Environment category: 6530 books
Caring for Creation
The Evangelical's Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Faith-Based Solutions to Caring for the Earth
Climate change is a confusing and polarizing issue. It may also prove to be the most daunting challenge of this century because children, the elderly, and the poor will be the first to feel its effects. The issue is all over the news, but what is...
Developing Ecological Consciousness
The End of Separation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Developing Ecological Consciousness is a marked departure from those standard environmental studies texts strongly focused on actions that humans need to take to fix the environment. Christopher Uhl explores the path to living in harmony with Earth, and believes it begins — not with fixing the environment...
by Ross McKitrick
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is at the forefront of public attention and poses serious challenges for policymakers around the world. Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, provides a rigorous and thorough...
World as Lover, World as Self
A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
This overview of Joanna Macy's innovative work combines deep ecology, general systems theory, and the Buddha's teachings on interdependent co-arising. A blueprint for social change, World as Lover, World as Self shows how we can reverse the destructive attitudes that threaten our world, with concrete...
Are We Running Out?
The Sustainability of the World's Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Do we have the resources to produce enough food for an expected world population of over 9 billion in 2050? Are modern agricultural practices sustainable? Do we have enough fresh water? What do we understand about climate change? Can we decarbonize the world economy? Can we save the oceans? Are genetically...
Dispossession and the Environment
Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Companion to Environmental Studies presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches and questions that together define environmental studies today. The intellectually wide-ranging volume covers approaches in environmental science all the way...
by Brian Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
When biologist Brian Harvey saw a thousand fish blundering into a Brazilian dam, he asked the obvious: What's going to happen to them? The End of the River is the story of his long search for an answer. The End of the River is about people and rivers and the misuse of science. Harvey takes readers...
Beginner’s Guide to Earthworm Farming
Simple Ideas for a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
If you are concerned about the health of our planet then turn your attention to what lies under your feet. Working in the soil below are creatures that play a pivotal role in producing the food we eat and impacting the quality of our food crops. Earthworms were described by Darwin as the most important...
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Your Carbon Footprint
What It Is. Why It’s Important. How You Can Lower It.
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Take the first step toward a better environment.
Awareness of global climate change has reached critical mass around the world, and people are looking to see how the choices they make affect the environment. This highly practical and easy-to-use reference helps readers understand how to do...
Sustainable Fuel For The Future
An In-Depth Guide To Understanding Alternative Fuel Sources, Renewable Energy, Eco Friendly Cars And How To Save The Environment For Generations Yet To Come
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Scientists are developing alternative fuels that can help not only the environment, but also the consumer’s checkbook. The new alternative fuels offer advantages in so many ways that people are really starting to take a look at these as an option over paying astronomical gasoline prices....
Mabira Forest Giveaway
A Path to Degenerative Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The environmental challenges facing Uganda and the East African region are real. Unplanned natural resource exploitation by corrupt governments, criminal networks, bad governance, and changing rainfall patterns have negatively impacted the lives of millions of Africans.
A nascent movement of...
Disaster Risk Reduction
Cases from Urban Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Published with ProVention Consortium, UNDP and UN-Habitat 'This excellent book is essential reading for those concerned with urban risk and its reduction in Africa, the most rapidly urbanizing region of the world.' Professor Jo Beall, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics 'At last...
by Loreen Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Since the early 1900’s over 75,000 synthetic, toxic chemicals have been introduced into our environment and homes. Harmful chemicals are in virtually everything we use in the home, work place and on our bodies every single day.
Scientific research shows how damaging these hazardous chemicals are...