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Public distrust of GMOs has increased in recent years. The animosity is everywhere; from initiatives popping up left, right, and center to label'em, ban'em, or warn the public. The media overplays t……続きを見る

This is a basic guide to current proposals for reversing global warming and climate change using technology. It does not deal with reducing your carbon footprint or the consequences of global warmin……続きを見る

Learn how to improve urban tree health, position urban trees to better withstand severe weather (hurricane, ice storms, drought), and minimize damage and loss of not only the beloved trees, but also……続きを見る

Taking a bottom-up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance. Benefit-sharing in Envir……続きを見る

Australians have stewardship of a beautiful, diverse and unique environment. We have long had a sense that the biodiversity of this country is special. Yet, despite our sense of its importance, in m……続きを見る

Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a 25 year odyssey around the solar system searching for places to put the world's excess population. He found none. He therefore is determined to join othe……続きを見る

The author and his small dog go on a hike near Black Mountain (NC, USA) on a nice day in June of 2004. However, sullen thoughts concerning his crumbling first marriage mar the outing. When he stops ……続きを見る

A palavra eco significa natureza (em grego oikos significa casa, lar), portanto um ecolar seria um lugar que respeita o meio ambiente (literalmente, um lar dentro de um lar). Seria fácil para todos ……続きを見る

This book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of ‘gender experts’ working in environment and development organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender equality and so……続きを見る

Un ensayo académico sobre la ecologìa y su papel cruxial para comprender y resolver los problemas ambientales de forma compleja y holistica. Para lograrlo debe sustentarse en diferentes formas de in……続きを見る

The fourth Factor X publication from the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity: The Nexus Approaches explores the interdependencies of s……続きを見る

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Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between ric……続きを見る

*** Profits from this book will be used toward working to get this system implemented. Flooding and drought could become a thing of the past!*** Reviews for Treat Climate Change, Save the Earth: How……続きを見る

This book systematically analyzes how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past……続きを見る

How did ancient societies change the environment and how do their actions continue to affect us today? In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan’s Travail, J.……続きを見る

This is documentation of the result of a workshop: "Designing for the Loop". The goal was to study the possibility to design prototypes of e-textiles with sustainability in mind right at the start. 続きを見る

This text is a description of the design process of a scarf. This scarf has a pollution sensor inside the fabric. The challenge is to design this e-textile in such a way that recycling is possible. 続きを見る

Jesus describes the principles of how to create a loving ecosystem, including how ecosystems respond to love, how humans are connected to the ecosystem, the three basic elements that organisms requi……続きを見る

During 1965-2000, 21 Montana State University graduate students completed field studies of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis). Their studies indicate that bighorn sheep can be a viable part of Montana’……続きを見る

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting Children of Dune, the third book in one of the most influential series of all time, which has inspired countless othe……続きを見る

The word eco means nature (in Greek oikos means house), so an Ecohouse would be a place that respects the environment (literally, a house inside a house). It would be easy for all of us to be ecolog……続きを見る

This book examines the lifeline of modern living - petroleum. This is what flows In our veins today. Every aspect of our life, from food to transport to housing, it’s all petroleum based. Either its……続きを見る

The Circular Economy in Europe presents an overview and a critical discussion on how circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013, the idea of a circular econ……続きを見る

Amidst the beauty of their serene and self-sufficient lifestyle aboard their sloop 'Wind Drifter,' as Car Ingman and his wife sail and explore the choice locations of thousands of miles of the coast……続きを見る

Buckminster Fuller, who invented the geodesic dome, coined the phrase “Space Ship Earth,” and had a carbon molecule named for him, was one of the greatest thinkers of the Twentieth Century. When I f……続きを見る

Rachel Carson's "The Silent Spring" is widely recognized as one of the most important seminal works in launching the environmental movement into public awareness. Originally published in 1962, Carso……続きを見る

This book offers the first multidisciplinary overview of water resources issues and management in the Aral Sea Basin, covering both the Amu Darya and Syr Darya River Basins. The two main rivers of A……続きを見る

What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we understand the world? We humans tend to believe that things are ……続きを見る

This book explores the emergence and development of the legal concept of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, and its application in agriculture. Developed in the 1990s, the concept of fair and equit……続きを見る