Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Mekong—The Occluding River
The Tale of a River
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Part travelogue, part history, and part environmental treatise, Mekong The Occluding River is above all else an urgent warning that factors such as pollution, ecological devastation, and the depletion of natural resources are threatening the very existence of the Mekong River. Author Ngo The Vinh...
Fighting Dirty
How a Small Community Took on Big Trash
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Chosen by Now Magazine as one of the “18 must-read books for fall 2017”.
Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a local dumpsite into a...
Global Ecopolitics
Crisis, Governance, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather, international conventions on climate change, or special UN days, rarely do we participate in a sustained analysis of environmental policy making. To remedy this shortcoming and to propel the discussion forward, Peter J. Stoett provides a concise introduction...
The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards...
Heavy Metals in Soils
Trace Metals and Metalloids in Soils and their Bioavailability
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This third edition of the book has been completely re-written, providing a wider scope and enhanced coverage. It covers the general principles of the natural occurrence, pollution sources, chemical analysis, soil chemical behaviour and soil-plant-animal relationships of heavy metals and metalloids,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This book presents a comprehensive and detailed description of remediation techniques for metal-contaminated soils derived from both natural processes and anthropogenic activities. Using a methodical, step-by-step presentation, the book starts by overviewing the origin of toxicants and the correlated...
Where There's Smoke
The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.6 miles of waterlines, and 102 propane bottles....
Soils, Ecosystem Processes, and Agricultural Development
Tropical Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The main objective of this book is to integrate environmental knowledge observed in local agriculture, based on the understanding of soils science and ecology, and to propose possible technical solutions and a more integrated approach to tropical agriculture. The chapters describe and analyze the...
by Bruce E. Johansen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
In the industrial age, first powered by coal and then more often by oil, environmental degradation nearly inevitably followed resource exploitation and energy production. This book examines environmental issues in specific countries around the world as well as solutions some of these countries have...
On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability
The Community Rights Movement in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This short primer from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund explores and describes the philosophy and underpinnings of the community rights movement that has emerged in the United States—a movement of nonviolent civil disobedience based on municipal lawmaking. Humanity stands at the brink...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Environmental law envisions ecological systems as existing in an equilibrium state, reinforcing a rigid legal framework unable to absorb rapid environmental changes and innovations in sustainability. For the past four decades, "resilience theory," which embraces uncertainty and nonlinear...
The Earth Manifesto
Saving Nature with Engaged Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
We live in critical times. Choices we make daily now will affect the future of life itself. Years from now children will study our era on the brink and ask...
Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration
Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first substantial and comprehensive collection of essays, in any language, to address environmental issues...
Shades of Green
Environment Activism Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. The book highlights the diversity of national, regional and international environmental activism, showing that the term 'environmentalism' covers an entire...