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Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 1: Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the first: 1. Landslide Inventory...
Arming Mother Nature
The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, writes Jacob Darwin Hamblin, the movement--and its dire predictions--owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture. In Arming Mother Nature,...
by Ellen Wohl
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
To contemplate an alpine lake or a ribbon of white water twisting down the face of the Rocky Mountains is to appreciate the majesty of this block of bedrock thrust up from Earth’s interior, weathering eons of nature's assaults. To learn what humans, in our brief lifespan, have done here is to acquire...
Deep Water
The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
"If the wars of the last century were fought over oil, the wars of this century will be fought over water." -Ismail Serageldin, The World Bank
The giant dams of today are the modern Pyramids, colossally expensive edifices that generate monumental amounts of electricity, irrigated...
Carbon Play
The Candid Observations of a Carbon Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
An insider’s look at the complex, inspiring and surprisingly entertaining world of international negotiations, technology and diplomacy relating to the carbon industry, environmental management and climate mitigation.
Carbon Play follows Robert Falls’s unique and extraordinary journey in...
Finite Media
Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
While digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and...
The Mom's Guide to Growing Your Family Green
Saving the Earth Begins at Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
With the multitude of green choices available, how can moms determine what will be best for their families—and the environment? Terra Wellington has the answers.
This user-friendly and invaluable resource is packed with hundreds of easy green how-tos including:
• Shopping: Get the...
by The Green Patriot Working Group
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Today, many Americans are concerned about global warming. According to a March 2007 MSNBC poll, 86% of Americans believe global warming is a critical or important threat, and according to an April 2007 ABC News/The Washington Post/Stanford University poll, 80% of Americans say they are willing to make...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Media and the Ecological Crisis is a collaborative work of interdisciplinary writers engaged in mapping, understanding and addressing the complex contribution of media to the current ecological crisis. The book is informed by a fusion of scholarly, practitioner, and activist interests to inform, educate,...
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks;...
Catch and Release
The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The unexpected and fascinating interspecies relationship between humans and horseshoe crabs.
Horseshoe crabs are considered both a prehistoric and indicator species. They have not changed in tens of millions of years and provide useful data to scientists who monitor the health of the environment....
Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Human activities impact the environment and modify the cycles of important elements such as carbon and nitrogen from local to global scales. In order to maintain long-term and sustainable use of the world's natural resources it is important that we understand how and why ecosystems respond to such...
by Husravi Juma
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 1, , language: English, abstract: Which one to choose? Recycling wastes and reproducing less healthy and, most of the time, lower-quality products or polluting the environment by burning these wastes? My research method is studying...
Poop Culture
How America Is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Is “The Origin of Feces” a Darwinian concern? Perhaps not, but it is the title to the preface of this tongue-in-cheek and unexpectedly revealing exploration of human behavior by the webmaster behind the popular PoopReport.com.This book is not a history of poop, but a study of today. Its...