Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Confronting Environments
Local Understanding in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2004
Carrier and his group of international researchers tackle the complex factors affecting people's understandings of their environment-not just the natural environment, but landscapes shaped by humans, and their social contexts. The authors consider the impact of local events, such as tourism or environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
The continuously growing human population along the world’s coasts will exacerbate the impact of human activities on all coastal environments. Restoration activities will therefore become increasingly important. In particular, sandy shores and coastal dunes will require significant restoration efforts...
Natural Resources Management
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The perseveration of our natural environment has become a critical objective of environmental scientists, business owners, and citizens alike. Because we depend on natural resources to survive, uncovering methods for preserving and maintaining these resources has become a focal point to ensure a high...
Agrarianism and the Good Society
Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2007
Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it inhabits its landscapes. In this literate and wide-ranging exploration, Eric T. Freyfogle raises difficult questions about America's core values while illuminating the social origins of urban sprawl, dwindling wildlife habitats,...
by Stephen R. Kellert, Scott McVay, Aaron Katcher
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
"Biophilia" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson to describe what he believes is humanity's innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes might be a biologically based need, integral to our developmas individuals...
by Neil S Forkey
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and...
Character and Environment
A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applied ethics. Moreover, environmental virtue ethics is an underdeveloped area of environmental ethics....
Ecology and Design
Frameworks For Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Professionals, faculty, and students are aware of the pressing need to integrate ecological principles into environmental design and planning education, but few materials exist to facilitate that development.Ecology and Design addresses that shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for...
Environmental Transformations
A Geography of the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable. These forms of global and local environmental change collectively appear to signal the arrival of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This is a geological...
Remaking Wormsloe Plantation
The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swanson’s in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that question while revealing the broad historical forces that have shaped the lowcountry South.
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Watering the Revolution
An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during...
Green Phoenix
Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Can we prevent the destruction of the world's tropical forests? In the fire-scarred hills of Costa Rica, award-winning science writer William Allen found a remarkable answer: we can not only prevent their destruction--we can bring them back to their former glory. In Green Phoenix, Allen tells the...
A Big Fix
Radical Solutions for Australia’s Environmental Crisis: Expanded and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
If civilisation is to survive, this century will have to see dramatic transformation, not just in technological capacity but also in our approach to the natural world - and to each other. The road we are travelling on now can only end in disaster. The warnings from scientists are unequivocal: we cannot...
by Char Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, the first new biography in more than three decades, offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of the famed conservationist and Progressive politician. In addition to considering Gifford Pinchot's role in the environmental movement,...