Island Press imprint: 745 books
Race to Save the Tropics
Ecology And Economics For A Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Race to Save the Tropics documents the conflict between economic developmand protection of biological diversity in tropical countries.
Wild Species as Commodities
Managing Markets And Ecosystems For Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In recyears, some policymakers and conservationists have argued that natural resources will be protected only if economic benefits accrue to those who are responsible for caring for the resources. Such commercial consumptive use of wild species (CCU) provides an economically viable alternative to...
Fish, Markets, and Fishermen
The Economics Of Overfishing
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
A significant number of the world's ocean fisheries are depleted, and some have collapsed, from overfishing. Although many of the same fishermen who are causing these declines stand to suffer the mfrom them, they continue to overfish. Why is this happening? What can be done to solve the problem.The...
Investing in Nature
Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
In 2004, U.S. consumers sp$5.2 billion purchasing bottled water while the governmonly invested 5 percof that amount to purchase critical watersheds, parks, and wildlife refuges-systems vital to clean water and healthy environments. How can we reverse the direction of such powerful economic forces?A...
Community Character
Principles for Design and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities but accounts for how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there. The relationships that Lane Kendig defines here reflect the complexity of the interaction of the built environmwith its social...
by Global Green USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Blueprint for Green Affordable Housing is a guide for housing developers, advocates, public agency staff, and the financial community that offers specific guidance on incorporating green building strategies into the design, construction, and operation of affordable housing developments. A completely...
The New Agrarianism
Land, Culture, and the Community of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
The engaging writings gathered in this new book explore an important but little-publicized movemin American culture -- the marked resurgence of agrarian practices and values in rural areas, suburbs, and even cities. It is a movemthat in widely varied ways is attempting to strengthen society's roots...
Future Drive
Electric Vehicles And Sustainable Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In Future Drive, Daniel Sperling addresses the adverse energy and environmental consequences of increased travel, and analyzes currinitiatives to suggest strategies for creating a more environmentally benign system of transportation. Groundbreaking proposals are constructed around the idea of electric...
Restoring Disturbed Landscapes
Putting Principles into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Restoring Disturbed Landscapes is a hands-on guide for individuals and groups seeking to improve the functional capacity of landscapes. The book presents a five-step, adaptive procedure for restoring landscapes that is supported by proven principles and concepts of ecological science. Written by restoration...
by National Association of City Transportation Officials
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The Urban Street Stormwater Guide begins from the principle that street design can support—or degrade—the urban area's overall environmental health. By incorporating Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) into the right-of-way, cities can manage stormwater and reap the public health, environmental,...
Whitewash
The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
It's the pesticide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it's in the air we breathe, our water, our soil, and even found increasingly in our own bodies. Known as Monsanto's Roundup by consumers, and as glyphosate by scientists, the world's mpopular weed killer is used everywhere from backyard...
Natural Hazard Mitigation
Recasting Disaster Policy And Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The first half of the 1990s saw the largest and mcostly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States. While natural hazards cannot be prevented, their human impacts can be greatly reduced through advance action that mitigates risks and reduces vulnerability.*Natural Hazard...
Nourished Planet
Sustainability in the Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Mangos from India, pasta from Italy, coffee from Colombia: Every day, we are nourished by a global food system that relies on our planet remaining verdant and productive. But current practices are undermining both human and environmental health, resulting in the paradoxes of obesity paired with malnutrition,...
Water is for Fighting Over
and Other Myths about Water in the West
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recyears, newspaper headlines have screamed,"Scarce water and the death of California farms,” "The Dust Bowl returns,” "A ‘megadrought' will grip U.S. in thecoming decades.” Yet similar stories have been appearing for...