Conservation of the environment Books
Penguin Putnam Inc The Climate Book
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWe still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope—but only if we listen to the science before it's too late.In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts—geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and Indigenous leaders—to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Throughout, illuminating and often shocking grayscale charts, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and illustrations underscore their research and their arguments. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing h
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Random House Canada How to Be a Climate Optimist
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Simon & Schuster The Swamp
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Baker Publishing Group Caring for Creation
Book SynopsisFaith-Based Solutions to Caring for the EarthClimate change is a confusing and polarizing issue. It may also prove to be the most daunting challenge of this century because children, the elderly, and the poor will be the first to feel its effects. The issue is all over the news, but what is seldom heard is a conservative, evangelical perspective.Connecting the dots between science and faith, this book explores the climate debate and how Christians can take the lead in caring for God''s creation. The authors answer top questions such as 'What''s really happening?' and 'Who can we trust?' and discuss stewarding the earth in light of evangelical values. 'Acting on climate change is not about political agendas,' they say. 'It''s about our kids. It''s about being a disciple of Jesus Christ.' Capping off this empowering book are practical, simple ideas for improving our environment and helping our families and those around us.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Nature Mandalas Wonders of the Garden
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Nature Mandalas Wonders of the Earth Wind and Sea
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Royal British Columbia Museum The Sustainability Dilemma
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University of British Columbia Press Levelling the Lake
Book SynopsisStretching across Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota, the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake basin spans boundaries and jurisdictions. Levelling the Lake explores a century and a half of social, economic, and legal arrangements through which the resources and environment of the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake watershed have been harnessed and harmed. Jamie Benidickson traces the environmental consequences of mining, forest industries, commercial fishing, hydro-electricity production, and recreation, as well as their often unanticipated impacts on local residents, including Indigenous communities, which encouraged new legal and institutional responses. Assessing the transition from primary resource extraction toward sustainable development at a watershed level, Levelling the Lake also shows how interjurisdictional and transboundary issues many involving the Canada-US International Joint Commission continue to play a significant role throughout the region.Trade ReviewBenidickson shows how the many controversies and challenges—from the early negotiations around leveling the lake, to the Winnipeg water problems, the search for answers to the mercury crisis, and the need for a bridge and road to address the living conditions of the Shoal Lake band, illustrate how essential and necessary multi-agency solutions have been for the problems of the Lake of the Woods basin. -- Francis M. Carroll, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba * Prairie History *Benedickson’s story embraces the field of environmental history. -- Mark Kuhlberg, Social HistoryBenidickson shows how the many controversies and challenges—from the early negotiations around leveling the lake, to the Winnipeg water problems, the search for answers to the mercury crisis, and the need for a bridge and road to address the living conditions of the Shoal Lake band—illustrate how essential and necessary multi-agency solutions have been for the problems of the Lake of the Woods basin. -- Francis M. Carroll, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba * Prairie History *Jamie Benidickson injects subtle ironic humour throughout [Levelling the Lake], but readers not interested in water or history may find it a long, hard haul … but ultimately this is a rewarding read, perhaps best appreciated as an unfolding story … while subdued in tone, Levelling the Lake offers a valuable analysis on how ecosystems and relations between people can decline from one generation to the next … the book quietly and forcibly puts into relief how long-term