In Pets Gone Green, New York Times best-selling author Eve Adamson explores how pet owners can have a positive effect on the environment and their pets' place within it.
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which todays industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.
Our planet, our home, is in crisis plain and simple and this collection of quotes, poems, essays, and prayers will inspire all to actively reverse the man-made cause of global warming, stem the tide of environmental destruction, and reconnect to the good earth.
Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SEAG0211 - GESTIÓN AMBIENTAL".
Over the past century, the Everglades has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management infrastructure intended to improve flood management, urban water supply, and agricultural production.
At a time when the Colorado River and all those who depend on it are in peril, this urgent book offers both a love song and a paean of regret to America's most spectacular river (Denver Post) and a plea to save [it] before it's too late (The Wall Street Journal).
This book provides a review of the multitude of conservation concepts, both from a scientific, philosophical, and social science perspective, asking how we want to shape our relationships with nature as humans, and providing guidance on which conservation approaches can help us to do this.
In diesem Buch werden Strategien zur Verbesserung der Widerstandsfähigkeit und des Schutzes der gemäßigten Wälder in Südamerika vorgeschlagen, damit diese Wälder auf nachhaltige Weise Ökosystemleistungen erbringen können.
Selected for The Times Best Gardening Books of the Year 2023Every garden, large or small, in a town or in the country, even one formed completely by pots, can be a living dance of lavish colours, glorious scents and pollen-rich flowers alive to the sound of bird song and the buzz of bees.
This three-volume encyclopedia explores the evolution of green ideology and eco-friendly practices in contemporary American culture, ranging from the creation of regional and national guidelines for green living to the publication of an increasing number of environmental blogs written from the layperson's perspective.
Climate Change in the Himalayas: Vulnerability and Resilience of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems explores and assesses issues affecting species survival in the rich forests of the Himalayan region.
Through biographical examinations of some of the key figures in the debate on conservation, this book seeks to explore a range of subjects, such as the evolution of the conservation movement, its implications for policy-makers, and how it impacts the daily lives of people everywhere.
The book represents a multidisciplinary approach to understanding soil-landscape-vegetation relationships and, specifically, the ecophysiology of plant communities developing on sandy soils of very low fertility that are subject to seasonal flooding.
In his Ark of the Broken Covenant, Kunich showed that Earth's species are concentrated in 25 zones of ecological significance known as biodiversity hotspots, and maintained that we'd go a long way toward saving many species from extinction if we'd focus our protective laws and regulations on these zones.
This two-volume set provides an authoritative overview of the major environmental issues of the 21st century, with a special focus on current challenges, trends, and policy choices.
La prise de conscience collective des dégâts générés par une empreinte technologique de plus en plus grande avec la mise en danger des ressources naturelles dont l'atmosphère elle-même s'accompagne de l'implication progressive des citoyens dans le débat médiatique ouvert entre les décideurs économiques, les institutions étatiques, les élus locaux et les scientifiques.
Climate Change in the Himalayas: Vulnerability and Resilience of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems explores and assesses issues affecting species survival in the rich forests of the Himalayan region.
Although our planet faces numerous ecological crises, including climate change, many Christians continue to view their faith as primarily a "spiritual" matter that has little relationship to the world in which we live.
À l'heure où nos États modernes se divisent sur les moyens de réagir aux crises écologiques annoncées, où les difficultés de faire émerger des solutions à la fois sociales et écologiques sont criantes jusqu'au conflit social, cet ouvrage de mise en perspective historique et de présentation systémique offre une lecture écolo-salutaire.
This handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the place, value and significance of wetlands, presenting perspectives from across the environmental and social sciences.
Face aux incertitudes grandissantes, l’action publique, et particulièrement les politiques environnementales, reposent sur la mobilisation massive de scientifiques.
This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.
Scattered like dots rising from the deep across vast expanses of the world's tropical and subtropical oceans, atolls with their turquoise lagoons and reefs teeming with colorful marine life have captured the public imagination.
This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.
