Natural Resources category: 648 books
Winning Together
The Natural Resource Negotiation Playbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Strategies for transboundary natural resource management; winner of Harvard Law School's Raiffa Award for best research of the year in negotiation and conflict resolution.
Transboundary natural resource negotiations, often conducted in an atmosphere of entrenched mistrust, confrontation, and...
by Raymond F. Mikesell
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book discusses the problems of developing quality information on the availability of natural resources. Originally published in 1969
by SoftTech
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Learning About Living Green For A Better Tomorrow Can Have Amazing Benefits For Your Life And Success! 10 Ways To Help Our Mother Earth!
The Earth has a fixed amount of natural resources - some of which are already consumed. So as population development greatly strains our finite resources,...
Coal: Its Role in Tomorrow's Technology
A Sourcebook on Global Coal Resources
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Coal: Its Role in Tomorrow's Technology: A Sourcebook on Global Coal Resources focuses on the increasing consideration of coal as an alternative energy source, taking into consideration the mining, production, and research and development programs of various countries on this mineral.
The book first...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book is a compilation of recent global measures to conserve bio-resources and manage biotic and abiotic stresses. It highlights emerging issues related to agriculture, abiotic and biotic stress factors, ethnic knowledge, climate change and global warming, as well as natural resources and their...
Land and Resource Scarcity
Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World without Fossil Fuels
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be...
The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture
Managing Systems at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted at senior level decision makers in agriculture as well...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Transformative ecoeducation is environmental education that is literally needed to transform and save our planet, especially during the global ecological crises of our present century. Such education demands inner transformation of many deeply rooted ideas, such as the following: the Earth exists...
Environmental Communication and Community
Constructive and destructive dynamics of social transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
As society has become increasingly aware of environmental issues, the challenge of structuring public participation opportunities that strengthen democracy, while promoting more sustainable communities has become crucial for many natural resource agencies, industries, interest groups and publics....
Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Forests in Central America
An ecosystem service perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The loss of biodiversity is a major environmental problem in nearly every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. This loss is accelerating driven by climate change, as well as by other causes including agricultural exploitation, fragmentation and degradation triggered by land use changes. The crucial issue...
Energy
Sources, Utilization, Legislation, Sustainability, Illinois as Model State
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
This 800-page premier book on energy focuses on energy sources, utilizations, legislations and sustainability as it relates to a state, a province, or a country, or a community within a state. This book presents various kinds of energy sources, ways to convert energy for end use, better use of energy...
A Land Made from Water
Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado's Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
A Land Made from Water chronicles how the appropriation and development of water and riparian resources in Colorado changed the face of the Front Range—an area that was once a desert and is now an irrigated oasis suitable for the habitation and support of millions of people. This comprehensive history...
by Michael Zagata
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Raised in upstate New York, Mike earned a BS and MS in secondary science at SUNY-Oneonta and Cornell and then a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology at Iowa State University. His varied career included an assistant professorship at the University of Maine-Orono’s School of Forest Resources, Field Director...