climate Coup
Global Warming's Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
A first-rate team of experts offers compelling documentation on the pervasive influence global warming alarmism now has on almost every aspect of our society-from national defense, law, trade, and politics to health, education, and international development.
The Housing Bomb
Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai...
by Frederic C. Rich
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
“Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, there is much to admire in this book, which reminds us that the stewardship of nature is an obligation shared by all Americans.”—U.S. Senator Angus S. King Jr.
The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals that...
Pathways to Our Sustainable Future
A Global Perspective from Pittsburgh
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Pittsburgh has a rich history of social consciousness in calls for justice and equity. Today, the movement for more sustainable practices is rising in Pittsburgh. Against a backdrop of Marcellus shale gas development, initiatives emerge for a sustainable and resilient response to the climate change...
Climate Change and the Health of Nations
Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
When we think of "climate change," we think of man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to the climate's vicissitudes. Anthony J. McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and...