Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene
Science, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
*Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene *provides thought-provoking insight into the ongoing environmental crises that climate change is generating and raises critical questions about how public and private land managers in North America will adapt to the climatological disruptions that...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Our societies need to solve difficult issues to attain sustainability. The main challenges include, among others, global warming, demographic change, an energy crisis, and loss of biodiversity. In tackling these issues, a holistic understanding of our living space is important. The field of landscape...
Vulnerability of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries to Climate Change
Toward Sustainable Adaptation Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Human activity is changing the global environment at an unprecedented rate while humanity faces a range of complex and interrelated challenges to local, regional and global development, human security and politics. Food security ranks high on the science, policy and development agendas. However, most...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This bookanalyses the deep interaction between the world’s environmental crises, energy production, conversion and use, and global regulation policies.
Bringing together experts from a wide range of scientific fields, it offers the reader a broad scope of knowledge on such topics as:
climate...
Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Environment and Affect
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively rethinks the link between these forms...
by J Mark Dangerfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Environmental Issues for Real by Dr J. Mark Dangerfield looks at some of the obvious, and some of the not so obvious, challenges for a growing human populations living as we do in a finite world. Only this time it's not about the impending disasters or the guilt or the blame. This time, it’s...
by Ro Charlton
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
Rivers are significant geomorphological agents, they show an amazing diversity of form and behaviour and transfer water and sediment from the land surface to the oceans. This book examines how river systems respond to environmental change and why this understanding is needed for successful river management....
The Coming Population Crash
and Our Planet's Surprising Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A leading environmental writer looks at the unexpected effects—and possible benefits—of a shrinking, graying population
Over the last century, the world’s population quadrupled and fears of overpopulation flared, with baby booms blamed for genocide and terrorism, and overpopulation singled...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This book provides a unique contribution to the science of sustainable societies by challenging the traditional concept of rural-urban dichotomy. It combines environmental engineering and landscape sciences perspectives on urban region issues, making the book a unique work in urban study literatures....
Earth Environments
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the major topics within undergraduate study programmes in geosciences, environmental science, physical geography, natural hazards and ecology.
This text introduces students to the Earth's four key interdependent systems: the atmosphere, lithosphere,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
TThis book illustrates recent advances in applications of partial order theory and Hasse diagram techniques to data analysis, mainly in the socio-economic and environmental sciences. For years, partial order theory has been considered a fundamental branch of mathematics of only theoretical interest....
Human Nature
A Blueprint for Managing the Earth--by People, for People
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
A radical approach to the environment which argues that by harnessing the power of science for human benefit, we can have a healthier planet
As a prizewinning theoretical physicist and an outspoken advocate for scientific literacy, James Trefil has long been the public's guide to a better understanding...
GMOs Decoded
A Skeptic's View of Genetically Modified Foods
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions.
Since they were introduced to the market in the late 1990s, GMOs (genetically modified organisms, including genetically modified crops), have been subject to a barrage...
Toxic Safety
Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Initially marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Some argue that data show the chemicals are unsafe while others continue to support their use. The tactics of each side have far-reaching consequences for how we interpret new scientific discoveries.
An...