Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability....
Nature Under Siege
Portrait of Environmental Crisis in the Niger Delta
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Expressions such as Environmental terrorism or eco-anarchy may sum up the state of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, in a bid to explain the indiscriminate cutting of pristine forests, terminal scare of wildlife and extinction of biodiversity, loss of soil fertility and fecundity of rivers, acidified...
Risk Criticism
Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953....
Limited Wants, Unlimited Means
A Reader On Hunter-Gatherer Economics And The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived in small bands of semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, finding everything they needed to survive and thrive in the biological richness that surrounded them. Mif not all of the problems that threaten our own technologically advanced society...
Agro-Environmental Sustainability
Volume 2: Managing Environmental Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This two-volume work is a testament to the increasing interest in the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and food security. Advances in microbial technologies are explored in chapters dealing with topics such as plant-microbe interactions, rhizoremediation and cyanoremediation, and bio-immobilization. Volume...
Hospitable Planet
Faith, Action, and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
• Environmental professional with a strong grounding in the Old Testament • Approaches environmental issues from both scientific and faith perspectives • Addresses a growing concern for earth among people of faith The book seeks to enroll a hitherto under-represented, though large and influential,...
by Vaughn C. Nelson, Kenneth L. Starcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Explore a Major Component of Renewable Energy
Introduction to Bioenergy takes a look at energy from biomass (thermal energy, power, liquid fuels, and biogas) and envisions a sustainable future fueled by renewable energy. From production to conversion to heat, power, and biofuel, this book breaks...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This book incorporates twenty contributions on diverse aspects of the environmental geochemistry in tropical and sub-tropical environments, drawing together extensive original research not readily available elsewhere. Coverage includes intercontinental comparisons drawn on paleoclimatology, environmental impacts of mining and geochemistry of continetal shelf sediments.
Fight for the Bay
Why a Dark Green Environmental Awakening is Needed to Save the Chesapeake Bay
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In this important new book on the declining health of one of America's leading environmental treasures, Howard Ernst reveals a Chesapeake bay that has become functionally dead. He argues that the Chesapeake Bay succumbed to a 'light green' environmental movement that has too often adopted a philosophy...
Denzil the Dragonfly's Environmental Journey
Jeff Phillips Eco Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Denzil has been created as a colourful and very versatile character, designed to explain the terminology and raise awareness of environmental issues at key stage 1 – 2 primary school level. I see Denzil as a reporter on the environment, taking his reader through the story pointing out and explaining...
by G.L. Baughman
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
Ports and the Environment
Maritime Policy and Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Ports are a vital part of the global economy, connecting the world through maritime transport networks, promoting international trade, and supporting global economic growth. However, port communities are increasingly concerned about the local environmental problems associated with air pollution from...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of this book is to introduce a non-specialist...
Winning The Environmental Challenge With ISO 14001:2015
Implementation of Environmental Management System
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
This book gives Guidance on the Implementation of ISO 14001: 2015 in a simple form. The book has been published with the aim to give you knowledge and practical advice to prepare for ISO 14001: 2015 implementation without much stress. The book will help auditors, internal and external, regarding what...