Environment category: 6530 books
Waste Management
Europäische Konferenz für Abfallbehandlung / European Conference on Waste Management / Conférence Européenne sur la Gestion des Déchets
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
The EEC's heavy dependence on imported raw materials, combined with insufficient priority given to recuperative technologies, provided twin incentives to convene the European Conference on Waste Management. The conference was also held in answer to a call for a serious interna tional forum to enable...
by Margaret D. Lowman, Timothy Schowalter, Jerry Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Poised between soil and sky, forest canopies represent a critical point of exchange between the atmosphere and the earth, yet until recently, they remained a largely unexplored frontier. For a long time, problems with access and the lack of tools and methods suitable for monitoring these complex bioscapes...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
There are many factors to be considered when examining the current state of environmental problems in the modern world. By addressing these causes, the preservation of ecosystems and environmental resources can be maintained. Environmental Issues Surrounding Human Overpopulation is an authoritative reference...
Governing International Watercourses
River Basin Organizations and the Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book focuses on River Basin Organizations as the key institutions for managing internationally shared water resources. This includes a comparative analysis of all River Basin Organizations worldwide and three in-depth case studies from three different continents. The detailed case studies are...
Protecting the Commons
A Framework For Resource Management In The Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Commons -- lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single private entity, such as ocean and coastal areas, the atmosphere, public lands, freshwater aquifers, and migratory species -- are an increasingly contentious issue in resource management and international affairs.Protecting...
Frog Pond Philosophy
Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The philanthropist and philosopher Strachan Donnelley (1942--2008) devoted his life to studying the complex relationship between humans and nature. Founder and first president of the Center for Humans and Nature, Donnelley was a pioneer in the exploration and promotion of the idea that human beings...
by Joseph V. Chiaretti, Mahmoud A. Abdelfattah, Michael A. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Central to human life and civilization, soils are an integral part of the physical and cultural environment. Although we may take them for granted, the rise and fall of civilizations is closely linked with the use and abuse of soil and water resources. It is therefore important to evaluate soils for...
Eurasian Environments
Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Through a series of essays, Eurasian Environments prompts us to rethink our understanding of tsarist and Soviet history by placing the human experience within the larger environmental context of flora, fauna, geology, and climate. This book is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia,...
Life as a Hunt
Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The "extensive wilderness" of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley is the homeland of the Valley Bisa whose cultural practices have enriched this environment for centuries. Beginning with the intrusions of warlords and later British colonials, successive generations have experienced the callousness...
by Peter Jacques
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Sustainability is concerned with the issues around the ongoing and mutual preservation of both society and the environment. It is a widely used term and supposed goal for many governments but it is also easily misunderstood. Sustainability: The Basics offers an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction...
The Water-Sustainable City
Science, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water from increasingly distant outlying rural areas, thus disrupting their...
Environmental Dilemmas
Ethics and decisions
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2007
This is a book by people who have had to make decisions which affect the environment in which we all live, decisions which sometimes affect the quality of life of millions. It is not an academic disquisition on how to approach decision-making. Most of the chapters are written by scientists who have...
Ecological Integrity
Integrating Environment, Conservation, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Global Integrity Project has brought together leading scientists and thinkers from around the world to examine the combined problems of threatened and unequal human well-being, degradation of the ecosphere, and unsustainable economies. Based on the proposition that healthy, functioning ecosystems...
rüffer&rub visionär / Every Drop Counts
Swimming for the Right to Water
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Water is the foundation of life - for human beings, for animals, for nature in general. Notwithstanding this, access to water is endangered. And this holds true around the world. Causes are pollution, global warming and wasteful use. The result: millions of people are forced each year to flee their...