Environment category: 6530 books
Resource and Environmental Economics
Modern Issues and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
This important book deals with the essential principles of resource and environmental economics, provides applications to contemporary issues in this field, and outlines and assesses policies being used or proposed for managing the use of environmental and natural resources. Covering specific contemporary...
Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries
Collective Impacts, Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Small firms - including 'microenterprises' and 'small and medium enterprises' (SMEs) - play a vital economic role in developing countries. They typically provide half of all jobs. In addition, they foster entrepreneurship and help key sectors adapt to changing market conditions. In light of these...
Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation
Creating Values that Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives. These new values, assigned to areas previously considered outside of economic systems, often act to qualify, alter or replace former non-pecuniary values. Valuing Development,...
by Ravi S. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Ravi S. Singh (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, UP), India. Prof. Singh has several international as well as national academic publications in reputed journals and research series, many of them cross-disciplinary, to his credit. His major publications...
50 Doable Green Acts
For The Health Of Our Earth And Environment!
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Green. It’s the color of the trees, meadows, algae, and nearly all plant life on earth. The color green is synonymous with the environment and, specifically, its health. In recent years, the pollution and overconsumption present in the world has been taking its toll on nature, causing serious problems...
The Ecological Transition
Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Written during the height of the ecology movement, The Ecological Transition is a stunning interdisciplinary work. It combines anthropology, ecology, and sociology to formulate an understanding of cultural-environmental relationships. While anthropologists have been studying relationships between...
Amphibian and Reptile Adaptations to the Environment
Interplay Between Physiology and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Despite their diversity, amphibians and reptiles share many physiological traits, such as their dependence on external heat sources for body temperature regulation, that are of pivotal importance to their ability to cope with the environment. Considerable variation in physiological capabilities exists...
Handbook of Environment and Waste Management
Volume 2: Land and Groundwater Pollution Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The Handbook of Environment and Waste Management, Volume 2, Land and Groundwater Pollution Control, is a comprehensive compilation of topics that are at the forefront of many of the technical advances and practices in solid waste management and groundwater pollution control. These include biosolids...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Human Colonization of the Arctic: The Interaction Between Early Migration and the Paleoenvironment explores the relationship between humans and the environment during this early time of colonization, utilizing analytical methods from both the social and natural sciences to develop a unique, interdisciplinary...
Chemicals, Human Health, and the Environment
A Guide to the Development and Control of Chemical and Energy Technology
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
As we enter the new millennium, chemical and energy technology practice is in the throes of a paradigm shift. During the past fi fty years there has been a growing awareness of the adverse effects of chemical products, byproducts and wastes upon human health and the environment, and the development...
Multidisciplinary Studies of the Environment and Civilization
Japanese Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Multidisciplinary Studies on the Environment and Civilization draws on research from a diverse range of fields across the humanities, social and natural sciences to discover what is needed to develop an affluent, sustainable and resilient world for the twenty-first century and beyond.
The contributions...
Food, Animals, and the Environment
An Ethical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Food, Animals, and the Environment: An Ethical Approach examines some of the main impacts that agriculture has on humans, nonhumans, and the environment, as well as some of the main questions that these impacts raise for the ethics of food production, consumption, and activism. Agriculture is having...
by Otis Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
In 1891 Benjamin Harrison, the first president engaged in conservation, had to have this new area of public policy explained to him by members of the Boone and Crockett Club. This didn't take long, as he was only asked to sign a few papers setting aside federal timberland. But from such small moments...
Understanding Poverty and the Environment
Analytical frameworks and approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Does poverty lead to environmental degradation? Do degraded environments and natural resources lead to poverty? Or, are there other forces at play? Is the relationship between poverty and the environment really as straightforward as the vicious circle portrayal of ‘poverty leading to environmental...