Environment category: 6530 books
The Nueces River
Río Escondido
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
First appearing on early Spanish maps as the Río Escondido, or hidden river, and later named Río de las Nueces after the abundant pecan trees along its banks, the Nueces today is a stream of seeming contradictions: a river that runs above and below ground; a geographic reminder of a history both...
Diplomacy on Ice
Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, most discussion has centered on the potential for conflict, environmental destruction, and upheaval from climate change. This important book shifts the conversation about the Arctic and Antarctic from conflict to cooperation....
Taking Action on Climate Change
Long Term Mitigation Scenarios for South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
This book is based on scenarios developed for the South African Department of Environment that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and form the basis for a national, long-term climate policy. The strategic options outlined in the book will enable South Africa to turn climate change mitigation into...
Beyond Drought
People, Policy and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
The unpredictability of Australia’s climate poses real challenges for practices that were developed based on the relative predictability of a European climate. More recently, policy has been moving towards accepting drought as a reality, rejecting the notion that it is a natural disaster in favour...
Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land
The Politics of Natural Resource Governance in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arrangements that define natural resource governance are outcomes of political processes, whereby...
by Rupert Ames
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
A Beginners Guide To Going Green
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: How To Go Green Chapter 2: solar Energy the Advantages And Disadvantages Chapter 3: pros And Cons Of Residential Solar Energy System Chapter 4: saving Energy For Kids Teaching...
by Jorge Ventocilla, Heraclio Herrera, Valerio Núñez
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
"The earth is the mother of all things"; thus begins this original and accessible book on how the Kuna of Panama relate to the natural world. An integrative project involving Kuna traditional leaders and trained scholars, and fully illustrated by a Kuna artist, this translation of Plantas y animales...
The Ecology of the Barí
Rainforest Horticulturalists of South America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Inhabiting the rainforest of the southwest Maracaibo Basin, split by the border between Colombia and Venezuela, the Barí have survived centuries of incursions. Anthropologist Roberto Lizarralde began studying the Barí in 1960, when he made the first modern peaceful contact with this previously unreceptive...
It's All for Sale
The Control of Global Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Five companies dominate the U.S. petroleum industry. Five control the worldwide trade in grain. Two have a corner on the private market for drinking water. In terms of actual dollars, trade in heroin, cocaine, and tobacco ranks alongside that in grain or metals. There are more slaves in the world...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Phosphorus is an essential plant nutrient, but global population growth has dramatically reduced the availability of phosphorus fertilizer resources. Despite this scarcity, there remain numerous problems associated with the excessive and inappropriate use of phosphorus leading to non-point source...
Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions
Challenges of War, Terrorism, and Civil Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
In the midst of great crisis, it is difficult to contemplate the future. In recent decades, determining what kind of future to imagine has been an ongoing challenge for millions of people around the world who have been subjected to war, terrorism, and civil disorder. While destruction of the environment...
Beyond the Mountains
Commodifying Appalachian Environments
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place...
This Is Our Land
Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups—in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee—revealing...
Defending Biodiversity
Environmental Science and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Imagine that you are an environmentalist who passionately believes that it is wrong to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. How do you convince someone that a decision to drill is wrong? Debates about the environment and how humans ought to treat it have gone on for decades, yet arguments...