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Residue Reviews
Residues of Pesticides and other Contaminants in the Total Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...
The Environment-Conflict Nexus
Climate Change and the Emergent National Security Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
The aim of this book is to demonstrate how environmental factors have caused an evolution in the landscape of national security since the end of the Cold War. Through relevant case studies, the scope of the problem on the national security landscape due to environmental stressors is illuminated, examined,...
Stadtökosysteme
Funktion, Management und Entwicklung
Language: German
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Dieses Lehrbuch zu Stadtökosystemen beantwortet wichtige Fragen, die sich zum ökologischen Aufbau, zu den Funktionen und zur sozial-ökologischen Entwicklung von Städten weltweit stellen. Ausgehend davon, wie sich Städte heute in einer immer stärker urban werdenden Welt entwickeln, werden ökologische...
Zukunftsfähige Siedlungsökosysteme
Planen, Umsetzen und Betreiben Ein Anwenderhandbuch
Language: German
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Die gegenwärtige Menschheit und ihre Aktivitäten haben einen gewaltigen Einfluss auf das planetare Ökosystem, z.B. auf den Klimawandel und die Biodiversität. Die ländlichen und insbesondere die städtischen Siedlungen spielen dabei eine Hauptrolle. Die rasante Verstädterung geht ungebrochen...
Ecological Intelligence
How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
The bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership now brings us Ecological Intelligence—revealing the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and how with that knowledge we can drive the essential changes we all must make to save our planet and ourselves.
We...
Your Water Footprint
The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day. The numbers are shocking. Your Water Footprint reveals the true cost of our lifestyle. A "water footprint" is the amount of fresh water used to produce the goods and services we consume, including growing,...
Swarm Planning
The Development of a Planning Methodology to Deal with Climate Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This book shows that the problem of climate adaptation, which is described in social planning terms as ‘wicked,’ is at odds with the contemporary practice of spatial planning. The author proposes a new adjusted framework which is more adaptable to unpredictable, wicked, dynamic and non-linear...
A Native Plant Propagation Guide And Nursery Model
For Gardeners, Activists, and Professionals in the Eastern U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2019
This eBook is designed to empower individuals, businesses, non-profits, and public organizations to grow high quality native plants for their projects in support of biodiversity and restoration. The 13 Chapter eBook is sectioned off into 3 parts; Part 1. A Native Nursery Model, Part 2. Native Plant...
Energy at the Crossroads
Global Perspectives and Uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
An objective, comprehensive, and accessible examination of today's most crucial problem: preserving the environment in the face of society's insatiable demand for energy.
In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern...
Climate Justice
Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The antidote for your climate change paralysis. -Sierra Magazine
An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward.
Holding her first grandchild in her...
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
One of the world’s most important scientists, Edward O. Wilson is also an abundantly talented writer who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In this, his most personal and timely book to date, he assesses the precarious state of our environment, examining the mass extinctions occurring in our time...
by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet. In Wonders of the Solar System – the book of the acclaimed BBC TV series – Professor Brian Cox will take us on a journey of discovery where alien worlds from your imagination become places we can see, feel and visit. The Wonders of the Solar System –...
The Humans Who Went Extinct:Why Neanderthals died out and we survived
Why Neanderthals died out and we survived
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and...
Bottlemania
Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we're hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France. Only now, with the water industry...