Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Old World and New World Perspectives in Environmental Philosophy
Transatlantic Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
This is the first collection of essays in which European and American philosophers explicitly think out their respective contributions and identities as environmental thinkers in the analytic and continental traditions. The American/European, as well as Analytic/Continental collaboration here bears...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Functions of Natural Organic Matter in Changing Environment presents contributions from the 16th Meeting of the International Humic Substances Society (IHSS 16) held in Hangzhou, China on September 9-14, 2012. It provides a comprehensive and updated research advance in the field of characterization,...
Crossroads
Environmental Priorities For The Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The environmental movemtoday is at a critical crossroads. Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future is an in-depth assessmof the movement's successes and failures, and also offers prescriptions for the future. It includes contributions from some of the country's top environmental leaders...
Proving Grounds
Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Proving Grounds brings together a wide range of scholars across disciplines and geographical borders to deepen our understanding of the environmental impact that the U.S. military presence has had at home and abroad. The essays in this collection survey the environmental damage caused by weapons testing...
by Peter Brimblecombe
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Episodes of air pollution throughout the 20th and 21st centuries have had a huge influence socially, economically and politically. From the Great Smog of London to the Kuwait Oil Fires, and from the ashes of Mount St Helens to air pollution in Beijing, this book chronicles their enduring legacies...
by Don Philpott
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Although the earth has been around for millions of years, humans have only been seriously interested in protecting and preserving the environment for less than 200 years and the terms conservationism and environmentalism are little more than 100 years old. The industrial revolution brought with it...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes. Remediation through fungi—or mycoremediation—has multifarious possibilities in applied remediation...
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia
Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In order to move global society towards a sustainable “ecotopia,” solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the...
An Everglades Providence
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading resolve...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Common topics and commonplaces help develop arguments and shape understanding. When used in argumentation, they may help interested parties more effectively communicate valuable information. The purpose of this edited collection on topics of environmental rhetoric is to fill gaps in scholarship related...
The Ecological Other
Environmental Exclusion in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
With roots in eugenics and other social-control programs, modern American environmentalism is not always as progressive as we would like to think. In The Ecological Other, Sarah Jaquette Ray examines the ways in which environmentalism can create social injustice through discourses of the body.
Ray...
Environmental Compartments
Equilibria and Assessment of Processes Between Air, Water, Sediments and Biota
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Any concentration of a substance measured in a living or non-living system results from its distribution among all of the environmental compartments: air, water, sediments, and biota. The transfer of a substance from one compartment to another is regulated by physical forces and the chemical properties...
Making Transparent Environmental Management Decisions
Applications of the Ecosystem Management Decision Support System
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Since 1997, the Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used around the world to support environmental analysis and planning in many different application areas, and it has been applied over a wide range of geographic scales, from forest stands to entire countries. An extensive...
Sacred Mountains
A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
On a misty morning in eastern Kentucky, cross-bearing Christians gather for a service on a surface-mined mountain. They pray for the health and renewal of the land and for their communities, lamenting the corporate greed of the mining companies. On another day, in southern West Virginia, Andrew Jordon...