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The Fatal Harvest Reader

Fatal Harvest takes an unprecedented look at our current ecologically destructive agricultural system and offers a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat. The Fatal Harvest Reader brings together in an affordable paperback edition the essays included in Fatal Harvest, offering a concise overview of the failings of industrial agriculture and approaches to... (more)

The Western Confluence: A Guide To Governing Natural Resources

The Western Confluence: A Guide To Governing Natural Resources

by Matthew McKinney

From Back Cover: Shaped by 150 years of persistent conflicts over natural resources, the American West has endured a succession of strategies for resolving disputes. This book is designed to help us navigate through the gridlock by reframing natural resource disputes and the strategies for resolving them. (Description by http-mart)

The Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World (Scope Series)

The Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World (Scope Series)

Ecoagriculture: Strategies To Feed The World And Save Wild Biodiversity

Ecoagriculture: Strategies To Feed The World And Save Wild Biodiversity

by Jeffrey A. McNeely

Although food-production systems for the world's rural poor typically have had devastating effects on the planet's wealth of genes, species, and ecosystems, that need not be the case in the future. In Ecoagriculture, two of the world's leading experts on conservation and development examine the idea that agricultural landscapes can be designed more creatively to take the needs of human populations into account... (more)

National Parks and Rural Development: Practice and Policy in the United States

National Parks and Rural Development: Practice and Policy in the United States

Protecting land in parks is often seen as coming at the expense of rural economic development. Yet recent events such as the contentious debate over the development of Canyon Forest Village on the south rim of the Grand Canyon suggest just the opposite: healthy natural systems can be enormously valuable to rural economies. National Parks and Rural Development offers a thorough examination of the interdependent... (more)

One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future

One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future

by Paul Ehrlich

"Here, between the covers of one book, you can find out about the major problems facing the world today, and how to fix them. It all comes sprinkled with the deliciously surprising examples, and wrapped in the alternately gripping and humorous prose, for which Paul and Anne Ehrlich have long been famous. This is a book to savor and from which to learn."-JARED DIAMOND, AUTHOR OF COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO... (more)

Ecotourism and Certification: Setting Standards in Practice

Ecotourism and Certification: Setting Standards in Practice

The idea of "ecotourism" has taken off in recent years, but a crucial detail is often neglected: how do we know that an enterprise truly meets the goals and standards of ecotourism? Certification?the rating of lodges, resorts, tour operators, and other sectors of the tourism industry by independent auditors who verify environmental and social impacts?has emerged as the most promising answer. Ecotourism and... (more)

Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West

Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West

by George Wuerthner, Mollie Matteson

In the American West, the sky is wide and the mountains are grand. Everything is on a big scale - including the debate over livestock production on the nation's public lands. For more than a century, ranching and its associated activities (such as the growing of irrigated feed crops) has been the major land use over most of the western states. While many Americans think of cowboys as heroes and the "Wild West" as... (more)

Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America'S Fresh Waters

Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America'S Fresh Waters

by Robert Jerome Glennon

"...a book as rich in detail as it is devastating in its argument." -SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN "Water Follies deserves a place alongside the late Marc Reisner's classic Cadillac Desert." -ENVIRONMENT "a lively account of hydrology" -NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS "if you want to scare yourself silly, read Water Follies, by Robert Glennon. In it you'll learn how America is irrigating itself to death-just like the... (more)

Bronx Ecology: Blueprint For A New Environmentalism

Bronx Ecology: Blueprint For A New Environmentalism

by Allen Hershkowitz

"The Bronx Community Paper Company teaches us that we have the power, if we muster the will, creativity, and cooperation, to recover lost pieces of America's environment, return them to good health, protect other lands and resources from being destroyed, and even create environmentally friendly jobs in the process." ?President Bill Clinto. In 1991, frustrated by the failure of lawmakers to produce meaningful... (more)

Corridor Ecology: The Science and Practice of Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation

Corridor Ecology: The Science and Practice of Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation

by Jodi A. Hilty, Priscilla Salant

Corridor Ecology presents guidelines that combine conservation science and practical experience for maintaining, enhancing, and creating connectivity between natural areas with an overarching goal of conserving biodiversity. It offers an objective, carefully interpreted review of the issues and is a one-of-a-kind resource for scientists, landscape architects, planners, land managers, decision-makers, and all those... (more)

Global City Blues

by Daniel Solomon

In Global City Blues, renowned architect Daniel Solomon presents a perceptive overview and insightful assessment of how the power and seductiveness of modernist ideals led us astray. As an alternative, Solomon discusses how architecture and cities can offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of sprawl, urban disintegration, and placelessness that have so transformed the contemporary landscape.

Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities

Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities

by Mark A. Benedict

With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructure advances smart land conservation: largescale thinking and integrated action to plan, protect and manage our natural and restored lands. From the individual parcel to the multistate region, Green Infrastructure helps each of us look at the landscape in relation to the many uses it could serve, for nature and people,... (more)

Nature's Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation

Nature's Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation

by Peter Friederici

Across America and around the world, people are working to help nature heal itself. In Bermuda, a man single-handedly grows thousands of trees on a small island to restore nesting habitat for a rare seabird. In Illinois, legions of volunteers replant prairies in the shadows of freeways. In Virginia, a farmer works to bring back the mighty American chestnut. What drives these individuals? How did their... (more)

Renewable Resource Policy: The Legal-Institutional Foundations

Renewable Resource Policy: The Legal-Institutional Foundations

by David A. Adams

Renewable Resource Policy is a comprehensive volume covering the history, laws, and important national policies that affect renewable resource management. The author traces the history of renewable natural resource policy and management in the United States, describes the major federal agencies and their functions, and examines the evolution of the primary resource policy areas. The book provides valuable insight... (more)

Reopening the Western Frontier

by High Country News

When Frederick Jackson Turner declared the Western frontier closed in 1890, the Western way of life had been firmly established. Rural and small town life were dominant, and the economy was tied to the mining, farming, and ranching of the land. Unlike other parts of the United States, deep change came slowly to the West, especially the rural west, which retained many of its 19th-century roots. Now, with the... (more)

No Place Distant

by David G. Havlick

While many of the roads on public lands provide a great service with relatively little harm, others create significant problems - from habitat fragmentation to noise pollution to increased animal mortality - with little or no benefit. In No Place Distant, author David Havlick presents for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the more than 550,000 miles of roads that crisscross our national... (more)

This Sovereign Land: A New Vision For Governing The West

This Sovereign Land: A New Vision For Governing The West

by Daniel Kemmis

In the eight states of the interior West (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming), 260 million acres-more than 48 percent of the land base-are owned by the federal government and managed by its Washington, D.C.-based agencies. Like many other peoples throughout history who have bristled under the controlling hand of a remote government, westerners have long nursed a deep... (more)

The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate

The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate

by Joseph J. Romm

"Vital, very readable guidance for investors, environmentalists, and interested bystanders looking toward a future without fossil fuels." -BOOKLIST "It's hard to argue with the relentless logic...." -E/THE ENVIRONMENTAL MAGAZINE "Readers looking to separate facts from hype about cars running on hydrogen and large-scale fuel cell systems will find a useful primer here."-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Lately it has become a... (more)

World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-By-Commodity Guide To Impacts And Practices

World Agriculture and the Environment: A Commodity-By-Commodity Guide To Impacts And Practices

by Jason W. Clay

World Agriculture and the Environment presents a unique assessment of agricultural commodity production and the environmental problems it causes, along with prescriptions for increasing efficiency and reducing damage to natural systems. Drawing on his extensive travel and research in agricultural regions around the world, and employing statistics from a range of authoritative sources including the United Nations... (more)

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