Environmental Science category: 9368 books
by Herve Millett, João Pinto da Costa, Wai Chin Li
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Plastic has become a ubiquitous part of modern life. A cheap, lightweight material, it is used in everything from food packaging to consumer electronics and microbeads in cosmetic products. However, we are becoming increasingly aware of the problems our reliance on plastic is causing in the environment....
Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water
With a Foreword by Birgit Dechmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This book aims to initiate among students and other readers critical and interdisciplinary reflections on key problems concerning development, gender relations, peace and environment, with a special emphasis on North-South relations. This volume offers a selection of the author's research in different...
Ecoviews
Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The authors offer a fun-to-read perspective on natural history, ecology as a field of study, and the current environmental issues that face our communities and the world.
This lively and entertaining book provides a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the ecology of animals, plants, and...
Devoted to Nature
The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Devoted to Nature explores the religious underpinnings of American environmentalism, tracing the theological character of American environmental thought from its Romantic foundations to contemporary nature spirituality. During the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, religious sources were central...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Environmental sustainability is one of the biggest issues faced by the mankind. Rapid & rampant industrialization has put great pressure on the natural resources. To make our planet a sustainable ecosystem, habitable for future generations & provide equal opportunity for all the living creatures...
Environmental Illness
Myth & Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Environmental illness: certain health professionals and clinical ecologists claim it impacts and inhibits 15 percent of the population. Its afflicted are led to believe environmental illness (EI) originates with food, chemicals, and other stimuli in their surroundings -as advocates call for drastic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2019
As the inevitable, unsustainable nature of contemporary society becomes increasingly more obvious, it is important for scholars and activists to engage with the question, "what is to be done?" A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front provides an analysis and overview...
Exploring the Nexus of Geoecology, Geography, Geoarcheology and Geotourism: Advances and Applications for Sustainable Development in Environmental Sciences and Agroforestry Research
Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018. The book is of interest to all researchers in the fields of Environmental Sciences, Geoecology, Agroforestry, Geography, Geoarcheology...
Environmental Quality Management
An Application to the Lower Delaware Valley
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Environmental Quality Management provides a quantitative analysis of regional residuals environmental quality management in the Lower Delaware Valley. Originally published in 1976, this study takes a management outlook to discuss new systems such as a non-linear aquatic eco-system model and reaches...
Ecological Wisdom
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of ecological wisdom (EW). EW is the integration of robust contemporary science with proven cultural and historical practices to identify long-term, sustainable solutions to problems of environmental management and urban design. The book...
The Environment-Conflict Nexus
Climate Change and the Emergent National Security Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
The aim of this book is to demonstrate how environmental factors have caused an evolution in the landscape of national security since the end of the Cold War. Through relevant case studies, the scope of the problem on the national security landscape due to environmental stressors is illuminated, examined,...
Assessing Schools for Generation R (Responsibility)
A Guide for Legislation and School Policy in Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Today’s youth will face global environmental changes, as well as complex personal and social challenges. To address these issues this collection of essays provides vital insights on how science education can be designed to better engage students and help them solve important problems in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Of all the books written about the problems of sustainable development and environmental protection, Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is one of the first to examine the role of science, economics and law, and ethics as generally applied to decision making on sustainable...
The End of Sustainability
Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The time has come for us to collectively reexamine—and ultimately move past—the concept of sustainability in environmental and natural resources law and management. The continued invocation of sustainability in policy discussions ignores the emerging reality of the Anthropocene, which is creating...