Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
by Peter Dauvergne
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Environmentalism involves hundreds of international environmental groups, thousands of national groups, and tens of thousands of local ones. It also includes hundreds of international agreements, hundreds of national environmental agencies, and countless environmental sections in other organizations—from...
The New Wild
Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist
A provocative exploration of the “new ecology” and why most of what we think we know about alien species is wrong**
For a long time, veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce thought in stark terms about invasive species: they...
Environment and Society
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Environment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and debates of the twenty-first century.
In an era marked by climate change, rapid urbanization, and resource scarcity, environmental studies has emerged as a crucial arena of study.
Assembling...
by Brent Carney
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
In 1926, Earl Oglebay willed his summer estate, Waddington Farm, to the city of Wheeling with the hope that it would provide entertainment and education to the community. He and naturalist A.B. Brooks, both mavericks in ecology and agricultural training, established the unique environmental emphasis...
Clean-up of Former Soviet Military Installations
Identification and Selection of Environmental Technologies for Use in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was conducted on June 21-23, 1994 in Visegnid, Hungary related to the clean-up of former Soviet military installation sites. This ARW included a technical site visit to the Komarom Base Site which is a former Soviet military installation in Hungary. During this...
The Michigan Eco-Traveler
A Guide to Sustainable Adventures in the Great Lakes State
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Michigan offers some of the most wonderfully diverse recreation opportunities in the country. The Michigan Eco-Traveleris for a new and growing breed of leisure traveler and adventurer—the individual seeking to experience the pleasant peninsulas responsibly by minimizing his or her eco-footprint....
The World We Create
A Message of Hope for a Planet in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Since the dawn of the modern environmental movement, Frances Beinecke has been on its front lines, leading the charge for clean air, fresh water, healthy wildlife and fertile lands. As she prepares to retire as president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, The World We Create captures the story...
A Fair Share
Doing the Math on Individual Consumption and Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Global warming looms large, and seems beyond the ken of any one person to affect, while the notion that simply driving less or changing other habits could be of any real use seems to make a mockery of the enormity of the problem. However, a rigorous quantification of consumption shows that, far...
Border Sanctuary
The Conservation Legacy of the Santa Ana Land Grant
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge lies on the northern bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, about seventy miles upriver from the Gulf of Mexico. In Border Sanctuary, M.J. Morgan uncovers how 2,000 acres of rare subtropical riparian forest came to be preserved in a region otherwise dramatically...
by Stefan Engel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
An ever increasing number of local and regional ecological catastrophes plague humanity. They are symptoms of an environmental crisis which is in the process of transforming at an accelerated pace into a global environmental catastrophe. As their chief causes are to be found in the capitalist profit...
Land of the Underground Rain
Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1910-1970
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The scarcity of surface water which has so marked the Great Plains is even more characteristic of its subdivision, the Texas High Plains. Settlers on the plateau were forced to use pump technology to tap the vast ground water resources—the underground rain—beneath its flat surface. The evolution...
Making a Living
Work and Environment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.
Chad Montrie...
Old World and New World Perspectives in Environmental Philosophy
Transatlantic Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
This is the first collection of essays in which European and American philosophers explicitly think out their respective contributions and identities as environmental thinkers in the analytic and continental traditions. The American/European, as well as Analytic/Continental collaboration here bears...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Functions of Natural Organic Matter in Changing Environment presents contributions from the 16th Meeting of the International Humic Substances Society (IHSS 16) held in Hangzhou, China on September 9-14, 2012. It provides a comprehensive and updated research advance in the field of characterization,...