economic and social security can be assured only through mutual trust among peoples, along with the proper maintenance and re- establishment of ecological balance. -- Robert Sandford * Literary Review of Canada *This lengthy, erudite, and often (necessarily) dense manuscript details the environmental and social consequences of resource development in numerous sectors: fish, water levels, hydropower, pollution, logging, mining, recreation, etc. -- Daniel MacfarlaneBenidickson is to be congratulated for both the depth and quality of his research. His understanding of the complex legal and constitutional frameworks which have been imposed upon this region from the 1860s to the present is outstanding. [...]This is an important work – and a pioneering one at that. -- Jim Mochoruk * NiCHE *Table of ContentsForeword by Graeme WynnIntroduction1 Building Boundaries2 Cultural, Commercial, and Constitutional Fishing3 This Land Is My Land – It Can’t Be Your Land4 Water Rights and Water Powers5 Pulp and Paper: From Emergence to Emergency6 Bacterial Waterways7 Levelling the Lake8 Power Struggles9 Economy and Ecology10 We Are All in This Together11 "Slowly to the Rescue as a Community Fails"12 Lumbering towards Sustainability13 Fishing Contests14 "For Water Knows No Borders"Conclusion: Finding the WatershedNotes; Suggested Readings; Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Getting the Word Out in the Fight to Save the
Book SynopsisThis text explains how non-profit environmental organizations can expand and activate their membership, put pressure on government officials, use the news media and shape public policy, arguing that the key to the success of all these efforts is communication. Numerous examples are provided.Trade Review"Dick Beamish may be the best all-around publicist for local land conservation now working in the United States. 'Getting the Word Out in the Fight to Save the Earth' has my highest recommendation."--Charles E. Little, author of 'Greenways for America' "This is a splendid book. The style is a perfect match to the material--direct, terse, upbeat, confident. Beamish obviously knows his field inside and out."--John G. Mitchell, author of 'Dispatches from the Deep Woods'Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter OneChapter TwoChapter ThreeChapter FourEpilogueAcknowledgmentsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Marine Mammal Research Conservation beyond Crisis
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive resource will be indispensable for marine mammal biologists, oceanographers, conservation program managers, government regulators, policy makers, and anyone who is concerned about the future of these captivating species.Trade ReviewShould appeal to a wide variety of libraries and readers... interested in marine biology and conservation of those captivating animals. Choice 2006 A thoughtfully written and edited compendium... it deserves to be on the shelf of every serious marine mammalogist researcher, and should become well-thumbed. Aquatic Mammalogy 2006 The book superbly covers some of the most important conservation issues of marine mammals. -- Bernd Wursig Quarterly Review of Biology 2006 An essential book for marine mammal researchers, oceanographers, regulators, and anyone called to help in the effort to save marine mammals from extinction. Southeastern Naturalist 2006 A very valuable compendium of state-of-the-art scientific knowledge... A must in the bibliographic luggage of anyone concerned with marine mammal conservation, regardless of nationality or region of concern. -- Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara Fins 2008Table of ContentsPreface1. The Paradox of Marine Mammal Science and Conservation2. Bycatch and Depredation3. Indirect Fishery Interactions4. The Role of Infectious Disease in Influencing Status and Trends5. Assessing Impacts of Environmental Contaminants6. Effects of Harmful Algal Blooms7. Impacts of Anthropogenic Sound8. Assessing and Managing Marine Mammal Habitat in the United States9. Long-Term Environmental Change and Marine Mammals10. Identifying Units to Conserve11. Adapting Regulatory Protection to Cope with Future Change12. Future Directions in Marine mammal ResearchLiterature CitedContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Wildlife Contraception
