Environment

Planet Earth needs its own lawyer. James Thornton is that lawyer. Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The UN? Governments? Activis...

Hybrid Geographies critically examines the opposition between nature and culture, the material and the social, as represented in scientific, environmental a...

The global environmental future is a matter of major scientific and public importance. Problems such as deforestation, pollution, the loss of natural habita...

Challenges For Research And Development On Improving Shifting Cultivation System / Dennis P. Garrity -- Working With And For Plants : Indigenous Fallow Mana...

The text product message is similar to what it has been in the past - Fellmann et al seeks to introduce users to the scope and excitement of human geography...

The third edition of Gordon Bonan's comprehensive textbook introduces an interdisciplinary framework to understand the interaction between terrestrial ecosy...

Deserts and Desert Environments focuses on geomorphic systems, providing a comprehensive introduction to the physical, biological, temporal, and human com...

This modern climatology textbook explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.Categories: Scien...

This book takes a non mathematical looks at the principles and processes of hydrology. Now in its fourth edition, this well established book preserves the e...

Conventional wisdom considers deserts stark, harsh regions that support few living things. Most people also believe that water alone makes the desert bloom....

Part I. Essays On Fresh Water Issues -- An Introduction To Global Fresh Water Issues / Peter H. Gleick -- World Fresh Water Resources / Igor A. Shiklomanov ...

How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. S...

Global Warming: The Hard Science presents a comprehensive, qualitatively rigorous, and critical discussion of the science underlying the global warming issu...

the Latest Edition Of This Highly Successful And Popular Textbook Has Been Completely Revised And Updated To Include The Latest Developments In Biogeograp...

A knowledge of how plants have responded to environmental change in the past is our principal source of evidence for predicting how they might respond to th...

Climate change is one of the most complex, multilayered and interdisciplinary intellectual puzzles facing us today. The questions are numerous. What scien...

Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeChanges in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plan...

Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's Role In Launching Modern Conservationsim, Identifying The Contributions Of Such Influences As James Audubon And John Muir Whi...

written From A Global Perspective On Risk, Hazards, And Disasters, Introduction To International Disaster Management Provides Practitioners, Educators A...

In This Fresh And Comprehensive Introduction To Animal Ethics, Lori Gruen Weaves Together Poignant And Provocative Case Studies With Discussions Of Ethical ...

A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet. "The first important book of the 21st century. It may well revolutionize the...

Edited By Richard E. Warner And Kathleen M. Hendrix. Includes Bibliographies And Index.Categories: Science & Math Biological Sciences BiologyGeneral ...

The PETERSON FIRST GUIDE TO FISHES features 220 common and conspicuous fishes of North America, with full-color illustrations and a clear, precise descrip...

A Manifesto For A Radically Different Philosophy And Practice Of Manufacture And Environmentalism. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Urge Environmentalists--in Other ...

A fascinating exploration of lakes around the world, from Walden Pond to the Dead Sea. More than a century and a half have passed since Walden was first pu...

From One Of The World’s Most Renowned Cave Divers, A Firsthand Account Of Exploring The Earth’s Final Frontier: The Hidden Depths Of Our Oceans And The ...

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in ferti...

In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina, Longtime New Orleans Residents Abdulrahman And Kathy Zeitoun Are Cast Into An Unthinkable Struggle With Forces Beyond Wind...

Dr. Maffetone's unique training system for champions proves that the kinder, gentler approach actually works the best. This fitness regimen has worked for c...

Thoreau Went To Walden Pond To Live Simply In The Wild And Contemplate His Own Place In The World By Observing Nature. Robert Sullivan Went To A Disused, Ga...

Nature: The Wilderness That Environmentalists Try To Protect From Industrial Despoliation; The Spectacular National Parks Where People Seek Refuge From Thei...

Ecology; Concepts and Applications was written this book for students taking their first undergraduate course in ecology. Ecology is an integrative discipli...

Le Présent Document Est Un Excellent Outil Pour L'enseignante Ou L'enseignant De Même Qu?un Incitatif Pour L'élève à Découvrir Le Monde Qui L'entoure....

in This Short Book, David Archer Gives Us The Latest On Climate Change Research, And Skillfully Tells The Climate Story That He Helped To Discover: Genera...

The most comprehensive design reference available on remediation techniques, waste disposal methods and various waste containment systems. Covers several im...

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for i...

Bjørn Lomborg. Originally Published In Danish As Verdens Sande Tilstand, 1998. This Revised And Updated Version First Published In English By Cambridge Uni...

A best-selling author and a popular radio talk show host team up to reveal the pending ill-effects of human-made changes to the Arctic weather patterns, pre...

What Is Project Finance? What Makes Project Or Structured Finance So Relevant For Large Renewable Energy Infrastructure? Which Vocabulary Do I Need To Know ...

the Beloved Author Of refuge, Terry Tempest Williams Is One Of The Country’s Most Eloquent And Imaginative Writers. The Desert Is Her Blood. In This Poten...

Introduction -- Planting The Flag : Establishing British/canadian Sovereignty In The North -- Arctic Frontiers : The Canadian North And The Cold War -- Inte...

Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, ra...

In his most widely appealing book yet, one of today's leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing history and peculiar nature of money...

Petroleum is the most valuable commodity in the world and an enormous source of wealth for those who sell it, transport it and transform it for its many use...

From the environmental activist, consumer advocate, renowned crusader, and champion fighter whose courageous case against Pacific Gas and Electric was drama...

The Uninhabitable Earth Hits You Like A Comet, With An Overflow Of Insanely Lyrical Prose About Our Pending Armageddon.--andrew Solomon, Author Of The Noond...

From The Era Before European Contact To The Present Day, People Living In What Is Now The United States Have Constantly Been Interacting With Their Environm...

Get Out Alive! How to Survive Anything, Anywhere is a complete handbook of the urban and wilderness survival skills practiced by elite U.S. and U.K. milit...