Environmental category: 9736 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The interaction between environmental change and human activities is com plex, requiring the concepts and tools of a number of disciplines for its effective analysis. Land-use and land-cover change has only recently become a topic susceptible to scientific research, as these concepts and tools have...
The Silent COUNTDOWN
Essays in European Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There is a growing need for cooperation between disciplines, not only to deal with the burning problems of the present, but to study the interaction of societies and their ecosystems in the past. In the 1970s studies in Environmental History were largely confined to North America. Recent years have...
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...
Use of Economic Instruments in Water Policy
Insights from International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This book assesses both the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) in order to achieve water policy goals and identifies the preconditions under which they outperform alternative (e.g. regulatory) policy instruments and/or can complement them as part of complex...
by Fumikazu Yoshida
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
On the threshold of the twenty-first century, the ordinary Japanese citizen has become acutely aware that various environmental hazards pose a serious threat to daily life; such hazards include the problems of waste disposal, dioxin and other substances that disturb humans' endocrine balance. Who,...
Moving Natures
Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Mobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals...
Globalized Poverty and Environment
21st Century Challenges and Innovative Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book reviews the key conceptions and economic theories of poverty, explains poverty-environment nexus, and finally offers innovative socio-economic and scientific geospatial solutions for the 21st Century. The book makes it possible for our readers to understand poverty thorough a concise review...
by James W. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environmental management. Each volume is a thorough treatment of a specific topic of importance for proper management practices. A fundamental objective of these...
A City on a Lake
Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization...
by Barbara Leibhardt Wester
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Wester's environmental history of Yakama and Euro-American cultural interactions during the 19th and early 20th century explores the role of law in both curtailing and promoting rights to subsistence resources within a market economy. Her study, using original source files, case histories, and contemporary...
The 21st Century Fight for the Amazon
Environmental Enforcement in the World’s Biggest Rainforest
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This book is the most updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the Amazon, home to half of the world’s remaining tropical forests. In the past five years, the Basin’s countries have become the cutting edge of environmental enforcement through formation of constitutional protections,...
Cases of Conflict
Transboundary Disputes and the Development of International Environmental Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Cases of Conflict focuses on times of dispute as important moments in the development of international environmental law. Conflict tests international law—both its content and its relevance become clearer in times of controversy—but conflict can also help shape the law.
Drawing from a growing...
Loving God's Wildness
The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
When the Puritans arrived in the New World to carry out the colonization they saw as divinely mandated, they were confronted by the American wilderness. Part of their theology led them to view the natural environment as “a temple of God” in which they should glorify and serve its creator. The...
Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South
Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Hurricanes, floods, oil spills, disease, and disappearing wetlands are some of the many environmental disasters that impact the Gulf South. The contributors to Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South explore the threat, frequency, and management of this region’s disasters from the mid-nineteenth...