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Modern Poisons
A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Traditional toxicology textbooks tend to be doorstops: tomes filled with important but seemingly abstract chemistry and biology. Meanwhile, magazine and journal articles introduce students to timely topics such as BPA and endocrine disruption or the carcinogenic effects of pesticides, but don't provide...
River Futures
An Integrative Scientific Approach to River Repair
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Across much of the industrialized world, rivers that were physically transformed and ecologically ruined to facilitate industrial and agricultural developmare now the focus of restoration and rehabilitation efforts. River Futures discusses the emergence of this new era of river repair and documents...
Natural Defense
Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food and Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
For more than a century, we have relied on chemical cures to keep our bodies free from disease and our farms free from bugs and weeds. We rarely consider human and agricultural health together, but both are based on the same ecology, and both are being threatened by organisms that have evolved to...
by John Rieger, John Stanley, Ray Traynor
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Project Planning and Managemfor Ecological Restoration addresses a problem that is the reason many currrestoration projects are not as effective or successful as they could be: a lack of understanding of the principles of sound planning and management. John Rieger, John Stanley, and Ray Traynor, who...
Water Follies
Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
The Santa Cruz River that once flowed through Tucson, Arizona is today a sad mirage. Except for brief periods following heavy rainfall, it is bone dry. The cottonwood and willow trees that once lined its banks have died, and the profusion of wildlife recorded by early settlers is nowhere to be seen....
by Richard J. Hobbs, Peter Cale, Barbara H. Allen-Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
As scientific understanding about ecological processes has grown, the idea that ecosystem dynamics are complex, nonlinear, and often unpredictable has gained prominence. Of particular importance is the idea that rather than following an inevitable progression toward an ultimate endpoint, some ecosystems...
Planning for a New Century
The Regional Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Across the United States, issues such as sustainability, smart growth, and livable communities are making headlines. Planning for a New Century brings together leading thinkers in the fields of planning, urban design, education, welfare, and housing to examine those issues and to consider the ways...
by Douglas R. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Communities across the country are turning to the concept of "growth management" to help plan for the future, as they seek to control the location, impact, character and timing of developmin order to balance environmental and economic needs and concerns. Managing Growth in America's Communities presents...
Renewable Resource Policy
The Legal-Institutional Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Renewable Resource Policy is a comprehensive volume covering the history, laws, and important national policies that affect renewable resource management. The author traces the history of renewable natural resource policy and managemin the United States, describes the major federal agencies and their...
To Conserve Unimpaired
The Evolution of the National Park Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
When the national park system was first established in 1916, the goal "to conserve unimpaired" seemed straightforward. But Robert Keiter argues that parks have always served a variety of competing purposes, from wildlife protection and scientific discovery to tourism and commercial development. In this...
by Luther Propst, Stephen F. Harper, Michael Mantell
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Developed to assist users of Creating Successful Communities, the Resource Guide for Creating Successful Communities includes a detailed outline of the many tax benefits of private land conservation; examples of ordinances covering all land types, articles of incorporation, bylaws, and easements; and a glossary of growth managemtools.
Instream Flow Protection
Seeking A Balance In Western Water Use
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Instream Flow Protection is a comprehensive overview of Western water use and the issues that surround it. The authors explain instream flow and its historical, political, and legal context; describe currinstream flow laws and policies; and presmethods of protecting instream flow. They provide numerous...
Overtapped Oasis
Reform Or Revolution For Western Water
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Overtapped Oasis analyzes the West's water allocation system from top to bottom and offers dozens of revolutionary proposals for increased efficiency and policy reform. Marc Reisner and Sarah Bates argue that the West's underlying problem is not a shortage of water but the inefficiuse of it, a problem...
Tree Crops
A Permanent Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
A complete reference for growing high-yield fruit- and nut-bearing trees.