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Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics: Human-Nature, Rural-Urban Interdependencies (Rff Press)
by Junjie Wu  Publisher Comments Most land in the United States is in rural areas, as are the sources of most of its fresh water and almost all its other natural resources. One of the first books to approach resource economics and rural studies as interconnected areas of study...
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Chesapeake Wildlife: Stories of Survival and Loss
by Pat Vojtech Publisher Comments When Captain John Smith sailed up the Chesapeake Bay in 1608 he discovered a land so rich in wildlife that numbers could not begin to tell the whole story. The abundance of birds blackened the sky. Meat-eating wolves and mountain lions had so much game...
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Down the River (82 Edition)
by Edward Abbey Publisher Comments "Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon collapse." This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair. Along the way...
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Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy
by Alfred W. Crosby Publisher Comments The author, a founder of the field of global history, reveals how humanity's success hinges directly on effective uses of sun energy and on man's ingenuity and adaptability as dwindling natural resources, global warming, and environmental pollution limit...
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Mediating Nature: Environmentalism and Modern Culture (International Library of Sociology)
by Elliot Lindahl Synopsis Offering a cultural history of the present forms of imagining nature and the environment, this fascinating book focuses on the relationship between the emergence of environmentalist practices, and the development and consolidation of a variety of forms...
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The Deer Pasture: Reissue
by Rick Bass Publisher Comments In a series of skillful, easy sketches, Rick Bass evokes the place in the Texas hill country where generations of men in his family have come every year. Hunting is the thread that runs through the narrative, but the heart of this book is a young man's...
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National Parks and Protected Areas: Approaches for Balancing Social, Economic, and Ecological Values
by Tony Prato Publisher Comments National Parks and Protected Areas: Approaches for Balancing Social, Economic and Ecological Values is peerless in its unified treatment of the issues surrounding this subject. From decision-making for planning and management to the principles of ecology...
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Water, Weather and the Mountain West (Rmb Alliance)
by Robert Will Sanford Synopsis Growing populations, increasing industrial use and heavy agricultural demand are beginning to tax water supplies in many regions of Canada's west. Future economic and social development will depend upon how much we know about our surface and ground water...
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Arctic Melting: How Climate Change Is Destroying One of the World's Largest Wilderness Areas
by Chad Kister Publisher Comments "This little book shares amazing on-site details only the Alaskans and intent visitors know firsthand. [Author Chad Kister] tells of seeing the shocking differences of melting from warmer and shorter winters. Chad documents how the Arctic is suffering...
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Good Neighbor Campaign Handbook: How to Win
by Paul Ryder Publisher Comments Neighbors are fighting pollution in a new way: "For a moment, look through the eyes of the CEO or plant manager. "He has worked his way into a corner and does not know how to get out. He knows that what he has been doing is wrong. He wants to stop...
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Mediating Nature : Environmentalism and Modern Culture (06 Edition)
by Nils Lindahl Elliot Publisher Comments the emergence of the characteristic forms of communication employed by environmentalists to express changing sensibilities to nature, and to resist the excesses of capitalism....
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El Mundo Helado: Una Vision Panoramica (Enciclopedias y Grandes Obras)
by Patrick Hook Publisher Comments Covering diverse locales such as the world's oceans, the universe—as seen by the Hubble telescope—and the frozen landscapes of the world, this series of illustrated texts takes a closer look at some of the most arresting parts...
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The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Cannav Publisher Comments In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, and commodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconnecting us from our surroundings and threatening our fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile...
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Infinite Nature:
by R Bruce Hull Publisher Comments You would be hard-pressed to find someone who categorically opposes protecting the environment, yet most people would agree that the environmentalist movement has been ineffectual and even misguided. Some argue that its agenda is misplaced, oppressive...
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Visions upon the land :man and nature on the western range
by Karl Jr Hess Publisher Comments Applies the ideas of democracy and free markets to the management of Western rangelands....
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Fields That Dream
by Jenny Kurzweil Publisher Comments Fields That Dream explores the lives of refugees, immigrants, former chefs, insurance brokers, and union organizers who are now small-scale sustainable farmers. Each chapter of the book combines the story of a farmer who sells at a successful farmers...
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Thorstein Veblen's Contribution To Environmental Sociology; Essays in the Political Ecology of Wasteful Industrialism.
by Ross E. Mitchell Book News Annotation Mostly sociologists, but also political scientists and others explore environmental dimensions in the work of American political economist Veblen (1857-1929), which has only recently become recognized outside a small circle of people generally...
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Beaver Protection, Management, and Utilization in Europe and North America
by Peter E Busher Publisher Comments This volume is a result of a symposium that was part of the Euro-American Mammal Congress. This volume is unique in that it includes reports from both Europe and North America on beaver ecology, management programmes and conservation efforts. The essence...
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Arctic Melting: How Climate Change Is Destroying One of the World's Largest Wilderness Areas
by Chad Kister Publisher Comments "This little book shares amazing on-site details only the Alaskans and intent visitors know firsthand. [Author Chad Kister] tells of seeing the shocking differences of melting from warmer and shorter winters. Chad documents how the Arctic is suffering...
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Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet
by Wendy Abrams Synopsis Galvanized into action by a 2001 Time article on climate change, Wendy Abrams spearheaded Chicago's ?Cool Globes? public art exhibit, which showcased 123 artist-designed globes, each offering its own perspective on global warming. Hot Ideas for a Cooler...
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