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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability. Touching on topics including conservation efforts in specific locales; social and political constructions of rhetorical place and space; community literacy;...
Breathing Space
The Natural and Unnatural History of Air
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
In this book Mark Everard argues that governments and citizens too often take the air we breathe for granted. Air and the wider atmosphere are vital in protecting us from radiation, maintaining climate and weather patterns, dispersing water, seeds and pollen, and serving as an alternative source of...
A Field on Fire
The Future of Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history
Inspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline....
Prairie Spring
A Journey Into the Heart of a Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A grasslands nature trek that “weaves together spiritual insight, plant biology, geology lessons and American history—and a plethora of bird sightings” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
A nature writer and avid birder offers a portrait of a season in the heartland of North America as he...
Our Country, The Planet
Forging A Partnership For Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Our Country, The Planet is a wide-ranging discussion of the global environmental crisis that accounts for the positions and perceptions of both developed and developing nations. As presidof the World Conservation Union and the only person to have served on all five independinternational commissions...
Wasting the Rain (Routledge Revivals)
Rivers, People and Planning in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 1992, this title offers an experienced and constructive evaluation of the ways in which water resources have been developed in Africa. Adams argues that the best hope of productive development lies in working and engaging with local people and using local knowledge of the environment...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In the prospect of the COP21 held in Paris in December 2015, the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) organised a scientific conference on environmental and climatic changes in the horn of Africa, with a decisive financial support of the Institut français (Fonds d’Alembert), Paris. The conference...
River
One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare the fat off my soul...to make me grateful, again, for being alive." The 1,700 miles between...
The Zambezi River Basin
Water and sustainable development
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The Zambezi river is the fourth longest in Africa, crossing or bordering Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The river basin is widely recognised as one of the most important basins in southern Africa and is the focus of contested development, including water for hydropower...
Elwha
A River Reborn
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
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A compelling exploration of one of the largest dam removal projects in the world—and the efforts to save a stunning Northwest ecosystem
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The Man Who Thought He Owned Water
On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The Man Who Thought He Owned Water is author Tershia d’Elgin’s fresh take on the gravest challenge of our time—how to support urbanization without killing ourselves in the process. The gritty story of her family’s experience with water rights on its Colorado farm provides essential background...
by Jacques Leslie
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Poised atop the high Himalayas is a frightening daisy chain of fragile glacial lakes, all produced by glacial melting as a result of climate change. When the lakes burst, the torrents of water sweep entire populations in their wake. In A Deluge of Consequences, intrepid journalist Jacques Leslie takes...
Environmental Transformations
A Geography of the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable. These forms of global and local environmental change collectively appear to signal the arrival of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This is a geological...
Little Farm Homegrown
A Memoir of Food-Growing, Midlife and Self-Reliance on a Small Homestead
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
A new gardening book for anyone who's dreamed of going back to the land and living a simpler life...After a city-bred Boomer couple weathers their first, tumultuous year on their rural backyard farm, they foresee smooth sailing for the future…then they discover their homesteading journey has only...