Environment category: 6530 books
Green Deen
What Islam Teaches about Protecting the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
“The Earth is a mosque.” Muslims are compelled by their religion to praise the Creator and to care for their community. But what is not widely known is that there are deep and long-standing connections between Islamic teachings and environmentalism. In this groundbreaking book, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin...
by Virginia H. Dale, Catherine L. Kling, Judith L. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year. The hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot s- port marine life, generally manifests itself in the spring. Since marine species either die or ee the hypoxic zone, the spread of hypoxia reduces...
Rocks and Hard Places
The Globalization of Mining
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The world of international mining is changing rapidly. Mining corporations are encroaching on more and more greenfield sites in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, to serve ever-expanding global industries. Moody shows that large-scale mining imposes a heavy toll on local communities, on their...
First World Petro-Politics
The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism.
A wide-ranging and richly documented study of Alberta’s political ecology –...
White Man's Game
Saving Animals, Rebuilding Eden, and Other Myths of Conservation in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A probing examination of Western conservation efforts in Africa, where our feel-good stories belie a troubling reality
The stunningly beautiful Gorongosa National Park, once the crown jewel of Mozambique, was nearly destroyed by decades of civil war. It looked like a perfect place for Western...
by Justin Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This is the second part of my short introduction to the natural history of the Wolli Creek Valley in Sydney, Australia. The Valley contains the last substantial remnants of the natural environment in Sydney’s inner south-west. Even though it is quite small it contains a variety of habitats, ranging...
by Sarah Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Growing public interest in environmental sustainability is a gift to historic sites and museums. It is an invitation to use our knowledge, collections, and sites to discuss how human practices and interactions with the environment in past were – and were not – environmentally sustainable. Being...
by Maury M. Haraway
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Maury Haraway tracks the course of nature across the seasons of the year and the landscape of North America. Trained as an expert in comparative psychology and animal behavior, and an avid birder for decades, Haraway chronicles the behavior and the adventures of the wild birds and mammals that share...
The Lazy Environmentalist
Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Josh Dorfman’s perspective is a leading voice for anyone involved in new consumer-based environmentalism.?—Tom Arnold, TerraPass
We can’t all camp out in old-growth forests, lying down in front of the bulldozers. And it’s not only that we’re too busy: Some of us just don’t want...
Soils, Ecosystem Processes, and Agricultural Development
Tropical Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The main objective of this book is to integrate environmental knowledge observed in local agriculture, based on the understanding of soils science and ecology, and to propose possible technical solutions and a more integrated approach to tropical agriculture. The chapters describe and analyze the...
Making a Living
Work and Environment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.
Chad Montrie...
by David K Langford, Rick Bass, Myrna Langford
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
While fog does not come easily or frequently to Central Texas, when it does, it inspires moments of quiet and reflection. David K. Langford captures those moments here in stirring images of the comings and goings of fog on Hillingdon Ranch, family land that has benefited from the stewardship of six...
Making Rocky Mountain National Park
The Environmental History of an American Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
On September 4, 1915, hundreds of people gathered in Estes Park, Colorado, to celebrate the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. This new nature preserve held the promise of peace, solitude, and rapture that many city dwellers craved. As Jerry Frank demonstrates, however, the park is much more...
Saving Lake Tahoe
An Environmental History of a National Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
The history of Lake Tahoe begins with the Washoe Indians who resided on its shores for thousands of years, with minimal impact on the landscape. The relatively brief American history at Lake Tahoe began in the mid-nineteenth century. Though awestruck by its beauty, the new arrivals were also intent...