Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
by Karl Boyd Brooks, Mark W. T. Harvey, Paul Milazzo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Decades before the environmental concerns of the 1960s and long before today’s quest for sustainability, Harry S. Truman’s presidency decisively changed the scope and pace of federal government interaction with the natural world. Determined to extend the prosperity promised by Roosevelt’s New...
Greening the College Curriculum
A Guide To Environmental Teaching In The Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Greening the College Curriculum provides the tools college and university faculty need to meet personal and institutional goals for integrating environmental issues into the curriculum. Leading educators from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature,...
The Media Commons
Globalization and Environmental Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's...
Working on Earth
Class and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This collection of essays examines the relationship between environmental injustice and the exploitation of working-class people. Twelve scholars from the fields of environmental humanities and the humanistic social sciences explore connections between the current and unprecedented rise of environmental...
The Once and Future Forest
A Guide To Forest Restoration Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Developed by the pioneering landscape design firm of Andropogon Associates, world-renowned for their innovative approach to integrating environmental protection and restoration with landscape architecture and design, The Once and Future Forest is a guidebook for restoring and managing natural landscapes....
by Peter Dauvergne
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
To capture the diversity within environmentalism, this dictionary takes a global tack with a focus on ideas, events, institutions, initiatives, and green movements since the 1960s. It strives to avoid a common error in many histories of environmentalism: to exaggerate the input of the wealthy countries...
Ecological Systems Integrity
Governance, law and human rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Environmental law and governance are the cornerstones of global efforts to conserve the environment, protect resources and ensure fair and equitable outcomes for all of the planet's inhabitants. This book presents a series of thought-provoking chapters which consider the place of governance and...
Fractured Communities
Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques—more...
The Greenpeace to Amchitka
An Environmental Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Greenpeace is known around the world for its activism and education surrounding environmental and biodiversity issues. With a presence in more than 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Greenpeace is undoubtedly a dominant force in the realm of environmental activism.This...
Carbon Play
The Candid Observations of a Carbon Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
An insider’s look at the complex, inspiring and surprisingly entertaining world of international negotiations, technology and diplomacy relating to the carbon industry, environmental management and climate mitigation.
Carbon Play follows Robert Falls’s unique and extraordinary journey in...
Finite Media
Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
While digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and...
Searching for Yellowstone
Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In 1997 Yellowstone celebrated its 125th anniversary as a national park, the keystone in the federal system of reserved and protected places. The celebration was somewhat marred by debates over wolf reintroduction, road improvement, resort building, and "bioprospecting," the search for economically...
Heartbeats in the Muck
The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor’s environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural...
A Face in the Rock
The Tale Of A Grand Island Chippewa
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Eight miles long and four miles wide, Grand Island lies off the south shore of Lake Superior. It was once home to a sizable community of Chippewa Indians who lived in harmony with the land and with each other. Their tragic demise began early in the nineteenth century when their fellow tribesmen from...