Environmental category: 9736 books
Oil Politics
Echoes of Ecological Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The essays here contribute to developing and deepening an understanding of the ecological challenges ravaging Nigeria, Africa and our world today. They illustrate the global nature of these terrors. These essays are not meant just to enable for coffee table chatter: they are intended as calls to action,...
Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber,...
Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Environment and Affect
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively rethinks the link between these forms...
The Hunt for the Golden Mole
All Creatures Great & Small and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
An environmental journalist chronicles the animal conservation movement in this “informed and informative, provocative and rousing work” (The Telegraph)****.
“This is natural history at its funniest, most curious, enlightening and heartfelt. I couldn’t put it down. It was like going on...
EcoProduction and Logistics
Emerging Trends and Business Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Environmental awareness is driven mainly by the scarcity of natural resources and by more strict legal regulations. The modern enterprise policy should look at the relations between economic actions and ecological consequences. Ecoproduction is a new business approach which focuses on the most efficient...
by J Mark Dangerfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Environmental Issues for Real by Dr J. Mark Dangerfield looks at some of the obvious, and some of the not so obvious, challenges for a growing human populations living as we do in a finite world. Only this time it's not about the impending disasters or the guilt or the blame. This time, it’s...
Ecovillages around the World
20 Regenerative Designs for Sustainable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
A beautiful, full-color book showcasing 20 best practice designs from ecovillages around the world
• Features well-established ecovillages such as Findhorn in Scotland or Auroville in India and newer initiatives such as Hua Tao in China
• Highlights the unique features of each project...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This edited book has been designed to serve as a natural resources engineering reference book as well as a supplemental textbook. This volume is part of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series, an incredible collection of methodologies that study the effects of pollution and waste in their...
by Gordon Dickinson, Kevin Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
In examining both theory and applications, this book, through useful examples, provides a stimulating introduction to ecosystems. It examines the nature, types and characteristics of ecosystems as well as investigating the interactions between various systems and human actions.
Using functional...
by Ro Charlton
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
Rivers are significant geomorphological agents, they show an amazing diversity of form and behaviour and transfer water and sediment from the land surface to the oceans. This book examines how river systems respond to environmental change and why this understanding is needed for successful river management....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Transformative ecoeducation is environmental education that is literally needed to transform and save our planet, especially during the global ecological crises of our present century. Such education demands inner transformation of many deeply rooted ideas, such as the following: the Earth exists...
War upon the Land
Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy.
From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature, even...
Crabgrass Crucible
Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming...
by Dave Foreman
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
A book that will set the course for the environmental movement for years to come, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior is an inspiring ecological call to arms by America's foremost and most controversial environmental activist. "Rude and brilliant. Read it and you will see the future".--William Kittredge.