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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
"Ecosystem Services and Management Strategy in China" is a two-year international cooperation project that culminated from the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development’s Task Force on Ecosystem Services and Management. It combines case studies, scenario...
by Heba Fahmy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: Excellent, University of Alexandria (Faculty of Engineering-Production Department), course: Quality Improvement Tools and Techniques being used in the Analysis of an Environmental Problem, language: English, abstract:...
Losing Paradise
The Growing Threat to Our Animals, Our Environment,
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The last decades of the twentieth century saw an unprecedented assault by humans on nature and animals throughout the world. Instead of moving toward a better world, we are now facing a tidal wave of ecological challenges that threatens to sweep away whatever progress we have achieved. In this...
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Natures, Subjects and Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these...
by Ravi S. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book innovatively brings together analyses of the ancient environmental traditions and thoughts with contemporary issues from multidisciplinary perspectives. It provides desirable insights into environmental concerns; their developmental interfaces, agriculture, climate change, gender, health...
Save the planet
52 brilliant ideas for rescuing our world
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
The plight of the environment is never far from the headlines these days - sea levels are rising, mild winters are now commonplace, more and more species are becoming endangered, and we're throwing away so much rubbish we're running out of places to hide it. But where do we start when it comes to doing...
E Is for Environment
Stories to Help Children Care for Their World--at Home, at School, and at Play
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
The author of E Is for Ethics offers a new interactive family book featuring twenty-six original stories with different eco-friendly messages, accompanied by delightful illustrations, discussion questions, and tips for conserving energy and natural resources.
While there are many children’s...
Human Ecology as Human Behavior
Essays in Environmental and Developmental Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Human interaction with the natural environment has a dual character. By turning increasing quantities of natural substances into physical resources, human beings might be said to have freed themselves from the constraints of low-technology survival pressures. However, the process has generated a new...
Green in Gridlock
Common Goals, Common Ground, and Compromise
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Facing one of the most dangerous conservation crises in history—acid rain—lawmakers, industry leaders, and activists embraced an attitude of civil engagement that sought common ground and acceptance of compromise solutions on all sides. As a result, they achieved a spectacular outcome. This approach...
Chemical Lands
Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment.
The controversies in the 1960s and 1970s that swirled around indiscriminate use of agricultural chemicals—their long-term ecological harm versus food...
by Eric R.A.N. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
The citizens of the United States generally oppose new energy developments, yet the public does not want to go without cheap, plentiful energy. This book explores the intricate relationship between public opinion and energy issues. Using the state of California as a model, the author addresses such...
Biocidal
Confronting the Poisonous Legacy of PCBs
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
The first full account of the scientific and political dynamics of global PCB contamination, and its threat to human health and the environment
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Whether or not you've heard of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), it's likely that this toxic chemical can be found in your cells. PCBs were invented...
How to Do Nothing
Resisting the Attention Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world
Nothing is harder to do these...
Forest Types of Southwest Ohio and Southeast Indiana
A methodology for identifying, projecting, and restoring our 8 local forest types
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
This book introduces and describes the local forest type expressions based on their physical environment characteristics; Soil PH, Topography, Hydrology, and Soil Parent Material + the correlated tree species. This information was extrapolated from cross-studying over a thousand acres of soil surveys...