Island Press: 819 books
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...
The Sierra Nevada
A Mountain Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
This book presents a natural history of the Sierra Nevada that brings the land, the people, and the surrounding communities to life.
Rivers at Risk
Concerned Citizen's Guide To Hydropower
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Rivers at Risk is an invaluable handbook that offers a practical understanding of how to influence governmdecisions about hydropower developmon America's rivers.
Common Ground on Hostile Turf
Stories from an Environmental Mediator
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In our increasingly polarized society, there are constant calls for compromise, for coming together. For many, these are empty talking points—for Lucy Moore, they are a life's work. As an environmental mediator, she has spthe past quarter century resolving conflicts that appeared utterly intractable....
Making Collaboration Work
Lessons From Innovation In Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Across the United States, diverse groups are turning away from confrontation and toward collaboration in an attempt to tackle some of our nation's mintractable environmental problems. Governmagencies, community groups, businesses, and private individuals have begun working together to solve common...
Completing Our Streets
The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Across the country, communities are embracing a new and safer way to build streets for everyone—even as they struggle to change decades of rules, practice, and politics that prioritize cars. They have discovered that changing the design of a single street is not enough: they must upend the way transportation...
Laurance S. Rockefeller
Catalyst For Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Despite his status as a scion of one of the wealthiest and mfamous families in the United States and an enormously successful businessman in his own right, Laurance S. Rockefeller is unknown to all but a few Americans. Yet while he has been neither Vice Presidnor Governor nor chairman of the world's...
Building an Emerald City
A Guide to Creating Green Building Policies and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In 2000, Seattle, Washington, became the first U.S. city to officially adopt the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) “Silver” standards for its own major construction projects. In the midst of a municipal building boom, it set new targets for building...
Seeing the Better City
How to Explore, Observe, and Improve Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
In order to understand and improve cities today, personal observation remains as important as ever. While big data, digital mapping, and simulated cityscapes are valuable tools for understanding urban space, using them without on-the-ground, human impressions risks creating places that do not reflect...
by Richard W. Willson
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
The average parking space requires approximately 300 square feet of asphalt. That’s the size of a studio apartment in New York and enough room to hold 10 bicycles. Space devoted to parking in growing urban and suburban areas is highly contested—not only from other uses from housing to parklets, but...
Urban Ecological Design
A Process for Regenerative Places
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct or public space, but to describe useful steps to approach the transformation of urban spaces. Urban...
Engineering the Farm
The Social and Ethical Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Engineering the Farm offers a wide-ranging examination of the social and ethical issues surrounding the production and consumption of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), with leading thinkers and activists taking a broad theoretical approach to the subject. Topics covered include: the historical...
Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries
A Critical Appraisal of Catches and Ecosystem Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The*Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries* is the first and only book to provide accurate, country-by-country fishery catch data. This groundbreaking information has been gathered from independsources by the world's foremfisheries experts. Edited by Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller of the Sea Around Us Project,...
From Abundance to Scarcity
A History Of U.S. Marine Fisheries Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
The managemof coastal and ocean fisheries is highly contentious. Industry interests focus on maximizing catches while conservationists and marine scientists have become increasingly concerned about dramatic declines in fish stocks and the health of ecosystems. Besides attempting to mediate among these...