Environment category: 6530 books
Urban Biodiversity
From Research to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Urban biodiversity is an increasingly popular topic among researchers. Worldwide, thousands of research projects are unravelling how urbanisation impacts the biodiversity of cities and towns, as well as its benefits for people and the environment through ecosystem services. Exciting scientific discoveries...
Natural Resources Management
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The perseveration of our natural environment has become a critical objective of environmental scientists, business owners, and citizens alike. Because we depend on natural resources to survive, uncovering methods for preserving and maintaining these resources has become a focal point to ensure a high...
Fuel Taxes and the Poor
The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, and improve...
Weather, Climate and Human Affairs (Routledge Revivals)
A Book of Essays and Other Papers
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1988, this is a reissue of a groundbreaking collection of essays written by Hubert Lamb, one of the world’s foremost experts on weather and climate and a uniquely authoritative voice in the history of climatology. Hubert Lamb is able to provide a mature assessment of the effect...
by Martyn Murray
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
An alchemic blend of travel and nature writing that explores the primary dilemma of the 21st century - the conflict of modern lifestyles with the natural environment. This is an account of the author's journey from the Cape to the Serengeti Plains and his search for an answer to the Old Timer, a Kenyan...
Quarterly Essay 9 Beautiful Lies
Population and Environment in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold...
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Literature, Animals, Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been updated to consider recent developments in the area such as environmental humanities and animal studies. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine transverse relations between humans, animals and the environment...
by Kate Louise
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Like most dogs, Pierre, a French bulldog, loves the excitement of digging things up. He hoards his treasures in a hole in the backyard and then makes space for more. One day Pierre tosses some old stuff into the trash can, but he forgets to recycle. Now, instead of being transformed into new things,...
by Daniel Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
In this much-needed work for our nation's youth, Daniel Shaw tracks the interconnections of small regional ecosystems to larger ones, and in the process demonstrates the accessibility of nature to everyone. As Shaw notes in his introduction, the story that is too often told about the environment is...
Biomes
Discover the Earth’s Ecosystems with Environmental Science Activities for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
What’s the difference between a desert and a rain forest? A tundra and a coniferous forest? These are all examples of biomes, and they are all home to plants and animals that are uniquely adapted to live in those environments!
In Biomes: Discover the Earth’s Ecosystems with Science Activities...
by Kathy Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
In this instructive and accessible volume, readers discern how engineers safeguard the environment with their practices. They learn how green engineers cut down on waste and the use of natural resources by inventing new materials and techniques. This resource covers recycling, reuse, and renewable...
by Jessica Cohn
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Learn about the various ways the environment needs our help and the things you can do to reduce your carbon footprint and help make a difference. Readers will learn about the effects of pollution, fossil fuels, renewable and non renewable resources, deforestation, and recycling through interesting...
by Dr. J. P. Shrama
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
This book is designed to meet the compulsory course on Environmental Studies for undergraduate and graduate students of all disciplines and gives a balanced presentation of the major issues and concerns related to the environment. The volume examines the major environmental problems we face todayGlobal...
The Seattle Street-Smart Naturalist
Field Notes from the City
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Back to the city, or back to nature? Seattle author David Williams shows us how we can get the best of both. Botany and bugs, geology and geese, and creeks and crows; living in a major city doesn't have to separate us from the natural world. Stepping away from a guidebook format, Williams presents...