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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014

Major natural hazards have sparked growing public concern worldwide. This book provides new information on Typhoon Impact and Crisis Management using satellite remote sensing technology, linking the natural sciences and social sciences in typhoon studies. It examines remote sensing observations of...
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Biosecurity

The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases

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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

Biosecurity is the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms, and biological weapons. It is a holistic concept of direct relevance to the sustainability of agriculture, food safety, and the protection...
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Sonoita Plain

Views from a Southwestern Grassland

by Carl E. Bock, Jane H. Bock, Stephen E. Strom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Far to the south of Arizona’s sprawling metropolises, a rolling savanna of grass, oak, and mesquite rises above the surrounding deserts. The Sonoita Plain is a basin of a thousand square miles bracketed by mountains, a land once the domain of cowboys that is now more and more the focus of exurban...
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by Roy Bedichek
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

Roy Bedichek spent most of his life working in the educational field in Texas, but his main interest was always the great outdoors. His first book, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist, was published when he was almost seventy, and his second, Karánkaway Country, appeared three years later. Both were...
Cover of Our Miraculous Trees, Oceans, Rivers and Lakes
by Hseham Amrahs
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019

It is often said that our world resides in a small seed. In the same way, a small seed has a whole tree inside it. These trees and plants are our first mothers. Their leaves, flowers, roots, fruits and seeds are a part of our daily diet and provide us nutrition. Without these trees our world is incomplete....
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Sunshine is Everywhere

One Moment at a Time

by Pradeep Malhotra
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

Sunshine is everywhere…Can we wake to each moment?Sunshine is everywhere. We have only to open our hearts to see through the clouds that cover a radiant sun. As we slow down what is deep within has a chance to surface. We realise that all moments are taken care of and nothing is lacking. All feelings...
Cover of Recovery from the Indian Ocean Tsunami
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014

During the past 10 years following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, invaluable lessons have been learned and great changes have been observed. Immediately after the disaster, the second World Conference on Disaster Reduction was held in Kobe, Japan, and formulated the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA:...
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A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting

The Decoys, Guides, Clubs, and Places, 1870s to 1970s

by R. K. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012

The days are gone when seemingly limitless numbers of canvasbacks, mallards, and Canada geese filled the skies above the Texas coast. Gone too are the days when, in a single morning, hunters often harvested ducks, shorebirds, and other waterfowl by the hundreds. The hundred-year period from the mid-nineteenth...
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Fighting Sprawl and City Hall

Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest

by Michael F. Logan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

The line is drawn in cities of the American West: on one side, chambers of commerce, developers, and civic boosters advocating economic growth; on the other, environmentalists and concerned citizens who want to limit what they see as urban sprawl. While this conflict is usually considered to have...
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Unlikely Alliances

Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands

by Zolt�n Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017

Often when Native nations assert their treaty rights and sovereignty, they are confronted with a backlash from their neighbors, who are fearful of losing control of the natural resources. Yet, when both groups are faced with an outside threat to their common environment�such as mines, dams, or an...
Cover of Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology
by Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013

Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology is the most in-depth and comprehensive volume on these issues to date. With...
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Green Phoenix

Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica

by William Allen
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...
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Loving God's Wildness

The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature

by Jeffrey Bilbro
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

When the Puritans arrived in the New World to carry out the colonization they saw as divinely mandated, they were confronted by the American wilderness. Part of their theology led them to view the natural environment as “a temple of God” in which they should glorify and serve its creator. The...
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Marine Natural Resources and Technological Development

An Economic Analysis of the Wealth from the Oceans

by Marco Colazingari
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics. The oceans are the last frontier on Earth, and research and exploration are key to developing and enhancing global economic activity that is necessary to sustain a growing human population. Colazingari...
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