Achieving environmental conservation and socioeconomic development is a challenging endeavor, particularly when we do not have the necessary tools to develop a clear understanding of the dynamic rel……続きを見る
This quick and easy to read ebook explains everything you need to know to get started canning. Even if you have never cooked before, you can learn how to make your own jam, tomato sauce, and more. C……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Grant
出版社: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
発売日: 2016年10月25日
A stunning and unique collection of satellite images of Earth that offer an unexpected look at humanity, derived from the wildly popular Daily Overview Instagram project.
Inspired by the “Overview E……続きを見る
Contact collects new and classic first-person climbing stories from North America’s best-known climbers and writers. Mountain climbers are important but overlooked commentators on the environment, a……続きを見る
著者:Molly Wallace
出版社: University of Michigan Press
発売日: 2016年05月18日
Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its icon……続きを見る
The sixteen essays in this anthology describe the practice of teaching about place, with the goal of inspiring educators as well as other readers to discover the value of close investigation of thei……続きを見る
China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved to cities, and yet China has an immense challenge to feed a growi……続きを見る
著者:Piers Blaikie
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年05月20日
First published in 1985. This book examines wide variety of ways in which environmental deterioration, in particular soil erosion, can be viewed and the implicit political judgements that often info……続きを見る
Carbonate mounds are an important feature along the European North-Atlantic margins. The presence of giant carbonate mounds in the Porcupine Seabight, on the Porcupine Bank, in the Rockall Trough an……続きを見る
Watersheds, supplying crucial ecosystem services to humans, seem to be a logical territorial unit to integrate societal benefits and environmental needs in order to evaluate the sustainability of na……続きを見る
The purpose of this book is specific and ambitious: to outline the distinctive elements, scope, and usefulness of a new and emerging field of applied ecology named warfare ecology. Based on a NATO A……続きを見る
著者:Saska Petrova
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年05月23日
The role of local people in contemporary nature conservation practices is often poorly understood or neglected. This book, therefore, examines questions of local participation at the nature-society ……続きを見る
著者:Sean Ryan
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2016年04月29日
Deciding what user impacts are natural or unnatural has inspired much debate. Biophysically, moose cause similar kinds of soil and vegetation impacts as hikers. Yet moose are the sign of nature whil……続きを見る
Through focusing on children's sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It explores children's responses in literacy and langua……続きを見る
Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case of household recycling, this book shows why this foundational concept needs to be rev……続きを見る
著者:James W. Hulse
出版社: University of Nevada Press
発売日: 2009年02月28日
Nevada's relatively brief history (it became a state in 1864) has been largely a story of the exploitation of its natural resources. Mining has torn down mountains and poisoned streams and groundwat……続きを見る
Environment and Development: Basic Principles, Human Activities, and Environmental Implications focuses on the adverse impact that human activities, developments, and economic growth have on both na……続きを見る
著者:David Robinson
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年05月26日
Community forestry is an expanding model of forest management around the world. Over a quarter of forests in developing countries are now owned by or assigned to communities and there is a growing c……続きを見る
How Will Climate Change Affect You?
Climate change is the biggest threat to the world today. Rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns are already creating havoc in parts of the world. The i……続きを見る
In 1934, conservationist Aldo Leopold and his wife Estella bought a barn - the remnant of a farm - and surrounding lands in south-central Wisconsin. The entire Leopold clan - five children in all - ……続きを見る
著者:Sean K. Smith
出版社: Hatherleigh Press
発売日: 2019年07月16日
Finallyーa hopeful book which empowers us to make the choices we need to make...not out of fear but out of love for ourselves, our Earth, and each other.
In its long-awaited revised edition, You Can……続きを見る
著者:Douglas Auld
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2016年05月30日
The purpose of this collection is to provide the student with an introduction to the way in which the discipline of economics tackles the problems posed in affluent societies by their various ‘waste……続きを見る
Une vibrante exhortation à la préservation de notre environnement.
Ce texte dépasse le cercle des fidèles ; sa portée universelle et le charisme de son auteur en font une contribution majeure aux dé……続きを見る
This major work of historical ecology advances the integration of research on environmental and social systems, contributing important lessons for contemporary natural resource policy and management……続きを見る
著者:Robert Sauder
出版社: University of Nevada Press
発売日: 2009年08月15日
In the arid American West, settlement was generally contingent on the availability of water to irrigate crops and maintain livestock and human residents. Early irrigation projects were usually the c……続きを見る
The Texas Landscape Project explores conservation and ecology in Texas by presenting a highly visual and deeply researched view of the widespread changes that have affected the state as its populati……続きを見る
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is an exotic species that appeared in North America in the late nineteenth century and has since become a dominant plant in the arid and semiarid rangelands between the ……続きを見る
著者:Stephen J. Pyne
出版社: University of Arizona Press
発売日: 2016年06月17日
The coastal sage and shrublands of California burn. The mountain-encrusting chaparral burns. The conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Trinity Alps burn. The rain-shadowed deserts afte……続きを見る
Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and political rights, reigniting the essential tension tha……続きを見る