Environment category: 6530 books
The Fate of Nature
Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
"What capacity for good lies in the hidden depths of people?"
Starting with this question, award-winning author Charles Wohlforth sets forth on a wide-ranging exploration of our relationship with the world. In The Fate of Nature, he draws on science, spirituality, history, economics,...
by Alan MacEachern, John Sandlos, Ben Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent...
Beyond the UN Global Compact
Institutions and regulations
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
This book offers African, Asian, Latin American, European, and North American perspectives on institutions and regulations promoting sustainable economic growth in the post-2015 development agenda in areas such as environment, labour, risk management, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The book presents the processes governing the dynamics of landscapes, soils and sediments, water and energy under different climatic regions using studies conducted in varied climatic zones including arid, semi-arid, humid and wet regions. The spatiotemporal availability of the processes and fluxes...
The Case of the Green Turtle
An Uncensored History of a Conservation Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
The journals of early maritime explorers traversing the Atlantic Ocean often describe swarms of sea turtles, once a plentiful source of food. Many populations had been decimated by the 1950s, when Archie Carr and others raised public awareness of their plight. One species, the green turtle, has been...
by Stephanie Mills
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
"In this book, I relate the pleasures, as well as the virtues and difficulties of a perhaps simpler than average North American life." So begins ecological thinker and writer Stephanie Mills's Epicurean Simplicity, a thoughtful paean to living, like Thoreau, a deliberate life.
Mills's account...
Last Stand
Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Entrepreneur and media mogul Ted Turner has commanded global attention for his dramatic personality, his founding of CNN, his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his company’s merger with Time Warner. But his green resume has gone largely ignored, even while his role as a pioneering eco-capitalist means...
Pilgrimage to the National Parks
Religion and Nature in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
National Parks – ‘America’s Best Idea’ – were from the first seen as sacred sites embodying the God-given specialness of American people and American land, and from the first they were also marked as tourist attractions. The inherent tensions between these two realities ensured the parks...
This Is Hope: Green Vegans and the New Human Ecology
How We Find Our Way to a Humane and Environmentally Sane Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
"This Is Hope" is a crossover book for self-identified environmentalists, species rights advocates, vegans and vegetarians, those dedicated to true sustainability, fish and wildlife "management" professionals, students of deep ecology, and those who want to know the biocentric solutions for our dietary,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California’s remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type—its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state,...
Ecological Restoration in the Midwest
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Most people do not realize it, but the Midwest has been at the forefront of ecological restoration longer than perhaps any other region in the United States, dating back to the 1930s. Because of its industrial history, agricultural productivity, and natural features such as the Great Lakes, the Midwest...
The Fish Market
Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
**Winner of the Oregon Book Award**
Gulf Wild — the first seafood brand in America to trace each fish from the sea to the table — emerged after grouper, the star of fried fish sandwiches, fell off menus due to overfishing. The brand was born when the government privatized the rights to...
by Alexander Wood, Pamela Stedman-Edwards, Johanna Mang
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The world is losing species and biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. The causes go deep and the losses are driven by a complex array of social, economic, political and biological factors at different levels. Immediate causes such as over-harvesting, pollution and habitat change have been well studied,...
Conservation and Development in Cambodia
Exploring frontiers of change in nature, state and society
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Written by leading authorities from Australasia, Europe and North America, this book examines the dynamic conflicts and synergies between nature conservation and human development in contemporary Cambodia.
After suffering conflict and stagnation in the late twentieth century, Cambodia has experienced...