Environment category: 6530 books
Nuclear Portraits
Communities, the Environment, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In the twenty-first century, nuclear energy has become a hotly contested issue. In the face of climate change, and the search for alternative forms of energy, nuclear power continues to affect the lives of communities around the world.
In Nuclear Portraits, scholars from Europe, North America,...
Urban Planet
Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Global urbanization promises better services, stronger economies, and more connections; it also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. To deepen our understanding of this complex process and its importance for global sustainability, we need to build interdisciplinary knowledge around a systems...
Green Engineering
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This is a primary text project that combines sustainability development with engineering entrepreneurship and design to present a transdisciplinary approach to modern engineering education. The book is distinguished by extensive descriptions of concepts in sustainability, its principles, and its...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This book draws examples from food security issues in Bangladesh. The book is structured around those issues and underlying causes of food security, the implications from different sectors, policy analysis, and the role and actions of various stakeholders from different sectors to ensure food security.
Bangladesh...
The Governance of the Countryside
Property, Planning and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Conflicts over the conservation of biodiversity, changing patterns in land use, pollution, climate change, public access and increasing demands for food and energy security lead to the creation of policies designed to reconcile interests and promote society's objectives. This book examines the origins...
Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management
A Manual for Economic Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual'
This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment...
Facing Climate Change
An Integrated Path to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Facing Climate Change explains why people refuse to accept evidence of a warming planet and shows how to move past partisanship to reach a consensus for action. A climate scientist and licensed Jungian analyst, Jeffrey T. Kiehl examines the psychological phenomena that twist our relationship to the...
Swamper
Letters from a Louisiana Swamp Rabbit
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Swamper, a fictitious swamp rabbit, lives in the bottomland hardwood forest, or overflow swamp, which is a very real environment. In twelve "letters" addressed to his human friends, Swamper shares his vivid observations about life in a Louisiana swamp. With excitement and captivating detail,...
Natural Visions
The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Walden Pond. The Grand Canyon.Yosemite National Park. Throughout the twentieth century, photographers and filmmakers created unforgettable images of these and other American natural treasures. Many of these images, including the work of Ansel Adams, continue to occupy a prominent place in the American...
by Wes Ferguson, Jacob Croft Botter
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
For eighty-seven miles, the swift and shallow Blanco River winds through the Texas Hill Country. Its water is clear and green, darkened by frequent pools. Wes Ferguson and Jacob Botter have paddled, walked, and waded the Blanco. They have explored its history, people, wildlife, and the natural beauty...
Running the River
Secrets of the Sabine
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of...
The Ganges River Basin
Status and Challenges in Water, Environment and Livelihoods
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The Ganges is one of the most complex yet fascinating river systems in the world. The basin is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity from climatic, hydrological, geomorphological, cultural, environmental and socio-economic perspectives. More than 500 million people are directly or indirectly...
by Brian Howard,Seth Leitman,William Brinsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Flip the switch to energy-efficient lighting This do-it-yourself guide makes it easy to upgrade residential and commercial lighting to reduce costs and environmental impact while maintaining or even improving the quality of the lighting. Filled with step-by-step instructions, Green Lighting shows...
World Ecological Degradation
Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000BC-AD2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
Deforestation, soil runoff, salination, pollution. While recurrent themes of the contemporary world, they are not new to us. In this broad sweeping review of the environmental impacts of human settlement and development worldwide over the past 5,000 years, Sing C. Chew shows that these processes are...