Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
A World to Live In
An Ecologist's Vision for a Plundered Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
A scientist makes a powerful case that preservation of the integrity of the biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right.
A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater...
Making Collaboration Work
Lessons From Innovation In Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Across the United States, diverse groups are turning away from confrontation and toward collaboration in an attempt to tackle some of our nation's mintractable environmental problems. Governmagencies, community groups, businesses, and private individuals have begun working together to solve common...
Environmental Management Revision Guide
For the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The Environmental Management Revision Guide: For the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Managementis the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management. As well as being a handy companion volume to Brian Waters’ NEBOSH-endorsed textbook...
Wilderness and the Common Good
A New Ethic of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
How can we save America's wilderness areas? Wilderness and the Common Good argues that the answer to this question lies in the actions of America's citizens. Beginning with The Wilderness Act of 1964, Dr. Jo Arney examines the state of American environmental policies and how they intersect with individual...
by Helen Corbett, Susanne Swibold
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
The Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a comprehensive presentation of definitions, philosophies, policies, models, and analyses of global environmental and developmental issues. With a wealth of comparative, multidisciplinary, and geographically varied perspectives on environmental...
by Mark Lynas
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of ‘High Tide’. Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now....
A Field on Fire
The Future of Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history
Inspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline....
Better Environmental Policy Studies
How To Design And Conduct More Effective Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Environmental policy studies commissioned by governmagencies or other stakeholders can play a vital role in environmental decisionmaking; they provide much-needed insight into policy options and specific recommendations for action. But the results of even the mrigorous studies are frequently misappropriated...
Environmental Policy in North America
Approaches, Capacity, and the Management of Transboundary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This comprehensive analysis of key issues in North American environmental policy provides an overview of how the US, Mexico, and Canada differ in their environmental management approaches and capacity levels, and how these differences play into cross-border cooperation on environmental problems. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Environmental Sustainability Using Green Technologies explains the role of green engineering and social responsibility in the development of chemicals, processes, products, and systems. Examining the relationship between economy, ecology, and equality—key factors in developing a sustainable society—this...
Nature's Steward
A History of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Nature's Steward chronicles the development of southwest Florida using the modern-day Conservancy of Southwest Florida as the lens through which to examine environmental history. A parallel track exists alongside the Conservancy's story, and that is the evolution of land acquisition practices and...
Quenching the Dragon
The Canada-China Water Crisis - An RMB Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
In this latest RMB Manifesto, Canadian freshwater expert Robert Sandford takes readers to China and shares what it is like to deal with some of the most intractable freshwater problems in the world.
It all started out innocently enough: an airliner over the Pacific and a flight attendant passing...
Biosecurity
The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Biosecurity is the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms, and biological weapons. It is a holistic concept of direct relevance to the sustainability of agriculture, food safety, and the protection...
Beyond Borders
Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Globalisation is about transnational politics. While nation-state governments increasingly struggle with this new politics, which moves beneath, between and beyond national borders, others entities like transnational corporations have flourished. But it is not just business which increasingly bypasses...