Environmental category: 9736 books
by Frederic C. Rich
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
“Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, there is much to admire in this book, which reminds us that the stewardship of nature is an obligation shared by all Americans.”—U.S. Senator Angus S. King Jr.
The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals that...
Empire of Water
An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation’s largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs,...
Taking Action, Saving Lives
Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from occupational...
Sustainable Development
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD2015)
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Since the emergence of climate and global warming onto the international agenda, research in sustainability has been underpinned by the development in energy and environmental science. Highlighted 30 years ago by the Brundtland Commission, "sustainable development" was defined as: meeting...
Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation
Evaluating Models for Environmental Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Ortwin Renn Thomas Wehler Peter Wiedemann In late July of 1992 the small and remote mountain resort of Morschach in the Swiss Alps became a lively place of discussion, debate, and discourse. Over a three-day period twenty-two analysts and practitioners of public participation from the United States...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This publication documents the proceedings of the South Asia Conference on Environmental Justice, held last 24–25 March 2012 at Bhurban, Pakistan. The conference brought together chief justices, senior members of the judiciary, and other legal stakeholders in South Asia, to highlight environmental...
by Edward J. Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Tropical coral reefs are important ecosystems. They are economically important to coastal communities living in predominantly developing countries, and also provide shoreline protection, catalyse land formation enabling human habitation, act as a carbon sink and are a repository for genetic and species...
by Chris Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. Indisputably, it plays a crucial role in the quest for sustainable development.
This comprehensively updated second edition...
Wicked Environmental Problems
Managing Uncertainty and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
"Wicked" problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergpublic values to generate contentious political stalemates; wicked problems in the environmental arena typically emerge from entrenched conflicts over natural...
by Kate Davies
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This book, named one of Booklist's Top 10 books on sustainability in 2014, is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environment effect...
From Red to Green?
How the Financial Credit Crunch Could Bankrupt the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Written by an economist and an investment professional, this book addresses the twin crises that the world is facing in the form of a simultaneous financial and environmental credit crunch. Financially, consumers are less able to consume now, and pay later. Environmentally, we may have already reached...
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...
by Benito Cao
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The increasing awareness of the human impact on the environment is having a profound effect on the concept and content of citizenship – one of the fundamental institutions that structures human relations. In what is the first introduction of its kind, this book provides an accessible, stimulating...
Varieties of Environmentalism
Essays North and South
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Until very recently, studies of the environmental movement have been heavily biased towards the North Atlantic worlds. There was a common assumption amongst historians and sociologists that concerns over such issues as conservation or biodiversity were the exclusive preserve of the affluent westerner:...