Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
River of Lost Souls
The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Awardwinning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid...
Worlds Apart
Globalization And The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2003
Worlds Apart presents a cohesive set of essays by leading thinkers on the subject of globalization, offering a thoughtful overview of the major environmental issues related to globalization in a clear, reasoned style. Framed by Gus Speth’s introduction and conclusion, essays range from Jane Lubchenco’s...
by Ross McKitrick
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is at the forefront of public attention and poses serious challenges for policymakers around the world. Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, provides a rigorous and thorough...
Common Ground on Hostile Turf
Stories from an Environmental Mediator
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In our increasingly polarized society, there are constant calls for compromise, for coming together. For many, these are empty talking points—for Lucy Moore, they are a life's work. As an environmental mediator, she has spthe past quarter century resolving conflicts that appeared utterly intractable....
The Agrarian Vision
Sustainability and Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions. The balance between progress and the earth's ability to provide for its inhabitants grows increasingly precarious as we attempt to achieve sustainable...
Love Canal
A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. Initially seeking evacuation, area activists...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In the prospect of the COP21 held in Paris in December 2015, the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) organised a scientific conference on environmental and climatic changes in the horn of Africa, with a decisive financial support of the Institut français (Fonds d’Alembert), Paris. The conference...
by Peter Dauvergne
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Environmentalism involves hundreds of international environmental groups, thousands of national groups, and tens of thousands of local ones. It also includes hundreds of international agreements, hundreds of national environmental agencies, and countless environmental sections in other organizations—from...
Environment and Society
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Environment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and debates of the twenty-first century.
In an era marked by climate change, rapid urbanization, and resource scarcity, environmental studies has emerged as a crucial arena of study.
Assembling...
Clean-up of Former Soviet Military Installations
Identification and Selection of Environmental Technologies for Use in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was conducted on June 21-23, 1994 in Visegnid, Hungary related to the clean-up of former Soviet military installation sites. This ARW included a technical site visit to the Komarom Base Site which is a former Soviet military installation in Hungary. During this...
The World We Create
A Message of Hope for a Planet in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Since the dawn of the modern environmental movement, Frances Beinecke has been on its front lines, leading the charge for clean air, fresh water, healthy wildlife and fertile lands. As she prepares to retire as president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, The World We Create captures the story...
A Fair Share
Doing the Math on Individual Consumption and Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Global warming looms large, and seems beyond the ken of any one person to affect, while the notion that simply driving less or changing other habits could be of any real use seems to make a mockery of the enormity of the problem. However, a rigorous quantification of consumption shows that, far...
by Stefan Engel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
An ever increasing number of local and regional ecological catastrophes plague humanity. They are symptoms of an environmental crisis which is in the process of transforming at an accelerated pace into a global environmental catastrophe. As their chief causes are to be found in the capitalist profit...
Making a Living
Work and Environment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.
Chad Montrie...