Environment category: 6530 books
Nature First
Outdoor Life the Friluftsliv Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Nature First combines the Scandinavian approach to creating a relationship with nature (known as friluftsliv) with efforts by Canadian and international educators to adapt this wisdom and apply it to everyday life experiences in the open air. The word friluftsliv literally refers to "free-air...
Journeys Through Paradise
Pioneering Naturalists in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
"This book is for those inhabited by the same desires that drove the early naturalists afield, who yearn to know wilder territory. We read it voraciously, as if in the understanding of how they loved we might also begin to do so, as if in the reliving of their lives we might recapture some vanishing...
River of Contrasts
The Texas Colorado
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Writer and artist Margie Crisp has traveled the length of Texas’ Colorado River, which rises in Dawson County, south of Lubbock, and flows 860 miles southeast across the state to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico at Matagorda Bay. Echoing the truth of Heraclitus’s ancient dictum, the river’s character...
by Cora Lydon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
We are all aware of the need to be more environmentally friendly but knowing where to start is a different matter. This book is the essential guide on how to lead a greener lifestyle. The advice is straightforward, easy to follow and requires minimum effort so you won’t need to compromise on your...
Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude
Urbanization and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude explores the transformation of the largest desert in North America, the Great Basin, into America’s last urban frontier. In recent decades Las Vegas, Reno, Salt Lake City, and Boise have become the anchors for sprawling metropolitan regions. This population explosion...
Human Ecology
How Nature and Culture Shape Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider...
by Miranda Schreurs, Elim Papadakis
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Human beings have been concerned about nature and their place in it for millennia. Disquiet about the consequences of human action on the natural environment date back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. The efforts of the green movement can be traced back to the nineteenth century. In this period,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This book provides in-depth reviews of the effects of nanoparticles on the soil environment, their interactions with plants and also their potential applications as nanofertilizers and pesticides. It offers insights into the current trends and future prospects of nanotechnology, including the benefits...
Escaping the Dark, Gray City
Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A compelling and long-overdue exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its lasting effects on American culture, politics, and contemporary environmentalism The turn of the twentieth century caught America at a crossroads, shaking the dust from a bygone era and hurtling toward the...
Common Waters, Diverging Streams
Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
This book is a firsthand investigation into water management in a fast-growing region of the arid American West. It presents three states that have adopted the conjunctive management of groundwater and surface water to make resources go further in serving people and the environment. Yet conjunctive...
The New Consumers
The Influence Of Affluence On The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
While overconsumption by the developed world's roughly one billion inhabitants is an abiding problem, another one billion increasingly afflu"new consumers" in developing countries will place additional strains on the earth's resources, argue authors Norman Myers and Jennifer Kin this important new...
Hell on Earth
The Wildfire Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
The world is burning, and it appears that we are to blame. Conditions that create large-scale fire disasters are occurring more frequently every year, spurred on by global warming. And the potential for damage, loss of life, and greater harm to the environment is staggering.
As devastating...
Floods in a Megacity
Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly...
Green Alternatives to Globalisation
A Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
'Essential reading for anyone wanting to move beyond critiques of economic globalisation to coherent and credible alternatives.' Dame Anita Roddick DBE 'Woodin and Lucas set out an eloquent and passionate argument which not only challenges the convenient assumption that economic globlisation is inevitable,...