Book SynopsisBooks in the series cover a wide range of topics, including zoo- and aquarium-based field conservation, animal management science, public education, philosophy, and ethics.Trade ReviewPresents a well-organized overview. -- Katarina Jewgenow/Heribert Hofer Animal Welfare 2007 Very well organised, thereby allowing easy reading. -- I. Neubert Mammalian BiologyTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Need for Wildlife Contraception: Problems Related to Unrestricted Population GrowthPart I: The IssuesChapter 1. The Ethics of Wildlife ContraceptionChapter 2. Regulatory IssuesPart II: The MethodsChapter 3. Types of Contraception: The ChoicesChapter 4. Assessing Efficacy and ReversibilityChapter 5. Adverse Effects of ContraceptivesChapter 6. Choosing the Most Appropriate Contraceptive Part III: The Application Chapter 7. Contraception in CarnivoresChapter 8. Contraception in Nonhuman PrimatesChapter 9. Contraception in UngulatesChapter 10. Contraception in Pinnipeds and Cetaceans Chapter 11. Contraception in Other MammalsChapter 12. Contraceptive Agents in Aggression Control.Chapter 13. Contraception in Free-Ranging WildlifeEpilogue: Future Directions in Wildlife ContraceptionAppendixContributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Bats in Forests Conservation and Management
Book SynopsisBat ecologists, bat conservationists, forest ecologists, and forest managers will find in this book an indispensable synthesis of the topics that concern them.Trade ReviewThis well-referenced work will be of value to readers interested in bat biology, ecology, conservation, forestry, and land management. Choice 2007 I highly recommend this volume to anyone who is interested in bats. Professionals working with bats... will find the volume very useful, from the extensive citations to literature to thoughtful advice from experienced authors. -- M.B. Fenton Quarterly Review of Biology 2008 A good pick for any college-level library strong in natural history and conservation issues. Midwest Book Review 2008 Fills important gaps in the scope of the earlier symposium... comprehensively reviews the issues and research tools currently available for addressing bat-forest issues anywhere in North America. -- Elizabeth Pierson Bat Research News 2007 This volume will be valuable for land and forest managers as well as researchers and students concerned with the 27 bat species that inhabit the forests of North America. -- C.R. Northeastern Naturalist 2008Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceContributorsChapter 1. Bats in Forests: What we Know and What we Need to LearnChapter 2. Ecology and Behavior of Bats Roosting in Tree Cavities and Under BarkChapter 3. Behavior and Day-Roosting Ecology of North American Foliage-Roosting BatsChapter 4. Foraging Ecology of Bats in ForestsChapter 5. Importance of Night Roosts to the Ecology of BatsChapter 6. Migration and Use of Autumn, Winter, and Spring Rootsts by Tree BatsChapter 7. Silvicultural Practices and Management of Habitat For BatsChapter 8. Silvicultural Pratices and Management of Habitat For BatsChapter 9. Ecological Consideration for Landscape-Level Management of BatsChapter 10. Assessing Population Status of Bats in Forests: Challenges and OpportunitiesChapter 11. Planning for Bats on Forest Industry Lands in North AmericaAuthor IndexSpecies IndexSubject Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Biology and Conservation of Ridley Sea Turtles
Book SynopsisHere Plotkin and her colleagues reveal the nature of these species and the steps needed to make sure they remain a permanent part of the marine environment.Trade ReviewExtraordinary contribution to sea turtle literature. The value of this book lies in the fact that ' much of what we know about ridleys is summarized in the chapters herein ,' as stated by the editor, and I echo her hopes that this book will stimulate some much needed research on ridleys. Marine Turtle Newsletter 2009
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Johns Hopkins University Press Elephants and Ethics Toward a Morality of
Book SynopsisIn addressing these issues from multiple perspectives, Elephants and Ethics promotes mutual understanding of the cultural, conservation, and economic difficulties at the root of the many troublesome human-elephant interactions and poses new questions about our responsibility toward these largest of land mammals.Trade Review[A] fascinating, saddening, but guardedly optimistic book. PsycCRITIQUES A fascinating history of human and elephant interactions. Midwest Book Review An important contribution. -- Evelyne Bremond-Hoslet Mammalia
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Johns Hopkins University Press Saving Sea Turtles Extraordinary Stories from the
Book SynopsisHis inspirational story of dedicated individuals, creative endeavors, and adventure reveals what is being done and what else we must do in order to ensure that these fascinating animals continue swimming in the oceans.Trade ReviewAn interesting overview on the threats to the survival of sea turtles. Birdbooker Report 2011Table of ContentsPreface1. Sea Turtles in the Modern World: Where Do We Stand Today?2. Life in the Egg: Buried Alive under Two Feet of Sand3. Race to the Sea: Coatis, Crabs, and Night Herons—Oh My!4. To the Horizon: The First Day5. Lost and Found: Life as a Juvenile6. The Deadliest Catch: The Other Side of Fishing7. Out of the Fire: The Gauntlet Continues8. Return to the Beach: You Can't Go Home Anymore9. Nesting: Taking Back the Night10. Las Baulas: The Last Hope for Pacific Leatherbacks11. Ostional: The Egg-stained Sands of Costa Rica12. Global Warming: Rising Seas, Lost Beaches, and Genders13. The Great Turtle Race: A New Approach to Conservation Education14. Sea Turtles and Satellites: Tales of Technology15. 2100: A World with, or without, Sea Turtles?Index
