Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Concepts of ecological integrity have recently been proposed to facilitate enhanced protection of biological and ecological resources against the threat of human activities. The promotion of ecological integrity as a basis for public policy and decision making stems from scientists and others concerned...
Organic Farming
Policies and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Consumers are more and more concerned with the health of the food they eat. While great public anxiety about genetically engineered foodstuffs and BSE in cattle has developed in Europe, on the positive side there has been a rapidly rising demand for organic produce. Food retailers, including supermarkets,...
You Are Here
Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“A passionate and heartfelt call to care.”
—Bruce Feiler, New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and America*’s Prophet*
In You Are Here, Thomas Kostigen, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Green Book, takes us to the most extreme environmental...
Beginner’s Guide to Earthworm Farming
Simple Ideas for a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
If you are concerned about the health of our planet then turn your attention to what lies under your feet. Working in the soil below are creatures that play a pivotal role in producing the food we eat and impacting the quality of our food crops. Earthworms were described by Darwin as the most important...
Global Chorus
365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Global Chorus is a remarkable, illustrated collection of 365 daily meditations around some very large and increasingly crucial themes:
“Do you think that humanity can find a way past the current global environmental and social crises? Will we be able to create the conditions necessary for...
Land Restoration
Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Land Restoration: Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future provides a holistic overview of land degradation and restoration in that it addresses the issue of land restoration from the scientific and practical development points of view. Furthermore, the breadth of chapter topics and contributors...
Fish, Markets, and Fishermen
The Economics Of Overfishing
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
A significant number of the world's ocean fisheries are depleted, and some have collapsed, from overfishing. Although many of the same fishermen who are causing these declines stand to suffer the mfrom them, they continue to overfish. Why is this happening? What can be done to solve the problem.The...
Ten Technologies to Save the Planet
Energy Options for a Low-Carbon Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
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Energy Options for a Low-Carbon Future Practical solutions for meeting our energy demands while combatting climate change on a large scale, from ""the David Suzuki of Britain.""
Respected, authoritative, award-winning author Chris Goodall adds new material...
Sustainable Fuel For The Future
An In-Depth Guide To Understanding Alternative Fuel Sources, Renewable Energy, Eco Friendly Cars And How To Save The Environment For Generations Yet To Come
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Scientists are developing alternative fuels that can help not only the environment, but also the consumer’s checkbook. The new alternative fuels offer advantages in so many ways that people are really starting to take a look at these as an option over paying astronomical gasoline prices....
Science as a Contact Sport
Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
It’s been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can’t we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases, deforestation, and catastrophic warming trends? Why...
Quarterly Essay 31 Now or Never
A Sustainable Future for Australia?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the...
by Vance Packard
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
An exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals," The Waste Makers is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental, financial, and spiritual character...
Global Warming
Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Global warming is the greatest environmental threat facing humanity. From killer heat waves and increasingly violent weather to the spread of pests and vector-borne diseases, global warming has many effects on our lives. While some are positive, most are negative. People fear potentially catastrophic...
Water Planet: The Culture, Politics, Economics, and Sustainability of Water on Earth
The Culture, Politics, Economics, and Sustainability of Water on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Through case studies, opposing viewpoints, and primary documents, this reference work examines the environmental and sustainability issues regarding water as well as how water is an intrinsic part of human culture.
• Presents a variety of resources and multidisciplinary perspectives on water...