Environmental category: 9736 books
The State of the Environment in Asia
2002/2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In December 1977 we published the first in this series of NGO-oriented reports on Asia's environment, Ajia Kankyo Hakusho 1997/98. This was published in English by Springer-Verlag as The State o/the Environment in Asia 1999/2000. Although only a few years have passed since then, Asia has seen tumultuous...
Environmentalism Gone Mad
How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovered a Radical Green Energy Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Dr. Alan Carlin is an economist and physical scientist with degrees from Caltech and MIT and publications in both economics and climate/energy, who became actively involved in the environmental movement in the 1960s. This led to an almost 39 year career as a manager and senior analyst at the U.S....
Retaking Rationality
How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute. Nor has there been any shortage of reasons why-short-sighted politicians, a society built on over-consumption, and the dramatic weakening of environmental regulations. In Retaking Rationality,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.
by Michael Zagata
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Raised in upstate New York, Mike earned a BS and MS in secondary science at SUNY-Oneonta and Cornell and then a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology at Iowa State University. His varied career included an assistant professorship at the University of Maine-Orono’s School of Forest Resources, Field Director...
Integrated Waste Management in India
Status and Future Prospects for Environmental Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book provides insights into the current status of waste management in India and research approaches to minimize waste and convert useful waste into energy alternatives towards achieving environmental sustainability. It also discusses the implications of waste on human health and approaches to...
by Pratima Bajpai
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
The traditional pulp and paper producers are facing new competitors in tropical and subtropical regions who use the latest and largest installed technologies, and also have wood and labor cost advantages. Due to the increasing global competition, the forest products prices will continue to decrease....
Voices from a disused quarry
An oral history of the Centre for Alternative Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Voices from a disused quarry tells the story of a one-of-a-kind organisation: the Centre for Alternative Technology. Starting its work in February 1974, in an era characterised by fear of imminent environmental collapse, CAT has emerged as one of the UKs most important exponents of practical environmentalism...
by Loukas Bellonias
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Environmental Sciences, Technical University of Munich, course: Sustainable Consumption, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this article we first define and describe the concept and main points of environmental friendly marketing....
Tangled Roots
The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions. But as environmental historian�and thru-hiker�Sarah Mittlefehldt argues, the trail is also a...
Reconstructing Earth
Technology and Environmin the Age of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Earth's biological, chemical, and physical systems are increasingly shaped by the activities of one species-ours. In our decisions about everything from manufacturing technologies to restaurant menus, the health of the planet has become a product of human choice. Environmentalism, however, has...
Spirit of the Environment
Religion, Value and Environmental Concern
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Spirit of the Environment brings spiritual and religious concerns to environmental issues. Providing a much needed alternative to exploring human beings' relationship to the natural world through the restrictive lenses of 'science', 'ecology', or even 'morality', this book offers a fresh perspective...
Nature, Environment and Poetry
Ecocriticism and the poetics of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, or therefore, the political response to problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss and widespread pollution continues...
Mourning Nature
Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation – challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance,...