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Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows Publisher Comments In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth--the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet-- Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Flames in Our Forest, P by Stephen L Arno Publisher Comments Shaped by fire for thousands of years, the forests of the western United States are as adapted to periodic fires as they are to the region's soils and climate. Our widespread practice of ignoring the vital role of fire is costly in both ecological and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests (David Suzuki Foundation Series) by Andrew Nikiforuk Synopsis Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Options and Actions by Ian Bannon Publisher Comments Violent conflict can spell catastrophe for developing countries and their neighbors, stunting and even reversing the course of economic growth. Recent World Bank research on the causes of conflict and civil war finds that the countries most likely to be... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Silviculture and Ecology of Western U.S. Forests by John Tappeiner Publisher Comments Once regarded solely as the cultivation of forest trees, silviculture is today shifting to a broader focus, one that reflec ts societies' changing forest values. In addition to timber management, the prac tice and science of silviculture are now... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife (Animals, History, Culture) by Etienne Benson Publisher Comments American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. Wired Wilderness is the first book-length study of... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century by And Doyle Environmental Careers Organization Publisher Comments Compiled by the acknowledged leaders in environmental career information, The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century is a completely revised and updated edition of what has become the standard reference on the subject. Organized for... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wildfire Reader: A Century of Failed Forest Policy by George Wuerthner Publisher Comments Wildfires are an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon that <BR>have shaped North America's landscapes since the dawn <BR>of time. They are a force that we cannot really control, <BR>and thus understanding, appreciating, and learning to <... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Conservation Biology: Research Priorities for the Next Decade by Michael E Soule Publisher Comments One of the fastest growing scientific disciplines in recent history is conservation biology. A response of the scientific community to the massive environmental changes taking place on Earth, its goal is to enable society to anticipate, prevent, and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Forest Ecology a Foundation for Sust 2ND Edition by James P Kimmins Publisher Comments This management-driven, comprehensive book on ecosystem ecology is the only one on the market that covers the entire field, linking conventional ecosystem-level forest ecology to forest management. It features ecological site classification, ecosystem... (read more) List Price $96.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Environmental Management: For Sustainable Development 2nd Edition by C J Barrow Publisher Comments Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. Indisputably, it plays a crucial role in the quest for sustainable development... (read more) List Price $63.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Natural and Built Environment Series #1: Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment by John Glasson Synopsis A revised text featuring more case studies, illuminating the role of consultants, clients, local authorities and environmental agencies in the EIA process, and procedures and conventions for assessment arising out of changes in the legal and political... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Forestry Research: A Mandate for Change by National Research Co Book News Annotation The mandate isn't really for change, but for greater expertise in the sustained exploitation of forests for human ends, or, as the authors (the National Research Council's Committee on Forestry Research) put it, "nothing less than higher timber yields,... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wildfire Reader: A Century of Failed Forest Policy by George Wuerthner Publisher Comments Wildfires are an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon that have shaped North America's landscapes since the dawn of time. They are a force that we cannot really control, and thus understanding, appreciating, and learning to live with wildfire is ultimately... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $38.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Prs - Polity Resources #2: Timber by Peter Dauvergne Publisher Comments Timber is a vital resource that is all around us. It is the house that shelters us, the furniture we relax in, the books we read, the paper we print, the disposable diapers for our babies, and the boxes that contain our cereal, detergent, and new... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Yellowstone Primer: Land & Resource Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem by John A Baden Publisher Comments Innovative strategies for resolving the competing concerns and interests that affect national park and federal lands policy in the U.S.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Snake in the Grass: An Everglades Invasion by Larry Perez Publisher Comments A plague is spreading throughout the Florida Everglades. Nonnative Burmese pythons--one of the largest snakes on the planet--are now known to be reproducing freely in the shallow waters of the famed River of Grass. Over the past decade, thousands of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ozone Connections Expert Networks in Glo by Penelope Canan Synopsis This work argues that we need to understand how the implementation of complex global environmental agreements depends on the construction and exploitation of social connections among experts who act collectively to define solutions to environmental... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Ethics in forestry by Lloyd C Irland Publisher Comments The issue of timber supply continues as a national concern, a debate that is frequently couched in moral terms. This far-ranging collection of readings examines professional, business, environmental, and government ethics as they apply to forestry.... (read more) Your price: $3.48 Used - Hardcover
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Hell on Earth: The Wildfire Pandemic by David Porter Publisher Comments The world is burning, and it appears that we are to blame. Devastating wildfires are increasing throughout the United States. Each year, more and more acres of the Brazilian rain forest are destroyed in ferocious blazes. Vast areas of... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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