Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
The Rights of Nature
A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense...
Sustainability
An Environmental Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book presents an earth science-based overview of the challenges to sustainability. It provides a detailed study of climate change, as well as energy, food, and water security across different regions. The author uncovers the problems caused by current social and environmental practices, and offers...
Everything Under the Sun
Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
A renowned scientist restores hope for a better future with his latest views on environmental challenges.
In this latest offering from David Suzuki, the well-known scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the interconnectedness of the world's myriad environmental challenges. The solutions...
Mabira Forest Giveaway
A Path to Degenerative Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The environmental challenges facing Uganda and the East African region are real. Unplanned natural resource exploitation by corrupt governments, criminal networks, bad governance, and changing rainfall patterns have negatively impacted the lives of millions of Africans.
A nascent movement of...
Crisis Without End
The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Expert essays provide the first comprehensive analysis of the long-term health and environmental consequences of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy...
by Margi Prideaux
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
We are failing to protect wildlife and marching towards a tragic future where the world is monetized and wildness is gone. We can design a different future – if we want to hear Birdsong After the Storm.As we face the storm of climate change and political upheaval, we are designing a desolate...
by Alan MacEachern, John Sandlos, Ben Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent...
Good Crop / Bad Crop
Seed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
IN RECENT YEARS Canadians have become more and more concerned about the origins oftheir food and the environmental impacts of pesticides in agriculture. What is less well knownis that pesticide corporations such as Monsanto and Du Pont have bought their way into the seed industry and are taking control...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Ecological restoration is a rapidly evolving discipline that is engaged with developing both methodologies and strategies for repairing damaged and polluted ecosystems and environments. During the last decade the rapid pace of climate change coupled with continuing habitat destruction and the spread...
by D.L. DeAngelis, J.Y. Zhuang, J.C. Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
After the 1998 flood of the Yangtze River, one of the world’s most important rivers, environmental experts realized that, to control flooding, much more attention must be paid to vegetation cover on bare lands, thin forest land, and shrub-covered land in mountain areas. In 1999, an environmental...
Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Transformative ecoeducation is environmental education that is literally needed to transform and save our planet, especially during the global ecological crises of our present century. Such education demands inner transformation of many deeply rooted ideas, such as the following: the Earth exists...
War upon the Land
Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy.
From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature, even...
Crabgrass Crucible
Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming...