Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
by Patrick Derr, Edward McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Case Studies in Environmental Ethics is a collection of more than 40 case studies covering diverse topics such as: genetic engineering, aesthetics, pollution, animal rights, population, and resource management. It is intended as a supplemental book for college courses primarily in Environmental Ethics....
by Lester R. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.
We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise?...
Saving Florida
Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In Saving Florida, Leslie Kemp Poole casts new light on the women at the forefront of Florida’s environmental movement. From creating parks to protesting air pollution, fighting dredge-and-fill operations, and exposing the health dangers of pesticides, these women caused unprecedented changes in...
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
A vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin actually contains three major bodies of water--Lakes Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas. These make up the Pontchartrain estuary. Robert W. Hastings provides a thorough examination of the historical...
The Big Picture
Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
"We've got lots of nuts-and-bolts accounts of our environmental predicament -- leave it to David Suzuki and Dave Robert Taylor to back up and give us the big view that puts things in perspective. A necessary book!" -- Bill McKibben
"Suzuki asks us to think beyond just swapping...
Ghostworkers and Greens
The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals...
by Toby Clark BSc CFIOSH AIEMA Cert Ed
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A primer suitable for environmental foundation courses such as IOSH 'Managing Environmental Responsibilities', NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management and IEMA Foundation Certificate. It is also intended as a general reader in environmental management matters
The Housing Bomb
Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai...
Recycling Reconsidered
The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
How the success and popularity of recycling has diverted attention from the steep environmental costs of manufacturing the goods we consume and discard.
Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. The accomplishments of the recycling movement can be seen in municipal practice,...
Computing Our Way to Paradise?
The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Rattle's new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected global ICT network of products, processes, and services,...
Our Once and Future Planet
Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that’s not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it’s hard not to focus on the negative
But that paints an unbalanced—and...
Nature and Nurture
Poverty and Environment in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In recent years, initiatives by the international community to address the links between poverty and environmental degradation have been increasing. These initiatives range from policy reform and top-down approaches to local, bottom-up actions by communities. This publication focuses on local actions,...
The Myth of Silent Spring
Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Since its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental movement. Yet environmental consciousness and environmental protest in some regions of the United States date back to the nineteenth century, with the...
A Line in the Tar Sands
Struggles for Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to marry quite explicitly concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet. Tar sands...