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When the Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When Our Water Runs Out? (UK Edition)
by Fred Pearce  Publisher Comments Fred Pearce has travelled the world to provide the most complete portrait yet of the causes of the world water crisis - THE resource crisis for the 21st century. Calling for a 'blue revolution', he finds new solutions that will surprise most readers...
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Trees of Life: Saving Tropical Forests and Their Biological Wealth (Wri Guides to the Environment)
by Kenton Miller Publisher Comments This book nails down the crucial connections between the forests' survival and the survival of the cultures and economies that depend on them. To read this book is to be part with the now-naive notion that only trees grow in forests and to look at the...
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Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism)
by John Elder Publisher Comments Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provences for a different kind of travel book. Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa puts a walking stick in your hand and Marsh's Man and Nature in your knapsack, exploring how Italians have managed their natural and...
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Ecological Climatology: Concepts and Applications. Gordon Bonan
by Gordon Bonan Publisher Comments This book introduces an interdisciplinary framework to understand the interaction between terrestrial ecosystems and climate change. It reviews basic meteorological, hydrological and ecological concepts to examine the physical, chemical and biological...
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Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business
by William J. Ginn Publisher Comments In 2004, U.S. consumers spent $5.2 billion purchasing bottled water while the government only invested 5 percent of that amount to purchase critical watersheds, parks, and wildlife refuges-systems vital to clean water and healthy environments. How can we...
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Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values
by Sharon Beder Publisher Comments In this tightly researched and incendiary book, communications rottweiler Sharon Beder exposes how our community values have been sacrificed by economic and political power brokers--today's free market missionaries--on the altar of free market economics....
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Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation: The Evolutionary Biology of Herbivorous Insects
by Kelley Tilmon Publisher Comments The intimate associations between plants and the insects that eat them have helped define and shape both groups for millions of years. This pioneering volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects...
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Religion and the New Ecology: Environmental Responsibility in a World in Flux
by David M. (edt) Lodge Publisher Comments The contributors address how the paradigm of "flux of nature" fits into the broader history of ecological science and the cultural history of the West and, in particular, how environmental ethics and ecotheology should respond to it....
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Creating a Garden Wildlife Pond (UK Edition)
by Dave Bevan Publisher Comments A companion volume to the successful Garden Wildlife Survival Guide and Garden Bird Survival Guide....
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Forest Resource Policy
by Frederick W. Cubbage and Jay O'Laughlin and Charles S. Bullock III Book News Annotation Textbook presents a pragmatic synthesis of policy analysis, civics, and forest resource programs that will help resource professionals understand the pervasive influence of politics on forest resource management policy. It carefully examines how...
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Ecoforestry: The Art and Science of Sustainable Forest Use
by Alan Drengson Publisher Comments The new paradigm for the forest industry! Accessible to a wide audience ranging from foresters and loggers to environmentalist, restorationist, planners, policy analysts, students and ordinary citizens, Ecoforestry will be a enormous value to all those...
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Greening the Ivory Tower: Improving the Environmental Track Record of Universities, Colleges, and Other Institutions (Urban & Industrial Environmental)
by Sarah Hammond Creighton Publisher Comments Universities can teach and demonstrate environmental principles and stewardship by taking action to understand and reduce the environmental impacts of their own activities. Greening the Ivory Tower, a motivational and how-to guide for staff, faculty, and...
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Where Mountains Are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge
by John Waterman Publisher Comments The "compelling" (Seattle Times) story behind a most sacred piece of American wilderness. Adventurer Jonathan Waterman braves polar bears and frigid waters in a journey through the heart of the Alaskan wilds — and into the heated political...
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Quest for Environmental Justice : Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution (05 Edition)
by Robert D. Bullard 
Publisher Comments This much anticipated follow-up to Dr. Robert D. Bullard’s highly acclaimed Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color captures the voices of frontline warriors who are battling environmental injustice and human rights...
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Saving Sterling Forest: The Epic Struggle to Save Sterling Forest
by Ann Botshon Publisher Comments This is the inspiring story of the twenty-five-year-long effort to preserve Sterling Forest, a tract of rugged, upland terrain encompassing twenty thousand acres within the New York-New Jersey Highlands. Barely forty miles northwest of New York City...
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Global Responsibility (91 Edition)
by Hans Kung Publisher Comments "Highly intelligent... It is understandable while being scholarly and should be read by anyone seeking an overview of ethical history as it relates to the present". -- Church and Synagogue Library...
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State of the Wild: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans
by Sharon Guynup Publisher Comments In wild places where nature thrives, humanity prospers; our well-being is inextricably linked with that of the planet's web of life. In fact, one could argue that the state of the world can be measured by the state of the wild.<BR>But how do we...
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A Reef in Time: The Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End
by J. E. N. Veron Publisher Comments Like many coral specialists fifteen years ago, J. E. N. Veron thought Australia's Great Barrier Reef was impervious to climate change. "Owned by a prosperous country and accorded the protection it deserves, it would surely not go the way of the Amazon...
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Tropical Rain Forest: A Wider Perspective
by F. B. Goldsmith Publisher Comments The book evolved out of succesful masters level courses in Conservation and Environmental Economics taught for several years at University College London. The wide range of contributing authors and their individual specialisms reflect the broad spectrum...
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Preserving Public Lands for the Future: The Politics of Intergenerational Goods (American Governance and Public Policy)
by William R. Lowry Publisher Comments Comparing national efforts to preserve public lands, William R. Lowry investigates how effectively and under what conditions governments can provide goods for future generations. Providing intergenerational goods, ranging from balanced budgets to space...
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