Island Press: 819 books
Ritual House
Drawing on Nature's Rhythms for Architecture and Urban Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Celebrated architect Ralph Knowles, Distinguished Emeritus at USC’s School of Architecture, has carefully crafted a book for architects, designers, planners—anyone who yearns to reconnect to the natural world through the built environment. He shows us how to re-examine a shadow, a wall, a window,...
The Nature of Urban Design
A New York Perspective on Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
The best cities become an ingrained part of their residents' identities. Urban design is the key to this process, but all too often, citizens abandon it to professionals, unable to see a way to express what they love and value in their own neighborhoods. New in paperback, this visually rich book by Alexandros...
Greening Our Built World
Costs, Benefits, and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
“Green” buildings—buildings that use fewer resources to build and to sustain—are commonly thought to be too expensive to attract builders and buyers. But are they? The answer to this question has enormous consequences, since residential and commercial buildings together account for nearly...
Restoring Life in Running Waters
Better Biological Monitoring
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Despite nearly three decades of efforts intended to protect the nation's waters, and some success against certain forms of chemical and organic contamination, many of our nation's waterways continue to be seriously degraded. The call of the 1972 Clean Water Act -- "to restore and maintain the chemical,...
MetroGreen
Connecting Open Space in North American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
In metropolitan areas across the country, you can hear the laments over the loss of green space to new subdivisions and strip malls. But some city residents have taken unprecedented measures to protect their open land, and a growing movemseeks not only to preserve these lands but to link them in green...
Searching Out the Headwaters
Change And Rediscovery In Western Water Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
To the uninitiated, water policy seems a complicated, hypertechnical, and incomprehensible subject: a tangle of engineering jargon and legalese surrounding a complex, delicate, and interrelated structure. Decisions concerning the public's waters involve scant public participation, and in such a context,...
Saving All the Parts
Reconciling Economics And The Endangered Species Act
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
Saving All the Parts is a journalist's exploration of the intertwining of endangered species protection and the economic future of resource dependcommunities -- those with local economies based on fishing, logging, ranching, mining, and other resource intensive industries. Rocky Barker presents an...
Ranching West of the 100th Meridian
Culture, Ecology, and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Recommended by The Nature Conservancy magazine.*Ranching West of the 100th Meridian* offers a literary and thought-provoking look at ranching and its role in the changing West. The book's lyrical and deeply felt narratives, combined with fresh information and analysis, offer a poignant and enlightening...
The Curious Life of Krill
A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Krill-it's a familiar word that conjures oceans, whales, and swimming crustaceans. Scientists say they are one of most abundant animals on the planet. But when pressed, few people can accurately describe krill or explain their ecological importance. Antarctic krill have used their extraordinary adaptive...
In the Thick of It
My Life in the Sierra Club
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In an age when many of the major environmental policies established over the past four decades are under siege, Michael McCloskey reminds us of better days. . .days when conservation initiatives were seen not as political lightning rods, but as opportunities to cope with disturbing threats to the...
Land Use and Society, Revised Edition
Geography, Law, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Land Use and Society is a unique and compelling exploration of interactions among law, geography, history, and culture and their joint influence on the evolution of land use and urban form in the United States. Originally published in 1996, this completely revised, expanded, and updated edition retains...
by Susan J. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Understanding Environmental Administration and Law provides an engaging, introductory overview of environmental policy. Author Susan J. Buck explores the process through which policy is made, the political environmin which it is applied, and the statutory and case laws that are critical to working...
Roadless Rules
The Struggle for the Last Wild Forests
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Roadless Rules is a fast-paced and insightful look at one of the mimportant, wide-ranging, and controversial efforts to protect public forests ever undertaken in the United States. In January 2000, PresidClinton submitted to the Federal Register the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, prohibiting road...
Chasing Molecules
Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Each day, headlines warn that baby bottles are leaching dangerous chemicals, nonstick pans are causing infertility, and plastic containers are making us fat. What if green chemistry could change all that? What if rather than toxics, our economy ran on harmless, environmentally-friendly materials?Elizabeth...