Environment category: 6530 books
Me
I Can Make a Positive Difference
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Discover how you can make a positive difference wherever you are: in your home, in your local environment, and in your neighbouring community. It all starts with you. You can make a positive difference! Deborah A. Fotios is the author of Me! I Can Make a Positive Difference! She is a French...
Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective
Between Sea and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many...
by Mitch Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
After centuries of relative isolation, the Karoo – South Africa’s parched heartland – is a latecomer to the tourist industry. What was once viewed as a harsh and desolate place of limited attraction is rapidly gaining popularity with visitors who now make the Karoo their destination, keen to...
by Suzanne Barchers
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Learn more about graphs while protecting the environment by reducing, reusing, and recycling! Through this book, that has been translated into Spanish, young readers can practice their graphing and STEM skills by making bar graphs and pictographs of recyclable objects. Not only will children feel...
Holding Back the Tide
The Thirty-five Year Struggle to Preserve Montauk
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Concerned Citizens of Montauk was formed in 1970 as an organized response to block plans by developers to build 1,400 houses near Big Reed Pond. As a direct result, Theodore Roosevelt County Park was created. Building on successes such as this first one, CCOM evolved to become one of the most effective...
Conservation Directory 2015
The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The authority on natural resource use and management agencies around the world.
Do you want to take action to protect Earth’s environment? Are you interested in learning more about wildlife conservation and environmental groups? The Conservation Directory 2015 is a great resource for budding...
Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity
Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories. Hydrosocial territories are spatial configurations of people,...
The Nature of Nature
The Discovery of SuperWaves and How It Changes Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
What is everything made of? How do things change and how do they work? What is life? In The Nature of Nature, visionary scientist Irv Dardik tackles these questions by introducing his discovery of SuperWaves, a singular wave phenomenon whose design generates what we experience as matter, space, time,...
Restoring Layered Landscapes
History, Ecology, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore ecological restoration in landscapes with complex histories shaped by ongoing interactions between humans and nature. For many decades, ecological restoration - particularly...
Nature Modern
The Place of Landscape in the Modern Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Nature is not simply "green” or the "opposite of culture.” Essentially, it is an intellectual construct. The relationship between man and Nature, for instance, articulates itself architectonically. Now what could one see as the possible role of Nature in projects of architects representative...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Hedges and field margins are important wildlife habitats and deliver a range of ecosystem services, and their value is increasingly recognised by ecologists. This book reviews and assesses the current state of research on hedgerows and associated field margins.
With the intensification of agriculture...
The Ecology of Plant Secondary Metabolites
From Genes to Global Processes
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) such as terpenes and phenolic compounds are known to have numerous ecological roles, notably in defence against herbivores, pathogens and abiotic stresses and in interactions with competitors and mutualists. This book reviews recent developments in the field to provide...
The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk
Essays on Risk Selection and Perception
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk: Issues, Methods, and Case Studies Vincent T. Covello and Branden B. Johnson Risks to health, safety, and the environment abound in the world and people cope as best they can. But before action can be taken to control, reduce, or eliminate these risks,...
Lessons in Nature
50 Years of Organic Advice from the Southwest's Foremost Composter, Gardener, Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
This amazing collection of essays includes practical and inspirational philosophy and techniques on soil building, planting and growing, pest control and more. Told in a modest and often humorous style by organic farming and composting pioneer Malcolm Beck, Lessons in Nature combines empirical observation...