Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Order of the Sacred Earth
An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Matthew Fox has a well-established readership with more than 40 published titles. Formerly a member of the Dominican Order within the Roman Catholic Church, he was famously expelled because of his challenging the doctrine of ‘original sin.’ His groundbreaking book, Original Blessing, was formative...
Thinking Continental
Writing the Planet One Place at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about “thinking continental”—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to...
Trout Culture
How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, the popular conception of Rocky Mountain trout fishing...
Home to the Nechako
The River and the Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The people of the Nechako region are not unfamiliar with hardship, environmental devastation and protecting what they hold dear. June Wood chronicles the history of the Nechako River and its region, covering the construction of the Kenney Dam, which changed forever the flow of the river and its tributaries;...
What the River Carries
Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
In this informed and lyrical collection of interwoven essays, Lisa Knopp explores the physical and cultural geography of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, rivers she has come to understand and cherish. At the same time, she contemplates how people experience landscape, identifying three primary...
Overrun
Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Intelligent investigative writing meets experiential journalism in this important look at one of North America’s most voraciously invasive species
Politicians, ecologists, and government wildlife officials are fighting a desperate rearguard action to halt the onward reach of Asian Carp, four...
Of Orcas and Men
What Killer Whales Can Teach Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Orcas are one of earth’s most intelligent animals. Benign and gentle, with their own languages and cultures, orcas’ amazing capacity for long-term memory and, arguably, compassion, makes the ugly story of the captive-orca industry especially damning. In Of Orcas and Men, a marvelously compelling...
Gardening the World
Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires. Marginal...
by Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
“A lucid overview of [environmental] problems and a compelling call to action.” —Publishers Weekly
From two of science fiction’s most celebrated and brilliant minds—Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl—comes the second edition of Our Angry Earth, a comprehensive analysis of today's environmental...
Forests at Risk
Climate Change and the Future of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Climate change poses a huge threat to the West. The currmountain pine beetle epidemic with over 50 million acres of dying trees in western North America has created a powerful “teachable moment” across the region.
A primary goal of the Forests At Risk symposium was to reframe the nation’s...
by Howard D. Hesketh
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
A basic technical book on the design and application of gas cleaning technologies that use liquids, first published in the 1980's and used by plant and environmental engineers, regulatory personnel, and others concerned with air pollution. The second edition enlarges the discussion on the theory of
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Pipeline and the Paradigm
Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This thoroughly researched and wholly engaging book investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline—a project so controversial it has inspired the largest expression of civil disobedience since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. With...
The Virtues of Ignorance
Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, and so too has the notion that we can fix environmental problems with scientific applications. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge proposes an alternative to this...