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MJ - Ohio University Press Row by Row
Book SynopsisFor two and a half years, Katherine J. Black crisscrossed Kentucky, interviewing home vegetable gardeners from a rich variety of backgrounds. Row by Row: Talking with Kentucky Gardeners is the result, a powerful compilation of testimonies on the connections between land, people, culture, and home.TheTrade Review“This is a loving and necessary book about our future: a possible world of connections with the earth, with the spirit, with the food we eat, and among human beings. Black’s sensitive interviews, her narrators’ creative lives, and the eloquent photographs are one powerful message of hope.”“Kate Black’s tender portraits of Kentucky gardeners read like good visits with future friends. Although these compelling Kentuckians’ backgrounds and ancestries vary widely, they have in common their striking commitment to growing their own food. Why do they garden? Their answers make each story rich and satisfying.”“Diversity throughout the book highlights our collective connection to food, land and the human experience.… Each tale is just intimate enough for the reader to feel a connection to the gardener, but brief enough to anticipate the next.… Row by Row evolves into a gardening manual, without giving a single instruction. Within the stories are secrets and inspirations that readers can apply to their own gardens, even if they’re digging for the first time.” * LEO Weekly *“Black’s commitment to listening to the oral histories cuts through the romanticism of much garden writing and the polarizing language that can afflict our food conversations in the United States.”
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Beacon Press Junk Raft An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of
Book SynopsisAn exciting account of a scientist’s expedition across the Pacific on a home-made “junk raft” in order to learn more about plastic marine pollution A scientist, activist, and inveterate adventurer, Eriksen and his co-navigator, Joel Paschal, construct a “junk raft” made of plastic trash and set themselves adrift from Los Angeles to Hawaii, with no motor or support vessel, confronting perilous cyclones, food shortages, and a fast decaying raft. As Eriksen recounts his struggles to keep afloat, he immerses readers in the deep history of the plastic pollution crisis and the movement that has arisen to combat it. The proliferation of cheap plastic products during the twentieth century has left the world awash in trash. Meanwhile, the plastics industry, with its lobbying muscle, fights tooth and nail against any changes that would affect its lucrative status quo, instead defending poorly designed products and deflecting responsibil
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Lincoln and the Natural Environment
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking environmental biography of Abraham Lincoln, James Tackach maps Lincoln's lifelong relationship with the natural world from his birth and boyhood on Midwestern farms through his political career and presidency dealing with the effects of the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War.
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Random House USA Inc The End of Nature
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Random House USA Inc The Man Who Planted Trees
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Wayne State University Press Saving Arcadia A Story of Conservation and
Book SynopsisA David and Goliath conservation story set on Lake Michigan.
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University of Arizona Press The Greater San Rafael Swell
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University of Minnesota Press Total Liberation
Book SynopsisTrade Review"David Naguib Pellow is a first-rate scholar, and this rich, carefully-researched book demonstrates that fact. His refusal to march lock-step with any given theoretical perspective but, rather, to employ a variety of them to illuminate his data (data from diverse sources) makes this effort all the more impressive. In numerous places I found myself admiring his insights into a movement I have studied for decades." —Rik Scarce, Skidmore College"A must read for scholars interested in repression, radical movements, and ethics."—Mobilization"An important work for social movement scholars, for those theorizing environmental-social connections, and for those interested in genuine democracy and the movement toward total liberation from socioecological injustices. It is a critical but hopeful work from a scholar dedicated to making such liberation more thinkable."