Environmental Science

Developing Ecological Consciousness is a unique environmental studies textbook. Rather than working through a list of environmental problems like many textbooks on the subject, the book aims to help students awake to the awe and wonder of our planet,...

This is a definitive book on the dog family, dealing with many aspects of the biology and conservation of wolves, dogs, jackals and foxes. It covers many topics relevant to modern conservation science, and features detailed case studies of many canid...

Say 'algae' and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist.; There are as many algae on earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for aeons. Algae created...

Thorough and detailed, The Carbon Footprint Handbook encompasses all areas of carbon footprint, including the scientific elements, methodological and technological aspects, standards, industrial case studies, and communication of carbon footprint results...

The world is changing. Human population is surging towards 10 billion, food, water, climate and energy security are all at risk. Nitrogen could be our life raft in this global 'perfect storm'. Get it right and it can help to feed billions, fuel our cars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645504002Author Dr Paul HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Dr Paul HarveyPublisher Dr Paul HarveyWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This book charts the environmental transformation of Scotland from the end of the ice age in an empty land 10,000 years ago to the Viking invasions of an established society 9,000 years later. When the icefields and glaciers disappeared forests covered...

The only book to successfully integrate social, economic and environmental considerations with an accessible, quantitative approach to energy science. Energy Science introduces the latest energy technologies, explaining the physical principles...

An enormous amount of research into British field systems has been undertaken by historical geographers, economic historians and others since H. L. Gray's classic work on English Field Systems was published. Detailed local studies have been legion,...

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.It discusses how Greenland's resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface...

'Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will never stop looking up.' Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins Most of us have never been to space. To date, of the more than 100 billion humans that...

Energy Systems and Sustainability provides an exploration of the economic, social, environmental, and policy issues raised by current systems of energy use, as well as describing their key physical and engineering features. From an overview of the...

Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism. Across its theoretical and empirical chapters, written by leading...

Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines world civilisations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Island to the Roman Empire and it argues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399535765Author Pamela K. BrodowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g

Over the last two decades Outdoor Studies has emerged as an innovative and vibrant field of study. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive appraisal of established and cutting-edge research methods as applied to Outdoor Studies.Covering...

From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120179Author Kevin KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582431055Author Yasunari KawabataFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g

The use of renewables is spreading rapidly. Over a quarter of global electricity is already generated from solar, wind, hydro and biomass energy. With costs falling significantly, renewables are booming, helping to avoid the major climate change risks...

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the thought of the climate emergency?Do you want an eco-friendly lifestyle but don't know where to start?Then dive into this little book, full of simple, achievable ways to help you reduce your carbon footprint. From tips...

This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920769192Author Pat ColebyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribe PublicationsPublisher Scribe PublicationsWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039009790Author Diana Beresford-KroegerFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Random House CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036746Author Elena ConisFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 164mm *...

Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment, Fourth Edition explains the fundamental principles of mass transport, chemical partitioning, and chemical/biological transformations of pollutants and naturally occurring chemicals in surface waters, in the...

In Eradicating Ecocide, international environment lawyer and Ecocide law expert Polly Higgins sets out to demonstrate how our planet is fast being destroyed by the activities of corporations and governments, facilitated by 'compromise' laws that offer...

Leading the way in current thinking on environmental logistics, Green Logistics provides a unique insight on the environmental impacts of logistics and the actions that companies and governments can take to deal with them. It is written by leading...

The methodological needs of environmental studies are unique in the breadth of research questions that can be posed, calling for a textbook that covers a broad swath of approaches to conducting research with potentially many different kinds of evidence...

Indigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have...

Practical Toxicology: Evaluation, Prediction, and Risk, Third Edition shows how to conduct a program of safety evaluation and testing and then to interpret and apply the resulting data and information in the real world, beginning with the basic concepts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780909536039Author Jennifer MarohasyFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd

Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies...

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262561174Author Jonathan A. FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 934gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm

This study of the relationship between human activity and environmental change from the Iron Age to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period brings together the results of the latest research in many fields to reconstruct changes in climate, sea level, soils...

Are we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth's history tell us about the Anthropocene? What do mass extinction events look like and how does life on Earth recover from them? The fossil record reveals periods when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525565994Author Suzanne SimardFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Hong Kong Public Housing provides the first comprehensive history of one of the most dramatic episodes in the global history of the modern built environment: the vast public housing programme sponsored by successive Hong Kong governments from the 1950s,...

Financing Water Security and Green Growth offers a comprehensive overview of the innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement water security and green growth initiatives at various scales and in different contexts. Robert C...