Environment category: 6530 books
The Mountaineering Handbook
Modern Tools and Techniques That Will Take You to the Top
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2004
Modern Mountaineering on Alpine Rock, Snow, and Ice
If your experience as a backpacker or rock climber is drawing you higher; if the cold, remote alpine environment calls you nearer, this book is for you. The Mountaineering Handbook will teach you the skills that will take you to the top. Even...
Mapping Species Distributions
Spatial Inference and Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Maps of species' distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of environmental research, resource management and conservation planning. These include biodiversity assessment, reserve design, habitat management and restoration, species and habitat conservation plans and predicting...
Enchantment and Exploitation
The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range. Revised and Expanded Edition.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
First published in 1985, William deBuys’s Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological...
by Bridget Heos
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The human body is over 65% water. We drink it. We bathe in it. We water our crops with it. Water is a foundation of human life. And yet, more and more chemicals are getting into our ground water. People are getting sick, and even dying from it. How this happened and what we can do to prevent these...
by Kathleen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Kathleen Jones travelled to the islands of Haida Gwaii off the northernmost coastline of British Columbia, to visit a nation who have lived in harmony with their environment for more than ten thousand years. They have a saying, 'Everything is Connected', and their philosophy, Yah' Guudang, is about...
Earth Spirit Living
Bringing Heaven and Nature into Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Earth Spirit Living is a revolutionary approach to lifestyle design and personal space. Author Ann Marie Holmes, an expert on earth energy systems, reveals that by picking up subtle cues from the natural world, we can create healthy, enjoyable, and sustainable living spaces. She shows how we can effectively...
The Atchafalaya River Basin
History and Ecology of an American Wetland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In this comprehensive, one-volume reference, Nature Conservancy scientist Bryan P. Piazza poses five key questions:
—What is the Atchafalaya River Basin?
—Why is it important?
—How have its hydrology and natural habitats been managed?
—What is its current state?
—How do we ensure its survival?
For...
Contact
Mountain Climbing And Environmental Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Contact collects new and classic first-person climbing stories from North America’s best-known climbers and writers. Mountain climbers are important but overlooked commentators on the environment, and this collection of alpine adventures demonstrates the relationship between climbers and nature...
In the Thick of It
My Life in the Sierra Club
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In an age when many of the major environmental policies established over the past four decades are under siege, Michael McCloskey reminds us of better days. . .days when conservation initiatives were seen not as political lightning rods, but as opportunities to cope with disturbing threats to the...
First Along the River
A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
First Along the River provides students with a balanced, historical perspective on the history of the environmental movement in relation to major social and political events in U.S. history, from the pre-colonial era to the present. The book highlights important people and events, places critical...
Heads above Water
The Inside Story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Since the 1950s, competing interests for use of Edwards Aquifer resources—the primary source of water for more than two million people in south central Texas—were at war. They had tried many times to resolve their differences about how to conserve, allocate, and use the water, but had always failed.
Finally,...
Chasing Molecules
Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Each day, headlines warn that baby bottles are leaching dangerous chemicals, nonstick pans are causing infertility, and plastic containers are making us fat. What if green chemistry could change all that? What if rather than toxics, our economy ran on harmless, environmentally-friendly materials?Elizabeth...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This is the first English-language atlas to systematically introduce the environment, hazard, vulnerability and risk mapping for 11 natural disasters, i.e. earthquake, volcano, landslide, flood, storm surge, sand-dust storm, tropical cyclone, heat wave, cold wave, drought and wildfire, and risk mapping...
Climate Change Adaptation Measures in Vietnam
Development and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
This book describes the iterative steps that were successfully undertaken to develop adaptation measures to climate change in two Vietnamese provinces. The methodology used to develop the scientific basis and the societal agreement of the need to adapt to climate change is applicable also to other...