Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Poisoned for Pennies
The Economics of Toxics and Precaution
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
“Cost-benefit analysis” is a term that is used so frequently we rarely stop to think about it. But relying on it can lead to some dubious conclusions, as Frank Ackerman points out in this eye-opening book. For example, some economists have argued that states should encourage—and even subsidize—cigarette...
A Word for Nature
Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The careers and ideas of four figures of monumental importance in the history of American conservation--George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell--are explored in A Word for Nature. Robert Dorman offers lively portraits of each of these early environmental advocates,...
In the Thick of It
My Life in the Sierra Club
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In an age when many of the major environmental policies established over the past four decades are under siege, Michael McCloskey reminds us of better days. . .days when conservation initiatives were seen not as political lightning rods, but as opportunities to cope with disturbing threats to the...
by Paul A. Rees
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
There is currently no basic text in wildlife law suitable for the wide range of courses in wildlife conservation and animal welfare at both bachelors and masters level, or for the large number of people who work in conservation and animal welfare; The Laws Protecting Animals and Ecosystems fills the...
Environmental Justice in Postwar America
A Documentary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence�but these developments came at the cost of a host of new environmental problems. Unsurprisingly, a disproportionate number of them, such as pollution-emitting factories,...
Sponsoring Nature
Environmental Philanthropy for Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Saving the world's flora and fauna, especially high-profile examples such as chimpanzees, whales and the tropical rain forests, is big business. Individuals and companies channel their resources to the preservation of nature through various ways, one of which is the funding of environmental non-governmental...
Timber, Tourists, and Temples
Conservation And DevelopmIn The Maya Forest Of Belize Guatemala And Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Stretching across southern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and Belize, the Maya Forest, or Selva Maya, constitutes one of the last large blocks of tropical forest remaining in North and Central America. Home to Mayan-speaking people for more than 5,000 years, the region is also uncommonly rich in cultural...
Working Forests in the Neotropics
Conservation Through Sustainable Management?
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2004
Neotropical forests sustain a wealth of biodiversity, provide a wide range of ecosystem services and products, and support the livelihoods of millions of people. But is forest management a viable conservation strategy in the tropics? Supporters of sustainable forest management have promoted it as...
Protecting the Wild
Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those places where human activities, technologies, and developments prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates,...
Saving Our Environment from Washington
How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Congress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod explains...
Conserving Europe's Wildlife
Law and Policy of the Natura 2000 Network of Protected Areas
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU’s entire land territory plus large marine areas. This vast EU-wide network, which aims to conserve Europe’s most valuable and threatened species and habitats,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2019
Environmental translation studies has gained momentum in recent years as a new area of research underscored by the need to communicate environmental concerns and studies across cultures. The dissemination of translated materials on environmental protection and sustainable development has played an...
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,...
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...