Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
The Housing Bomb
Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai...
Recycling Reconsidered
The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
How the success and popularity of recycling has diverted attention from the steep environmental costs of manufacturing the goods we consume and discard.
Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. The accomplishments of the recycling movement can be seen in municipal practice,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Concepts of ecological integrity have recently been proposed to facilitate enhanced protection of biological and ecological resources against the threat of human activities. The promotion of ecological integrity as a basis for public policy and decision making stems from scientists and others concerned...
Our Once and Future Planet
Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that’s not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it’s hard not to focus on the negative
But that paints an unbalanced—and...
Nature and Nurture
Poverty and Environment in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In recent years, initiatives by the international community to address the links between poverty and environmental degradation have been increasing. These initiatives range from policy reform and top-down approaches to local, bottom-up actions by communities. This publication focuses on local actions,...
The Myth of Silent Spring
Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Since its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental movement. Yet environmental consciousness and environmental protest in some regions of the United States date back to the nineteenth century, with the...
A Line in the Tar Sands
Struggles for Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to marry quite explicitly concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet. Tar sands...
Environmental City
People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
As Austin grew from a college and government town of the 1950s into the sprawling city of 2010, two ideas of Austin as a place came into conflict. Many who promoted the ideology of growth believed Austin would be defined by economic output, money, and wealth. But many others thought Austin was instead...
by Jack Buffington
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
One billion beverage containers are used on a daily basis in the United States, with at least 600 million of them ending up in landfills. Even the 400 million that are recycled—at a great cost—are not accomplishing the task of helping the environment. This economic and environmental catastrophe...
The Myth of Green Marketing
Tending Our Goats at the Edge of Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
In this groundbreaking study, Toby Smith analyses the role that social myths such as green marketing play in public understanding of the environmental crisis.
This book introduces the concept of hegemony into environmental politics, using the concept to elucidate the political, economic, and...
Global Spin
The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful conservative forces to try to change the way the public and politicians think about the environment. Large corporations are using their influence to reshape public opinion, to weaken gains made by environmentalists,...
Rethinking Environmental History
World-System History and Global Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical...
Sacred Instructions
Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
A narrative of Indigenous wisdom that provides a road map for the spirit and a compass of compassion for humanity
Drawing from ancestral knowledge, as well as her experience as an attorney and activist, Sherri Mitchell addresses some of the most crucial issues of our day, such as environmental...
Respect for Nature
A Theory of Environmental Ethics - 25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth? In Respect for Nature, Paul Taylor draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value. Without making claims for...