Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
After the Death of Nature
Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Carolyn Merchant’s foundational 1980 book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution established her as a pioneering researcher of human-nature relations. Her subsequent groundbreaking writing in a dozen books and over one hundred peer-reviewed articles have only fortified...
At the Wilderness Edge
The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada's West Coast
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Vancouver prides itself on being a green city, and the west coast is known for its active environmental protest culture. But the roots of this mentality reach far beyond the founding of organizations such as Greenpeace. Small campaigns led by local community groups from the 1960s onward left a lasting...
The Politics of Scale
A History of Rangeland Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of the Earth’s ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production—from greenhouse gas emissions to land and water...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Soil degradation is a widespread problem in Africa resulting in decreased agricultural productivity while demand for food continues to increase. Degradation is caused by accelerated erosion, acidification, contamination, depletion of soil organic matter and plant nutrients, and salinization. The major...
What are the Questions and Other Essays: Further Contributions to Modern Economics
Further Contributions to Modern Economics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
A study of environmental degradation, this work presents the environmental problems of South Korea. The effects of rapid industrialisation and modernisation are documented along with the choices and actions which are available to the country.
Global Mountain Regions
Conversations toward the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the...
Ocean Outbreak
Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
There is a growing crisis in our oceans as rates of infectious disease outbreaks are on the rise. Marine epidemics have the potential to cause a mass die-off of wildlife from the bottom to the top of the food chain, impacting the health of ocean ecosystems as well as lives on land. Fueled by sewage...
The Chesapeake in Focus
Transforming the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
When Captain John Smith arrived in Virginia in 1607, he discovered a paradise in the Chesapeake Bay. In the centuries that followed, the Bay changed vastly—and not for the better. European landowners and enslaved Africans slashed, burned, and cleared the surrounding forests to grow tobacco. Watermen...
Possible benefits to the Chinese tourism and hospitality industry
Changes in the Chinese economy, the admission to the WTO, the granting of the 2008 Olympic Games and the improved relations with Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: B+ oder 87%, César Ritz Colleges (Environmental Department), 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: On the 11 December 2001 China became a full member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It was...
by Claudia Körber, M. Schwirzenbeck, K. Barth
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 1,7, University of Applied Sciences Constanze, course: Environmental Economics, 27 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Earth has a natural temperature control system. The greenhouse gases belong...
by Thomas A Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Bumbling Through Sumatra is an educational yet comical adventure through the Strait of Malacca, various ports in Malaysia, and across the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The reader is taken on an entertaining journey of discovery by following the misadventures of a fictitious cast of bumbling characters...
Making Parks Work
Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Mscientists and researchers working in tropical areas are convinced that parks and protected areas are the only real hope for saving land and biodiversity in those regions. Rather than giving up on parks that are foundering, ways must be found to strengthen them, and Making Parks Work offers a vital...
The Big Burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time.
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho,...
A Walk in the Woods
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body.
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia...