Environment category: 6530 books
Collaborative Land Use Management
The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
Collaborative Land Use Management: The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Planning discusses the less-regulatory approaches to land use management that have emerged over the past 35 years, analyzing the collective value of such place-based planning approaches as land trusts, open-space ballot measures,...
Enforcement at the EPA
High Stakes and Hard Choices, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
The only published work that treats the historical evolution of EPA enforcement, this book provides a candid inside glimpse of a crucial aspect of the work of an important federal agency. Based on 190 personal interviews with present and former enforcement officials at EPA, the U.S. Department of...
Inherit the Holy Mountain
Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes...
Current Directions in Ecomusicology
Music, Culture, Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This volume is the first sustained examination of the complex perspectives that comprise ecomusicology—the study of the intersections of music/sound, culture/society, and nature/environment. Twenty-two authors provide a range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical chapters representing disciplines...
Voices of the Wild
Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording the sounds of remote landscapes, endangered habitats, and rare animal species. Through his organization, Wild Sanctuary, he has collected the soundscapes of more than 2,000 different habitat types, marine and terrestrial. With powerful illustrations...
Managing Tourism Growth
Issues And Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Tourism is by many measures the world's largest and fastest growing industry, and it provides myriad benefits to hosts and visitors alike. Yet if poorly managed, tourism can have serious negative impacts on tourist communities-their environment, physical appearance, economy, health, safety, and even...
Timber Trafficking in Vietnam
Crime, Security and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book is the first systematic investigation into the problem of timber trafficking in Vietnam, providing a detailed understanding of the typology of, victimization from, and key factors driving this crime. The book first reveals a multifaceted pattern of timber trafficking in Vietnam, comprising...
The Water-Wise Home
How to Conserve, Capture, and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Save the earth’s most precious resource while also saving yourself money. Laura Allen provides expert strategies for using water smartly and efficiently while fulfilling all of your home and garden needs. Learn how to create a water-wise landscape, reuse greywater, harvest rainwater, and even set...
by Tom Harris
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Selenium, essential in microscopic doses, can be deadly in larger amounts. Death in the Marsh explains how federal irrigation projects have altered selenium's circulation in the environment, allowing it to accumulate in marshes, killing ecosystems and wildlife, and causing deformities in some animals.
A City on a Lake
Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization...
by John S. Tobin
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
This novel introduces a wide range of indigenous animals that can be found in the vast continent of Australia. Many of these species face the threat of extinction, if measures are not taken to protect them. The sensitive and emotive issues of immigration, integration and racism are examined, along with...
Big Ecology
The Emergence of Ecosystem Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
In Big Ecology, David C. Coleman documents his historically fruitful ecological collaborations in the early years of studying large ecosystems in the United States. As Coleman explains, the concept of the ecosystem—a local biological community and its interactions with its environment—has given...
Desertification
Natural Background and Human Mismanagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After UNCED (United Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, July 1992), a second edition of Desertification was necessary. About 150 corrections, amendments and additions take scientific progress into account. The author also presents an updated chapter in which the results of UNCED...
Peatland Restoration and Ecosystem Services
Science, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Peatlands provide globally important ecosystem services through climate and water regulation or biodiversity conservation. While covering only 3% of the earth's surface, degrading peatlands are responsible for nearly a quarter of carbon emissions from the land use sector. Bringing together world-class...