Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Mono Lake
From Dead Sea to Environmental Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Mono Lake is one of the largest lakes in California, and Californians have been using it, enjoying it, and abusing it since nomadic northern Paiutes began hunting the lake’s vast bird populations. Controversy between environmentalists and the City of Los Angeles brought so much attention to Mono...
by James A. Young, B. Abbott Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
**A sophisticated ecological analysis of ranching in northern Nevada featuring a new chapter and new epilogue by the authors.**First published in 1985, Cattle in the Cold Desert has become a classic in the environmental history of the Great Basin, brilliantly combining a lively account of the development...
Saving Lake Tahoe
An Environmental History of a National Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
The history of Lake Tahoe begins with the Washoe Indians who resided on its shores for thousands of years, with minimal impact on the landscape. The relatively brief American history at Lake Tahoe began in the mid-nineteenth century. Though awestruck by its beauty, the new arrivals were also intent...
Under the Surface
Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
For the updated paperback edition of Under the Surface, Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering developments since the book's initial publication. Chief among these are the home rule movement and accompanying social and legal events leading up to an unprecedented ban of fracking...
Enchantment and Exploitation
The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range. Revised and Expanded Edition.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
First published in 1985, William deBuys’s Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological...
Contact
Mountain Climbing And Environmental Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Contact collects new and classic first-person climbing stories from North America’s best-known climbers and writers. Mountain climbers are important but overlooked commentators on the environment, and this collection of alpine adventures demonstrates the relationship between climbers and nature...
The Earth Remains Forever
Generations at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Writing especially for people who've tuned out the environmental debate, Rob Jackson persuasively argues that we're at a crucial turning point in environmental history, where choices we make now will determine the quality of life into the unforeseeable future. Laying out the scientific facts in plain...
Water Follies
Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The Santa Cruz River that once flowed through Tucson, Arizona is today a sad mirage. Except for brief periods following heavy rainfall, it is bone dry. The cottonwood and willow trees that once lined its banks have died, and the profusion of wildlife recorded by early settlers is nowhere to be seen....
by Douglas R. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Communities across the country are turning to the concept of "growth management" to help plan for the future, as they seek to control the location, impact, character and timing of developmin order to balance environmental and economic needs and concerns. Managing Growth in America's Communities presents...
by Caroline Ford
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Challenging the conventional trope that French environmentalism arose after WWII, Caroline Ford argues that a broad environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. In response to war, natural disasters, and imperialism, the bourgeoisie, along with politicians, engineers, naturalists, writers, and painters, took up environmental causes.
Collaborative Land Use Management
The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
Collaborative Land Use Management: The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Planning discusses the less-regulatory approaches to land use management that have emerged over the past 35 years, analyzing the collective value of such place-based planning approaches as land trusts, open-space ballot measures,...
Inherit the Holy Mountain
Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes...
The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States
The Challenge of Trading Places
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States is a detailed analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. With the help of in-depth case studies of three well-known attempts to create such markets––in the Chesapeake Bay...
Junk Raft
An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
An exciting account of an activist scientist’s unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft”
News media brought the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”—the famous swirling gyre of plastic pollution...