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Adaptation to Climate Change
Agricultural Ecosystems and Gender Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHNAGE: Agricultural Ecosystems and Gender Dimensions is a product of over four years of painstaking and rigorous research by a multidisciplinary team. It brings together empirical knowledge on farmers adaptation to climate change in a developing country. The book is comprehensive...
Nature Watch Austin
Guide to the Seasons in an Urban Wildland
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Ducks in January . . . bats in March . . . rain lilies in April . . . meteors in August . . . the predictable appearance of fauna and flora allows humans to experience the natural cycles in the environment, no matter how urban the setting. In Nature Watch Austin, avid amateur naturalists Lynne and...
Leveraging the Private Sector
Management-Based Strategies for Improving Environmental Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Leveraging the Private Sector offers the first sustained analysis of public and private sector initiatives designed to encourage firms and industries to use their own management expertise to improve their environmental performance. Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash bring together original empirical...
Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge
Equitable Partnerships in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Biodiversity research and prospecting are long-standing activities taking place in a new legal and ethical environment. Following entry into force of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1993, and other recent policy developments, expectations and obligations for research and prospecting partnerships...
Mother Earth and Uncle Sam
How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
In this compelling study, Rena Steinzor highlights the ways in which the government, over the past twenty years, has failed to protect children from harm caused by toxic chemicals. She believes these failures—under-funding, excessive and misguided use of cost/benefit analysis, distortion of science,...
Air Quality
Monitoring, Measuring, and Modeling Environmental Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.
This new compendium provides a nuanced look at monitoring, measuring, and modeling air quality pollution in conjunction with its effects on public health and the environment. Air pollution has been proven to be a major environmental risk...
The Atlas of Water
Mapping the World's Most Critical Resource
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Climate change, population increase, and the demands made by the growing number of people adopting urban lifestyles and western diets threaten the world’s supply of freshwater, edging us closer to a global water crisis, with dire implications for agriculture, the economy, the environment, and human...
by BANE SINGH
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
What ails Mother Earth? The answer can be found in the propensities of Man, her most gifted, but alas, also her most prodigal son. The world today may look to be the oyster to modern Man, with his faculties of creativity, inventiveness and enterprise. But looks are deceptive. Man has harnessed science...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book addresses the evaluation of environmental impacts and services identified in headwaters of different eco-zones around the world. It presents 24 papers selected from contributions to recent meetings of the European Forestry Commission Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds,...
The National Environmental Policy Act
An Agenda for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1999
The National Environmental Policy Act has grown more, not less, important in the decades since its enactment. No one knows more about NEPA than Lynton Caldwell. And no one has a clearer vision of its relevance to our future. Highly recommended." —David W. Orr, Oberlin College
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
This new volume, Green Consumerism: The Behavior of New Age Consumer, provides a holistic understanding the importance of promoting green products and discusses consumers’ buying intentions and decisions. The chapters consider consumer behavior theory in the context of green or ecologically friendly...
Cities at Risk
Planning for and Recovering from Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters. Interdependencies among urban populations mean that damage to the built environment, including water, sewer and energy infrastructure, can...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Population growth and industrial development have put the wide-open spaces and natural resources that define the West under immense stress. Vested interests clash and come to terms over embattled resources such as water, minerals, and even open space. The federal government controls 40 to 80 percent...
As If The Earth Matters
Recommitting to Environmental Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Whether you are a veteran of environmental education or new to taking students outdoors, this book will help you organize positive experiences in Nature for your students, friends, children and colleagues. In these pages you will find ideas designed to arouse your passion for learning and ignite a...