—American Journal of Sociology"One of the most authentic accounts of the sunless side of what is widely known as ecoterrorism."—CHOICE"Total Liberation sets a standard by which future research can be judged."—AntipodeTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: All Oppression Is Linked1. Never Apologies for Your Rage: Radical Origins and Organizing2. Justice for the Earth and All Its Animals3. Anarchism and Anticapitalism: Liberation from Government and Market4. Direct Action: Confrontation, Sabotage, and Property Destruction5. The Green Scare: State Repression of Liberation Movements6. Resisting the Green ScareConclusion: Piecing It TogetherNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Oil Culture
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden's Oil Culture offers lively and passionate discussions of oil's ubiquitous yet sometimes invisible cultural presence."—Journal of Historical Geography"The collection’s strength lies in its ability to provoke new lines of inquiry, especially with regard to the intersections of energy studies and cultural studies."—Environmental History"Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden's Oil Culture offers lively and passionate discussions of oil's ubiquitous yet sometimes invisible cultural presence."—Journal of Historical Geography"The collection’s strength lies in its ability to provoke new lines of inquiry, especially with regard to the intersections of energy studies and cultural studies."—Environmental History"What Oil Culture brings to the table of global scholarship is an incredibly savvy intellectual manoeuvre that links Oil Studies with Cultural Studies"—Oil Culture"A groundbreaking work in oil studies that will provoke future critical conversation about and study of petrocapitalism, cultural representations of oil, and imaginative renderings of a ‘post-oil future.’"—The Year’s Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsContentsForewordAllan StoeklAcknowledgmentsIntroductionRoss Barrett and Daniel WordenPart I. Oil's Origins and Modernization1. Whale Oil Culture, Consumerism, and Modern ConservationHeidi Scott2. The Wizard of Oil: Abraham James, the Harmonial Wells, and the Psychometric History of the Oil IndustryRochelle Raineri Zuck3. Picturing a Crude Past: Primitivism, Public Art, and Corporate Oil Promotion in the United StatesRoss Barrett4. A Short History of Oil Cultures; or, The Marriage of Catastrophe and ExuberanceFrederick BuellPart II. Oil’s Golden Age: Literature, Film, and Propaganda5. Essential Driving and Vital Cars: American Automobile Culture in World War IISarah Frohardt-Lane6. Fossil-Fuel Futurity: Oil in GiantDaniel Worden7. Liquid Modernity: Sundown in Pawhuska, OklahomaHanna Musiol8. From Isfahan to Ingolstadt: Bertolucci’s La via del petrolio and the Global Culture of NeorealismGeorgiana BanitaPart III. The Local and Global Territories of Oil9. Aramco’s Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi ArabiaChad H. Parker10. Oil Frontiers: The Niger Delta and the Gulf of MexicoMichael Watts11. Petro-magic-realism Revisited: Unimagining and Reimagining the Niger DeltaJennifer Wenzel12. Refined Politics: Petroleum Products, Neoliberalism, and the Ecology of Entrepreneurial LifeMatthew T. Huber13. Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual RelationsSheena WilsonPart IV. Exhibiting Oil14. Mixing Oil and Water: Naturalizing Offshore Oil Platforms in American AquariumsDolly Jørgensen15. Petroaesthetics and Landscape Photography: New Topographics, Edward Burtynsky, and the Culture of Peak OilCatherine Zuromskis16. Fossil, Fuel: Manifesto for the Post-Oil MuseumStephanie LeMenagerPart V. The Future of and without Oil17. Retrofutures and Petrofutures: Oil, Scarcity, LimitGerry Canavan18. Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil DocumentariesImre Szeman19. Oil and Dust: Theorizing Reza Negarestani’s CyclonopediaMelanie Doherty20. Imagining Angels on the GulfRuth SalvaggioContributorsIndex
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The University of Alabama Press Climate Politics on the Border
Book SynopsisExplores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border community. Kenneth Walker takes a place-based approach to his study of San Antonio to explore how extreme weather events and responses to them shape local places, publics, and politics.
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University of Georgia Press Coyote Settles the South
Book SynopsisOne night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the captivating howls of coyote. Since this was Spartanburg, South Carolina, and not Missoula, Montana, Lane set out to discover all he could about his new and unexpected neighbours. Coyote Settles the South is the story of his journey of discovery.
