Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Good Crop / Bad Crop
Seed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
IN RECENT YEARS Canadians have become more and more concerned about the origins oftheir food and the environmental impacts of pesticides in agriculture. What is less well knownis that pesticide corporations such as Monsanto and Du Pont have bought their way into the seed industry and are taking control...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Ecological restoration is a rapidly evolving discipline that is engaged with developing both methodologies and strategies for repairing damaged and polluted ecosystems and environments. During the last decade the rapid pace of climate change coupled with continuing habitat destruction and the spread...
by D.L. DeAngelis, J.Y. Zhuang, J.C. Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
After the 1998 flood of the Yangtze River, one of the world’s most important rivers, environmental experts realized that, to control flooding, much more attention must be paid to vegetation cover on bare lands, thin forest land, and shrub-covered land in mountain areas. In 1999, an environmental...
Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber,...
Ecovillages around the World
20 Regenerative Designs for Sustainable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
A beautiful, full-color book showcasing 20 best practice designs from ecovillages around the world
• Features well-established ecovillages such as Findhorn in Scotland or Auroville in India and newer initiatives such as Hua Tao in China
• Highlights the unique features of each project...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Transformative ecoeducation is environmental education that is literally needed to transform and save our planet, especially during the global ecological crises of our present century. Such education demands inner transformation of many deeply rooted ideas, such as the following: the Earth exists...
War upon the Land
Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy.
From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature, even...
Crabgrass Crucible
Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming...
by Dave Foreman
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
A book that will set the course for the environmental movement for years to come, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior is an inspiring ecological call to arms by America's foremost and most controversial environmental activist. "Rude and brilliant. Read it and you will see the future".--William Kittredge.
Introduction to Energy and Climate
Developing a Sustainable Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
The purpose of this textbook is to provide a well-rounded working knowledge of both climate change and environmental sustainability for a wide range of students. Students will learn core concepts and methods to analyze energy and environmental impacts; will understand what is changing the earth’s...
Hope's Horizon
Three Visions For Healing The American Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
At a time of widespread environmental pessimism, Hope's Horizon goes on an inspirational offensive. In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, author Chip Ward tells of his travels among a new generation of activists who are moving beyond defensive environmental struggles and advocating pioneering,...
Human Nature
A Blueprint for Managing the Earth--by People, for People
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
A radical approach to the environment which argues that by harnessing the power of science for human benefit, we can have a healthier planet
As a prizewinning theoretical physicist and an outspoken advocate for scientific literacy, James Trefil has long been the public's guide to a better understanding...
Arming Mother Nature
The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, writes Jacob Darwin Hamblin, the movement--and its dire predictions--owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture. In Arming Mother Nature,...
Landscapes in Between
Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning. One notable effect is a preponderance of interstitial landscapes such as abandoned fields, polluted riverbanks, and makeshift urban gardens. Landscapes...