Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
The Case for Grassroots Collaboration
Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The nation’s approach to managing environmental policy and protecting natural resources has shifted from the national government’s top down, command and control, regulatory approach, used almost exclusively in the 1970s, to collaborative, multi-sector approaches used in recent decades to manage...
Ecoviews
Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The authors offer a fun-to-read perspective on natural history, ecology as a field of study, and the current environmental issues that face our communities and the world.
This lively and entertaining book provides a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the ecology of animals, plants, and...
by Dingha Ngoh Fobete
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Project Report from the year 2007 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 2, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, course: Seminar paper, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Rapid economic growth is placing increasing pressure on the sustainability of the environment....
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
A vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin actually contains three major bodies of water--Lakes Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas. These make up the Pontchartrain estuary. Robert W. Hastings provides a thorough examination of the historical...
This Land
How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
**“A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time.” —Outside
A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild places**
The public lands of the western...
by Patrick Derr, Edward McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Case Studies in Environmental Ethics is a collection of more than 40 case studies covering diverse topics such as: genetic engineering, aesthetics, pollution, animal rights, population, and resource management. It is intended as a supplemental book for college courses primarily in Environmental Ethics....
by Lester R. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.
We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise?...
Poison Spring
The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.
These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic...
Crunchy Cons
The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
When a National Review colleague teased writer Rod Dreher one day about his visit to the local food co-op to pick up a week’s supply of organic vegetables (“Ewww, that’s so lefty”), he started thinking about the ways he and his conservative family lived that put them outside the bounds of...
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
A vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin actually contains three major bodies of water--Lakes Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas. These make up the Pontchartrain estuary. Robert W. Hastings provides a thorough examination of the historical...
The Big Picture
Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
"We've got lots of nuts-and-bolts accounts of our environmental predicament -- leave it to David Suzuki and Dave Robert Taylor to back up and give us the big view that puts things in perspective. A necessary book!" -- Bill McKibben
"Suzuki asks us to think beyond just swapping...
Ghostworkers and Greens
The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals...
PandaLeaks
The Dark Side of the WWF
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The WWF, renowned global nature conservancy brand, greenwashes the ecological crimes of corporations currently destroying the last remaining rainforests and natural habitats on earth; and it accepts their money. This business model of the famous “eco” organization does more to harm nature than...
by Toby Clark BSc CFIOSH AIEMA Cert Ed
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A primer suitable for environmental foundation courses such as IOSH 'Managing Environmental Responsibilities', NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management and IEMA Foundation Certificate. It is also intended as a general reader in environmental management matters