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Famines During the ʻLittle Ice Ageʼ (1300-1800)
Socionatural Entanglements in Premodern Societies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This highly interdisciplinary book studies historical famines as an interface of nature and culture. It will bring together researchers from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. With reference to recent interdisciplinary concepts (disaster studies, vulnerability studies, environmental...
5 Easy Pieces
The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
5Easy Pieces features five contributions, originally published in Nature and Science, demonstrating the massive impacts of modern industrial fisheries on marine ecosystems. Initially published over an eight-year period, from 1995 to 2003, these articles illustrate a transition in scientific thought—from...
The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change
Volume 1: Approaches, Evidences and Causes Volume 2: Human Impacts and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change is an extensive survey of the interdisciplinary science of environmental change, including recent debates on climate change and the full range of other natural and anthropogenic changes affecting the Earth-ocean-atmosphere system in the past, present and future....
by William B. Willers
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In this inspired collection, some of America's mprovocative thinkers and writers reflect on nature and enviornmetnal science--reaching compelling conclusions about humanity's relationship to the earth. Balanced by science and fact,*Learning to Listen to the Land*explains the significance of our modern...
Living with Biodiversity in an Island Ecosystem
Cultural Adaptation in the Solomon Islands
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This book presents a detailed case study of ecological and cultural interactions between the people and their natural environment at Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, a land of rich biodiversity. This volume documents the subsistence lifestyle of the people and their indigenous ecological knowledge,...
Restoring Layered Landscapes
History, Ecology, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore ecological restoration in landscapes with complex histories shaped by ongoing interactions between humans and nature. For many decades, ecological restoration - particularly...
Cosmic Impact
Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century with the realisation that the dinosaurs had been wiped out by just such an impact.
Now the science community...
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,...
by Gavin Parker, Joe Doak
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
"I have been looking for a book which does this for ages! It provides a clear explanation of the different elements and concepts which underpin how the planning system works and which are fundamental to the operation of the UK system. It also provides good guidance on further reading. A real...
The David Suzuki Reader
A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
In this revised and expanded edition of his collected writings, David Suzuki continues to explore the themes that have informed his work for more than four decades—the interconnectedness of all things, our misguided elevation of economics above all else, the urgent need to deal with climate change—but...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Our societies need to solve difficult issues to attain sustainability. The main challenges include, among others, global warming, demographic change, an energy crisis, and loss of biodiversity. In tackling these issues, a holistic understanding of our living space is important. The field of landscape...
Handbook of Environmental Engineering Assessment
Strategy, Planning, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
This is one of the most comprehensive books on complex subjects of environmental engineering assessment and planning. Addressing these issues requires an understanding of technical, economic, and policy perspectives; based upon extensive research and practical experience of the authors, these perspectives...
In the Shadow of the Sabertooth
Global Warming, the Origins of the First Americans, and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
"Doug Peacock, as ever, walks point for all of us. Not since Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature has a book of such import been presented to readers. Peacock’s intelligence defies measure. His is a beautiful, feral heart, always robust, relentless with its love and desire for the human race...
The Ends of the Earth
An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession
for as long as we've known they existed. Countless explorers, including
such legends as Richard Byrd, Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Falcon
Scott, have risked their lives to chart their frozen landscapes. Now,
for the first time...