Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
The Chesapeake in Focus
Transforming the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
When Captain John Smith arrived in Virginia in 1607, he discovered a paradise in the Chesapeake Bay. In the centuries that followed, the Bay changed vastly—and not for the better. European landowners and enslaved Africans slashed, burned, and cleared the surrounding forests to grow tobacco. Watermen...
Possible benefits to the Chinese tourism and hospitality industry
Changes in the Chinese economy, the admission to the WTO, the granting of the 2008 Olympic Games and the improved relations with Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: B+ oder 87%, César Ritz Colleges (Environmental Department), 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: On the 11 December 2001 China became a full member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It was...
by Claudia Körber, M. Schwirzenbeck, K. Barth
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 1,7, University of Applied Sciences Constanze, course: Environmental Economics, 27 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Earth has a natural temperature control system. The greenhouse gases belong...
by Thomas A Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Bumbling Through Sumatra is an educational yet comical adventure through the Strait of Malacca, various ports in Malaysia, and across the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The reader is taken on an entertaining journey of discovery by following the misadventures of a fictitious cast of bumbling characters...
Making Parks Work
Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Mscientists and researchers working in tropical areas are convinced that parks and protected areas are the only real hope for saving land and biodiversity in those regions. Rather than giving up on parks that are foundering, ways must be found to strengthen them, and Making Parks Work offers a vital...
The Big Burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time.
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho,...
A Walk in the Woods
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body.
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia...
The Poetic Species
A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Provides a manifesto for activists in education and conservation—as Wilson and Hass explain how the close observation of nature, which is central to both poetry and science, can rouse the conservationist in all of us, the conversation becomes a powerful treatise on the necessity of achieving consilience...
by Karen Sisulak Binder
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Anyone wanting to understand how Giant City State Park in rural Makanda earned its name need only hike on the Giant City Nature Trail. Here they walk through the park�s namesake rock formations, carved 20,000 years ago by the melting waters of a Pleistocene glacier that stopped a mere 1.5 miles from...
Walden Warming
Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be too late. In the 160 years since Thoreau’s writings,...
Big, Wild, and Connected
Part 2: From the Central Appalachians to the Catskill Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This E-ssential is a three-part series that covers John Davis's epic journey from Florida to Maine. In 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles in 10 months from Florida to Maine by foot, bicycle, skis, and canoe/kayak. His extensive travels were motivated by wanting...
The Sound of Mountain Water
The Changing American West
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
A book of timeless importance about the American West by a National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author. The essays collected in this volume encompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature. Delving into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain...
Mr. Hornaday's War
How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he had an outsized ambition to make his mark on the world. And he did. William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937)...
Swamplife
People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades—a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile,...