Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability
The Community Rights Movement in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This short primer from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund explores and describes the philosophy and underpinnings of the community rights movement that has emerged in the United States—a movement of nonviolent civil disobedience based on municipal lawmaking. Humanity stands at the brink...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Environmental law envisions ecological systems as existing in an equilibrium state, reinforcing a rigid legal framework unable to absorb rapid environmental changes and innovations in sustainability. For the past four decades, "resilience theory," which embraces uncertainty and nonlinear...
The Earth Manifesto
Saving Nature with Engaged Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
We live in critical times. Choices we make daily now will affect the future of life itself. Years from now children will study our era on the brink and ask...
Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration
Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first substantial and comprehensive collection of essays, in any language, to address environmental issues...
Shades of Green
Environment Activism Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. The book highlights the diversity of national, regional and international environmental activism, showing that the term 'environmentalism' covers an entire...
by John Grim, Mary Evelyn Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
From the Psalms in the Bible to the sacred rivers in Hinduism, the natural world has been integral to the world’s religions. John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker contend that today’s growing environmental challenges make the relationship ever more vital.
This primer explores the history of...
Ecoambiguity
Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
East Asian literatures are famous for celebrating the beauties of nature and depicting people as intimately connected with the natural world. But in fact, because the region has a long history of transforming and exploiting nature, much of the fiction and poetry in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean...
Environmental and Resource Management
The Future of Biodiversity, a Review of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Scientific Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: B, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus (University of Cottbus), course: Seminar, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The planet earth has different species of organisms that have a specific...
Environmental Solidarity
How Religions Can Sustain Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The past few decades have seen the beginnings of a convergence between religions and ecological movements. The environmental crisis has called the religions of the world to respond by finding their voice within the larger Earth community. At the same time, a certain religiosity has started to emerge...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Nitrogen (N) is potentially one of the most complex elements on the Earth. It is necessary for all biological activity, but creates negative impacts on water and air quality. There is a balancing act between deficiency and surplus and the forms of N available further complicate our understanding of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This volume looks at the impact that different cropping systems and tillage have on soil’s biologically active substances. It considers how phytotoxins accumulate and can inhibit the development of cultivated plants. Coverage explores the continuous cropping of rye, crop rotation, no tillage, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Soil enzymes play a fundamental role in many soil processes such as the mineralization of organic matter, the synthesis of humic substances, the degradation of xenobiotics or the mechanisms involved in the biocontrol of plant pathogens. Their direct link with soil microorganisms gives them a key role...
Agro-Environmental Sustainability
Volume 1: Managing Crop Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This two-volume work is a testament to the increasing interest in the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and food security. Advances in microbial technologies are explored in chapters dealing with topics such as carbon sequestration, soil fertility management, sustainable crop production,...
Environmental Impacts of Mining Activities
Emphasis on Mitigation and Remedial Measures
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since the mining industry is still expanding, comprehensive information on the effects of mining activities on the environment is needed. This book provides information on biological and physico-chemical treatments of mining effluents, on factors affecting human health and on environmental effects...