Environmental

Francesca Rosignoli (Author)

Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees

Editura: ROUTLEDGE

Anul aparitiei: 2024

This book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might b

D. S. Sofronov (Author)

Synthetic Sorbent Materials Based on Metal Sulphides and Oxides

Editura: ROUTLEDGE

Anul aparitiei: 2024

Kate Marvel (Author)

Human Nature: The Story of Climate Change in Nine Emotions

Editura: ECCO PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

Peter Uimonen (Author)

Environmental Issues in the New World Trading System

Editura: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD

Anul aparitiei: 1997

This book examines the recent controversy between international trade and environmental policies. It

Nick Harvey (Author)

Environmental Impact Assessment: Procedures, Practice and Prospects in Australia

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR USA

Anul aparitiei: 1999

This book provides an up-to-date guide to environmental impact assessment procedures in Australia.

Frank Moulaert (Author)

Globalization and Integrated Area Development in European Cities

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR USA

Anul aparitiei: 2002

Contrary to common beliefs, economic globalization does not imply the end of social urban policy. Th

Benjamin Hale (Author)

The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature

Editura: MIT PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

A brief foray into a moral thicket, exploring why we should protect nature despite tsunamis, mala

Susanne Stoll-Kleemann (Author)

Climate-Just Behavior: Foundations and Transformational Approaches

Editura: ROUTLEDGE

Anul aparitiei: 2024

This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the

Sharachchandra Lele (Editor)

Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity

Editura: MIT PR

Anul aparitiei: 2018

A multidisciplinary examination of alternative framings of environmental problems, with using exa

Susan Freinkel

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

Editura: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we're starting to realize it's not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this engaging and eye-opening book, we're nearing a crisis point. We've produced as much plastic in the past decade as we did in the entire twentieth century. We're drowning in the stuff, and we need to start making some hard choices. Freinkel gives us the tools we need with a blend of lively anecdotes and analysis. She combs through scientific studies and economic data, reporting from China and across the United States to assess the real impact of plastic on our lives. She tells her story through eight familiar plastic objects: comb, chair, Frisbee, IV bag, disposable lighter, grocery bag, soda bottle, and credit card. Her conclusion: we cannot stay on our plastic-paved path. And we don't have to. Plastic points the way toward a new creative partnership with the material we love to hate but can't seem to live ...

DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism: Classic Texts

Editura: University of Washington Press

Anul aparitiei: 2008

No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides. The documents collected by Thomas Dunlap trace shifting attitudes toward DDT and pesticides in general through a variety of sources: excerpts from scientific studies and government reports, advertisements from industry journals, articles from popular magazines, and the famous "Fable for Tomorrow" from Silent Spring. Beginning with attitudes toward nature at the turn of the twentieth century, the book moves through the use and early regulation of pesticides; the introduction and early success of DDT; the discovery of its environmental effects; and the uproar over Silent Spring. It ends with recent debates about DDT as a potential solution to malaria in Africa.

Peter D. Ward

Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us about Our Future

Editura: Collins

Anul aparitiei: 2008

More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90% of all species and nearly 97% of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle for paleontologists, and during the 1990s and the early part of this century a great battle was fought between those who thought that death had come from above and those who thought something more complicated was at work. Paleontologist Peter D. Ward, fresh from helping prove that an asteroid had killed the dinosaurs, turned to the Permian problem, and he has come to a stunning conclusion. In his investigations of the fates of several groups of mollusks during those extinctions and others, he discovered that the near-total devastation at the end of the Permian was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate change. But it's not the heat (nor the humidity) that's directly responsible for the extinctions, and the story of the discovery of what is responsible makes for an fascinating, globe-spanning adventure.

Edward Humes

Eco Barons: The New Heroes of Environmental Activism

Editura: Ecco

Anul aparitiei: 2010

"Well written and compelling, Eco Barons gives the reader a first glimpse of the activists, philanthropists and gadflies who may well turn out to be the J.D. Rockefellers and Rachel Carsons of our time." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes offers readers an eye-opening look at the remarkable philanthropists and visionaries who are devoting their lives to saving the earth from overdevelopment and destruction. In Eco Barons, Humes, the bestselling author of Mississippi Mud and Monkey Girl, gives us fascinating portraits of extraordinary men and women who are dedicated to humankind's survival--as important a contribution to the environmental cause as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. As the New York Times points out, "Humes's urgent message is clear: We must all strive to become 'eco barons' in our own right if we are to save Planet Earth."

Alun Anderson

After the Ice: Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic

Editura: Smithsonian Books

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Global warming is changing the Arctic faster and more dramatically than any place else on Earth. "After the Ice" presents the winners and losers in this high stakes battle, from nations and native peoples to animals and the very landscape itself.

Thomas M. Kostigen

You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet

Editura: HarperOne

Anul aparitiei: 2010

"A passionate and heartfelt call to care." --Bruce Feiler, New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and America 's Prophet In You Are Here, Thomas Kostigen, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Green Book , takes us to the most extreme environmental areas on the planet to show how what we do from the comfort of our own home affects people, places, and things everywhere. A timely, much-needed alarm that recalls Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth combined with a compelling travel narrative reminiscent of Anthony Bourdain with straight ahead Anderson Cooper-like reporting, You Are Here is "an intriguing and insightful account that deserves to be read by everyone" (Mark Plotkin, Time Magazine Hero for the Planet).

HRH the Prince of Wales

Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World

Editura: Harper

Anul aparitiei: 2010

In this informational, inspirational work, Charles, the Prince of Wales, describes his views on climate change for the first time, presenting a compelling case that the solution to this problem lies in our ability to regain our balance with nature.

Larry Gonick

Cartoon Guide to the Environment

Editura: Collins Reference

Anul aparitiei: 1996

Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an on-line restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to the Environment to put you on the road to environmental literacy. The Cartoon Guide to the Environment covers the main topics of environmental science: chemical cycles, life communities, food webs, agriculture, human population growth, sources of energy and raw materials, waste disposal and recycling, cities, pollution, deforestation, ozone depletion, and global warming--and puts them in the context of ecology, with discussions of population dynamics, thermodynamics, and the behavior of complex systems.

Colin Chartres, Samyuktha Varma

Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems

Editura: FT Press

Anul aparitiei: 2010

From cities to biofuels, competition for water is accelerating. Climate change threatens to intensify the onset and severity of the water crisis in several regions of the developing world: this is already happening throughout much of Asia, the Mediterranean, southwestern Australia, and the southwestern US. Along with water shortages, unsafe water becomes an increasingly widespread problem, too. As water crises trigger food and health crises, billions may slip further into poverty, leading to greater social and political unrest, new wars, and worsening national security. Out of Water doesn't just illuminate the coming global water crisis: it presents innovative solutions in agriculture, engineering, governance, and beyond, including state-of-the art techniques for integrated water management. This book will help raise the level of debate about water to the highest levels of government, and identify workable reforms and incentives to help water users utilize this crucial resource far more efficiently.

Scott Brennan, Jay Withgott

Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories [With Access Code]

Editura: Pearson Custom Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Marc Reisner

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

Editura: Penguin Books

Anul aparitiei: 1993

"I've been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West's success with irrigation could be a mirage -- that it took water for granted and didn't appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it." - Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to ...