A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER One of the most beloved books of our time: an illuminating account of the forest, and the science that shows us how trees communicate, feel, and live in social networks.
Contributing to the rapidly emerging field of ecolinguistics, this book explores the role of language in mediating and determining our relationship with nature and in shaping attitudes and social practices in environmental areas.
The Environmental Uncanny argues that the increasing destitution of our world is the result of a certain forgetfulness: we have forgotten that the basis of our knowledge is not calculative reason, but our participation in the natural world.
An Introduction to Emergency Exercise Design and Evaluation is designed to help practitioners and students of emergency management understand various aspects of the exercise design process.
In Not So Golden State, leading environmental historian Char Miller looks below the surface of California's ecological history to expose some of its less glittering conundrums.
A tribute to the visionary contributions and prophetic writings of Thomas Berry, spiritual ecologist and father of environmentalism Contains 10 essays by eminent philosophers, thinkers, and scientists in the field of ecology and sustainability, including Matthew Fox, Joanna Macy, Duane Elgin, Sean Esbjrn-Hargens, Ervin Laszlo, and Allan Combs Calls for a transformation of consciousness to resolve todays global ecological and human challenges Includes a little-known but essential essay by Thomas Berry When cultural historian and spiritual ecologist Thomas Berry, described by Newsweek magazine as the most provocative figure among the new breed of eco-theologians, passed away in 2009 at age 94, he left behind a dream of healing the Earth community.
Indigenous leaders and other visionaries suggest solutions to todays global crisis Original Instructions are ancient ways of living from the heart of humanity within the heart of nature Explores the convergence of indigenous and contemporary science and the re-indigenization of the worlds peoples Includes authoritative indigenous voices, including John Mohawk and Winona LaDukeFor millennia the worlds indigenous peoples have acted as guardians of the web of life for the next seven generations.
A step-by-step guide to animal communication, connecting with your primal mind, and immersing yourself in Nature Includes exercises for learning how to become invisible within Nature, sense hidden animals, and communicate with wild animals and birds Explains how to approach wild animals and form friendships with them Details the intuitive awareness of our hunter-gatherer ancestors and their innate oneness with NatureAnimals and plants are in constant communication with the world around them.
Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across 19 countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimisation, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices.
Nature First combines the Scandinavian approach to creating a relationship with nature (known as friluftsliv) with efforts by Canadian and international educators to adapt this wisdom and apply it to everyday life experiences in the open air.
Thorough, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairies: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of the prairies, or the Great Plains grasslands of North America, offering a view of the past, a vision for the future, and a clear focus on the present.
Corporate capitalism has ravaged the planet the way HIV ravages the human body, triggering a Critical Mass of cascading environmental, economic, social and political crises.
Feeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues - yet there's no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land.
Feeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues - yet there's no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land.
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development makes climate change and responsible consumption key priorities for both industrialized and emerging economies.
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development makes climate change and responsible consumption key priorities for both industrialized and emerging economies.
This title is an IGI Global Core Reference for 2019 as it covers the inevitable impact of climate change continues to evolve as the global population increases, building upon the need for expansion in current research on strategies to manage variable and extreme weather conditions, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and more.
The book describes the results of the AGaStor Project's social research carried out in northwestern Poland which recognizes the main social opportunities and barriers to the introduction of CCUS to society.
Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "e;a nation of immigrants.
Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "e;a nation of immigrants.
Finalist for the Big Other Book Award, Nonfiction Category 2021Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Finalist for the Big Other Book Award, Nonfiction Category 2021Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change.
This detailed study of the use of water at different price levels by residential consumers in the Toronto-centred region from Hamilton to Oshawa challenges the basis of our present urban water supply policy.
This volume reports all the information presently available from the fifty-seven regeneration surveys carried out to the present by government and private agencies within the Province of Ontario.
Hydroids of the Pacific Coast of Canada and the United States is an attempt to give a brief description, with figures, of every hydroid species known to occur along the Pacific Coast of Canada and the United States, together with its distribution within this area.
This detailed study of the use of water at different price levels by residential consumers in the Toronto-centred region from Hamilton to Oshawa challenges the basis of our present urban water supply policy.
This volume reports all the information presently available from the fifty-seven regeneration surveys carried out to the present by government and private agencies within the Province of Ontario.
