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The Little Book of Going Green
Really Understand Climate Change, Use Greener Products, Adopt a Tree, Save Water, and Much More!
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
“We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.” —Barbara Wood
The Little Book of Going Green aims to shed light on the ways humans are harming the environment, from pollution and deforestation to industrial production and farming...
The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa
Impacts on Poverty, Equity, and Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
This book is the first systematic attempt to address emerging land markets and their implications for poverty, equity, and efficiency across a number of African countries. The high incidence of poverty and the need for increased agricultural productivity remain acute in rural areas of sub-Saharan...
by John Grim, Mary Evelyn Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
From the Psalms in the Bible to the sacred rivers in Hinduism, the natural world has been integral to the world’s religions. John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker contend that today’s growing environmental challenges make the relationship ever more vital.
This primer explores the history of...
by AA.VV.
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
CONTENTS: Editorial. Summer School "Cibo: la vita condivisa", Paola Fossati - The Philosophical Origins of Vegetarianism: Greek Philosophers and Animal World, Letterio Mauro - God, the Bible and the Environment: an Historical Excursus on the Relationship between Christian Religion and Ecology,...
by AA.VV.
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
CONTENTS: Editorial. Summer School "Cibo: la vita condivisa", Paola Fossati - The Philosophical Origins of Vegetarianism: Greek Philosophers and Animal World, Letterio Mauro - God, the Bible and the Environment: an Historical Excursus on the Relationship between Christian Religion and Ecology,...
Meltdown in Tibet
China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Tibetans have experienced waves of genocide since the 1950s. Now they are facing ecocide. The Himalayan snowcaps are in meltdown mode, due to climate change—accelerated by a rain of black soot from massive burning of coal and other fuels in both China and India. The mighty rivers of Tibet are being...
Running Away from Elephants
The Adventures of a Wildlife Biologist
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
‘The memoirs of a self-confessed maverick wildlife biologist, full of fascinating information, and stories told with Rauf’s inimitable caustic humour. A must for wildlife lovers and all who enjoy a unique read.’—Mark Tully
Beginning with his interactions with Dr Salim Ali, the legendary...
Environmental Justice
International Discourses in Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Environmental justice is one of the most controversial and important issues in contemporary social science. Volume 8 of the Energy and Environmental Policy series challenges our understanding of environmental justice in a global context. It includes theoretical investigations and case studies by leading...
Growing Stories from India
Religion and the Fate of Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The costs of industrial agriculture are astonishing in terms of damage to the environment, human health, animal suffering, and social equity, and the situation demands that we expand our ecological imagination to meet this crisis. In response to growing dissatisfaction with the existing food system,...
There's a Bobcat in My Backyard
Living with and Enjoying Urban Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Bobcats in your backyard? Javelinas tromping through your landscaping? Or maybe a packrat has found its way into the vent of your clothes dryer and decided to call it home. . . .
Human residents of the Sonoran Desert are sometimes not completely comfortable when confronted by the wild creatures...
Technonatures
Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the “politics of ecology” is that we increasingly find ourselves...
Creatures of Change
An Album of Ohio Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1998
Ohio was once covered by a thick forest and populated by a great variety of animals, but the first blows of settlers axes heralded cataclysmic changes. By 1900 only about 15 percent of the state remained tree-covered. The effects of settlement upon native animal species varied widely, and the fortunes...
Believing In Place
A Spiritual Geography Of The Great Basin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The austere landscape of the Great Basin has inspired diverse responses from the people who have moved through or settled in it. Author Richard V. Francaviglia is interested in the connection between environment and spirituality in the Great Basin, for here, he says, "faith and landscape conspire...
Uprisings for the Earth
Reconnecting Culture with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
We face a serious global challenge with over half the world’s population living in urban environments — mostly disconnected from the natural world. This represents a key element of the serious economic, social and environmental crises looming today. Osprey Orielle Lake, a lifelong advocate for...