Nature category: 119170 books
Sharing Nature's Interest
Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints...
by Ellen LaConte
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Corporate capitalism has ravaged the planet the way HIV ravages the human body, triggering a Critical Mass of cascading environmental, economic, social and political crises. Economic and climate instability, collapsing ecosystems, peak fossil fuels and devastating resource wars-if Earth were a patient,...
Nature's Wealth
The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Increasing pressure from economic development and population growth has resulted in the degradation of ecosystems around the world and the loss of the essential services that they provide. Understanding the linkages between ecosystem service provisioning and human well-being is crucial for the establishment...
A David Suzuki Collection
A lifetime of ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Drawing from David Suzuki's published and unpublished writings, this collection reveals the underlying passions and philosophies that have informed his work over a lifetime. In these incisive and provocative essays, Suzuki explores the limits of knowledge and the connectedness of all things; he looks...
Nature Unbound
Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories...
Urban Ecology
Science of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology:...
Nature and Nurture
Poverty and Environment in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In recent years, initiatives by the international community to address the links between poverty and environmental degradation have been increasing. These initiatives range from policy reform and top-down approaches to local, bottom-up actions by communities. This publication focuses on local actions,...
by David B Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The fact that we inhabit a consumer society has incredibly far-reaching implications. Working through the often controversial ideas of the consumer society's most influential theorists, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, this book assesses the ways in which consumerism is reshaping the nature and...
Governance of Water-Related Conflicts in Agriculture
New Directions in Agri-Environmental and Water Policies in the EU
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This book deals with voluntary approaches between farmers and water suppliers as an instrument to meet environmental standards, impacted by agricultural activities, more economically efficient and environmentally effective than by exclusive application of alternative instruments including command-and-control...
Climate Change and the Energy Problem
Physical Science and Economics Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This important compendium deals with the primary world problems of global warming and the coming energy crisis. In alternating chapters, it lays out the nature of the two interrelated problems, and specifies the various economic considerations. Thus, it describes the coming shortfall of fossil fuel...
by Midwest Journal Press, Edmund Morris, Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Contains:
Our Farm of Four Acres, by Miss Coulton
Ten Acres Enough, By Edmund Morris
Three Acres and Liberty, By Bolton Hall
The Home Acre, by E. P. Roe
A FARM, to many, can be a romantic idea.
For those few of us who were raised on one, and even fewer...
The Earth Path
Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
America's most renowned witch and eco–feminist offers a sequel to her bestselling classic The Spiral Dance, weaving together the latest findings in environmental science with magical spells, chants, meditations and group exercises to create the ultimate primer on our relationship to the earth.
From...
Maybe One
A Personal and Evironmental Argument for Single Child Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
From the groundbreaking, bestselling author of The End of Nature, a controversial and provocative book arguing that to help the planet we should begin to voluntarily limit our numbers.
Bill McKibben's books and essays on our environment -- physical and spiritual -- have shaped and spurred debate since...