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by Mahdi Mason
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
If you're worried about the state of Mother Earth but aren't sure what you can do to actually make a difference, this book is for you! Find out practical ways you can start helping the environment, and live in harmony with it, NOW.International author and changemaker Dr Mahdi Mason,...
Nature and the Marketplace
Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In recyears, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through...
Explore Predators and Prey!
With 25 Great Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Hunting, hiding, trapping, and tricking are just a few of the strategies used by animals in the wild to ensure they eat enough without being eaten themselves! In Explore Predators and Prey! With 25 Great Projects, readers ages 7 through 10 explore the physical and behavioral adaptations of predators...
by Jo Roderick
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Just how Green is Green? Recycled Thoughts will change your views on current environmental challenges. We can no longer afford to ignore the obvious because it is inconvenient.
Logos, slogans, and Carbon Footprints are not Magic Filters that clean up our environment. These concepts are often...
by Glynnis Hood
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Beavers are the great comeback story—a keystone species that survived ice ages, major droughts, the fur trade, urbanization and near extinction. Their ability to create and maintain aquatic habitats has endeared them to conservationists, but puts the beavers at odds with urban and industrial expansion....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Much is written in the popular literature about the current pace of technological change. But do we have enough scientific knowledge about the sources and management of innovation to properly inform policymaking in technology dependent domains such as energy and the environment? While it is agreed...
by James Gustave Speth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth’s environment...
by J.P. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that...
Rights to Nature
Ecological, Economic, Cultural, and Political Principles of Institutions for the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Property rights are a tool humans use in regulating their use of natural resources. Understanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are controlled is critical to designing and implementing effective strategies for environmental managemand conservation.*Rights to Nature* is a nontechnical,...
Environmental Debt
The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
An award-winning environmental activist and social entrepreneur exposes the link between our financial and environmental crises
For decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that today's challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protection could...
Reshaping Environments
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World draws together a team of specialist authors from disciplines including urban planning, social sciences, engineering and environmental science to examine the diverse influences humans have upon the natural environment....
The Media Ecosystem
What Ecology Can Teach Us about Responsible Media Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In The Media Ecosystem, Antonio Lopez draws together the seemingly disparate realms of ecology and media studies to present a fresh and provocative interpretation of the current state of the mass media—and its potential future. Lopez explores the connections between media and the environment, arguing...
Reshaping the Built Environment
Ecology, Ethics, and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Because of the profound effects of the built environmon the availability of natural resources for future generations, those involved with designing, creating, operating, renovating, and demolishing human structures have a vital role to play in working to put society on a path toward sustainability.This...
China and the Environment
The Green Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. A serious water pollution incident occurs once every two-to-three days. China's breakneck growth causes great concern about its global environmental impacts, as others look to China as a source for possible future solutions to climate change....