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University of Hawai'i Press Food Safety after Fukushima Scientific
Book SynopsisExamines the process by which notions about what is safe to eat were formulated after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. The book's central argument is that as citizens informed themselves about potential risks, they also became savvier in their assessment of the government's handling of the crisis.Trade Review[T]his book is a beautifully written and easy to read account of the challenges Japanese society has faced by the radioactive contamination of food in the first three years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna provides manifold insights into the perspectives of concerned consumers and farmers in post-Fukushima Japan, and introduces their strategies for consuming and producing safe food on an everyday base. Scholars and students of Japan and food safety, as well as the general public will benefit from the many examples and rich descriptions of individuals’ practices in a post-disaster society. Sternsdorff-Cisterna’s book sensitively depicts and brilliantly analyzes the precariousness of life in Japan after the dangerous 2011 nuclear plant accident. His concept of scientific citizenship is a major contribution to formulating the social relations, political dynamics, and cultural categories of risk and safety that emerge following the mega-disasters that we humans bring upon ourselves. Food Safety after Fukushima reveals the fallout of Japan’s nuclear meltdown to have been not only radioactive but also deeply social. In Tokyo, fear of radiation’s indiscernible threat—and people’s skepticism of the state’s ability to issue reliable safety assurances—eroded longstanding trust relations between farmers and food shoppers and led women to re-write the rules of "good" mothering. With sensitivity and great insight, Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna details how residents, armed with Geiger counters and newfound political purpose, generate and circulate knowledge about radiation—enacting "scientific citizenship"—to rebuild the social relations that constitute food safety.
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Michigan State University Press Restoration of the Great Lakes Promises Practices and Performances Michigan the Great Lakes
Book SynopsisThis work examines the history of the key uses of the Great Lakes and the successes and failures of the institutions that govern their resource management. It concludes that human beings need to find better ways of integrating human needs with the needs of the Lakes themselves.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Jens Jensen Writings Inspired by Nature
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Whispers and Shadows A Naturalists Memoir
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John Wiley & Sons The Fleas of the Pacific Northwest
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi The Northwest Salmon Crisis A Documentary
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University Press of Colorado Environmental Conflict in Alaska
Book SynopsisKen Ross presents a detailed yet readable account of the salient environmental controversies of Alaska's statehood period. As 'the last frontier', Alaska lured unusually fervent devotees of the exploitation ethic who sought to make quick profits or recreate the pioneer experience in a land of minimal regulations. The state also attracted passionate environmentalists -- enthralled by natural beauty -- who found increasing support from a public anxious about pollution and resource depletion. Ross maintains that over the years, the conflicts strengthened principles of government and corporate accountability, public participation in management decision, and sustainable use of natural resources. At the millennium, this leaves Alaska a chance to retain much of the pristine quality regarded by so many as its primary value. Sure to be the standard account for years to come, this book documents one state's fateful trials surrounding its own irreplaceable portion of our a nation's great natural
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Bauhan (William L.),U.S. The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down
Book SynopsisOur rock-solid belief in the certainty of property gives way to anguish when competing interests challenge it
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Bauhan (William L.),U.S. Crossroads with Chickens A What If It Works
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MP-NEV University of Nevada Wilderness TapestryEclectic Approach To
Book SynopsisTo further understanding of the meanings and values of wilderness, this volume explores wilderness and its significance to humans from myriad viewpoints, based on a meeting of the North American Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference.Trade Review“An outgrowth of several North American interdisciplinary wilderness conferences (held in 1989, 1990, and 1991), the book’s major sections relate to the philosophy of preservation, the analysis of wilderness literature, original prose, historical and societal aspects of wilderness, innovative management approaches, and possible future directions for preservation.” —Journal of Forestry, May 1993""What Wilderness Tapestry offers is an impressive display of unique presentations on environmental preservation. None of the worn arguments appear here.” —David Bajo, The San Diego Review, April 1, 1993“The general message that emerges is that wilderness is indelibly etched on our psyche and that the case for wilderness preservation can be found in the ways in which it is essential to human existence. The essays support the contention that, without wilderness, we will not reach our individual and societal potential or maintain our cultural identity. Those concerned with wilderness policy and management, as well as those interested in wilderness literature, philosophy, history, and socio-psychology, will find this work provocative and refreshing.” —S. Hollenhorst, CHOICE, September 1993“Focusing on literature, philosophy, poetry, and politics, this compendium of wilderness thought emerges as a complementary study to Roderick Nash’s classic Wilderness and the American Mind.” —Western Historical Quarterly, February 1994
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Red Deer Press The Living Beach Life Death and Politics Where the Land Meets the Sea
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University of Chicago Press Peru
Book SynopsisConducted during the spring of 2004 on the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, this inventory offers biological and social analyses of the Zona Reservada Megantoni. The participating scientists survey three of the most inaecessible and isolated sites in this rugged territory, examining vascular plants, dung beetles, fishes, reptiles and amphibians, birds, and large mammals. The report also features a brief history of the Megantoni region and its peoples, reviewing more than ten years of collaborative work between scientists and the native communities in the area, including the Machiguenga, Ashaninka, Yine Yami, and Nanti peoples. The report concludes with recommendations for the region's conservation and management, calling for the protection of 216,005 hectares as Santuario Nacional Megantoni. Such a measure would keep intact a corridor between two of the largest protected areas in Peru, the Parque Nacional Manu and the conservation complex in Cordillera Vilcabamba.
