Environmental category: 9736 books
Fracking the Neighborhood
Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
What happens when natural gas drilling moves into an urban area: how communities in North Texas responded to the environmental and health threats of fracking.
When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of...
Toxic Safety
Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Initially marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Some argue that data show the chemicals are unsafe while others continue to support their use. The tactics of each side have far-reaching consequences for how we interpret new scientific discoveries.
An...
The Silicon Valley of Dreams
Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2002
Next to the nuclear industry, the largest producer of contaminants in the air, land, and water is the electronics industry. Silicon Valley hosts the highest density of Superfund sites anywhere in the nation and leads the country in the number of temporary workers per capita and in workforce gender...
Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education
Remaking Education for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development. Taking to heart the idea that deconstruction is a prelude to reconstruction, this critique leads to discussions about how education can be remade, and respond...
Ecotourists Save the World
The Environmental Volunteer's Guide to More Than 300 International Adventures to Conserve, Preserve, and Rehabilitate Wildlife and Habitats
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A comprehensive guide to environmental and wildlife volunteer programs throughout the world.
This unique site-by-site guide profiles more than 300 programs where volunteers can work in a variety of activities involving conservation and study of wildlife. From the Fur Seal Project of the Earthwatch...
Arming Mother Nature
The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, writes Jacob Darwin Hamblin, the movement--and its dire predictions--owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture. In Arming Mother Nature,...
Landscapes in Between
Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning. One notable effect is a preponderance of interstitial landscapes such as abandoned fields, polluted riverbanks, and makeshift urban gardens. Landscapes...
Mekong—The Occluding River
The Tale of a River
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Part travelogue, part history, and part environmental treatise, Mekong The Occluding River is above all else an urgent warning that factors such as pollution, ecological devastation, and the depletion of natural resources are threatening the very existence of the Mekong River. Author Ngo The Vinh...
Fighting Dirty
How a Small Community Took on Big Trash
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Chosen by Now Magazine as one of the “18 must-read books for fall 2017”.
Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a local dumpsite into a...
by John Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Many controversial issues revolve around complex scientific arguments which can be better understood with at least a minimal knowledge and understanding of the chemical reactions and processes going on in the world around us.
This textbook offers an accessible introduction to chemical principles and...
Congo's Environmental Paradox
Potential and Predation in a Land of Plenty
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The first book to present and analyse Congo’s five strategic environmental sectors – forests, minerals, land, water and oil – in a holistic way
Both the DRC and ‘resource curse’ issues are subjects in immense interest amongst researchers, policymakers and academia
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by J Readman, S Pollard, Steve Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Understanding pollution, its behaviour and impact is becoming increasingly important, as new technologies and legislation continually lower the tolerable levels of pollutants released into the environment. Introduction to Pollution Science draws upon sections of the authors' previous text (Understanding...
The Role of Corporate Sustainability in Asian Development
A Case Study Handbook in the Automotive and ICT Industries
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book examines the challenges faced by seven multinational companies - Intel, Lenovo, Samsung Electronics, ZTE, BMW Hyundai Motor Company, Mahindra and Mahindra - in their endeavour to contribute to the economic, environmental and social development of Asia. The lessons learned from the examination...
Urban Land
Degradation - Investigation - Remediation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Urban land is an environmental key topic considering the increasing urbani sation of our world. The amounting pressure on resources especially in the urban environment demand awareness across technical and political sectors and solid concepts for workable solutions. This book will address those...