Environment category: 6530 books
Ethnobotany
A methods manual
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Ethnoecology has blossomed in recent years into an important science because of the realization that the vast body of knowledge contained in both indigenous and folk cultures is being rapidly lost as natural ecosystems and cultures are being destroyed by the encroachment of development. Ethnobotany...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
This volume summarizes our current understanding of biological soil crusts (biocrusts), which are omnipresent in dryland regions. Since they cover the soil surface, they influence, or even control, all surface exchange processes. Being one of the oldest terrestrial communities, biocrusts comprise...
The Mountains of California
An enthusiastic nature diary from the founder of national parks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
‘How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over.’
John Muir is known internationally for his dedication to protecting the environment and for founding The Sierra Club in 1892. His first book, as Muir authority...
Australia Burning
Fire Ecology, Policy and Management Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2003
The phenomenon of fire in the Australian landscape traverses many interests and disciplines. At a national level, there is an urgent need for the integration of both the natural and social sciences in the formulation of public policy. With contributions from 30 leading experts, Australia Burning draws...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Researchers and agencies collect reams of objective data and authors publish volumes of subjective prose in attempts to explain what is meant by environmental quality. Still, we have no universally recognized methods for combining our quantitative measures with our qualitative concepts of environ...
The Meaty Truth
Why Our Food is Destroying Our Health and Environment—and Who is Responsible
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
“Covers the impact of animal foods on everything from climate change to affecting our health and well-being of life on our planet” (Deepak Chopra).
The Meaty Truth is an eye-opening look at the massive problems caused by the American population’s food supply. Water, meat, and milk and other...
The Devouring Dragon
How China's Rise Threatens Our Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
China's rise is assaulting the natural world at an alarming rate. In a few short years, China has become the planet's largest market for endangered wildlife, its top importer of tropical trees, and its biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. Its rapid economic growth has driven up the world's very metabolism:...
Trees in Towns and Cities
A History of British Urban Arboriculture
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This is the first book on the history of trees in Britain’s towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them. It is a highly readable and authoritative account of the trees in our urban landscapes from the Romans to the present day, including public parks, private gardens, streets,...
by Maurício Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
SEVEN TEXTS ABOUT ECOLOGY: POINTS OF VIEW OF ONE BRAZILIAN ECOLOGICAL ACTIVIST is a compilation of texts, articles and papers elaborated by the Brazilian environmentalist Maurício Waldman during the last five years, published in newspapers, magazines, academic journals and websites. Waldman, a historical...
by Mark Wentzel, Jonathan Phillips, John Jacob
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Riparian areas—transitional zones between the aquatic environments of streams, rivers, and lakes and the terrestrial environments on and alongside their banks—are special places. They provide almost two hundred thousand miles of connections through which the waters of Texas flow. Keeping the water...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
It is clear that nature is undergoing rapid changes as a result of human activities such as industry, agriculture, travel, fisheries and urbanisation. What effects do these activities have? Are they disturbing equilibria in ecological populations and communities, thus upsetting the balance of nature,...
Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration
Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first substantial and comprehensive collection of essays, in any language, to address environmental issues...
The Good in Nature and Humanity
Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Scientists, theologians, and the spiritually inclined, as well as all those concerned with humanity's increasingly widespread environmental impact, are beginning to recognize that our ongoing abuse of the earth diminishes our moral as well as our material condition. Many people are coming to believe...
Southern Waters
The Limits to Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Water has dominated images of the South throughout history, from Hernando de Soto's 1541 crossing of the Mississippi to tragic scenes of flooding throughout the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina. But these images tell only half the story: as urban, industrial, and population growth create unprecedented...