Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Rachel Carson
Witness for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The authoritative biography of the marine biologist and nature writer whose book Silent Spring inspired the global environmentalist movement.
In a career that spanned from civil service to unlikely literary celebrity, Rachel Carson became one of the world’s seminal leaders in conservation....
by James B. Blackburn Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In this powerful call to action, conservationist and environmental lawyer Jim Blackburn offers an unconventional yet feasible plan to protect the Texas coast. The coast is in danger of being damaged beyond repair due to the gradual starvation of freshwater inflows to its bays, the fragmentation of...
Rambunctious Garden
Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
"Remarkable . . . Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.†? -The Wall Street Journal
A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have...
Money for the Cause
A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
There has never been a greater need for raising the funds necessary to promote the causes that will help build a sustainable future. In Money for the Cause: A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising, veteran nonprofit executive director Rudolph A. Rosen lays out field-tested approaches that have been...
Nature's Allies
Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
It's easy to feel powerless in the face of big environmental challenges—but we need inspiration more than ever. With political leaders who deny climate change, species that are fighting for their very survival, and the planet's last places of wilderness growing smaller and smaller, what can a single...
Culture and the Question of Rights
Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental...
On a Farther Shore
The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement
She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it...
Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab
The Emergence of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Aldo Leopold and Ed Ricketts are giants in the history of environmental awareness. They were born ten years and only about 200 miles apart and died within weeks of each other in 1948. Yet they never met and they didn't read each other's work. This illuminating book reveals the full extent of their...
Thinking Like a Mountain
An Ecological Perspective on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
In Thinking Like a Mountain, we have excerpted a clear and inviting introduction to the science of conservation biology from Ed Grumbine's previous book, GhBears. Grumbine offers a succinct and evocative description of why we should all care about biodiversity, protected lands, connectivity, and extinction...
by Dan L. Perlman, Jeffrey Milder
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens introduces and explains key ecological concepts for planners, landscape architects, developers, and others involved in planning and building human habitats. The book is tailored to meet the needs of busy land use professionals and citizens seeking...
by George D. Davis, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1993
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
George Davis devoted his MacArthur fellowship to mapping the watershed of Lake Baikal, the largest fresh-water source on earth. Using zoning...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
The World Bank's Forests Strategy, adopted in October 2002, charts a path for the Bank's proactive engagement in the sector to help attain the goal of poverty reduction without jeopardizing the environmental values intrinsic to sustainability. This strategy replaces the Bank's 1991 Forestry Strategy,...
Slick Water
Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
From the award-winning author of Tar Sands comes the shocking, inspiring story of an oil and gas industry insider’s determined stand to hold government and industry legally accountable for the damage fracking leaves in its wake.
When Jessica Ernst’s well water turned into a flammable broth...
Managing Growth in America's Communities
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In this thoroughly revised edition of Managing Growth in America’s Communities, readers will learn the principles that guide intelligplanning for communities of any size, grasp the major issues in successfully managing growth, and discover what has actually worked in practice (and where and why)....