Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
This Is Our Land
Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups—in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee—revealing...
by Douglas Spieles
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The premise of this book is that our environmental dilemmas are products of biological and sociocultural evolution, and that through an understanding of evolution we can reframe debates of thought and action. The purpose is to explain the wide variety of environmental worldviews, their origins, commonalities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Soil is the most important natural non-renewable resource developed over a longer period of time due to weathering of rocks and subsequently enrichment of organic matter. Soil provides habitat for numerous microorganisms and serves as a natural medium for plant growth, thereby providing the plants...
by Tim R. New
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
A survey of the development and practice of butterfly conservation in south east Australia, tracing evolution of the science through a series of cases from focus on single subspecies through increasing levels of ecological complexity to critical biotopes and communities. The book summarises much previously...
A Smarter, Greener Grid: Forging Environmental Progress through Smart Energy Policies and Technologies
Forging Environmental Progress through Smart Energy Policies and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The United States' electrical grid is an antique. It was built to serve a 20th-century economy and designed in an era when the negative environmental impacts of electricity production were poorly understood. It must be upgraded and modernized. The proposed solution is a "smart grid"—a...
Saving the World's Deciduous Forests
Ecological Perspectives from East Asia, North America, and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Deciduous forests have been remarkably resilient throughout their history, recovering from major shifts in climate and surviving periods of massive deforestation. But today the world’s great forests confront more ominous threats than ever before. This visionary book is the first to examine forests...
by Donald Dewees, C.K. Everson, William Sims
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
A framework is concisely presented for the economic analysis of pollution problems and for evaluating proposed solutions. The substantial recent literature on environmental economics is reviewed and related to Ontario environmental policy. Topics include the theory of externalities as an explanation...
Architectural Heritage Revisited
A Holistic Engagement of its Tangible and Intangible Constituents
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
By improving our understanding of how the tangible and intangible dimensions of heritage are correlated, we could develop a relationship with heritage that goes beyond the mere act of conservation. This book argues that we need to recognize the historic monument as a tangible aspect of a holistic...
Policy Integration for Complex Environmental Problems
The Example of Mediterranean Desertification
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The quest for policy integration crystallized in the 1990s as awareness was growing that the current supply of narrow, sectoral, and little coordinated, or even overlapping and conflicting, policies could not cope efficiently and effectively with contemporary complex, cross-cutting and interdependent...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Although many environmental policy issues remain deadlocked for decades with little movement, sometimes breakthroughs occur abruptly. Why do deadlocks persist? Why do major policy shifts occur infrequently? Is it possible to judge when policies are ripe for change?This book presents new empirical evidence...
Social Learning in Environmental Management
Towards a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Social Learning in Environmental Management explores and expands the approaches to collective learning most needed to help individuals, communities, experts and governments work together to achieve greater social and ecological sustainability. It provides practical frameworks and case studies to assist...
Global Thinking and Local Action
Agriculture, Tropical Forest Loss and Conservation in Southeast Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2001. Based on extensive local field research undertaken in and around the Cross River National Park in Nigeria, this book provides a socio-economic study of the tensions between agriculture and nature conservation. Taking a ’bottom-up’ approach and focussing...
Breakpoint
Reckoning with America's Environmental Crises
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
An insightful look at the American environmental crisis and emerging solutions from the heartland to the coasts in the era of global climate change†‹
Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award†‘winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing...
by Heba Fahmy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: Excellent, University of Alexandria (Faculty of Engineering-Production Department), course: Quality Improvement Tools and Techniques being used in the Analysis of an Environmental Problem, language: English, abstract:...