Environmental Science category: 9368 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) is a network of social scientists in the sub-region established in 1980. Its main objectives are to encourage and promote interest; to engage in collaborative research; to facilitate scholarly exchange of ideas and...
The Invention of Nature
Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism.
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer--updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe).
Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking,...
A Future for Amazonia
Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Blending ethnography with a fascinating personal story, A Future for Amazonia is an account of a political movement that arose in the early 1990s in response to decades of attacks on the lands and peoples of eastern Ecuador, one of the world's most culturally and biologically diverse places. After...
Offshore Safety Management
Implementing a SEMS Program
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
2010 was a defining year for the offshore oil and gas industry in the United States. On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) floating drilling rig suffered a catastrophic explosion and fire. Eleven men died in the explosion — 17 others were injured. The fire, which burned for a day and a...
Green Metropolis
Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes.
A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future.
Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic...
Sustainable Communities Design Handbook
Green Engineering, Architecture, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2010
The objective of Sustainable Communities Design Handbook is to ensure a better quality of life for everyone, both now and for generations to come. This means creating a better and safer environment internationally through the sustainable use of natural resources, encouraging sustainable development...
Climate Ethics
Essential Readings
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve...
Collision Course
Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet.
The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that “growth” is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction, this important guide from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides official guidance regarding planning for - and responding to - drinking water contamination threats and incidents. The Water Security Handbook was developed by...
The American West at Risk
Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense,...
Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management
Cradle-to-Cradle for Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management was inspired by the need to have a text that enveloped awareness and solutions to the ongoing issues and concerns of waste generated from industry. The development of science and technology has increased human capacity to extract resources from nature...
Sustainability A Call to Action Part I
Individual Scale
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Sustainability: A Call to Action Part I (2nd Edition) provides the perfect antidote to environmental despair. The author blends solid science with a recognition that even small individual actions are available and beneficial. Our current path isn’t necessarily our fate. Ample tested tools and methods...
High Tech Trash
Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's anything...