Natural Resources category: 648 books
by Janet Amber
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Thank you for your interest in this booklet. The "...The Basics" series, is a series of booklets designed to help you get the basics or foundations about a subject. Time is one of our most precious resources and as such it does not comeback, for that reason the Amber siblings have created...
by Dieter Helm
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
‘One of the most important books of the decade’ Country Life Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature. News about Britain’s wildlife and ecosystems tends to be grim. In Green and Prosperous Land, Oxford economist and Natural Capital Committee chair Dieter Helm...
The Privatisation of Biodiversity?
New Approaches to Conservation Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Current regulatory approaches have not prevented the loss of biodiversity across the world. This book explores the scope to strengthen conservation by using different legal mechanisms such as biodiversity offsetting, payment for ecosystem services and conservation covenants, as well as tradable development...
Reclaimed Wood
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
**The first handbook on reclaimed wood, combining useful information, rich history, and design ideas **
Wood reclaimed from old houses, factories, barns, water tanks, and boardwalks has become a valuable commodity, treasured for the patina that gives witness to its history. Our ancestors built...
by William Wasserman
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
In his fourth book about his life as a state game warden, Wasserman writes about his experiences tracking down wildlife poachers from the city streets of Philadelphia to the rugged mountains of northern Pennsylvania. Join him as he encounters some of the most unpredictable—and interesting characters...
Border Oasis
Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The environmental history of the Colorado River delta during the past century is one of the most important—and most neglected—stories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Thanks to entrepreneurs such as William E. Smythe, the surrounding desert in Arizona, California, Sonora, and Baja California has...
Restoring Life in Running Waters
Better Biological Monitoring
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Despite nearly three decades of efforts intended to protect the nation's waters, and some success against certain forms of chemical and organic contamination, many of our nation's waterways continue to be seriously degraded. The call of the 1972 Clean Water Act -- "to restore and maintain the chemical,...
Contested Common Land
Environmental Governance Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This innovative and interdisciplinary book makes a major contribution to common pool resource studies. It offers a new perspective on the sustainable governance of common resources, grounded in contemporary and archival research on the common lands of England and Wales - an important common resource...
by Peter C. Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Bringing together case studies from Europe, Africa and North and South America, this book makes a fresh assessment of the role of the individual and the state in land development. It discusses a range of issues related to land reform, land development and land management, providing a unique reflection...
Forest Health
An Integrated Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Forest Health: An Integrated Perspective is the first book to define an ecologically rational, conceptual framework that unifies and integrates the many sub-disciplines that comprise the science of forest health and protection. This new global approach applies to boreal, temperate, tropical, natural,...
Quenching the Dragon
The Canada-China Water Crisis - An RMB Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
In this latest RMB Manifesto, Canadian freshwater expert Robert Sandford takes readers to China and shares what it is like to deal with some of the most intractable freshwater problems in the world.
It all started out innocently enough: an airliner over the Pacific and a flight attendant passing...
Woody Plants of the Big Bend and Trans-Pecos
A Field Guide to Common Browse for Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Winner, 2018 Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, sponsored by the Native Plant Society of Texas
The Trans-Pecos region of Texas is home to a variety of big game species, including desert mule deer, pronghorn, desert bighorn sheep, white-tailed deer, elk, feral hog, and javelina; several species...
Australia Burning
Fire Ecology, Policy and Management Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2003
The phenomenon of fire in the Australian landscape traverses many interests and disciplines. At a national level, there is an urgent need for the integration of both the natural and social sciences in the formulation of public policy. With contributions from 30 leading experts, Australia Burning draws...
Windows on Meteorology
Australian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective answers a host of questions about Australia's weather and climate, and explains the underlying causes of floods, droughts and cyclones. Vivid accounts of dust storms and the mysteries of the 'morning glory' cloud lines are revealed.The book highlights the...