Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Developments in Soil Salinity Assessment and Reclamation
Innovative Thinking and Use of Marginal Soil and Water Resources in Irrigated Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The papers assembled here cover topics such as technological advances in soil salinity mapping and monitoring, management and reclamation of salt-affected soils, use of marginal quality water for crop production, salt-tolerance mechanisms in plants, biosaline agriculture and agroforestry, microbiological...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This book contains papers presented at the 6th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, held 11-14 November 2014 at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences of Nanjing, China. Digital soil mapping is advancing on different fronts at different paces throughout the world. The researches...
by William Murtha
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Several years ago William Murtha's life changed when he experienced a near death experience, being swept into the sea by a rogue wave, and then rescued by a man who was looking through a borrowed telescope, not at the sky, but out into the dark ocean. Among other things Murtha travelled the world over...
by Tristram Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
The true cost of what the global food industry throws away.
With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem—or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food—enough...
Eco Barons
The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Well written and compelling, Eco Barons gives the reader a first glimpse of the activists, philanthropists and gadflies who may well turn out to be the J.D. Rockefellers and Rachel Carsons of our time.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes offers readers...
A Revolution Down on the Farm
The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in...
Water is for Fighting Over
and Other Myths about Water in the West
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recyears, newspaper headlines have screamed,"Scarce water and the death of California farms,” "The Dust Bowl returns,” "A ‘megadrought' will grip U.S. in thecoming decades.” Yet similar stories have been appearing for...
Saving Wyoming's Hoback
The Grassroots Movement that Stopped Natural Gas Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Winner of the Wallace Stegner Prize in Environmental Humanities
In late 2012, more than one hundred people gathered to hear a long-awaited announcement: the Trust for Public Land had succeeded in preventing natural gas development in the remote Hoback Basin of Wyoming. This landmark agreement—purchasing...
Dodging the Toxic Bullet
How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Health Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Practical and empowering strategies for identifying and avoiding health hazards, from the co-author of David Suzuki's Green Guide.
Following David Suzuki's Green Guide -- called ""the green bible"" by the Globe and Mail -- Dodging the Toxic Bullet presents workable strategies...
The Promise of the Grand Canyon
John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
**"A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."-Nature
A timely, thrilling account of a man who, as an explorer, dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon--and, as an American visionary, waged a bitterly-contested campaign...
Seeds of Science
Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
'Mark Lynas is a saint' Sunday Times
'Fluent, persuasive and surely right.' Evening Standard
Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s – working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement – he would descend on trial sites of genetically...
Shadows on the Gulf
A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
In the spring of 2010, we watched oil gushing unstoppably into the
waters of the Gulf of Mexico. But as bad as the spill was, it is
only the latest chapter in a century-long story of destruction.
At
the height of BP's dispersant madness, the amount sprayed each day
merely equaled the amount of dispersant...
Pollution and the Atmosphere
Designs for Reduced Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.
This new compendium volume examines the significant impact of air quality on human health. Assessing air pollution in complex morphologies has become an important issue in order to implement mitigation measures and limit emissions from the...
by Anneli Rufus, Kristan Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Destined to become the bible for a bold new subculture of eco-minded people who are creating a lifestyle out of recycling, reusing, and repurposing rather than buying new.
An exciting new movement is afoot that brings together environmentalists, anticonsumerists, do-it-yourselfers, bargain-hunters,...