Environmental category: 9736 books
Foundations of Environmental Sustainability
The Coevolution of Science and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2008
This book reviews and analyzes the period (roughly from the 1950s to the present) when the "environment" became an issue as important as economic growth, or war and peace; to assess the current situation, and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead. Most people are aware of both the environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This comprehensive book covers the environmental issues concerning silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Following an introduction to the history, properties and applications, the environmental concerns of AgNPs is discussed. In the second chapter, the separation, characterization and quantification of AgNPs...
Green Versus Gold
Sources In California's Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
While the state of California remains one of the mstriking and varied landscapes in the world, it has experienced monumental changes since European settlers first set foot there. The past two centuries have witnessed an ongoing struggle between environmand economy, nature and humanity that has left...
A Climate of Crisis
America in the Age of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
A provocative history of the environmental movement in America, showing how this rise to political and social prominence produced a culture of alarmism that has often distorted the facts
Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis,...
Thinking like a Mall
Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.
Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached “the end of nature,”...
Unlikely Environmentalists
Congress and Clean Water, 1955-1972
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Environmental activism has most often been credited to grassroots protesters, but much early progress in environmental protection originated in the halls of Congress. As Paul Milazzo shows, a coterie of unlikely environmentalists placed water quality issues on the national agenda as early as the 1950s...
Eco-Management Accounting
Based upon the ECOMAC research projects sponsored by the EU’s Environment and Climate Programme (DG XII, Human Dimension of Environmental Change)
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The ECOMAC project (Eco-management Accounting as a Tool of Environmental Man agement) has provided a framework for linking environmental management with man agement accounting. It was funded in Theme 4, 'Human Dimensions of Environmental Change' in the EU Environment and Climate Research Programme....
Environmental Law and the Ecosystem Approach
Maintaining ecological integrity through consistency in law
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The ecosystem approach embodies a concept of the environment which emphasizes the integrated components of nature as complex adaptive systems. This book examines the relationship between the architecture and design of environmental law and the implementation of the ecosystem approach as a means to...
The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s
Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental...
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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...
Cleaner, Greener, Healthier
A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Despite Canada’s enduring image as a natural paradise, every year thousands of Canadians become ill or die prematurely as a result of exposure to environmental hazards. Canadians understand that their health is inextricably linked to the health of the environment and are deeply concerned about the...
Environmental Compliance Made Easy
A Checklist Approach for Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
The newly revised and thoroughly updated Environmental Compliance Made Easy handbook from Government Institutes' popular 'Made Easy' series reorganizes thousands of pages worth of federal environmental regulatory programs into one easy-to-use compliance resource, organized by program. Intended as...
by Kun Mo LEE, Wolfgang Wimmer, Ferdinand Quella
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Dealing with environmental issues should no longer be considered simply as a cost of doing business. Effective environmental improvements to a company’s products and services can be turned into business opportunities. This book was written with the express purpose of helping managers of companies,...
by Walter A. Rosenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Walter A. Rosenbaum’s classic Environmental Politics and Policy, Tenth Edition once again provides definitive coverage of environmental politics and policy, lively case material, and a balanced assessment of current environmental issues. The first half of the book sets needed context and describes...