Environment category: 6530 books
French 'Ecocritique'
Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus’s ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent...
Canada's Rural Majority
Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada’s rural population grew throughout the century after 1871 – even if it declined as a proportion of the total population. Rural Canadians also differed in their lives from rural populations elsewhere....
Conscious Development
Another Approach to Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The vision in this book is to learn on ways of integrating Environment-Communities-Development. In fact, as trends seem to show, it can be expected that in the future, major conflicts between communities around the world will likely arise from misuse of natural and environmental resources, and misguided...
The Natural City
Re-envisioning the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities - human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate...
Heartbeats in the Muck
The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor’s environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural...
Landscapes in Between
Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning. One notable effect is a preponderance of interstitial landscapes such as abandoned fields, polluted riverbanks, and makeshift urban gardens. Landscapes...
Black Faces, White Spaces
Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood,...
Encyclopedia of Environmental Change
Three Volume Set
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change. This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly...
Gardeners of Eden
Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Dan Dagget believes that humanity can have a positive effect on the land. He demonstrates case after case of positive human engagement in the environment and of managed ecosystems and restored areas that are richer, more diverse, and healthier than unmanaged ones. Much of pre-Columbian America,...
A Land Made from Water
Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado's Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
A Land Made from Water chronicles how the appropriation and development of water and riparian resources in Colorado changed the face of the Front Range—an area that was once a desert and is now an irrigated oasis suitable for the habitation and support of millions of people. This comprehensive history...
Where There's Smoke
The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.6 miles of waterlines, and 102 propane bottles....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This important new text introduces conservation criminology as the interdisciplinary study of environmental exploitation and risks at the intersection of human and natural systems. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book enhances understanding of the various human and organizational behaviors...
by James A. Young, B. Abbott Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
**A sophisticated ecological analysis of ranching in northern Nevada featuring a new chapter and new epilogue by the authors.**First published in 1985, Cattle in the Cold Desert has become a classic in the environmental history of the Great Basin, brilliantly combining a lively account of the development...
Toward a Literary Ecology
Places and Spaces in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Scholarship of literature and the environment demonstrates myriad understandings of nature and culture. While some work in the field results in approaches that belong in the realm of cultural studies, other scholars have expanded the boundaries of ecocriticism to connect the practice more explicitly...