Island Press: 819 books
Tending Fire
Coping With America's Wildland Fires
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The wildfires that spread across Southern California in the fall of 2003 were devastating in their scale-twenty-two deaths, thousands of homes destroyed and many more threatened, hundreds of thousands of acres burned. What had gone wrong? And why, after years of discussion of fire policy, are some...
Bring Back the Buffalo!
A Sustainable Future For America's Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
In Bring Back the Buffalo!, Ernest Callenbach argues that the return of the bison is the key to a sustainable future for the Great Plains. Vast stretches of the region have seen a steady decline in population and are ill-suited for traditional agriculture or cattle ranching. Yet those same areas provide...
New Geographies of the American West
Growth, Land Use, and the Future of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Reconciling explosive growth with often majestic landscape defines New Geographies of the American West. Geographer William Travis examines contemporary land use changes and developmpatterns from theMississippi to the Pacific, and assesses the ecological and social outcomes of Western development.Unlike...
Hope's Horizon
Three Visions For Healing The American Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
At a time of widespread environmental pessimism, Hope's Horizon goes on an inspirational offensive. In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, author Chip Ward tells of his travels among a new generation of activists who are moving beyond defensive environmental struggles and advocating pioneering,...
Scorched Earth
How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
With vivid descriptions of the famous fires that have raged in Yellowstone, the heroes who have tried to protect it, and the strategies that evolved as a result, Barker draws us into the very heart of a debate over our attempts to control nature and people.
Food, Genes, and Culture
Eating Right for Your Origins
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Vegan, low fat, low carb, slow carb: Every diet seems to promise a one-size-fits-all solution to health. But they ignore the diversity of human genes and how they interact with what we eat.
In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan shows why the perfect diet for one person...
Keepers of the Spring
Reclaiming Our Water In An Age Of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Water has long been the object of political ambition and conflict. Rechistory is full of leaders who tried to harness water to realize national dreams. Yet the people who mneed water--farmers, rural villages, impoverished communities--are too often left, paradoxically, with desiccated fields, unfulfilled...
Our Country, The Planet
Forging A Partnership For Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Our Country, The Planet is a wide-ranging discussion of the global environmental crisis that accounts for the positions and perceptions of both developed and developing nations. As presidof the World Conservation Union and the only person to have served on all five independinternational commissions...
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
In this fifteenth edition of State of the World, Lester R. Brown and the Worldwatch research team look at the environmental effects of continuing economic growth as the economy outgrows the earth's ecosystem. As the global economy has expanded from $5 trillion of output in 1950 to $29 trillion in 1997, its demands have crossed many of the earth's sustainable yield thresholds
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This much-anticipated edition of Vital Signs covers 35 global trends that are shaping our future. From carbon emissions to loss of wetlands, each trend provides a brief status report on the topic plus graphs and charts that offer a visual comparison over time. Categories include Food, Economics, Transportation, Health, Governance, Energy and Climate, and Conflict and Peace.
The Once and Future Forest
A Guide To Forest Restoration Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Developed by the pioneering landscape design firm of Andropogon Associates, world-renowned for their innovative approach to integrating environmental protection and restoration with landscape architecture and design, The Once and Future Forest is a guidebook for restoring and managing natural landscapes....
Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems
Ecology, Management, and Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Established by the USDA Forest Service in 1993, the Great Basin Ecosystem ManagemProject for Restoring and Maintaining Sustainable Riparian Ecosystems is a large-scale research study that uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the effects of climate change and human disturbance on riparian...
Islands at the Edge of Time
A Journey To America's Barrier Islands
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Islands at the Edge of Time is the story of one man's captivating journey along America's barrier islands from Boca Chica, Texas, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Weaving in and out along the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, poet and naturalist...
Evolution and Christian Faith
Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Click here to visit evolutionandchristianfaith.org "I'm an evolutionary biologist and a Christian," states Stanford professor Joan Roughgarden at the outset of her groundbreaking new book, Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist. From that perspective, she offers an...