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Latitude 46 River of Fire
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Holt McDougal Falter
Book SynopsisThirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben's experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. We're at a bleak moment in human history -- and we'll either confront th
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Flatiron Books Guardians of the Trees
Book SynopsisEMPOWERING...KINARI WEBB IS AN INSPIRATION. --BILL MCKIBBEN A WONDERFUL BOOK. --JANE GOODALLA TIMELY, HOPEFUL MEMOIR ABOUT A WOMAN SPEARHEADING A GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO HEAL THE WORLD''S RAINFORESTS AND THE COMMUNITIES WHO DEPEND ON THEM Full of hope and optimism, Kinari Webb takes us on an exhilarating, galvanizing journey across the world, sharing her passion for the natural world and for humanity. In our current moment of crisis, Guardians of the Trees is an essential roadmap for moving forward and the inspiring story of one woman's quest to heal the world.When Webb first traveled to Indonesian Borneo at 21 to study orangutans, she was both awestruck by the beauty of her surroundings and heartbroken by the rainforest destruction she witnessed. As she got to know the local communities, she realized that their need to pay for expensive healthcare led directly to the rampant logging, which in turn imperiled their health and s
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Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin An Elephant in My Kitchen
Book SynopsisTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERMalby-Anthony offers a book of great inspiration and wide appeal to nature-loving readers. Publishers WeeklyA heart-warming sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony''s wife Françoise Malby-Anthony. A chic Parisienne, Françoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But then she fell in love with conservationist Lawrence Anthony and everything changed. After Lawrence's death, Françoise faced the daunting responsibility of running Thula Thula without him. Poachers attacked their rhinos, their security team wouldn't take orders from a woman and the authorities were threatening to cull their beloved elephant family. On top of that, the herd's feisty new matriarch Frankie didn't like her.In this heart-warming and moving book, Françoise describes how she fought to protect the herd and to make her dre
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Picador USA Footprints
Book SynopsisA profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behindWhat will the world look like in ten thousand years-or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about us?In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future. Modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, whether it is plastic polluting the oceans and nuclear waste sealed within the earth or the 30 million miles of roads spanning the planet. Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years from now as a layer in the rock. These future fossils have the potential to reveal much about how we lived in the twenty-first century.Crossing the boundaries of lit
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Flatiron Books Wolfish
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Picador USA Believers
Book SynopsisAn essential document of our time. Charles D'Ambrosio, author of LoiteringIn search of answers and action, the award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radically new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change We find ourselves at the end of the world. How, then, shall we live?Like most of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by increasingly urgent news of climate change on an apocalyptic scale. She did not need to be convinced of the stakes, but she could not find practical answers. She embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking wisdom and paths to action from outliers and visionaries, pragmatists and iconoclasts. Believers tracks through the lives of these people who are dedicated to repairing the earth and seemingly undaunted by the task ahead.Wells meets an itinerant gardener and
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Johns Hopkins University Press Wildlife in Airport Environments
