Environmental category: 9736 books
Environmental Border Tax Adjustments and International Trade Law
Fostering Environmental Protection
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This timely book brings clarity to the debate on the new legal phenomenon of environmental border tax adjustments. It will help form a better understanding of the role and limits these taxes have on environmental policies in combating global environmental challenges, such as climate change.
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical University, language: English, abstract: On 30 April 2005, Argentine citizens started a five-year blockade of the Libertador General San Martín Bridge which connects...
Conservation Psychology
Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
People are inseparable from natural ecosystems, and understanding how people think about, experience, and interact with nature is crucial for promoting environmental sustainability as well as human well-being.
This is the new edition of what is now the leading textbook in conservation psychology,...
Climate Change Discourse in Russia
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This book explores the development of climate change discourses in Russia. It contributes to the study of climate change as a cultural idea by developing the extensive Anglophone literature on environmental science, politics and policy pertaining to climate change in the West to consider how Russian...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
This book presents the complete guide for readers to understand the applications, and pros and cons of nanotechnology applications in environmental remediation, although there are few critical reviews and textbooks available on environmental biotechnology. Water pollution has become one of the biggest...
by Valérie David
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Data Treatment in Environmental Sciences presents the various methods used in the analysis of databases—obtained in the field or in a laboratory—by focusing on the most commonly used multivariate analyses in different disciplines of environmental sciences, from geochemistry to ecology. The book...
by Sven E. Jorgensen
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
With descriptions of hundreds of the most important environmental and ecological models, this handbook is a unique and practical reference source. The Handbook of Environmental and Ecological Modeling is ideal for those working in environmental modeling, including regulators and managers who wish...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
In the face of rapid industrialisation in the last few decades, the tourism economy has blossomed into a major industry with positive impacts such as economic growth, infrastructure development, employment, and income generation. However, tourism brings negative environmental effects such as degradation...
Beasts at Bedtime
Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many children’s books, however, also lie profound teachings...
Conservation Directory 2017
The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Do you want to take action to protect Earth’s environment? Are you interested in learning more about wildlife conservation and environmental groups? The Conservation Directory 2017 is a great resource for budding environmental activists and scholars alike who want to achieve a peaceful, equitable,...
God and the Human Environment
Catholic Principles of Environmental Stewardship as a Template for Action in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
God and the Human Environment: Catholic Principles of Environmental Stewardship as a Template for Action in Nigeria brings into conversation the Churchs theological reflection on the mandate to care for Gods creation and the circumstances of the environment in Nigeria. In vivid terms and with systemic...
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
Practical Advice from The Union of Concerned Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment.
Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices...
The Genius of Earth Day
How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American political...
by Bill McKibben
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.
This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still...