Environment category: 6530 books
Energy and Security
Strategies for a World in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The second, completely updated edition of this widely read and respected guide is the most authoritative survey available on the perennial question of energy security. Energy and Security gathers today's topmost foreign policy and energy experts and leaders to assess how the United States can integrate...
by Camilla Toulmin
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Climate change is a major challenge for us all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat. This book outlines current thinking and evidence and the impact such change will have on Africa's development prospects. Global warming above the level of two degrees Celsius would be enormously...
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie
Australia, America, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive—the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth—and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity. At the same time, both nations...
Urban Ecosystems
Ecological Principles for the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
As humans have come to dominate the earth, the ideal of studying and teaching ecology in pristine ecosystems has become impossible to achieve. Our planet is now a mosaic of ecosystems ranging from the relatively undisturbed to the completely built, with the majority of people living in urban environments....
Maybe One
A Personal and Evironmental Argument for Single Child Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
From the groundbreaking, bestselling author of The End of Nature, a controversial and provocative book arguing that to help the planet we should begin to voluntarily limit our numbers.
Bill McKibben's books and essays on our environment -- physical and spiritual -- have shaped and spurred debate since...
by Rudy PROVOOST
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Buildings that produce their own energy and respond to our everyday needs; simple management tools that improve the comfort of our homes making them more economical and connecting them to the world; safer, smarter and more sustainable towns and cities that provide greater mobility, improve communication...
What are Global Warming and Climate Change?
Answers for Young Readers
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Global warming is one of the most talked about science subjects today.Maybe you have seen pictures of polar bears or other animals stranded atop floating chunks of melting ice. Perhaps you have heard about or lived through extreme weather--hurricanes, floods, water shortages, heat waves, or...
Cleaner, Greener, Healthier
A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Despite Canada’s enduring image as a natural paradise, every year thousands of Canadians become ill or die prematurely as a result of exposure to environmental hazards. Canadians understand that their health is inextricably linked to the health of the environment and are deeply concerned about the...
Into the Woods
The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Winner, 2011 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Winner, 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage...
Living Green: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Taking care of the earth is more important than ever, but the problems we're facing can seem overwhelming. Living Green: The Missing Manual helps make earth-friendly decisions more manageable by narrowing them down to a few simple choices. This all-in-one resource is packed with practical advice on...
A Golden Weed
Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Drew A. Swanson has written an “environmental” history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues,...
It's All About Democracy
A grassroots view of Green politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
Canadian Green parties must be restructured from the ground up, writes political blogger and former Green party member Stuart Hertzog in this collection of essays from his former blog greenpolitics.ca.
Now available as a book-length collection, It's All About Democracy is a wide-ranging and...
Seeds of Science
Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
'Mark Lynas is a saint' Sunday Times
'Fluent, persuasive and surely right.' Evening Standard
Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s – working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement – he would descend on trial sites of genetically...
The Oil Man and the Sea
Navigating the Northern Gateway
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
A sailing trip along the proposed Northern Gateway marine route with a fresh new voice in non-fiction.
With oil and gas behemoth Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway proposal nearing approval, supertankers loaded with two million barrels of oil may soon be plying the waters from northern British...