Environment category: 6530 books
by Jodi Blair
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
This book covers several different topics including:
Chapter 1: The Benefits Of Solar Power Chapter 2: Darkness Ahead, The Quest For Sustainable Power Chapter 3: The Cost Of Solar Energy System Chapter 4: Benefits Of Green Energy Sources Chapter 5: Sustaining Life: Sustainable Power Chapter...
Energy
Sources, Utilization, Legislation, Sustainability, Illinois as Model State
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
This 800-page premier book on energy focuses on energy sources, utilizations, legislations and sustainability as it relates to a state, a province, or a country, or a community within a state. This book presents various kinds of energy sources, ways to convert energy for end use, better use of energy...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This book presents a comprehensive and detailed description of remediation techniques for metal-contaminated soils derived from both natural processes and anthropogenic activities. Using a methodical, step-by-step presentation, the book starts by overviewing the origin of toxicants and the correlated...
Progress in Plant Nutrition: Plenary Lectures of the XIV International Plant Nutrition Colloquium
Food security and sustainability of agro-ecosystems through basic and applied research
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
These papers include two lectures which address the role of Plant Nutrition in the sustainability of agro-ecosystems and the production of enough high quality food to feed the growing world population. Recent advances in Plant Nutrition are reviewed in the 11 papers presented in each of the Symposia...
Caddo
Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In a stunning tribute to one of Texas’ most enigmatic waterways, a veteran East Texas historian and a professional photographer have together created an homage to a lake like no other—half Texas, half Louisiana, a swampy labyrinth of bald cypress and water plants filled with mystery, legend, and...
Entanglements
The Intertwined Fates of Whales and Fishermen
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2007
Entanglements explores the clash of cultures and personalities among fishermen, scientists, and whale advocates struggling to save both the endangered North Atlantic right whale and the livelihoods of thousands of Atlantic coastal families. By most counts, about 300 of these whales remain in the North...
Tohoku Recovery
Challenges, Potentials and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused extensive damage in various sectors. Through the recovery process, special lessons are being learned and applied in the affected region. This book attempts to draw lessons from different issues and sectors...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Northeast India, apart from being the rainiest in India, is drained by two large river systems of the world – the Brahmaputra and the Barak (Meghna) – both transnational rivers cutting across bordering countries. The region, known for its rich water resources, has been witnessing an increasing...
Botanical Essays from Kent
Some Botanical Features of a University Town in Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A leading Ohio botanist reflects on Kent’s remarkable flora
During the latter half of the twentieth century, the world witnessed the rise of the modern environmental movement. Chronicling this significant occurrence in Ohio, and specifically in Kent, a university town in the American Midwest,...
A Word for Nature
Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The careers and ideas of four figures of monumental importance in the history of American conservation--George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell--are explored in A Word for Nature. Robert Dorman offers lively portraits of each of these early environmental advocates,...
Concrete Jungle
New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world’s ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. In this absorbing and wide-ranging book, Eldredge and Horenstein use New York City as a microcosm to explore both the...
Border Sanctuary
The Conservation Legacy of the Santa Ana Land Grant
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge lies on the northern bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, about seventy miles upriver from the Gulf of Mexico. In Border Sanctuary, M.J. Morgan uncovers how 2,000 acres of rare subtropical riparian forest came to be preserved in a region otherwise dramatically...
Natural Assets
Democratizing Ownership Of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2003
Low-income communities frequently suffer from a lack of access to, or lack of control over, the natural resources that surround them. In many cases, their local environmhas been degraded by years of resource extraction and pollution by distant corporations or governmagencies. In such settings, initiatives...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience — the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society. This book explores some...