Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Now or Never
Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A forceful call to climate change action and a pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability from the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers**.**
Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery offers a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and their potential...
The David Suzuki Reader
A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
In this revised and expanded edition of his collected writings, David Suzuki continues to explore the themes that have informed his work for more than four decades—the interconnectedness of all things, our misguided elevation of economics above all else, the urgent need to deal with climate change—but...
Living in the Anthropocene
Earth in the Age of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Explores the causes and implications of the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans, from multiple points of view including anthropological, scientific, social, artistic, and economic.
Although we arrived only recently in Earth's timeline, humans are driving major changes to the planet's ecosystems....
Investing in Natural Capital
The Ecological Economics Approach To Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Investing in Natural Capital presents the results of a workshop held following the second biannual conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics. It focuses on the relation of human developmto natural capital, and the relation of natural capital to environmental processes.Because...
The Burning Question
We can't burn half the world's oil, coal and gas. So how do we quit?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Take one complex scientific discipline. Add the future of energy, economics, and geopolitics. Season with human nature . . .
The Burning Question reveals climate change to be the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle in history. It shows that carbon emissions are still accelerating...
Moral Ground
Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Moral Ground brings together the testimony of over eighty visionaries-theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writers-to present a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibility to our planet....
Spiritual Ecology
The Cry of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
The first edition of this book fostered the emergence of the "Spiritual Ecology Movement," which recognizes the need for a spiritual response to our present ecological crisis. It drew an overwhelmingly positive response from readers, many of whom are asking the simple question, "What...
Minding the Earth, Mending the World
Zen and the Art of Planetary Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
How Buddhism can help solve our environmental challenges: “Though her book is dense with facts, it reads like poetry or a series of koans.” —The Shambhala Sun
We know that our earth is in crisis, but is the situation beyond repair? Are we on a path of planetary disaster where the only proper...
A River Runs Again
India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart; for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future. For India, it is the very real present.
In this lyrical...
Toward Sustainable Development
Concepts, Methods, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Toward Sustainable Developmis a comprehensive and wide ranging exploration of the theoretical and practical aspects of the concept of sustainable development. Internationally known scholars presan in depth critique of traditional economic methods and ideas, and a new framework for analysis of issues...
Future Arctic
Field Notes from a World on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
In one hundred years, or even fifty, the Arctic will look dramatically differthan it does today. As polar ice retreats and animals and plants migrate northward, the arctic landscape is morphing into something new and very differfrom what it once was. While these changes may seem remote, they will...
Feeling the Heat
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
For an increasing number of people, global warming is not an academic and scientific debate, but a matter of survival. As the planet warms at a rate of four degrees Fahrenheit per century, violent storms are increasing in frequency, icebergs are melting, sea level is rising, species are losing their...
by Kimberly Lisagor
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet.
Machu Picchu is a mesmerizing, ancient Incan city tucked away in the mountains of Peru, but it is rapidly being worn down by the thousands of feet treading across its stones. Glacier National Park is...
by Peter Jacques
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric science to global political phenomena. He shows how human survival is intricately linked to the sustainability of the world ocean, a singular connected body of regional oceans that is by definition a global resource...