Environment category: 6530 books
by Stephen Moss
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
10 years on from the first, groundbreaking, Planet Earth, we use the most incredible advances in technology and scientific discovery to bring you the most exciting and immersive picture of our world's wildlife yet.
With over 250 breathtaking photographs and stills from the BBC Natural History...
The impacts of plastic pollution in the North Pacific Ocean and possible solutions
Case Study: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: A, Central European University Budapest (-), course: -, language: English, abstract: Rapid population growth and enormous urban and coastal developments have increased the anthropogenic pollution into the...
True Warnings and False Alarms
Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Given time, scientists reach consensus about the truth or falsity of a wide range of alleged hazards. Today, there is broad agreement that CFCs destroy stratospheric ozone. On the other hand, research does not support claims that electromagnetic fields from transmission lines cause a noticeable increase...
Earthquake Disasters in Latin America
A Holistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
This book is an attempt to demonstrate the analytical power of the holistic approach for understanding disasters. Six major earthquakes in Latin America are used as an example: the general idea is to place disasters in a broad social and regional context. Understanding disasters is a way of...
Water Rights and the Environment in the United States: A Documentary and Reference Guide
A Documentary and Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This sweeping study traces the development of water policy in the United States from the 19th century to the present day, exploring the role of legislation in appropriating access to water to the American people.
• Addresses recent events including the handling of Hurricane Katrina and the...
Sustainable Future for Human Security
Environment and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book focuses on the environmental components of sustainability, including aspects of resourcing and the environmental impacts of human societies. Marine and tropical forest ecosystems, food security and other natural resources, as well as technologies for the environmental control of societal...
Moving Sites
Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Moving Sites explores site-specific dance practice through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes. In offering this joint effort of theory and practice, it aims to provide dance academics, students and practitioners with a series of discussions that...
The Mekong
Biophysical Environment of an International River Basin
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
The Mekong is the most controversial river in Southeast Asia, and increasingly the focus of international attention. It flows through 6 counties, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The 4 downstream countries have formed the Mekong River Commission to promote sustainable development...
Shades of Green
Environment Activism Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. The book highlights the diversity of national, regional and international environmental activism, showing that the term 'environmentalism' covers an entire...
by John Bartram, William Bartram
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
“The editors skillfully interpret the geography and natural history, and provide an extensive list of the plants and animals the Bartrams encountered. This work will appeal to naturalists and those interested in early American studies in natural history.”—Choice "Bringing together descriptions...
Now Is the Time for All Good Men to Come to the Aid of Their Planet
A Shaman Warrior’S Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Each action has an equal and opposite reaction. Some are positive, and others are not. In Now is the Time for All Good Men to Come to the Aid of Their Planet, author J. Theo Olonia discusses how, with awareness, we can weigh our actions for the consequences and impact they have on the environment...
Ways to Live in Harmony with Nature
Living sustainably and working with passion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Have you ever wondered how you can maintain your current lifestyle, but not exhaust our planet's resources? In modern times, many of us have environmental knowledge but we lack an understanding of how to apply that knowledge to our everyday lives. Bridging this gap is what has motivated ecological...
The Mediterranean region under climate change
A scientific update
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
This book has been published by Allenvi (French National Alliance for Environmental Research) to coincide with the 22nd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) in Marrakesh. It is the outcome of work by academic researchers on both sides of the Mediterranean...
Ecotourism Development in Costa Rica
The Search for Oro Verde
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Ecotourism Development in Costa Rica: The Search for Oro Verde, by Andrew P. Miller, examines the use of ecotourism as a development strategy in Costa Rica and its applicability to other Central American states. Ecotourism provides an important environmental check on industry, giving the environment...