Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Cleaner, Greener, Healthier
A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Despite Canada’s enduring image as a natural paradise, every year thousands of Canadians become ill or die prematurely as a result of exposure to environmental hazards. Canadians understand that their health is inextricably linked to the health of the environment and are deeply concerned about the...
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...
Forcing the Spring
The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
"...[a] provocative and original account..." --NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Originally published in 1993, Forcing the Spring was quickly recognized as a seminal work in the field of environmental history. The book links the environmental movemthat emerged in the 1960s to earlier movements that had not...
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...
A Fierce Green Fire
The American Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In A Fierce Green Fire, renowned environmental journalist Philip Shabecoff presents the definitive history of American environmentalism from the earliest days of the republic to the present. He offers a sweeping overview of the contemporary environmental movemand the political, economic, social, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This volume works to connect issues in environmental ethics with the best work in contemporary normative theory. Environmental issues challenge contemporary ethical theorists to account for topics that traditional ethical theories do not address to any significant extent. This book articulates and...
A Primer for Teaching Environmental History
Ten Design Principles
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching environmental history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers...
Environmental Security
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This student-friendly textbook offers a survey of the competing conceptions and applications of the increasingly prominent notion of environmental security.
The book is divided into three sections. In the first, the key theoretical and practical arguments for and against bringing together environmental...
Nature-Friendly Communities
Habitat Protection And Land Use Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Nature-Friendly Communities presents an authoritative and readable overview of the successful approaches to protecting biodiversity and natural areas in America's growing communities. Addressing the crucial issues of sprawl, open space, and political realities, Chris Duerksen and Cara Snyder explain...
Enhancing Cleanup of Environmental Pollutants
Volume 2: Non-Biological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This two-volume work is an effort to provide a common platform to environmental engineers, microbiologists, chemical scientists, plant physiologists and molecular biologists working with a common aim of sustainable solutions to varied environmental contamination issues. Chapters explore biological...
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
by Susan J. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Understanding Environmental Administration and Law provides an engaging, introductory overview of environmental policy. Author Susan J. Buck explores the process through which policy is made, the political environmin which it is applied, and the statutory and case laws that are critical to working...
Environmental Activism on the Ground
Small Green and Indigenous Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to the ongoing evolution of the environmental movement...