Island Press: 819 books
Diatoms to Dinosaurs
The Size And Scale Of Living Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
In Diatoms to Dinosaurs, Chris McGowan takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the natural world, and examines life in all its various forms. He imparts the excitemof discovery and the joy of understanding as he demonstrates the central importance of size and scale to the survival of living...
by Susan Kay Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Whether you are managing wetlands, protecting endangered species, or restoring ecosystems, you need to be able to communicate effectively in order to solve conservation and resource managemproblems. Communication Skills for Conservation Professionals can help you do just that—it is a practical and...
Power to People
The Inside Story of AES and the Globalization of Electricity
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2007
In the late 1990s, while Enron was flying high, a smaller power company flew under the radar. AES was founded in 1981 according to a differset of principles—fiscally conservative investmstrategies paired with the belief that business can be both fun and socially responsible.
When Roger Sant...
by Richard W. Willson
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Today, there are more than three parking spaces for every car in the United States. No one likes searching for a space, but in many areas, there is an oversupply, wasting valuable land, damaging the environment, and deterring development. Richard W. Willson argues that the problem stems from outdated...
by Rajaram Krishnan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
The emergdiscipline of ecological economics is based on the idea that the world's economies are a function of the earth's ecosystems -- an idea that radically reverses the world view of neoclassical economics. A Survey of Ecological Economics provides the first overview of this new field, and a comprehensive...
Energy for Sustainability, Second Edition
Foundations for Technology, Planning, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
The most comprehensive textbook on this topic,Energy for Sustainability, Second Editiontakes a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to help techies and policymakers alike understand the policy and social mechanisms required to enable conversion to efficient and renewable energy that is clean, affordable,...
Water War in the Klamath Basin
Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In the drought summer of 2001, a simmering conflict between agricultural and environmental interests in southern Oregon’s Upper Klamath Basin turned into a guerrilla war of protests, vandalism, and apocalyptic rhetoric when the federal Bureau of Reclamation shut down the headgates of the Klamath...
The ECO Guide to Careers that Make a Difference
Environmental Work For A Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
ECO Guide immerses you in the strategies and tactics that leading edge professionals are using to tackle pressing problems and create innovative solutions.
Resiliby Design
Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
As managers grapple with the challenges of climate change and volatility in a hyper-connected, global economy, they are paying increasing attention to their organization’s resilience—its capacity to survive, adapt, and flourish in the face of turbulchange. Sudden natural disasters and unforeseen...
The Rebirth of Environmentalism
Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Over the past two decades, a select group of small but highly effective grassroots organizations have achieved remarkable success in protecting endangered species and forests in the United States. The Rebirth of Environmentalism tells for the first time the story of these grassroots biodiversity groups....
Energy
Science, Policy, and the Pursuit of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In the early 2000s, energy prices have fluctuated wildly, from historic highs in the winter and spring of 2001 to the lowest wholesale prices in decades a few short months later. As the largest user of fossil-fuel energy, the United States is the key player in the world's energy markets, and our nation's...
Making Healthy Places
Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or...
5 Easy Pieces
The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
5Easy Pieces features five contributions, originally published in Nature and Science, demonstrating the massive impacts of modern industrial fisheries on marine ecosystems. Initially published over an eight-year period, from 1995 to 2003, these articles illustrate a transition in scientific thought—from...
The Endangered Species Act at Thirty
Vol. 2 : Conserving Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
A companion volume to The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise, this book examines the key policy tools available for protecting biodiversity in the United States by revisiting some basic questions in conservation: What are we trying to protect and why? What are the...