Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This book provides in-depth reviews of the effects of nanoparticles on the soil environment, their interactions with plants and also their potential applications as nanofertilizers and pesticides. It offers insights into the current trends and future prospects of nanotechnology, including the benefits...
Green Aviation
Reduction of Environmental Impact Through Aircraft Technology and Alternative Fuels
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Aircraft emissions currently account for ~3.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions. The number of passenger miles has increased by 5% annually despite 9/11, two wars and gloomy economic conditions. Since aircraft have no viable alternative to the internal combustion engine, improvements in aircraft efficiency...
by Loukas Bellonias
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Environmental Sciences, Technical University of Munich, course: Sustainable Consumption, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this article we first define and describe the concept and main points of environmental friendly marketing....
The Global Casino
An Introduction to Environmental Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, the book highlights the underlying causes behind environmental...
The Environmental Moment
1968-1972
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Environmental Moment is a collection of documents that reveal the significance of the years 1968-1972 to the environmental movement in the United States. With material ranging from short pieces from the Whole Earth Catalog and articles from the Village Voice to lectures, posters, and government...
First Along the River
A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
First Along the River provides students with a balanced, historical perspective on the history of the environmental movement in relation to major social and political events in U.S. history, from the pre-colonial era to the present. The book highlights important people and events, places critical...
State of the World 2015
Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
We think we understand environmental damage: pollution, water scarcity, a warming world. But these problems are just the tip of the iceberg. Food insecurity, financial assets drained of value by environmental damage, and a rapid rise in diseases of animal originare among the underreported consequences...
A City on a Lake
Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization...
The Embattled Wilderness
The Natural and Human History of Robinson Forest and the Fight for Its Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky is one of our most important natural landscapes—and one of the most threatened. Covering fourteen thousand acres of some of the most diverse forest region in temperate North America, it is a haven of biological richness within an ever-expanding desert created...
by Philip Garone
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells...
Loving God's Wildness
The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
When the Puritans arrived in the New World to carry out the colonization they saw as divinely mandated, they were confronted by the American wilderness. Part of their theology led them to view the natural environment as “a temple of God” in which they should glorify and serve its creator. The...
The Poisoned Well
New Strategies For Groundwater Protection
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The Poisoned Well offers vital strategies for citizens, community organizations, and public officials who want to fight the battle against pollutants.
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability....
Nature Under Siege
Portrait of Environmental Crisis in the Niger Delta
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Expressions such as Environmental terrorism or eco-anarchy may sum up the state of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, in a bid to explain the indiscriminate cutting of pristine forests, terminal scare of wildlife and extinction of biodiversity, loss of soil fertility and fecundity of rivers, acidified...