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by Yvonne Baskin Publisher Comments "We do not question that flesh and bone and leaf litter will decay to dust, that seeds will sprout season after season and find renewed nourishment in the soil, that rivers can flow endlessly without running dry, that we can breathe a lifetime without... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Linda Riebel Publisher Comments U.S. food production is a $900 billion industry, and each day farming and meat production destroy native habitats; pesticides contaminate groundwater, rivers, and lakes; food processing and delivery contribute to ozone depletion; and food packaging... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mark A. Benedict and Edward T. McMahon Publisher Comments With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructure advances smart land conservation: large scale thinking and integrated action to plan, protect and manage our natural and restored lands. From the individual... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Rothenberg Publisher Comments Through essays, poetry, stories, and images, writers and artists offer their perceptions of how we fit into the world and where we might be headed.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert G Bailey Publisher Comments This book completes Robert G. Bailey's celebrated study of ecoregions, begun in the landmark Ecosystem Geography (1996) and further articulated in Ecoregions (1998). In this third installment, the author expands his system for defining large-scale... (read more) Your price $49.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul Brown Publisher Comments This visually enticing and hard-hitting text not only promotes understanding and insight into the complex issue of climate change, but also delivers a clarion call to action by showing how each person can do his or her part to save the Earth. Includes... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Pierre Chomat Publisher Comments Totally addicted to oil, Man in his industrial adventure has transformed nearly all the Earth's ecosystems into egosystems designed to serve only his own needs and desires, at the expense of all other species. He persists despite the irreversible damage... (read more) Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Oates Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-307) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Terry L Anderson Publisher Comments Anderson and his contributors boldly confront specific environmental laws, asking whether they were motivated by environmental or strictly political concerns, whether they achieve their goals, whether they are cost-effective and whether they generate... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Edward P Weber Publisher Comments Despite America's pluralistic, fragmented, and generally adversarial political culture, participants in pollution control politics have begun to collaborate to reduce the high costs of developing, implementing, and enforcing regulations. Edward P. Weber... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Jeffrey Mcneely Publisher Comments Protected areas around the globe national parks, wildlife reserves, biosphere reserves will prosper only if they are supported by the public, the private sector, and the full range of government agencies. Yet such support is unlikely unless society... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
Book News Annotation Among the topics covered in this annual: chemical detection of natural enemies by arthropods, sex chromosome meiotic drive, environmental influences on regional deep-sea species diversity, the physiology of life-history trade-offs in animals... (read more) Your price $30.23 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas Homer Dixon Publisher Comments "Looking back from the year 2100, we'll see a period when our creations--technological, social, ecological--outstripped our understanding and we lost control of our destiny. And we will think: if only--if only we'd had the ingenuity and will to prevent... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Russell E Train Publisher Comments "This is an adventure story-not among the wild animals he knows so well but among the politicians as he pioneered the efforts to conserve our wildlife, our natural resources, and the very atmosphere that supports us all. It is a history invaluable to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard White Publisher Comments The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Gottlieb Publisher Comments Forcing the Spring challenges standard histories of the environmental movement by offering a broad and inclusive interpretation of past environmentalist thought and a sweeping redefinition of the nature of the contemporary environmental movement. Robert... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $2.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David G Victor Publisher Comments Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in meeting their Kyoto... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard Register Publisher Comments Building Cities in Balance with Nature, a visionary book by the founder of the international Ecocity Movement.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Verlyn Klinkenborg Publisher Comments This is a collection of Klinkenborg's writings on the natural world and the changing seasons which appear frequently in a column entitled "The Rural Life" on the editorial page of the "New York Times."... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by James Gustave Speth Publisher Comments Today's most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them? Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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