Environment category: 6530 books
Urbanization: Challenge and Opportunity for Soil Functions and Ecosystem Services
Proceedings of the 9th SUITMA Congress
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This proceedings volume focuses on different aspects of environmental assessment, monitoring, and management of urban and technogenic soils. Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas (SUITMAs) differ substantially from their natural zonal counterparts in their physical, chemical...
Wild Solutions
How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
We live on an unexplored planet, ignorant of more than eighty percent of the species that share our world. In this fascinating and abundantly illustrated book, two eminent ecologists discuss the biological diversity of the Earth, showing how the natural systems that surround us play an essential role...
Conservation Directory 2017
The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
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 2017 is a great resource for budding environmental activists and scholars alike who want to achieve a peaceful, equitable,...
by Dr. Y.P.S. Pundir
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
For the first time in human history, in recent years HIMALAYAN BIODIVERSITY as a whole is endangered and more than 10% species of the flowering plants of this region are threatened due to modern man’s intervention with the environment in the name of development, industrialization, urbanization,...
by Dr. Y.P.S. Pundir
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
For the first time in human history, in recent years Western HIMALAYAN BIODIVERSITY as a whole is endangered and more than 10% species of the flowering plants of this region are threatened due to modern man’s intervention with the environment in the name of development, industrialization, urbanization,...
by Eduard Vinyamata Camp
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2013
El cambio climático de carácter antropogénico está provocando cambios sociales y tecnológicos relacionados con nuestra manera de producir, consumir y gestionar los recursos naturales. El Campus per la Pau ha publicado el ePUB: Energy and Environment: Management, Technology and Conflicts in a Warming...
by Ross Slater, Douglas Wight
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
It's 8am, it's freezing cold and I'm about to dump a lorry load of coal on the doorstep of the Prime Minister. Just a typical day in the life of an activist for Greenpeace, the world's biggest and best-known environmental campaigners. They're hoping I'll help them score massive publicity coup - one...
Tsunami Kids
Our Journey from Survival to Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
On Boxing day 2004, Rob, Paul, Mattie and Rosie Forkan tragically lost their parents in the Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka. Aged from 8 to 17, they subsequently faced a harrowing and solitary 200km trek across the decimated country to get home to safety. The bravery, ingenuity and resilience...
Water to the Angels
William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.
In 1907,...
Mountains of the Mind
Adventures in Reaching the Summit
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip...
by David Gessner
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.
Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts...
The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh
A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Loved “Goodbye Christopher Robin”? Learn more about the real place that inspired the beloved stories.
Delve into the home of the world’s most beloved bear! The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh explores the magical landscapes where Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends live and play....
by Terry Tempest Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes...
The Wilderness Warrior
Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America’s conservation movement.
In this...