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Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
by Lester R Brown Publisher Comments "How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."Bill Clinton In this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The...
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Remote Sensing and GIS in Ecosystem Management: American Forests
by V Alaric Sample Publisher Comments Recent advances in remote-sensing technology and the processing of remote-sensing data through geographic information systems (GIS) present ecologists and resource managers with a tremendously valuable tool - but only if they are able to understand its...
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Build Your Own Underground Root Cellar
by Phyllis Hobson Publisher Comments Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable...
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Dive (My Adventures)
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Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter #02: Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter: II, Evaluating Research Progress and Updating the Portfolio
by National Research Co Synopsis In the effort to reduce the scientific and technical uncertainties over regulation of airborne particulate matter in the United States, this book, the second in a four-part series requested by Congress, describes the plans of the committee to monitor the...
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Gender Differences in Susceptibility to Environmental Factors: A Priority Assessment
by Valerie Peti Setlow Synopsis Women's health and men's health differ in a variety of ways -- women live longer on average, for example, but tend to be sicker as well. Whereas some of these distinctions are based solely on gender, there is growing awareness that the environment and...
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Ward Valley: An Examination of Seven Issues in Earth Sciences & Ecology
by National Research Co Book News Annotation A study, prepared by geologists from the US Geological Survey (USGS), examining concerns about a proposed site for low-level radioactive waste disposal located near Needles, California. The seven areas of concern include recharge through the...
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The Future Role of Pesticides in U.S. Agriculture
by Natl Research Counci Synopsis Although chemical pesticides safeguard crops and improve farm productivity, they are increasingly feared for their potentially dangerous residues and their effects on ecosystems. The Future Role of Pesticides explores the role of chemical pesticides in...
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How Many Americans? : Population, Immigration and the Environment
by Leon F. Bouvier and Lindsey Grant Book News Annotation Bouvier (Tulane U.; Center for Immigration Studies) and Grant (National Security Council, retired) examine the inevitable environmental degradation that will result from further population increases. The authors analyze current and projected rates of...
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The Fragmented Forest: Island Biogeography Theory and the Preservation of Biotic Diversity (Chicago Original Paperback)
by Larry D Harris Publisher Comments In this poineering application of island biogeography theory, Harris presents an alternative to current practices of timber harvesting. "Harris pulls together many threads of biological thinking about islands and their effect on plant and animal survival...
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Reviews of Environmental Contamin Volume 154
by George W Ware Publisher Comments Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides detailed review articles concerned with aspects of chemical contaminants, including pesticides, in the total environment with toxicological considerations and consequences. L.S. ANDREWS, M...
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Pesticide Residues & Food Safety
by B G Tweedy Publisher Comments In this new volume a variety of experts, including chemists, toxicologists, growers, educators, regulators, food processors and distributors, representatives of consumer groups, and reporters, address the major issues surrounding food safety and...
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Complete Guide To the Hazardous Waste Regu 2ND Edition
by Travis P Wagner Book News Annotation An explanation of the hazardous waste regulatory program of the US Environmental Protection Agency. Wagner, senior environmental analyst, Labaat-Anderson, Inc., examines hazardous waste regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the...
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The Heartcore Alternative: Reinterpreting Our Relationships to Each Other and Earth in a Global Age
by Nancy C Jacques Publisher Comments The Heartcore Alternative is for anyone who has wondered: With our present rates of energy and resource consumption, what will this planet be like in 100 years? Why, in the midst of plenty, are so many people still not satisfied? What is truly important?...
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Beloved of the sky
by John Ellison Book News Annotation Subtitled Essays and Photographs on Clearcutting, and characterized by the publisher as an "antidote to the heated rhetoric that surrounds this debate." It sounds to us like a sermon (with brimstone) and is, itself, decidedly opposed to the practice...
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Reviews of Environmental Contamin Volume 135
by George W Ware Publisher Comments Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology publishes authoritative reviews on the occurrence, effects, and fate of pesticide residues and other environmental contaminants. It will keep you informed of the latest significant issues by providing...
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Environmental Performance Measurement the Global Report 2001-2002 (World Economic Forum)
by Daniel Esty Publisher Comments Environmental decision-making has long been plagued by uncertainties and a lack of critical information. The data and analyses needed for thoughtful and systematic action to minimize pollution harms and to optimize the use of natural resources are often...
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The Plastic Waste Primer: A Citizen's Guide
by League Of Women Vote Publisher Comments The focus of this important guide is plastic as an ecological scourge of a problem that can be faced with citizen involvement and the modern technology of plastic-waste management....
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The Greening of the European Union: Examining the Eu's Environmental Credentials (Contemporary European Studies)
by Jon Burchell Synopsis This book critically examines the European Unions developing relationship with the green agenda, identifying links between the emerging pattern of green politics and patterns of EU policy-making. It examines why and how the environment has become such a...
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Global Change
by T F Malone Publisher Comments The rapid growth in the study of the Earth, its environs and life in the biosphere has progressed to the point where it is now possible to think seriously of fashioning a bold, holistic investigative approach that will deepen and strengthen our...
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