Island Press imprint: 745 books
Shopping for Water
How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The American West has a long tradition of conflict over water. But after fifteen years of drought across the region, it is no longer simply conflict: it is crisis. In the face of unprecedented declines in reservoir storage and groundwater reserves throughout the West, Shopping for Water focuses on...
by Eric Dinerstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
When you look out your window, why are you so much more likely to see a robin or a sparrow than a Kirtland's warbler or a California condor? Why are some animals naturally rare and others so abundant? The quest to find and study seldom-seen jaguars and flamboyant Andean cocks-of-the-rock is as alluring...
Why Corporation 2020?
The Case for a New Corporation in the Next Decade
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In Why Corporation 2020?, Pavan Sukhdev examines the many critical planetary boundaries that we are approaching, from greenhouse gas emissions to the nitrogen cycle, freshwater and land use, and food security, and argues that sweeping changes are needed to reform the way we deal with the earth’s resources....
Sustainable Landscape Construction
A Guide to Green Building Outdoors, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Published at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Sustainable Landscape Construction took a new approach to what was then a nearly new subject: how to construct outdoor environments based on principles of sustainability. This enormously influential book helped to spur a movemthat has taken root...
Conservation for Cities
How to Plan & Build Natural Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
It's time to think differently about cities and nature. Understanding how to better connect our cities with the benefits nature provides will be increasingly important as people migrate to cities and flourish in them. All this urban growth, along with challenges of adapting to climate change, will...
Why Do We Recycle?
Markets, Values, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The earnest warnings of an impending "solid waste crisis" that permeated the 1980s provided the impetus for the widespread adoption of municipal recycling programs, and since that time America has witnessed a remarkable rise in public participation in recycling activities. Recently, however, a backlash...
High Tech Trash
Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's anything...
Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living
Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
How can each of us live Cooler Smarter? While the routine decisions that shape our days—what to have for dinner, where to shop, how to get to work—may seem small, collectively they have a big effect on global warming. But which changes in our lifestyles might make the biggest difference to the...
Reshaping the Built Environment
Ecology, Ethics, and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Because of the profound effects of the built environmon the availability of natural resources for future generations, those involved with designing, creating, operating, renovating, and demolishing human structures have a vital role to play in working to put society on a path toward sustainability.This...
by Charles Eley
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In the United States, direct energy use in buildings accounts for 39% of carbon dioxide emissions per year—more than any other sector. Buildings contribute to a changing climate and warming of the earth in ways that will significantly affect future generations. Zero net energy (ZNE) buildings are...
Making DevelopmSustainable
Redefining Institutions Policy And Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Making DevelopmSustainable is an integrated series of essays on the policies for sustainable developmfrom one of the leading policy research institutes for environmental and developmissues.
Steady-State Economics
Second Edition With New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
First published in 1977, this volume caused a sensation because of Daly's radical view that "enough is best." Today, his ideas are recognized as the key to sustainable development, and Steady-State Economics is universally acknowledged as the leading book on the economics of sustainability.
Stewardship of the Built Environment
Sustainability, Preservation, and Reuse
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
When we think of green building, we tend to picture new construction. But Robert A. Young argues that the greenest building is often the one that has already been built. In Stewardship of the Built Environment, he shows howrehabilitating and reusing existing structures holds untapped potential for...
The Case for a Carbon Tax
Getting Past Our Hang-ups to Effective Climate Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
There's a simple, straightforward way to cut carbon emissions and prevthe mdisastrous effects of climate change-and we're rejecting it because of irrational political fears. That's the central argumof The Case for a Carbon Tax, a clear-eyed, sophisticated analysis of climate change policy.
Shi-Ling...