Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Multicriteria Environmental Assessment
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This book uses real-life examples to analyze techniques for undertaking the task of making an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of a project. The text offers suggestions on how to quantify the effects on people’s lives; comparative end results of using certain renewable and non-renewable resources;...
Saving Our Environment from Washington
How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Congress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod explains...
by Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The contributors of Environmental Management in the Caribbean covers the themes of national parks and protected areas, freshwater management, pollution and waste management, disaster risk reduction, environmental education and behaviour.
by Lothar Brock, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Renat Perelet
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Nils Petter Gleditsch International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) & Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trond heim This book could hardly have happened but for the end of the Cold War. The decline of the East-West conflict has...
Russia and the West
Environmental Co-operation and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Hønneland assesses current environmental discourses and applies this analysis to look at the relations between Russia and the West with regards to environment problems. It includes three in-depth case-studies on environmental problems, living marine resources, nuclear safety and air pollution.
International Liability Regime for Biodiversity Damage
The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, adopted on 15 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan, provides an international liability regime for biodiversity damage caused by living modified organisms (LMOs). Its adoption marks a significant...
Cows, Kin, and Globalization
An Ethnography of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia. The author links the local and global economic forces, and provides an intimate view of how a seemingly remote and isolated community is...
The Wild and the Toxic
American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives,...
Environmental Winds
Making the Global in Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through diverse, site-specific social interactions that complicate and defy...
Renewable Energy Systems from Biomass
Efficiency, Innovation and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
New innovations are needed for the invention of more efficient, affordable, sustainable and renewable energy systems, as well as for the mitigation of climate change and global environmental issues. In response to a fast-growing interest in the realm of renewable energy, Renewable Energy Systems:...
The Way the Wind Blows
Climate Change, History, and Human Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2000
Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic...
The Lure of the North Woods
Cultivating Tourism in the Upper Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
In the late nineteenth century, the North Woods offered people little in the way of a pleasant escape. Rather, it was a hub of production supplying industrial America with vast quantities of lumber and mineral ore. This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan’s...
Nature as Measure
The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
An essential and timely collection of wise and compelling essays from one of the longtime leaders of the sustainable agriculture movement in America.
Wes Jackson, “a well-known and admired advocate for sustainability especially as it relates to agriculture, has the rare ability to transform his...
Wild Lives
Leading Conservationists on the Animals and the Planet They Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
“You will be inspired” by these true stories from twenty leaders of the conservation movement detailing their tireless, fascinating work preserving wildlife (Jane Goodall).
Today we are faced with the frightening possibility that as many as fifty percent of species currently alive will...