Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
by Richard Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Coastal Governance provides a clear overview of how U.S. coasts are currently managed and explores new approaches that could make our shores healthier. Drawing on recent national assessments, Professor Richard Burroughs explains why traditional management techniques have ultimately proved inadequate,...
Protected Land
Disturbance, Stress, and American Ecosystem Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
By many measures, Earth’s ecosystems are stressed. Actually, it may be more accurate to say that Earth’s remaining ecosystems are stressed. The fact is that most of the planet’s biomes support only a fraction of the biological communities they once did, primarily because humans have converted...
Southern Water, Southern Power
How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Why has the American South--a place with abundant rainfall--become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did a region that seemed so rich in this all-important resource become derailed by drought and the regional squabbling...
Our Common Lands
Defending The National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
This accessible book explains the complexities of key environmental laws and how they can be used to protect our national parks. It includes discussions of successful and unsuccessful attempts to use the laws and how the courts have interpreted them.
Drought and Water Crises
Integrating Science, Management, and Policy, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Over the past decade there have been extraordinary advances towards drought risk reduction with the development of new water-conserving technologies, and new tools for planning, vulnerability and impact assessment, mitigation, and policy. Drought and Water Crises: Integrating Science, Management,...
The Heart of Sustainability
Ecological Balance from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Amidst the doom and gloom that dominates the headlines, a different kind of story is unfolding. The players are activists, visionaries and cultural innovators, the backdrop is the tipping point of our global and environmental challenges, and the narrative is the molding of a new paradigm to shape...
Innovation and Its Enemies
Why People Resist New Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
The rise of artificial intelligence has rekindled a long-standing debate regarding the impact of technology on employment. This is just one of many areas where exponential advances in technology signal both hope and fear, leading to public controversy. This book shows that many debates over new technologies...
Zero Waste
Simple Life Hacks to Drastically Reduce Your Trash
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Easy and Effective Strategies to Jumpstart a Sustainable, Waste-Free Lifestyle
We have a worldwide trash epidemic. The average American disposes of 4.4 pounds of garbage per day, and our landfills hold 254 million tons of waste.
What if there were a simple—and fun—way for you to make a difference?...
by Richard Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, they are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. But as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has...
by Gail Zavian
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Situated on the Hudson River, the Central Railroad of New Jersey terminal operated its railroad/maritime complex for over 100 years in this area. After its shutdown in 1967, community advocates, already lobbying for nine years, continued their successful campaign for the site to become a public park....
John Muir's Last Journey
South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
John Muir's Last Journey is a must read for students and scholars of environmental history, American literature, natural history, and related fields, as well as for naturalists and armchair travelers everywhere.
Stepping Off
Rewilding and Belonging in the South-West
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Stepping Off is a book for locals and travellers alike. It is the story of the south-western corner of Western Australia: an environmental history, a social history, an invitation to reconnect with the land – and in doing so, to reconnect with ourselves.
Ghost Buck
The Legacy of One Man's Family and its Hunting Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
In Ghost Buck, outdoorsman Dean Bennett takes readers along to the place where he feels most connected to nature and his family––Camp Sheepskin. Guided by his family’s camp register, photos, and letters ranging from the 1800s to the present, Bennett reflects on his annual visits to his Western...
Our Only World
Ten Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
"Stern but compassionate, author Wendell Berry raises broader issues that environmentalists rarely focus on . . . In one sense Berry is the voice of a rural agrarian tradition that stretches from rural Kentucky back to the origins of human civilization. But his insights are universal because...