Environmental Champions from Conservation to Climate Change
Climate change is often associated with predictions of dire calamities. But in the past, heroic individuals have stepped forward to meet even the most ominous ecological challenges. This book tells an inspirational story--a story both of pioneering environmentalists who raised our collective consciousness regarding nature's value and heroes of ......
What Many Environmentalists Believe and Why They Are Wrong
25 Myths That Are Destroying the Environment explores the many myths circulating in ecological and political discussions. These myths often drive policy, and Botkin is here to set the record straight. What may seem like an environmentally conscious action may very well be bringing about the unnatural destruction of habitats and ecosystems.
ISBN-13: 9781442244924
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Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
How America's Century-Old Quest for Clean Air May Spur a New Era of Global Environmental Cooperation
Healthy air quality is a growing global concern. Robert Percival discusses the critical junctures in U.S. environmental history that have led to global environmental regulation, particularly in relation to China. According to the World Health Organization in 2013, more than one million people die every year in China from exposure to air pollution. ......
IndieFab Book of the Year Award Winner! Maine Literary Award Winner! What happens when the last son leaves the farm, and the farmer grows old? Do the stories of six generations whisper into silence, as dust darkens the windows of the empty barn? Or can a young boy, running in yellow boots through abandoned fields, bring new life back to the ......
A Practical Guide for the Atlantic and Gulf, from Canada to Mexico
Our Sea Turtles is an abundantly illustrated guide to our human experience with a majestic and intriguing group of marine animals. The book dives deep into the lives of sea turtles, telling their story with unique perspectives and fascinating images that engender understanding and compassion.
By weaving together the insights of anthropology, political ecology, disaster studies, and science and technology studies, this book explores questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics of risk and the ironies of technological disaster response in a time when IBM's stated mission is to build a Smarter Planet.
By weaving together the insights of anthropology, political ecology, disaster studies, and science and technology studies, this book explores questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics of risk and the ironies of technological disaster response in a time when IBM's stated mission is to build a Smarter Planet.
Transportation Planning on trial interprets and explains the meaning of the transportation planning proc ess in the United States today, and focuses on the inter-rel ations between federal legislation, the judicial process and transportation planning. '
Releasing Dangerous Forces in an Industrialized World
Even if a future major war were not to involve the use of nuclear or chemical weapons, it could still be environmentally devastating. This book presents the facts on how the conventional weapons present today in the arsenals of the major nations could lead to environmental destruction over huge areas for long periods of time. It explores the environmental hazards of conventional war in an industrialized world. High levels of development and industrialization make widespread devastation increasingly likely as the result of war damage to civilian facilities such as nuclear power plants, chemical plants, and dams. The devastation is not from the weapons alone but from the release - whether intentional or inadvertent - of radioactive or toxic chemicals or impounded waters. Drawing on a wide range of expert contributors from countries East, West and neutral, the book concludes with an examination of the legal, political, and related cultural approaches to mitigate the dangers. Of value to all those working in international relations or law, national and international security, and environmental protection or conservation, it should also be read by those decision-makers involved in the planning and regulating of nuclear, chemical, and hydrological facilities.
