Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

Prepping For Survival: Disaster Emergency Preparedness for Disaster Survival You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist or a hardcore survivalist to understand the importance of being prepared for an emergency situation.

Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island environments.

Continuing the tradition of the best-selling Getting to Know series, Getting to Know ArcGIS Pro 2.

Maximize your water harvesting potential with efficient, cost-effective earthworks In the face of drought and desertification, well-designed, water harvesting earthworks such as swales, ponds, and dams are the most effective way to channel water into productive use.

Of all the Homeland Security agencies operating in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina's landfall, no agency performed its duties with the same level of diligence and heroism as did the U.

Why is it that despite overwhelming evidence and fundamental science, some people still don't accept that climate change is real and that human activity is contributing to it?

A journey of adventure, tragedy, love, and loss on the summit of Mt.

Safeguarding the Environment in Mining Development gives a description of the role the extractive industry plays in the economic sector of most developing countries.

Swamps and marshes once covered vast stretches of the North American landscape.

Some people you live with for years and go on to have thought you had known them all your life, yet you never knew who they really were.

"e;Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and Cheap Pierogi"e; —Vanity FairAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York.

These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred's pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of "e;situated ignorance"e;: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences.

I wrote this book to share the life experiences that God has divinely helped me out of.

Ce livre est le troisième volet d'une trilogie géopolitique ayant auparavant traité de la question des murs de séparation et de la situation des ponts-frontière.

Geographical science investigates the evolving character of the Earth's biophysical and constructed environment in the past, present and future.

We are all members of a one-earth society, and caring for the earth and soul is interrelated.

What started as a modest waste collection and disposal company in Chicago transformed into North America's leading provider of waste collection, recycling, and disposal services.

Spirit Quest 1969: Tripping Through Lands of Enchantment, is the true tale of a disaffected suburban kid hitchhiking through western America to discover the counterculture communes in 1969.

This book describes the emergence of ecological understanding among the English Romantic poets, arguing that this new holistic paradigm offered a conceptual and ideological basis for American environmentalism.

Tears can imply many things.

For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective.

A la fois essai et traité, cet ouvrage propose une nouvelle vision de la (ré)adaptation afin qu'elle s'inscrive dans un contexte écologique au niveau de l'individu blessé ou malade.

This story is about a child that was voted by his 4th grade teacher to be the most unlikely person to be successful in life.

Drawing on the amazing story of Shackleton and his polar exploration team’s survival against all odds, author Dennis N.

"e;Through the voices of ordinary Native Americans .

A gripping account of four explorers adrift in an unknown land and the harrowing journey that took them across North America 270 years before Lewis and ClarkOne part Heart of Darkness, one part Lewis and Clark, Brutal Journey tells the story of a group of explorers who came to the new world on the heels of Cortes; bound for glory, only four of four hundred would survive.

We barely talk about them and seldom know their names.

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized.