Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Urban Housing, Livelihoods and Environmental
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£44.18
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd India's Greenfield Urban Future: the Politics of
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£34.19
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Rise and Fall of the Emerald Tigers: 10 Years
Book SynopsisDespite the systemic opposition, Chundawat continued the fight to save Pannaâs tigers, collecting data and petitioning the government to intervene.
£999.99
HarperCollins India Outlast: How ESG Can Benefit Your Business
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£22.79
HarperCollins India India's Blind Spot: Understanding and Managing Our Cities
£25.64
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Ecological transformation in Western Ghats
Book SynopsisThe establishment of forest-based industries, and the subsequent deforestation and water pollution also threatened the state's ecological balance. Similarly, the expansion of tourism industry, sand mining, industrial pollution, usage of pesticides and water exploitation also endangered the environment.
£60.47
HarperCollins India Our Potpourri Planet
Book SynopsisOur Potpourri Planet addresses the themes of the hour---climate change, global warming and the need for immediate action to preserve Planet Earth as we know it.
£16.79
ANE Books Essential Environmental Studies
Book SynopsisSupreme Court ruling in India led UGC to create core Module Syllabus for Environmental Studies for undergraduates. Textbook covers environmental issues, remedial measures, and social aspects with illustrations and case studies. Beneficial for all undergraduates, including those with limited bioscience background and for competitive exam prep.
£16.88
Bookwell Publications Water Crisis in the Indian Subcontinent
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£999.99
Bookwell Publications Management of Water Resources in Himalayan
Book SynopsisThe book explores water resource management in Rajouri, India, focusing on various sectors like aquaculture and hydro power. It evaluates water potential, identifies sources, and addresses aquatic pollution and ecosystem variations. It suggests managerial measures for sustainable water use.
£999.99
Bookwell Publications Rural Development in Post Colonial Era
Book SynopsisSAVERA focuses on rural development through professionals and experts, aiming to address key issues and promote literature on rural entrepreneurship, management, and traditional knowledge. Their book "Rural Development in Post Colonial Era" aims to raise awareness and provide scholarly research on rural development issues.
£999.99
Bookwell Publications Rural Entrepreneurship Development in Liberalised
Book SynopsisSAVERA promotes rural development through research and literature on rural entrepreneurship, management, and traditional knowledge. Their book focuses on rural entrepreneurship in India to support a sustainable economy.
£999.99
Bookwell Publications Rural Management in Post Reforms Era
Book SynopsisSAVERA promotes rural development through research and literature on rural entrepreneurship, management, and traditional knowledge. "Rural Management in Post Reform Era" contributes to this vision by emphasizing the importance of managing rural resources for a sustainable economy.
£999.99
Bookwell Publications Participatory Forest Management in Odisha:
Book SynopsisStudy on participatory forest management in Orissa highlights governance issues, gender inequality, stakeholder conflicts. Benefits include better forests, but limited livelihood gains due to lack of value addition, market access, and reliance on informal loans. PFM holds promise for poverty alleviation.
£999.99
Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd Urban Growth Strategies: Mumbai Lessons - City
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£16.88
KW Publishers Pvt Ltd The Two Largest Industrial Disasters in History with Hazardous Material
£34.19
Om Publications Global Warming
Book SynopsisMother Earth is in danger due to global climate change. Jonathan, Tina, and their parents seek ways to help create a clean and healthy world. The story highlights the impact of climate change on daily life.
£8.06
The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI The Environment
Book SynopsisThe environment is defined, perceived, and valued diversely by different countries, cultures, and communities. A healthy environment ensures human security, which means everyone has the access to food and water, employment and livelihood stability, resilience to climate change and extreme weather events, and also social and political stability. As the demand for food, fodder, fuel, and raw material grows, it increases the pressure on the environment and the competition for natural resources. Both human and natural activities have caused the physical, chemical, and biological degradation of the environment. The Environment covers the basic components of environment, ecology, biomes, and biodiversity. The book gives an analytical understanding of the topics. While the book covers major international topics, it has a strong focus on India too. The book will help candidates appearing for competitive examinations such as civil services. It is also extremely useful for readers interested in environment science, environment chemistry, and related subjects.
£15.99
The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Green, Reliable and Viable:: Perspectives on
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£999.99
The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Hide & Seek Tiger
Book SynopsisIn Jhargram, a tiger's pug marks appear after years, terrifying villagers. Rohan sets out on an adventure, encountering jackals, elephants, and the lost tiger. A tribal hunting festival looms, but Rohan knows someone will come to the rescue in tiger country.
