Environmental category: 9736 books
Climate Change and Energy
Japanese Perspectives on Climate Change Mitigation Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Within the contexts of the global warming crisis facing the world, climate change mitigation strategies must be developed with a deep understanding of the science behind the impact of climate change and adaptations that must be made. This book discusses the mitigation strategy of climate change from...
Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms
Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Everyone agrees that firms should obey the law. But beyond what the law requires-beyond bare compliance with regulations-do firms have additional social responsibilities to commit resources voluntarily to environmental protection? How should we think about firms sacrificing profits in the social interest?...
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
A vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin actually contains three major bodies of water--Lakes Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas. These make up the Pontchartrain estuary. Robert W. Hastings provides a thorough examination of the historical...
A Terrible Thing to Waste
Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
A "powerful and indispensable book" (Gerald Markowitz) on the devastating consequences of environmental racism -- and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.
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by Patrick Derr, Edward McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
Case Studies in Environmental Ethics is a collection of more than 40 case studies covering diverse topics such as: genetic engineering, aesthetics, pollution, animal rights, population, and resource management. It is intended as a supplemental book for college courses primarily in Environmental Ethics....
Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam, 2019 Edition
Practice Tests & Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
**EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5. Ace the AP Environmental Science Exam with this comprehensive study guide—including 2 full-length practice tests with complete explanations, thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and access to online extras. **
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by Michael Frome
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Michael Frome is the pioneer conservation journalist and the premier environmental muckraker who knows a lot about integrity and dedication. He spent years as a media writer defending the environment, while many of his peers played it safe. Frome named names and pointed fingers, often forcing politicians...
by Lester R. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.
We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise?...
Nature Unbound
Bureaucracy vs. the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
What if what we think we know about ecology and environmental policy is just wrong? What if environmental laws often make things worse? What if the very idea of nature has been hijacked by politics? What if wilderness is something we create in our minds, as opposed to being an actual description of...
Saving Florida
Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In Saving Florida, Leslie Kemp Poole casts new light on the women at the forefront of Florida’s environmental movement. From creating parks to protesting air pollution, fighting dredge-and-fill operations, and exposing the health dangers of pesticides, these women caused unprecedented changes in...
Sustaining Lake Superior
An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation....
by Majora Carter, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Founder and Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx, Marjora Carter points to environmental justice as the civil-rights issue of the twenty-first...
A Good Forest for Dying
The Tragic Death of a Young Man on the Front Lines of the Environmental Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2004
Early on a September morning in 1998, David “Gypsy” Chain and eight fellow Earth First! activists went into the redwood forests of Scotia, California. Their loosely organized plan to protest the destruction caused by the logging industry almost immediately turned farcically tragic. A. E. Ammons,...
The Odyssey of KP2
An Orphan Seal and a Marine Biologist's Fight to Save a Species
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
When a two day-old Hawaiian monk seal pup is attacked and abandoned by his mother on a beach in Kauai, environmental officials must decide if they should save the newborn animal or allow nature to take its course. But as a member of the most endangered marine mammal species in U.S. waters, Kauai Pup...