Environmental Conservation & Protection

Beginning with an Olympic ski race in northern Utah, this heartfelt book from award-winning writer and photographer Stephen Trimble takes a penetrating look at the battles raging over the land - and the soul - of the American West. "Bargaining for...

Avoid or minimize expenses or delays when you develop projects in wetland areas. This practical reference explains the regulations and provides guidance on mitigation requirements and the permitting process. You'll learn everything you need to know about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786073915748Author Iv�n DuqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Planeta PublishingPublisher Planeta Publishing

Nature writing, as Thoreau knew, can be deeply subversive because it points to ways of living that diverge fundamentally from dominant attitudes. Thoreau would have welcomed these essays by America's most important nature writers, for in exploring our...

How an Hispano community maintained its identity over four centuriesLocated in Albuquerque's south valley, Atrisco is a vibrant community that predates the city, harking back to a land grant awarded in 1692. Joseph P. Sánchez explores the evolution of...

The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental...

Conservation organizations capture people's hearts and minds to encourage them to care about and act for the future of the global environment. This guide provides practical information for how, with limited resources, conservation staff can gather data...

With clarity, humor, detailed scholarship, and passionate eloquence, Roger S. Gottlieb uses a unique range of resources to portray a spiritual path keyed to caring for the earth. This personal and powerful book speaks to anyone who has ever wondered how...

In My Green Manifesto, David Gessner embarks on a rough-and-tumble journey down Boston's Charles River, searching for the soul of a new environmentalism. With a tragically leaky canoe, a broken cell phone, a cooler of beer, and the environmental planner...

Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow examines the future of sustainable engineering and architecture. The contributors' analyses of sustainable solutions, such as wind and solar power, offer valuable insights fur future policy-making, scholarship,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771605236Author Eileen Delehanty PearkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

Deforestation, soil runoff, salination, pollution. While recurrent themes of the contemporary world, they are not new to us. In this broad sweeping review of the environmental impacts of human settlement and development worldwide over the past 5,000...

Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia. The author links the local and global economic forces, and provides an intimate view of how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950584055Author Dana SimsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Green Place BooksPublisher Green Writers PressWeight(grams) 0g

The Chesapeake Bay restoration effort has been touted as the nation's premier environmental restoration program. Yet the Bay and the living systems it supports remain in dismally poor condition, with fisheries in decline and drinking water in danger...

Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow examines the future of sustainable engineering and architecture. The contributors' analyses of sustainable solutions, such as wind and solar power, offer valuable insights for future policy-making, scholarship,...

The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is an internationally known feature of the North American landscape, attracting more than five million visitors each year. A deep cultural, visual, and social history has shaped the Grand Canyon’s environment into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772034929Author Sheila HarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd

Now in its second edition, Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System examines anthropogenic climate change in the context of global capitalism, a political economy that emphasizes profit-making, is committed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560377948Author John FraleyFormat PaperbackImprint Farcountry PressPublisher Farcountry PressWeight(grams) 522g

Here are the tools and skills needed to conduct meaningful, comprehensive evaluations How do we know if a conservation education or outreach program is working? Practical Evaluation for Conservation Education and Outreach: Assessing Impacts &...

Growing public interest in environmental sustainability is a gift to historic sites and museums. It is an invitation to use our knowledge, collections, and sites to discuss how human practices and interactions with the environment in past were - and were...

This engaging personal account of one of America's most contested wildlife conservation campaigns has as its central character the black-footed ferret. Once feared extinct, and still one of North America's rarest mammals, the black-footed ferret...

There are very serious environmental problems facing the planet. Biodiversity loss has reached unprecedented levels. Climate change is progressing so rapidly that within this century we are likely to see substantial sea level rise. There has been...

Ecocriticism: The Ibero-American Experience presents a distinct view of the diverse social and physical geographies of the Americas, their political and cultural connections to the Iberian Peninsula, and their relationship to the environment in its...

In this legislative autobiography Franklin L. Kury tells the story about his election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and later the Senate, against the senior Republican in the House and an entrenched patronage organization. The only...

This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are...

Tropical forest conservation is attracting widespread public interest and helping to shape the ways in which environmental scientists and other groups approach global environmental issues. Schelhas and Pfeffer show that globally-driven forest...

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses. Using Bernard Lonergan's functional specialization method, developed to facilitate collaboration among specialists, Raymaker and Durrani not only analyze...

This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent...

Medina tells us that up to 2% of the urban population in developing countries survives by salvaging materials from waste for recycling, which represents up to 64 million scavengers in the world today. Despite these numbers, we know little about the...

Rattle's new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995823532Author Hap WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Latitude 46Publisher Latitude 46Weight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 20mm

Weaving together the stories and voices of residents, anglers, community leaders, and environmental workers and researchers, this ethnographic account details the lives and livelihoods impacted by a once-unrivaled Michigan salmon fishery. From the...

In this fascinating and abundantly illustrated book, two eminent ecologists show how the natural systems that surround us play an essential role in protecting our basic life-support systems. There are millions of species providing ecosystem services that...

'Aborigines did not cause the extinction of the megafauna ...and it is unlikely that they have caused the extinction of any element of the fauna and flora."If you want to practise control burning in order to protect houses or farms, then do it in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874223521Author Lauren DannerFormat PaperbackImprint Washington State University PressPublisher Washington State University PressWeight(grams) 517g

Mono Lake is one of the largest lakes in California, and Californians have been using it, enjoying it, and abusing it since nomadic northern Paiutes began hunting the lake's vast bird populations. Controversy between environmentalists and the City of Los...

For generations the Rio Embudo watershed in northern New Mexico has been the home of Juan Estevan Arellano and his ancestors. From this unique perspective Arellano explores the ways people use water in dry places around the world. Touching on the Middle...

This revolutionary book is a practical guide for helping communities in any location or context - from a fishing community in England to a logging town in Canada to a farming village in India - to develop a collective vision of a prosperous and...