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by Wouter Van Dieren Publisher Comments Indicators used to direct ecomonic policy (GDP, national income, etc.) are based on a number of factors ß but nowhere in their calculation is there an acknowledgement of the degradation of natural resources. The numbers may look good, but continued... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Hans Schellnhuber Publisher Comments The impacts of climate change are already being observed in a variety of sectors and there is greater clarity that these changes are being caused by human activities, mainly through release of greenhouse gases. In 2005 the UK Government hosted the... (read more) List Price $135.00 Your price $65.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by National Research Co Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-148) and index.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by James N Levitt Publisher Comments Since the earliest days of our nation, new communications and transportation networks have enabled vast changes in how and where Americans live and work. Transcontinental railroads and telegraphs helped to open the West; mass media and interstate... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul Olson Publisher Comments At an 1887 council when his people were told to learn farming in the semidesert region east of the Wind River Mountains, the Shosone chief Washakie exploded with "God damn a potato!" His instincts were all against the cultivation of semiarid land. The... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Gottlieb Publisher Comments A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Steve Lerner Publisher Comments The story of how a mixed-income minority community in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor fought Shell Oil and won.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jason Makansi Publisher Comments Praise for Lights Out "Lights Out is a fast paced, no-holds-barred account of what is wrong in our electricity sector and how we might get it back on track, written by someone who has been in the business long enough to know what he is writing about."... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard Manning Book News Annotation From the settlement of the Salish tribe in its valley, to the current fight to prevent the Phelps Dodge Corporation and Canyon Resources of Colorado from operating a massive gold mine along its banks, this is an ecological biography of the Big... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Chester D Rail Book News Annotation Reviews known sources of groundwater contamination and its many complex interactions. Offers detailed analysis of waste disposal, natural causes, surface runoff, and underground storage tanks, each of which can contribute to groundwater contamination.... (read more) Your price $13.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by A E Johnston Publisher Comments During the past thirty years Asia has seen substantial increases in crop yields due to advances in plant breeding and the use of nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers. Whether this Green Revolution can continue to keep up with population growth remains... (read more) List Price $120.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Arthur J Odonnell Publisher Comments Who says energy policy needs to be boring?... (read more) Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Royal Publisher Comments Advances in science and technology have raised new ethical questions for religious people regarding ecological stewardship. In this work Robert Royal looks critically at the misuse of religious discourse in the environmental debate and offers suggestions... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bank World Publisher Comments This book contends that economic growth is essential for development, but it is not enough. It presents a vision of a responsible approach to growth--sustainable growth in consumption, healthfulness, human capital, environmental quality and social equity-... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Christian C Young Book News Annotation For students in science and the humanities, Young (biology, Alverno College) provides a history of environmental science, from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present, with a focus on the US. He examines the work of scientists such as... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Laurie Lawlor Publisher Comments After the deaths of her father and father-in-law, Laurie Lawlor discovers an unlikely place for healing and transformation in a wetland in southeastern Wisconsin— a landscape of abundant and sometimes... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charles T Rubin Publisher Comments Searching and provocative--The New York Review of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jack M Hollander Publisher Comments Society currently faces critical and unprecedented decisions involving energy supply, use, and regulation. This book brings together leading scientists and policy analysts to provide the latest thinking on all aspects of the vital connection between... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jennifer Carless Publisher Comments A practical and useful guide to how individuals, businesses, and communities can help alleviate America's garbage crisis.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $1.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Olav Schram Stokke Publisher Comments A comprehensive reference to all international agreements in environment and development, this yearbook details the objectives, status, rules, funding and implementation of each instrument. Essays by leading authorities assess the achievements and... (read more) List Price $110.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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