Nature category: 119170 books
by Satish Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
A new trinity for our time. We are members of a one-earth society, and caring for the earth and soul is interrelated! This is the message of Satish Kumar, the internationally-respected peace and environment activist who has been gently setting the agenda for change for over 50 years. In Soil,...
Rivers for Life
Managing Water For People And Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining some "minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viability of a river. In recyears, however, scientific research has underscored the idea that the ecological health of a river system depends not...
Nature and Culture
Rebuilding Lost Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
There is a growing recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity. But this division is not universal and, in many cases, has been deepened by the common disciplinary divide between the natural and social sciences and our apparent need to manage and control...
Transforming the Fisheries
Neoliberalism, Nature, and the Commons
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
There is now widespread agreement that fish stocks are severely depleted and fishing activity must be limited. At the same time, the promise of the green economy appears to offer profitable new opportunities for a sustainable seafood industry. What do these seemingly contradictory ideas of natural...
The Farm As Ecosystem
Tapping Nature's Reservoir -- Biology, Geology, Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Nature is complex, elegant, and infinite in its wisdom. Farmers who are truly successful learn nature's many facets and her intricate dance; they crack the code of how to honor and feed this boundless natural system while coaxing the production needed for the survival of a modern farm. Natural product...
by Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively...
The Open Mind
Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The Open Mind chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 to 1965 policy makers and social critics used the idea...
I Love Dirt!
52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
I Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's...
Beyond Biofatalism
Human Nature for an Evolving World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Beyond Biofatalism is a lively and penetrating response to the idea that evolutionary psychology reveals human beings to be incapable of building a more inclusive, cooperative, and egalitarian society. Considering the pressures of climate change, unsustainable population growth, increasing income...
Thirsty Planet
Strategies for Sustainable Water Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
By the year 2025 nearly 2 billion people will live in regions experiencing absolute water scarcity. In the face of this emerging crisis, how should the planet's water be used and managed? Current international policy sees nature competing with human uses of water. Hunt takes issue with this perspective....
by Terrence W. Deacon
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry.
As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes apparent. The "Theory...
Authenticity in Nature
Making Choices about the Naturalness of Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discusses its values and considers choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts. The author argues that all ecosystems have been modified and the idea of places 'untouched by humans' is a myth. But there are large differences...
Saving Nature's Legacy
Protecting And Restoring Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
Written by two leading conservation biologists, Saving Nature's Legacy is a thorough and readable introduction to issues of land managemand conservation biology. It presents a broad, land-based approach to biodiversity conservation in the United States, with the authors succinctly translating principles,...
Conservation and Development in Cambodia
Exploring frontiers of change in nature, state and society
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Written by leading authorities from Australasia, Europe and North America, this book examines the dynamic conflicts and synergies between nature conservation and human development in contemporary Cambodia.
After suffering conflict and stagnation in the late twentieth century, Cambodia has experienced...