Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
High and Dry
Meeting the Challenges of the World's Growing Dependence on Groundwater
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
An engaging call to understand and protect groundwater, the primary source of drinking water for almost half of the world’s population Groundwater is essential for drinking water and food security. It provides enormous environmental benefits by keeping streams and rivers flowing. But a growing global...
Understanding Climate Change
Science, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues. Understanding Climate Change provides readers with a concise, accessible, and holistic picture of the climate change problem, including both the scientific and human dimensions.
Understanding...
by Brian Dawson, Matt Spannagle
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
For anyone trying to separate the fact from the fiction, The Complete Guide to Climate Change is an indispensable resource. Taking you through the A to Z of the key scientific, geographical and socio-political issues involved in the study of the environment and the implications of mankind’s effect...
Shopping for Water
How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The American West has a long tradition of conflict over water. But after fifteen years of drought across the region, it is no longer simply conflict: it is crisis. In the face of unprecedented declines in reservoir storage and groundwater reserves throughout the West, Shopping for Water focuses on...
by Pere RIERA, Giovanni SIGNORELLO, Mara THIENE
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book provides good practice protocols for the economic valuation of non-market forest ecosystem goods and services. it covers the main valuation methods: Hedonic Pricing, Travel Cost, Contingent Valuation, Choice Modeling, and Benefit Transfer.
Our Way Out
Principles for a Post-apocalyptic World
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Global warming, energy shortages, overpopulation — it's no wonder that as a society, we're in an apocalyptic mood. Out of an endless stream of gloomy prognoses for humanity's future, we have emerged with little inspiration and few concrete ideas for change. Our Way Out is the first time that our...
Just Cool It!
The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Climate change is the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it. So, what do we do, and is there hope for humanity? The problem itself is complex, and there’s no single solution. But by understanding the barriers to resolving global warming and...
The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook
Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2007
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Al Gore's summer blockbuster An Inconvenient Truth, and crude oil prices soaring to all-time highs, more people than ever know the truth about our oil addiction. Global warming is here. M. King Hubbert's oil peak is fast approaching (or may already have arrived)....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
This book would not have been possible without the dedication and commitment of each of the chapter authors. For some authors, writing a chapter was beyond their “9–5” job, and this book re?ects their commitment to sustainability at the local level for their communities. To every chapter author...
Extinction
A Radical History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food...
by William J. Kelly, Chip Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs follow up their acclaimed Smogtown with a provocative examination of China’s ecological calamity already imperling a warming planet. Toxic smog most people figured was obsolete needlessly kills as many there as the 9/11 attacks every day,...
State of the World 2006
Special Focus: China and India
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
State of the World 2006 provides a special focus on China and India and their impact on the world as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems. The report explains the critical need for both countries to "leapfrog" the technologies, policies, and even the cultures that...
by G. J. Lau
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
I spent a couple of years writing a blog on climate change called Planet Restart, the idea being we needed to push the "restart" button to begin a new way of thinking about how we should be living on the planet. I did it for my children and grandchildren because I knew in my bones that the...
The Holy Earth
The Birth of a New Land Ethic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The agrarian tradition runs as an undercurrent through the entire history of literature, carrying the age-old wisdom that the necessary access of independent farmers to their own land both requires the responsibility of good stewardship and provides the foundation for a thriving civilization. At the...