Ecology category: 3266 books
Humanity's Footprint
Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum, and the insidious explosion of human impact creates a shockwave that threatens ecosystems worldwide for decades-possibly centuries.
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by Kevin S. McCann
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Human impacts are dramatically altering our natural ecosystems but the exact repercussions on ecological sustainability and function remain unclear. As a result, food web theory has experienced a proliferation of research seeking to address these critical areas. Arguing that the various recent and...
Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century
The Hierarchy of Energy
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2007
Howard T. Odum possessed one of the most innovative minds of the twentieth century. He pioneered the fields of ecological engineering, ecological economics, and environmental accounting, working throughout his life to better understand the interrelationships of energy, environment, and society and...
Sustainability
A Way to Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The book describes mechanisms whereby the Earth naturally thrives towards energy and resources abundance and how unsustainable industrial practices alter this trend.
Introduces the concept of earth energy and associates this to the conditions of the biosphere and emphasizes the possibilities...
by P.P. Kandelaars
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
A theoretical and empirical contribution to the quest for sustainability and environmental quality. The book examines the physical and economic aspects of flows of materials and products, as well as the policies and strategies designed to reduce the related resource depletion and environmental pollution....
Land and Resource Scarcity
Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World without Fossil Fuels
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...
The End of Night
Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The "terrific ... moving, poetic, immersive, multifaceted, and thought-provoking" book (Publishers Weekly) that will open your eyes to the night.
A brilliantly starry night is one of nature's most thrilling wonders. Yet in our world of nights as bright as day, most of us no longer...
I Love Dirt!
52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
I Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's...
Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares
The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
2011 Winner, International Association of Culinary Professionals Jane Grigson Award2011 Finalist, International Association of Culinary Professionals in the Culinary History categoryThroughout history, people have had a complex and confusing relationship with mushrooms. Are fungi food or medicine,...
Global Chorus
365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Global Chorus is a remarkable, illustrated collection of 365 daily meditations around some very large and increasingly crucial themes:
“Do you think that humanity can find a way past the current global environmental and social crises? Will we be able to create the conditions necessary for...
by Gary King
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Market demand for crayfish in the United States originated in southwest Louisiana with the arrival of the French Acadian settlers. As demand increased, farming these freshwater crustaceans became more effective than trapping them. Farm-raised crayfish dominate the market and, according to Louisiana...
Narnia and the Fields of Arbol
The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The remarkable breadth of C. S. Lewis's (1898--1963) work is nearly as legendary as the fantastical tales he so inventively crafted. A variety of themes emerge in his literary output, which spans the genres of nonfiction, fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, but much of the scholarship...
Thirsty Planet
Strategies for Sustainable Water Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
By the year 2025 nearly 2 billion people will live in regions experiencing absolute water scarcity. In the face of this emerging crisis, how should the planet's water be used and managed? Current international policy sees nature competing with human uses of water. Hunt takes issue with this perspective....
Wild Species as Commodities
Managing Markets And Ecosystems For Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In recyears, some policymakers and conservationists have argued that natural resources will be protected only if economic benefits accrue to those who are responsible for caring for the resources. Such commercial consumptive use of wild species (CCU) provides an economically viable alternative to...