Book SynopsisS. Department of AgricultureTrade ReviewThe authors did an outstanding job in collecting, analyzing, and organizing current best management practices for aviation wildlife management. I recommend Wildlife in Airport Environments to wildlife professionals and airport managers as the basis for science-based wildlife control programs. -- Nick Atwell Animal Behaviour I believe that the book should be read by airport managers, wildlife damage specialists, and wildlife professionals and students in general. -- Russ Reidinger Journal of Wildlife Management If a book like this had been available some years ago when I started my research on wildlife strikes as a human-wildlife conflict issue, it would have saved me a lot of time -- Cecilia Soldatini Journal of Field OrnithologyTable of ContentsWildlife in Airport Environments Chapter 1. The History of Wildlife Strikes and Management at AirportsPart I: Wildlife Management TechniquesChapter 2. Behavior and Physiology in the Development and Application of Visual Deterrents at AirportsChapter 3. Effectiveness of Chemical Repellents in Managing Birds at AirportsChapter 4. Tactile and Auditory Repellents to Reduce Wildlife Hazards to AircraftChapter 5. Excluding Mammals from AirportsChapter 6. Wildlife Translocation as a Management Alternative at AirportsChapter 7. Population Management to Reduce the Risk of Wildlife–Aircraft CollisionsPart II: Managing ResourcesChapter 8. Identifi cation and Management of Wildlife Food Resources at AirportsChapter 9. Managing Airport Stormwater to Reduce Attraction to WildlifeChapter 10. Managing Turfgrass to Reduce Wildlife Hazards at AirportsChapter 11. Wildlife Conservation and Alternative Land Uses at AirportsPart III: Wildlife Monitoring Chapter 12. Understanding Animal Movements at and Near AirportsChapter 13. Radar Technology to Monitor Hazardous Birds at AirportsChapter 14. Avian Survey Methods for Use at AirportsChapter 15. Conclusions and Future DirectionsAppendix. Regulations for Wildlife Management at AirportsIndex
£67.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Leatherback Turtle
Book SynopsisThe book leaves us with options: embark on the conservation strategy laid out within its pages and save one of nature's most splendid creations, or watch yet another magnificent species disappear.Trade ReviewDespite the dire issues facing the Leatherback, the book shows tremendous respect for its subject and a genuine, educated commitment to save the remarkable Leatherback. American Reference Books Annual The Leatherback Turtle provides a global reference for a globally distributed species and fills any number of data gaps for biologists, managers and citizen-scientists, especially in places such as the southeastern United States that are documenting an increasing trend in leatherback nesting. Herpetological ReviewTable of ContentsList of Contributors PrefacePart I: Biology Chapter 1. Introduction: Phylogeny and Evolutionary Biology of the Leatherback TurtleChapter 2. Phylogeny, Phylogeography, and Populations of the Leatherback TurtleChapter 3. Diving Behavior and Physiology of the Leatherback TurtleChapter 4. Anatomy of the Leatherback TurtlePart II: Life History and ReproductionChapter 5. Reproductive Biology of the Leatherback TurtleChapter 6. Nesting Ecology and Reproductive Investment of the Leatherback TurtleChapter 7. Egg Development and Hatchling Output of the Leatherback TurtleChapter 8. Sex Determination and Hatchling Sex Ratios of the Leatherback TurtlePart III: Population Status and TrendsChapter 9. Leatherback Turtle Populations in the Atlantic OceanChapter 10. Leatherback Turtle Populations in the Pacific OceanChapter 11. Leatherback Turtle Populations in the Indian OceanPart IV: From Egg to AdulthoodChapter 12. Leatherback Turtle Eggs and Nests, and Their Effects on Embryonic DevelopmentChapter 13. Leatherback Turtle Physiological Ecology: Implications for Bioenergetics and Population DynamicsChapter 14. Movements and Behavior of Adult and Juvenile Leatherback TurtlesChapter 15. Relation of Marine Primary Productivity to Leatherback Turtle Biology and BehaviorPart V: The Future of the Leatherback TurtleChapter 16. Warming Climate: A New Threat to the Leatherback TurtleChapter 17. Impacts of Fisheries on the Leatherback TurtleChapter 18. Conclusion: Problems and SolutionsIndex
£60.00