£7.12
Niyogi Books Mahanadi
Book SynopsisOne of the largest rivers of India, Mahanadi originates from the foothills of the Sihaoa mountain of Chhattisgarh and flows for a thousand kilometres through Chhattisgarh and Odisha, finally immersing in the Bay of Bengal at Jagatsinghpur. But its journey never ends, as it flows daily from the plateau to the forest to the ravine to the plains. It unites with the sea every day. At every new turn, it leaves behind scores of villages, towns and cities. The din and bustle of a mofussil town, the solitary life in a standalone village, people''s struggle for survival, the episodes of their joys and sorrows, the sighs of the displaced people of Sambalpur during the building of the Hirakud dam mixes with the cries of the endangered people on the banks when the river overflows. In this novel, the tale of the river is entwined with the people through vignettes of their dynamic lives that are infused with myths, legends and archaeological anecdotes. Characters like Malati Gond, Neelkantha, Kuber, Bhanu Shitulia, Parvati and others might never meet each other, but the story of their lives will remain strung together by the common thread of the ever-flowing Mahanadi. The chronicle of Mahanadi is a journey through travails and misfortunes into life''s joys and mysterious beauty.
£17.99
HarperCollins India Fossil Free:: Redefining Clean Energy in a
Book SynopsisREIMAGINING A CLEANER, GREENER, CARBON-FREE WORLD! The current global energy use, with its overwhelming dependence on fossil fuels, has taken global warming to dangerous levels. Climate change is already hitting us hard, through adverse effects on global food availability, biodiversity, rising sea levels and extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and floods. In the last decade, a major transformation the transition to clean, affordable and sustainable energy from the sun and the wind is beginning to address these challenges. Fossil Free provides a concise introduction to the challenges, realities and complexities of the global and local energy industry, as well as the trends and forces driving the energy transition. It explains how improved electricity infrastructure, decentralized smart grids, electric vehicles, energy storage and market design are already providing clear pathways for the transition towards green, efficient, affordable and secure renewable energy across the energy-use chain: extraction, conversion, transmission, distribution and end use. For over a decade, Sumant Sinha has had a ringside view of the energy scenario. Having founded and helmed India''s leading clean energy company, his understanding of the global energy landscape and climate change brings a unique, holistic perspective on energy. With Fossil Free, Sinha shares his vision for energy which is not only clean, but also practical and affordable.
£16.49
Roli Books Pvt Ltd Iconic Trees of India
Book SynopsisNo two trees are the same. To really know trees, we must understand them. Because to understand trees is to understand life itself.
£75.59
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Ravaged Paradise: Environmental History of
Book SynopsisThe book makes a systematic attempt to explore the environmental history of Darjeeling during the British colonial period (1835-1947), which profoundly transformed the environment of Darjeeling by introducing commercial control over the natural resources. After the foundation of Darjeeling as the hill station for the low-income groups of British administration living in Bengal and Burma, the place was transformed into a social, recreational and commercial centre for the British authorities. The railway construction boom, introduction of tea plantation, the growth of a commercial market for timber and increasing demands for fuel and building materials depleted the forest cover. The less explored regions of Darjeeling attracted the adventure-thirsty Britons. A series of investigations were made on the marketable products, the condition of roads, and quality of soil of these regions. The ethnographic, geological, botanical and zoological study of the Darjeeling was started by the colonial officials in the nineteenth century.
£47.49
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Small Island, Large Ocean: Mauritius and the
Book SynopsisThis book is about a Small Island', namely Mauritius in the southwestern Indian Ocean. It is also about a Large Ocean', the Indian Ocean world its peoples, histories and cultures. It casts down a light on the life of an island through what is known not only about the island itself, but also through what is known about the wider Indian Ocean world. It is also about the Indian Ocean world in that it focuses on an island, which, in many senses and dimensions, is not only a model of, but in some respects also a model for wider developments and features of relevance to the Indian Ocean world as a whole. Chapter one provides some basic background information, on first the island itself, and secondly, on the ocean in question. This introductory chapter concludes with some remarks on Indian Ocean Studies' more generally and on the methodological question of how to study an ocean. Chapter two deals with the issue of islandness', and looks closer at the overall world of Indian Ocean islands.
