Environmental Science category: 9368 books
by Sensei Yula
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
The first environment we as a human experience is the one that provides our home for the first 9 months of our existence, the womb. This is the first station between heaven and earth. It is the most sensitive and important environment which shapes our body-mind formation, including all of our senses...
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker this unique anthology presents thought-provoking texts from 1970 to 2013, spanning several disciplines and combining science and practice. Among them are three Reports to the Club of Rome that Weizsäcker lead-authored, a new university...
Polluted Inheritance
New Zealand’s Freshwater Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The parlous state of our freshwater ecosystems is just one signal that we face a more widespread, and unprecedented, environmental crisis.New Zealand’s dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden and not so hidden costs of intensive farming? Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike...
Green Trading Markets:
Developing the Second Wave
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2005
The United States accounts for 25% of the Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. To keep pace with growing electricity demands, the U.S and developing countries are turning more to coal-fired generation with correspondingly greater GHG emissions and other forms of pollution. Therefore, it is imperative...
Waste Matters
Urban margins in contemporary literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
How do those pushed to the margins survive in contemporary cities? What role do they play in today’s increasingly complex urban ecosystems? Faced with stark disparities in human and environmental wellbeing, what form might more equitable cities take?
Waste Matters argues that contemporary...
by Richard John Huggett
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Fundamentals of Biogeography presents an accessible, engaging and comprehensive introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, history and conservation of animals and plants. Starting with an outline of how species arise, disperse, diversify and become extinct, the book examines:...
by Marion I Tobler-Rohr
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Textile products are produced, distributed, sold and used worldwide. A quantitative assessment of sustainability in the textile manufacturing chain is therefore extremely important. The Handbook of sustainable textile production is a compilation of technical, economical, and environmental data from...
by Peter French
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The coast cannot be left to nature to determine its fate. Wealth, property, economic interests, recreation, tourism and wildlife are all threatened. Coasts are an administrative battle ground and one of the most important and widely examined topics in environmental management.
Coastal and Estuarine...
Green Phoenix
Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Can we prevent the destruction of the world's tropical forests? In the fire-scarred hills of Costa Rica, award-winning science writer William Allen found a remarkable answer: we can not only prevent their destruction--we can bring them back to their former glory. In Green Phoenix, Allen tells the...
Algal Ecology
Freshwater Benthic Ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1996
Algae are an important component of aquatic benthic ecosystems because they reflect the health of their environment through their density, abundance, and diversity. This comprehensive and authoritative text is divided into three sections to offer complete coverage of the discussion in this field....
Tainted Earth
Smelters, Public Health, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Smelting is an industrial process involving the extraction of metal from ore. During this process, impurities in ore—including arsenic, lead, and cadmium—may be released from smoke stacks, contaminating air, water, and soil with toxic-heavy metals.
The problem of public health harm from...
Japanese Commons in the Coastal Seas
How the Satoumi Concept Harmonizes Human Activity in Coastal Seas with High Productivity and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
The author proposed the satoumi concept, analogous to the satoyama concept on land, as “coastal sea with high biodiversity and productivity in harmony with human interaction” in 1998. The concept for environmental conservation in the coastal seas has been widely accepted and was included in the...
by Jonathan Mingle
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
High in the Himalayan valley of Zanskar in northwest India sits a village as isolated as the legendary Shangri-La. Long fed by runoff from glaciers and lofty snowfields, Kumik—a settlement of thirty nine mud brick homes—has survived and thrived in one of the world's most challenging settings for...
Shopping Our Way to Safety
How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
“Not long ago, people did not worry about the food they ate. They did not worry about the water they drank or the air they breathed. It never occurred to them that eating, drinking water, satisfying basic, mundane bodily needs might be a dangerous thing to do. Parents thought it was good for their...