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The Great Thirst: Californians and Water -A History by Norris Hundley Publisher Comments The story of "the great thirst" is brought up to date in this revised edition of Norris Hundley's outstanding history, with additional photographs and incisive descriptions of the major water-policy issues facing California now: accelerating urbanization... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Forest Economics by Daowei Zhang Publisher Comments "Forestry cannot be isolated from the forces that drive economic activity. While forestry involves using land, labour, and capital to produce goods and services from forests, economics helps in understanding how this can be done in ways that will best... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $40.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Advances in Urban Flood Management by Richard Ashley Publisher Comments One of the effects of global climate change is the increasing variability of extreme flood events and cyclones. Current measures to mitigate flood impacts, particularly in the urban environment, are based on previously-planned flood risk intervals and no... (read more) Your price: $157.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sustaining Groundwater Resources: A Critical Element in the Global Water Crisis by J. Anthony A. Jones Publisher Comments This is a volume in the new IYPE series commemorating the UN International Year of Planet Earth. It is intended to present two key aspects:- The current problems: lack of water resources, growing demand and socio-economic and political contexts... (read more) List Price $129.00 Your price: $124.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Agroforestry for Sustainable Land-Use: Fundamental Research and Modelling with Emphasis on Temperate and Mediterranean Applications by Daniel Auclair Publisher Comments This volume comprises a selection of original contributions presented at a workshop held in Montpellier, France, in June 1997. The two main objectives of the workshop were, firstly, to bring together what is understood about the processes underlying... (read more) List Price $160.00 Your price: $154.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Sirex Woodwasp and Its Fungal Symbiont:: Research and Management of a Worldwide Invasive Pest by Bernard Slippers Publisher Comments The Sirex woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, is the most important invasive alien insect pest of Pinus plantations in the Southern Hemisphere. It now also threatens pines in North America. This book brings together the worldwide knowledge of researchers from... (read more) List Price $209.00 Your price: $201.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Wood in Our Future: Proceedings of a Symposium, Environmental Implications of Wood as a Raw Material for Industrial Use by National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Agriculture Publisher Comments The United States produces 25% of the world's wood output, and wood supports a major segment of the U.S. industrial base. Trees provide fiber, resins, oils, pulp, food, paper, pharmaceuticals, fuel, many products used in home construction, and numerous... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $25.29 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Systems Analysis in Forest Resources: Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium, Held September 27-30, 2000, Snowmass Village, Colorado, u.s.a by Greg J. Arthaud Publisher Comments Systems analysis in forestry has continued to advance in sophistication and diversity of application over the last few decades. The papers in this volume were presented at the eighth symposium in the foremost conference series worldwide in this subject... (read more) List Price $150.00 Your price: $144.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Frontiers of Sustainability: Environmentally Sound Agriculture, Forestry, Transportation, and Power Production by Roger C. Dower Publisher Comments The United States is the world's biggest consumer of natural resources and its biggest polluter. With the U.S. economy expected to grow by 25% in the next decade alone, the costs to Americans -- and to everyone else in the world -- will increase... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $33.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Understanding Groundwater by William Jesse Schwalbaum Publisher Comments As a consulting hydrogeologist to municipalities and public water suppliers, Jesse Schwalbaum has been teaching the basic principles of groundwater science to the public for almost 20 years. This book has grown out of countless informal hydrology... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $32.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Plant Kairomones in Insect Ecology and Control by Robert Lee Metcalf Publisher Comments The nature of the coevolutionary process that produced the interactions between plant kairomones and insect sensory organs suggests that kairomones can be employed for insect control in a variety of baits and traps. This book discusses the major... (read more) List Price $187.00 Your price: $179.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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State, Science and the Skies: Governmentalities of the British Atmosphere by Mark Whitehead Publisher Comments Contemporary concerns regarding climate change, the destruction of the ozone layer, and increased anxieties of the health risks associated with particulate air pollution, highlight the crucial importance of understanding what is happening in our... (read more) Your price: $79.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Submarine Groundwater by Igorʹ Semenovich Zekt︠s︡er Publisher Comments Sustainable management of water resources is quickly increasing in importance on a global scale. An important piece of the puzzle is the characterization of marine water and determining its importance to geochemical budgets. To do this, submarine... (read more) Your price: $144.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations by Frank R. Spellman Publisher Comments Water and wastewater treatment plant operators must have a breadth of knowledge that encompasses more than scientific theory. With two new chapters and more than 300 new practice scenarios, this second edition continues to offer a complete resource... (read more) Your price: $139.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Future of the World's Forests: Ideas Vs Ideologies by Jim Douglas Publisher Comments At the landmark 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit), solemn resolutions were made both to protect the world's biodiversity and to co-operate on managing natural forests in a sustainable and ecologically... (read more) List Price $189.00 Your price: $181.91 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Water Transmission and Distribution by Larry Mays Publisher Comments This college text introduces water distribution systems. Chapters cover system layout, pipe, valves, fire hydrants, storage tanks, meters, pumps, motors, instrumentation, control, water main installation, tapping, and backflow and cross-connection... (read more) List Price $129.00 Your price: $114.49 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Treatment Technologies for Groundwater by Lee H. Odell Publisher Comments US municipal water suppliers must comply with USEPA regulations for 53 organic, 18 inorganic, nine microbial, eight disinfection by-product, and seven radiologic contaminants. Compliance can be daunting, especially for smaller systems.... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price: $87.86 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Urban Water Security: Managing Risks by Blanca Jiménez Publisher Comments Understanding the impacts of urbanization on the urban water cycle and managing the associated health risks demand adequate strategies and measures. Health risks associated with urban water systems and services include the microbiological and chemical... (read more) Your price: $124.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sustainable Forest Management by Klaus Von Gadow Publisher Comments During its 200-year history the concept of sustainable forest ecosystem management has been the object of scientific and political discussion, with varying degrees of intensity - promoted with vehement fervour during periods of social or economic crisis,... (read more) List Price $186.00 Your price: $179.02 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Advice on the Department of Energy's Cleanup Technology Roadmap: Gaps and Bridges by Nationa Council (U.S.). Committee on Development and Implementation of a Cleanup Technology Roadmap Publisher Comments "Beginning with the Manhattan Project and continuing through the Cold War, the United States government constructed and operated a massive industrial complex to produce and test nuclear weapons and related technologies. When the Cold War ended, most of... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price: $40.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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