£49.88
Manohar Publishers and Distributors History of the Climate Change on the Coromandel
Book SynopsisThis book offers a deeper historical context to the interplay between the physical fortunes of climate and weather and the ways, in which the Tamil society experienced it in the medieval age. It touches upon the rainfall, famines and droughts, storms and cyclones, earthquakes, floods and tsunamis, temperature and atmospheric pressure of the modern age, noticed by the Catholic and Protestant missionaries, European traders, travellers, the East India Company officials and servants using scientific instruments. Based on a greater variety of Tamil sources, missionary letters and reports.
£45.12
Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Sacred Waters of Varanasi: The Colonial
Book SynopsisThis book on urban water bodies, catchment areas and drainage pattern is set against the backdrop of the unprecedented heavy rainfall that severely deluged metropolitan cities and other parts of India in recent years. The recurring natural catastrophes in water-stressed cities of India and alarming rate of diminishing water bodies, wetlands and catchment areas needs a re-visit to an entire urban water-cycle. This book, thus, discusses how the processes and implementation of colonial urban development policies and projects have radically transformed the water bodies and their catchment areas traditional water holding systems of Varanasi city. In this imperative colonial process, through the case study of Varanasi, this book mainly engages with the reasons behind the elimination of the temple tanks and ponds after the annexation of Varanasi by the British from 1775 till 1947.
£33.59
The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI From Lattus to Lasers: Realising India's
Book SynopsisThe history of electricity in India traces an inverted arc like a smiley which starts in the colonial period with private electricity capacity leading, regresses to a mode of near complete public sector monopoly by the 1980s and then traces the upward incline to a near 50% share for private electricity suppliers not a full smiley but a slightly lop-sided one. The half-smile like Mona Lisa's masks long periods of misallocation of public capital, unabashed populism, and careless adherence to path dependencies' which plagues bureaucracies the world over.
£14.11
The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Clean Transport in India: The Pathway to
Book SynopsisAs extreme weather events the heat wave in Delhi in May 2022 and the unusually heavy rains in September 2022 become more frequent, fulfilling the predictions of climate change experts, reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases that drive the climate change becomes increasingly urgent. Next to coal-fired power stations and the industrial sector, it is transport that accounts for a major share in these emissions, which makes Clean Transport in India a particularly timely publication. The book not only presents all the relevant statistics but, more important, explains the implications of those numbers and the interconnections between different facets of transport: for example, the greater number of vehicles on roads may seem to favour mobility but in fact makes roads more congestedand the congestion makes air pollution more severe, thereby aggravating its impact on health.
£999.99
The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Energy Efficiency Matters
Book SynopsisWould you like to reduce your monthly electricity bill? Help reduce power outages in your neighbourhood? Improve air quality in your city? And all while making a measurable impact in slowing global warming and climate change? If you answered Yes' to any of these questions, this book is for you.That said, if you are looking to buy or replace electrical appliances for your home, this book also outlines the factors and features to consider, including energy efficiency labels, to maximize usage while minimizing electricity consumption.
£999.99
KIT Publishers Natural Resource Management in West Africa:
Book SynopsisSustainable use of natural resources is a key element in the livelihoods of rural people. Especially the poor are often disproportionately affected by environmental degradation: it loosens their production base, makes them vulnerable to health risks, and can result in natural or man-made disasters. Sharing and accumulation of knowledge are important to help rural people make better decisions. This bulletin presents four examples on how projects and organisations in Western Africa deal with the knowledge aspects and capacity development in land resource management. With the ongoing processes of democratic decentralisation and privatisation, more and more actors are expected to play their role in sustainable resource management. The fragmented landscape of actors has huge consequences for the ways knowledge can be developed and shared. The bulletin analyses the examples and draws lessons with respect to the opportunities for knowledge sharing and capacity development. What are key ingredients for a knowledge management strategy? Strategic questions are identified that need attention in policy development both for donor agencies and governments in the region. We conclude that knowledge management is not easy to implement in the current multi-stakeholder context.
£23.79
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Five Journeys through the Arctic and a new Russia
Book SynopsisThis is a book about the amazing journey of people discovering the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya, looking for traces of a small historical event against the backdrop of the ending of the Soviet Union. At the start of the age of exploration, the North Pole was believed to be hiding a continent, a land mass warmed by the midnight sun still inspiring today''s Lost World fantasies. In the summer of 1596, two ships departed from Amsterdam to sail by its shores. The nine-month struggle for survival of the shipwrecked crew during the long polar night remains iconic in the history of the Arctic. Four hundred years later, Russians and Dutch together searched Novaya Zemlya for the grave and shipwreck of leader and explorer Willem Barents. This is a book about the Arctic and what it was like up there. This is a book about the nineties. Over one decade we watched modern Russia take shape. This book has everything that makes the Arctic exciting, and the historical sensation on every page.
