Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Environmental Restoration
Science And Strategies For Restoring The Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Environmental Restoration is the product of a ground-breaking conference on ecological restoration, held in January 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers an overview from the nation's leading experts of the mcurrtechniques of restoration, including examples of the complex and subtle...
Too Many People?
Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Taps interest in environmental issues following wide spread disappointment stemming from the recent string of Global Climate Change summits
Written in accessible language by experts on the science and social content of the topic
Interest in the subject has been spurred by Al Gore's An...
by James Gustave Speth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth’s environment...
by Prasad Modak
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book is about understanding challenges in managing our environment and ensuring sustainability of this planet. It presents the critical state of our resources and threats to resource security due to overconsumption, pollution and poor and uneven governance. Role of key stakeholders such as the...
Mid-Course Correction Revisited
The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The original Mid-Course Correction, published 20 years ago, became a classic in the sustainability field. It put forth a new vision for what its author, Ray C. Anderson, called the “prototypical company of the 21st century”—a restorative company that does no harm to society or the environment....
The Rights of Nature
A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense...
Sustainability
An Environmental Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book presents an earth science-based overview of the challenges to sustainability. It provides a detailed study of climate change, as well as energy, food, and water security across different regions. The author uncovers the problems caused by current social and environmental practices, and offers...
Everything Under the Sun
Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
A renowned scientist restores hope for a better future with his latest views on environmental challenges.
In this latest offering from David Suzuki, the well-known scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the interconnectedness of the world's myriad environmental challenges. The solutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Of all the books written about the problems of sustainable development and environmental protection, Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is one of the first to examine the role of science, economics and law, and ethics as generally applied to decision making on sustainable...
Mabira Forest Giveaway
A Path to Degenerative Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The environmental challenges facing Uganda and the East African region are real. Unplanned natural resource exploitation by corrupt governments, criminal networks, bad governance, and changing rainfall patterns have negatively impacted the lives of millions of Africans.
A nascent movement of...
Crisis Without End
The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Expert essays provide the first comprehensive analysis of the long-term health and environmental consequences of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy...
by Margi Prideaux
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
We are failing to protect wildlife and marching towards a tragic future where the world is monetized and wildness is gone. We can design a different future – if we want to hear Birdsong After the Storm.As we face the storm of climate change and political upheaval, we are designing a desolate...
by Alan MacEachern, John Sandlos, Ben Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent...
by C. Alexis Lane
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Across North America and around the world, a significant shift from conventional to unconventional energy extraction is occurring like never before. As traditional energy sources dwindle and the insatiable demand for fossil fuels continues to increase, civilization seems to be taking greater and greater...