Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Visit Sunny Chernobyl
And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the...
The Shadows of Consumption
Consequences for the Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.
The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences...
EarthTalk
Expert Answers to Everyday Questions About the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
From the authors of the leading environmental handbook Green Living, the best of E's nationally syndicated Q&A column, EarthTalk
Knowledge of environmental issues and sustainability is increasingly important as industrialization and climate change continue to wreak havoc on our ecosystems...
Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government
A Balanced Scorecard Approach Towards Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor specific standards to be met at present. Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government, makes a conceptual...
Crossing the Energy Divide
Moving from Fossil Fuel Dependence to a Clean-Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009
If we continue our highly inefficient, dangerous energy usage, we’re headed for both economic and environmental catastrophe. However, the hard truth is that alternative fuels can’t fully replace fossil fuels for decades. What’s more, new research indicates that energy inefficiencies are retarding...
State of the World 2013
Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Every day, we are presented with a range of “sustainable” products and activities—from “green” cleaning supplies to carbon offsets—but with so much labeled as “sustainable,” the term has become essentially sustainababble, at best indicating a practice or product slightly less damaging...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2002
Comforting terms such as "sustainable development" and "green production" frame environmental debate by stressing technology (not green enough), economic growth (not enough in the right places), and population (too large). Concern about consumption emerges, if at all, in benign ways; as calls for...
Environmental Disputes
Community InvolvemIn Conflict Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Environmental Disputes helps citizen groups, businesses, and governments understand how Environmental Dispute Settlement--a set of procedures for settling disputes over environmental policies without litigation--can work for them.
CO2 Rising
The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.
The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are...
Limits to Growth
The 30-Year Update
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Each year, millions of children in developing countries fall sick and die from diseases caused by polluted air, contaminated water and soil, and poor hygiene behavior. Repeated infectious also contribute to malnutrition in children, and subsequently impacts future learning and productivity. This book...
Everything Under the Sun
Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
A renowned scientist restores hope for a better future with his latest views on environmental challenges.
In this latest offering from David Suzuki, the well-known scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the interconnectedness of the world's myriad environmental challenges. The solutions...
Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments
Data Handling and Numerical Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Numerical and statistical methods have rapidly become part of a palaeolimnologist’s tool-kit. They are used to explore and summarise complex data, reconstruct past environmental variables from fossil assemblages, and test competing hypotheses about the causes of observed changes in lake biota through...
Resource Curse or Cure ?
On the Sustainability of Development in Western Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Globalisation and rapid social and environmental change in recent decades have brought into sharper focus not only the benefits but also the costs of economic development. The once assumed link between economic development and societal well-being is being increasingly questioned in the face of growing...