£22.46
Rooftop Press Trophic Verses
Book SynopsisTrophic Verses explores the life and phenomena in and around the Earth's body of soil in a dialogue between art and science. The soil reader brings together artists, curators, researchers and farmers involved in the long-term project initiated by artist Teemu Lehmusruusu. The book maps an ongoing process through the participants' approaches, knowledges, experiences and artworks.
£16.62
Buddhist Publication Society,Sri Lanka Buddhist Perspectives on the Ecocrisis
Book SynopsisEcocrisis warns of dangers from unchecked technological growth and industrial expansion, prompting a reevaluation of Western civilization's foundations and priorities.
£6.33
Anavasi Kitheron - Pateras - Gerania: 2018
Book SynopsisMt Gherania is a long limestone massif that extends between Kakia Skala (the narrow pass on the Athens to Corinth highway - now a series of tunnels) and Loutraki. Numerous paths, which can be combined into interesting long routes, run along the tallest peaks of Paliovouna, Douskia and Makriplaghi.
£8.49
Anavasi Fokhida - Aetolia East: 2007
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£9.98
Anavasi Spetses: 2011
Book SynopsisA collective work of the locals and Anavasi cartographers. The map is very detailed and accurate. Anotrer reason to visit this beautiful island with the charming city and pleasant countryside and nice beaches. 12 trails across the island and 5 walks in the city are proposed.
£8.86
Anavasi Thasos: 2017
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£10.89
Lugemik Filter Feeders Double Binds Other Blooms
Book SynopsisExploring Kristina Ollek's marine and coastal ecological interest, the publication Filter Feeders, Double Binds & Other Blooms invites us to think with her four year long working process, based on research and personal observations around anthropocentric influences on marine ecology. Focusing on the North Sea and its filter feeders: blue mussels, oysters and the expanding jellyfish population; as well as on the Baltic Sea and its cyanobacteria, blue green algal blooms and dead zones. The publication includes a letter correspondence between Kristina Õllek and curator Angeliki Tzortzakaki, as well a collaborative visual essay by Kristina Õllek, Angeliki Tzortzakaki and Kert Viiart, and an essay by theorist Jeff Diamanti. The publication includes a wide range of exhibition views from her three recent solo exhibitions at Draakon Gallery (Tallinn), A Tale of A Tub (Rotterdam) and ISSP gallery (Riga).
£17.10
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Your Planet Needs You
Book SynopsisNobody really likes to think about rubbish (pee-ew!). But whether you know it or not, waste is part of everyones lives. Where does waste come from? Where does it end up? And what can we do to help our planet? Get set to take your first steps on a path towards changing the way you contemplate and combat household waste.
£7.46
Himal Books/Himal Kitab Nepal Earthquake
Book SynopsisThe book captures the fragility of life through photographs and journal entries from the Nepal Earthquake, reminding us of the lives lost and dreams disrupted. It serves as a memory project for a forgetful society, highlighting the importance of cherishing everyday aspects of life.
£84.08
Vajra Books Under the Himalayan Sky: Establishing Sagarmatha
Book SynopsisIn the 1970s, the Nepalese government established an agreement with New Zealand for help in setting up a national park in the Mt Everest region for the Himalayas. Bruce Jefferies, an Assistant Supervising Ranger with New Zealand's National Park Service, took off for Nepal with his wife Margaret, and three young children. They had little idea of what to expect in this remote, high-altitude environment. Under the Himalayan Sky is Margaret's memoir of the time the family spent in Khumbu (Mt Everest), with no running water or electricity, largely cut off from the outside world, living on the traditional local diet of potatoes and tea. In spite of what might be perceived as hardships, the family embraced life amongst the colourfeul and hospitable Sherpa people.
£19.99
Sali e Tabacchi Journal Sali e Tabacchi Journal 3
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£999.99
Integrity Research Institiute Zero Point Energy: The Fuel of the Future
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£999.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Urban Heat Islands Reexamined
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£113.59
Nova Science Publishers Inc The Challenges of Disaster Planning, Management,
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£120.69
Nova Science Publishers Inc Observing Micrometeorology: A Personal Tour
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£163.19
Nova Science Publishers Inc Understanding Kashmir Lakes: Water Quality,
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£62.04
