Environment category: 6530 books
What the River Carries
Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
In this informed and lyrical collection of interwoven essays, Lisa Knopp explores the physical and cultural geography of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, rivers she has come to understand and cherish. At the same time, she contemplates how people experience landscape, identifying three primary...
War upon the Land
Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy.
From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature, even...
Outer Banks Shipwrecks
Graveyard of the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Ever since ships began navigating the coast of North Carolina, the area has maintained a reputation for being dangerous. Today, the region that stretches from the Currituck Outer Banks south to Bogue Banks is referred to as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." From the 1585 grounding of the English ship...
by Michael Noone
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
How to Become an International Disaster Volunteer discusses the immense value an experienced water systems engineer, trauma surgeon, or communications specialist could bring to a disaster stricken community, while also explaining how their professional educations do not prepare them for the logistical,...
Not So Golden State
Sustainability vs. the California Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In Not So Golden State, leading environmental historian Char Miller looks below the surface of California's ecological history to expose some of its less glittering conundrums. In this necessary work, Miller asks tough questions as we stand at the edge of a human-induced natural disaster in the region...
River Flowing From The Sunrise
An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
The authors recount twelve millennia of history along the lower San Juan River, much of it the story of mostly unsuccessful human attempts to make a living from the river's arid and fickle environment. From the Anasazi to government dam builders, from Navajo to Mormon herders and farmers, from scientific...
Nature's Restoration
People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Across America and around the world, people are
working to help nature heal itself. In Bermuda, a man
single-handedly grows thousands of trees on a small
island to restore nesting habitat for a rare seabird. In
Illinois, legions of volunteers replant prairies in the...
Rethinking Environmental History
World-System History and Global Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical...
Totara
A Natural and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The ‘mighty totara' is one of New Zealand's most extraordinary trees. Among the biggest and oldest trees in the New Zealand forest, the heart of Maori carving and culture, trailing no. 8 wire as fence posts on settler farms, clambered up in the Pureora protests of the 1980s: the story of New Zealand...
The Invisible Killer
The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution-and How We Can Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
An urgent examination of one of the biggest global crises facing us today--air pollution--looking at the drastic worsening of the problem, and what we can do about it.
"Fascinating, readable, and terrifying in equal measure." —Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees
The air pollution that...
The Green Book
The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.
Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:
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by Helen Corbett, Susanne Swibold
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
The Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a comprehensive presentation of definitions, philosophies, policies, models, and analyses of global environmental and developmental issues. With a wealth of comparative, multidisciplinary, and geographically varied perspectives on environmental...
by Yance De Fretes, Kathryn Monk
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The Ecology of Nusa Tenggara and Maluku is a comprehensive ecological survey of a series ecologically diverse islands in the Pacific.
It contains extensive baseline data on the region’s people, ecosystems, biodiversity and land use, and discusses these in a historical as well as a developmental...
The Great Penguin Rescue
40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World's Largest Animal Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
ON JUNE 23, 2000, the iron-ore carrier MV Treasure, en route from Brazil to China, foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins. Realizing thJuneat 41 percent of the world’s population of African penguins...