Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
by Thomas A Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Bumbling Through Borneo, an educational yet comical trek through Borneo’s hinterland, takes the reader on an entertaining journey of discovery by following the misadventures of a fictitious cast of bumbling characters as they stumble across the natural treasures and indigenous cultures of the Malaysian...
Sustainable Engineering
Principles and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Sustainable Engineering: Principles and Implementation provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability as it applies to engineering and methods for implementation of sustainable practices. Due to increasing constraints on resources and on the environment and effects...
River Ecosystem Ecology
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
A derivative of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, River Ecosystem Ecology reviews the function of rivers and streams as ecosystems as well as the varied activities and interactions that occur among their abiotic and biotic components. Because the articles are drawn from an encyclopedia, the articles...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Air and water pollution occurs when toxic pollutants of varying kinds (organic, inorganic, radioactive and so on) are directly or indirectly discharged into the environment without adequate treatment to remove these potential pollutants. There are a total of 13 book chapters in three sections contributed...
Many Heavens, One Earth
Readings on Religion and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Many Heavens, One Earth is a collection of first-person voices from nine of the world religions. In fifteen articles, devotees and scholars reveal the contributions these traditions make to informing and motivating an ecological response to the environmental issues that beset planet earth. The spiritual...
by Debra A. Reid, David D. Vail
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2019
Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites is for anyone who wants to better understand the environment that surrounds us and sustains us, who wants to become a better steward of that environment, and who wants to share lessons learned with others. The process starts by focusing attention...
After the Death of Nature
Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Carolyn Merchant’s foundational 1980 book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution established her as a pioneering researcher of human-nature relations. Her subsequent groundbreaking writing in a dozen books and over one hundred peer-reviewed articles have only fortified...
At the Wilderness Edge
The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada's West Coast
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Vancouver prides itself on being a green city, and the west coast is known for its active environmental protest culture. But the roots of this mentality reach far beyond the founding of organizations such as Greenpeace. Small campaigns led by local community groups from the 1960s onward left a lasting...
The Politics of Scale
A History of Rangeland Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Rangelands are vast, making up one quarter of the United States and forty percent of the Earth’s ice-free land. And while contemporary science has revealed a great deal about the environmental impacts associated with intensive livestock production—from greenhouse gas emissions to land and water...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Soil degradation is a widespread problem in Africa resulting in decreased agricultural productivity while demand for food continues to increase. Degradation is caused by accelerated erosion, acidification, contamination, depletion of soil organic matter and plant nutrients, and salinization. The major...
by Irina Hergenröder
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 1,7, University of Applied Sciences Constanze, course: Environmental Economics, language: English, abstract: The debate around the climate policy of the earth is absolutely one of most complicated and most important of...
What are the Questions and Other Essays: Further Contributions to Modern Economics
Further Contributions to Modern Economics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
A study of environmental degradation, this work presents the environmental problems of South Korea. The effects of rapid industrialisation and modernisation are documented along with the choices and actions which are available to the country.
Global Mountain Regions
Conversations toward the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the...
Ocean Outbreak
Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
There is a growing crisis in our oceans as rates of infectious disease outbreaks are on the rise. Marine epidemics have the potential to cause a mass die-off of wildlife from the bottom to the top of the food chain, impacting the health of ocean ecosystems as well as lives on land. Fueled by sewage...