Ecology category: 3266 books
by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Like a Tree grew out of bestselling author Jean Bolens practice of walking among tall trees and mourning the loss of a Monterey pine that was cut down in her neighborhood. This book will appeal most to people who realize that they are tree people. It is poetic educational inspirational spiritual and...
A River Runs Again
India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart; for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future. For India, it is the very real present.
In this lyrical...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2000
A comprehensive collection of classic texts, contemporary interpretations, guidelines for activists, issue-specific information, and materials for environmentally-oriented religious practice. Sources and contributors include Basho, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gary Snyder, Chögyam Trungpa, Gretel Ehrlich, Peter Mathiessen, Helen Tworkov (editor of Tricycle), and Philip Glass.
by Ron Hateley
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
The Victorian Bush: its ‘original and natural’ condition aggregates in a readable way extracts from logs, reports and diaries of Victorian explorers, early settlers, travellers and officials that describe the vegetation and fauna they encountered.
The author analyses what he sees are the...
Energy and Economic Growth
Why we need a new pathway to prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Access to new sources of energy and their efficient conversion to provide useful work have been key drivers of economic growth since the industrial revolution. Western countries now need to transform their energy systems and move away from the single-minded pursuit of economic growth in order to reduce...
Return to Wild America
A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific...
Overfishing
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems. Many have voiced their concerns about marine conservation, as well as the sustainable and ethical...
Useless Arithmetic
Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environmental policies are seriously flawed. Based on unrealistic and sometimes false assumptions, these models...
by Ariel Rubissow Okamoto, Kathleen Wong
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This complete primer on San Francisco Bay is a multifaceted exploration of an extraordinary, and remarkably resilient, body of water. Bustling with oil tankers, laced with pollutants, and crowded with forty-six cities, the bay is still home to healthy eelgrass beds, young Dungeness crabs and sharks,...
How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach
A Guide to Shadow Dunes, Ghost Forests, and Other Telltale Clues from an Ever-Changing Coast
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Come explore the geology of Florida's Gulf Coast beaches, from a bird's-eye view down to a crab's-eye view. You'll journey from Panhandle sugar-sand beaches to southwestern shell beaches, taking a fresh look at the ever-changing landscape. With Tonya Clayton as your guide, you'll learn how to recognize...
by Kimberly Lisagor
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet.
Machu Picchu is a mesmerizing, ancient Incan city tucked away in the mountains of Peru, but it is rapidly being worn down by the thousands of feet treading across its stones. Glacier National Park is...
Mirage
Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
"In the days before the Internet, books like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' River of Grass were groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and politicians take notice. Mirage is such a book."
—St. Petersburg Times
“Never before has the...
by Thomas Professor Sterner
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
As Thomas Sterner points out, the economic 'toolkit' for dealing with environmental problems has become formidable. It includes taxes, charges, permits, deposit-refund systems, labeling, and other information disclosure mechanisms. Though not all these devices are widely used, empirical application...
Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems
A Troubled Sense of Immensity
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Over the past century, humans have molded the Colorado River to serve their own needs, resulting in significant impacts to the river and its ecosystems. Today, many scientists, public officials, and citizens hope to restore some of the lresources in portions of the river and its surrounding lands....