Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Soil carbon sequestration potential of different forest types of aric Kutch, Gujarat with special emphasis on climate change
Soil carbon sequestration
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Scientific Study from the year 2014 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 3, Kachchh University (Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Department of Chemistry), language: English, abstract: The Gujarat state encompasses an arid area of 62,180 Km2 of which 73% is falling under kachchh...
Lifestyle and Nature
Integrating Nature Technology to Sustainable Lifestyles
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Environmental constraints are becoming increasingly severe, and now more than ever it is time that we confront head-on the change from an "underground resources" type of civilization to one with a new way of life and technology that embraces a sense of nature. To do so, we need to understand...
by Cesar Marolla
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development shows how ICT, as an enabler for all spheres of development, can help innovate business processes and operations, and provide faster integration of new technologies into business systems. Focused on sustainability, the book addresses...
Understanding Poverty and the Environment
Analytical frameworks and approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Does poverty lead to environmental degradation? Do degraded environments and natural resources lead to poverty? Or, are there other forces at play? Is the relationship between poverty and the environment really as straightforward as the vicious circle portrayal of ‘poverty leading to environmental...
by Mahdi Mason
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
If you're worried about the state of Mother Earth but aren't sure what you can do to actually make a difference, this book is for you! Find out practical ways you can start helping the environment, and live in harmony with it, NOW.International author and changemaker Dr Mahdi Mason,...
Urbanization: Challenge and Opportunity for Soil Functions and Ecosystem Services
Proceedings of the 9th SUITMA Congress
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This proceedings volume focuses on different aspects of environmental assessment, monitoring, and management of urban and technogenic soils. Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas (SUITMAs) differ substantially from their natural zonal counterparts in their physical, chemical...
by David Gessner
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.
Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts...
Ecological Intelligence
How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
The bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership now brings us Ecological Intelligence—revealing the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and how with that knowledge we can drive the essential changes we all must make to save our planet and ourselves.
We...
by James Gustave Speth, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
The task of aligning the interests of liberals and environmentalists is not an easy one. There is a fundamental split between them on the question...
Tools for Grassroots Activists
Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective. Now Patagonia has captured Tools’ best wisdom and advice into a book, creating a resource for any organization hoping to hone core skills like campaign...
Blessed Unrest
How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change
Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes,...
Slapped!
A Novel Based on a True Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Two headstrong conservative Mormon housewives, bent on preserving open space near Utahs Jordan River for their children and coming generations, speak out publicly against a multimillion-dollar commercial project that would encroach on the river and destroy wildlife habitat. They are promptly sued...
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - 10th anniversary edition
A Year of Food Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A beautiful deluxe trade paperback edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller, which describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain.
Since its publication in 2007,...
Stolen Water
Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
A riotous journey through America's most controversial, beautifully unapproachable, and abused wilderness -- the Florida Everglades.
In December 2000, President Clinton signed into law a $7.8 billion restoration plan for the Everglades that garnered national attention and has since become America's...