Environment category: 6530 books
Children, Citizenship and Environment
Nurturing a Democratic Imagination in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Children growing up today are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality, and a global economy marked by unprecedented youth unemployment and unsustainable resource extraction. Yet on streets everywhere,...
Ecoambiguity
Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
East Asian literatures are famous for celebrating the beauties of nature and depicting people as intimately connected with the natural world. But in fact, because the region has a long history of transforming and exploiting nature, much of the fiction and poetry in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean...
A Delicate Balance
Constructing a Conservation Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Sustainability of the natural environment and of our society has become one of the most urgent challenges facing modern Americans. Communities across the country are seeking a viable pattern of growth that promotes prosperity, protects the environment, and preserves the distinctive quality of life...
Managing Natural Wealth
Environment and Development in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The remarkably rich natural environment of Malaysia attracts the interest of both industry and the environmental community. Managing Natural Wealth analyzes major natural resource and environmental policy issues in the country during the 1970s and 1980s-a period of profound socioeconomic change, rapid...
Asian Judges Symposium on Environmental Decision Making, the Rule of Law, and Environmental Justice
The Proceedings of the Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The symposium held on 28-29 July 2010 at the Asian Development Bank---whose proceedings are documented in this publication---brought together senior members of the judiciary and environmental ministry officials from Asian jurisdictions, academe, civil society, international organizations, and distinguished...
by Alicia Nash
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: Recycling: How You Can Make An Impact Chapter 2: Recycling Old Computers To Save The Environment Chapter 3: Beginning Recycling At Home Chapter 4: Recycling Box Crafts Chapter 5: Outdoor Play Time & Recycling Chapter 6: Arts And Crafts...
Northern Plainsmen
Adaptive Strategy and Agrarian Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
A study of a rural region and plural society, this book is a distinctive contribution to anthropology, in that it brings the conceptual framework of that discipline to bear on a contemporary agrarian society and its historical development, rather than on peasant or tribal peoples; cultural ecology,...
Issues of the Day
100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Issues of the Day provides an easy way for students, academics, journalists, policymakers, and the public to learn about a diverse range of policy issues affecting the environment, energy, transportation, and public health. Each commentary gives a short assessment of a topic, summarizing in a non-technical...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
The success of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) at military facilities requires support and leadership from the highest levels of management, adequate resources for development and implementation, and an acknowledgement by the military commanders that EMS is an integral part of facilities and...
by Prof. Elijah K Biamah, Eng. Michael K Biamah
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
In Kenya and Somalia, most of the population (over 80%) lives in rural areas and therefore derive their livelihoods and incomes from agriculture and livestock production. Thus it is pertinent that environmental and water management be give priority when coming up with suitable conservation technologies....
by Shelly Caref
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
A retired North American from Chicago, who spent a long career in multiple high technologies, moves to Ecuador to live on a farm in the sierras. He and his wife begin a journey of transforming the land from conventional to organic that also transforms them. They learned that organic food production...
Work Like Nature
Sustainability lessons from ecosystems for your job or business
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Do you want to take action at work that will benefit you, your job and your community as much as it helps the environment? Lea Elliott’s Work Like Nature presents lessons from nature to help you make sense of sustainability and start making a difference.
These ecosystem ideas are illustrated...
Environmental Protection
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected. Only after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 did environmental protection became a political and social priority. In Environmental...
Environmental Geography of South Asia
Contributions Toward a Future Earth Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
This volume synthesizes critical environmental challenges of dynamic earth and human environment systems in South Asia emphasizing geographical dimensions. It deals with spaceborne monitoring, climate, ecohydrology, forests and biodiversity, land-use and land-cover change (LUCC), natural hazards,...