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One Man’s Maine:Essays on a Love Affair
Essays on a Love Affair
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Maine is a talisman of the American imagination, offering beauty and wildlife to tourists and natives. Over the last few years, Jim has published many essays about the wonders and challenges of Maine’s environment, and One Man’s Maine collects and edits them into sixteen pairs. The first essays...
by Bengt Hansson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
During recent years, there has been a growing awareness that a better understanding of human activities and the behavioural components of environmental problems is needed. This volume brings together psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, historians of technology and economics, and management...
Cycling and Recycling
Histories of Sustainable Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their...
Tanker Disasters
IMO's Places of Refuge and the Special Compensation Clause; Erika, Prestige, Castor and 65 Casualties
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Written in fulfillment of a Master's in Marine Affairs Degree at the University of Rhode Island in 2005, this is the harrowing tale of some 70 vessels over the past 30 years who have found themselves distressed at sea and begged coastal states for a safe place to stabilize their problems. As this...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Air and water pollution occurs when toxic pollutants of varying kinds (organic, inorganic, radioactive and so on) are directly or indirectly discharged into the environment without adequate treatment to remove these potential pollutants. There are a total of 13 book chapters in three sections contributed...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Halophytes are those plant species that can tolerate high salt concentrations. There are diversified species of halophytes suited for growth in various saline regions around the world, e.g. coastal saline soil, soils of mangrove forests, wetlands, marshlands, lands of arid and semiarid regions, and...
Dryland Ecosystems
Introducing an Integrated Management Approach in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The People's Republic of China (PRC) suffers from some large-scale land degradation problems, posing a significant threat to the lives of local residents and to the future economic welfare of the nation. The dryland areas of the western PRC, which cover approximately 40% of the country's land area,...
Restoring Streams in Cities
A Guide for Planners, Policymakers, and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Conventional engineering solutions to problems of flooding and erosion are extremely destructive to natural environments. Restoring Streams in Cities presents viable alternatives to traditional practices that can be used both to repair existing ecological damage and to prevsuch damage from happening.Ann...
Many Heavens, One Earth
Readings on Religion and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Many Heavens, One Earth is a collection of first-person voices from nine of the world religions. In fifteen articles, devotees and scholars reveal the contributions these traditions make to informing and motivating an ecological response to the environmental issues that beset planet earth. The spiritual...
Human Values and Biodiversity Conservation
The Survival of Wild Species
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This pioneering book explores the influence of human values on the willingness of individuals to pay for the conservation of individual wildlife species (and classes of these), to be for or against their survival, and to favour or oppose their harvesting.Clement Tisdell combines original theories, survey...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Are You Willing To Learn About Shopping Green And Transform Your Life Today? Proven Tips, Tools and Tactics To get The Most Out Of Your Efforts To Go Green! A lot of shoppers only seem to have an abstract understanding of the advantages of organic foods and products on the environment and their wellness....
Protecting the Periphery
Environmental Policy in Peripheral Regions of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
First published in 1994. ln Protecting the Periphery the editors present a series of papers revealing the impact of EU policies on environmental quality in regions at the edge of the European Union and in those lying just outside it. In many cases these regions contain habitats and landscapes of international...
Improving Natural Resource Management
Ecological and Political Models
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
The decision to implement environmental protection options is a political one. These, and other political and social decisions affect the balance of the ecosystem and how the point of equilibrium desired is to be reached. This book develops a stochastic, temporal model of how political processes influence...
Water Resources in Jordan
Evolving Policies for Development, the Environment, and Conflict Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
This is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary book to address water policy in Jordan. Edited by the former Minister of Water and Irrigation of Jordan, with contributions by other prominent Jordanian and international water professionals, this volume covers such areas as the population-water...