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The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
by James Gustave Speth  Publisher Comments How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit...
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Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
by William F. Ruddiman Publisher Comments The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? William Ruddiman's provocative new...
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
by Mark Lynas Publisher Comments Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next. Written by the acclaimed author of High...
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Understanding Environmental Pollutio 2nd Edition
by Marquita K Hill Publisher Comments A lucidly-written and thorough approach to comprehending pollution issues, Understanding Environmental Pollution systematically addresses issues from global stratospheric ozone depletion to personal pollution in the home. The author identifies pollutants...
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Riparia: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Streamside Communities
by Robert J. Naiman Publisher Comments This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are used by human cultures as well as how riparia can be used to sustain...
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Discovery of Global Warming (03 Edition)
by Spencer R. Weart Publisher Comments In 2001 a panel representing virtually all the world's governments and climate scientists announced that they had reached a consensus: the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused...
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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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Biodiversity
by E O Wilson Synopsis This book calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressure and the demands of economic development. Biodiversity creates a systematic framework for...
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Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation
by Oswald J. Schmitz Publisher Comments A companion volume to The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise, published by Island Press in fall 2005, this new book examines the key policy tools available for protecting biodiversity in the United States by revisiting...
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Sustainable Design: The Science of Sustainability and Green Engineering
by Daniel Vallero Publisher Comments scientific principles to guide sustainable design decisions From thermodynamics to fluid dynamics to computational chemistry, this book sets forth the scientific principles underlying the need for sustainable design, explaining not just the hows of...
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The Cyanide Canary
by Joseph Hilldorfer Publisher Comments The Cyanide Canary is the riveting true story of a horrific crime -- of a brave young man left for dead, an unscrupulous business mogul, and the relentless EPA investigator who fought to overcome injustice. On a crisp summer morning in Soda Springs...
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Reviews of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology
by George W Ware Publisher Comments Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy, and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics in any segment of the...
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Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: A Framework for Assessment
by Resources Ins World Publisher Comments Ecosystems and Human Well-being is the first product of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), a four-year international work program designed to meet the needs of decision-makers for scientific information on the links between ecosystem change and...
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Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice
by Paul T Anastas Publisher Comments This book provides the first introductory treatment of the design, development, and evaluation processes central to Green Chemistry. A comprehensive textbook, it takes a broad view of the subject and integrates a wide variety of approaches. Topics...
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Principles of Environmental Physics 3RD Edition
by John Monteith Publisher Comments Environmental Physics concerns the description and analysis of physical processes that establish the conditions in which all species of life survive and reproduce. The subject involves a synthesis of mathematical relations that describe the physical...
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Ecological Restoration: Principles, Values, and Structure of an Emerging Profession (Science Practice Ecological Restoration)
by Andre Clewell Publisher Comments The field of ecological restoration is a rapidly growing discipline that encompasses a wide range of activities and brings together practitioners and theoreticians from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives, ranging from volunteer backyard...
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Wetlands
by William J. Mitsch Publisher Comments Praise for the previous editions of Wetlands: Wetlands, the field of study, would not be what it is without Wetlands, the book. ----Bill Streever, Wetlands, 2001 The Third Edition of this highly successful book manages to set new standards in...
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Methods and Reagents for Green Chemistry: An Introduction
by Pietro Tundo Synopsis This book aims to stimulate and promote the wide-ranging aspects of green chemistry and its major role in ensuring sustainable development. The book covers the following areas: green chemistry; green reagents and atom economy; safeguarding the atmosphere;...
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Handbook of Environmental Engineering Calculations 2nd Ed.
by C. C. (edt) Lee Publisher Comments Take Advantage of the Latest Calculation Methods for Solving Problems in Every Major Area of Environmental Engineering The only hands-on reference of its kind, the Handbook of Environmental Engineering Calculations equips you with step-by-step...
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Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis Publisher Comments Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environmental policies are seriously flawed. Based on unrealistic...
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