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Exploring Water Resources: GIS Investigations for the Earth Sciences with CDROM
The popularity of geographic information system (GIS) software as a tool in the social and physical sciences is growing rapidly. These three modular investigation guides let even novice users tap the power of ArcView GIS to explore, manipulate, …
The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems
Most of the world's population now live in cities, but despite wide agreement on the core values of sustainable societies, municipalities are so busy solving current problems, they don't have the time or resources to plan effective action for …
Chasing the Sun: Solar Adventures Around the World
If millions of people in the developing world can use solar power, why can't we in North America? The question immediately arises from this fascinating account of the author's 12-year quest to bring solar power and light to people in the …
Sigurd Olson's love affair with the wilderness began in a stream near his house in Wisconsin — he caught his first trout there with a tamarack wand, black thread, and a grasshopper as bait. Open Horizons is his autobiography, and in it he …
Divorce Your Car!: Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile
Alvord's perceptive gloss of the late, great, 20th century's pitiful auto intoxication is a fascinating read and a stunning contradiction of the fatuity that technology is neutral. Her gathering of stories illuminates the existence of a vital …
Deterministic Methods in Systems Hydrology
The material in this book was originally written and subsequently revised for students of hydrology from many countries throughout the world attending post-graduate courses at IHE Delft. The objective of the text was two fold - to present the …
New and Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development
The International Conference on New and Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development held in Ponta Delgada, Azores (2002), Portugal, has provided technology specialists and hardware developers with the opportunity to discuss, review …
This fully updated edition of Geographic Information Systems: A Visual Approach offers a comprehensive introduction to the application of GIS concepts. The unique layout provides clear, highly intuitive graphics and corresponding concept …
Homes That Heal (and Those That Don't): How Your Home Could Be Harming Your Family's Health
Media reports focus increasingly on the declining health of children in industrialized countries. Asthma, autism, learning and behavior problems, and cancer are all on the rise. At the same time, there is consistent news about poor indoor air …
Environment, Energy and Society: Exemplary Works
This book was designed as a reader to accompany Humphrey, Lewis, and Buttel, Environment, Energy, and Society: A New Synthesis (2002). The reader is divided into eight parts exploring issues and topics central to the study of the environment, …
Living Space: Towards Sustainable Settlements in New Zealand
Upon their arrival in New Zealand from the UK, Freeman and Thompson- Fawcett (both of the planning program of the U. of Otago, New Zealand) noted that the concept of sustainability and its application to the built environment had been relatively …
Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
"Creating a Life Together "is the only resource available that provides step-by-step practical information distilled from numerous firsthand sources on how to establish an intentional community. It deals in depth with structural, interpersonal …
Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta
hundred years later, the world was shocked by the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa—writer, political activist, and leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. Again the people of Nembe were locked in a grim life-and-death struggle to …
Environmental issues, such as climate change and energy consumption, and our responses to them are of global concern. The underlying premise of the book is that while global environmental issues may be the result of natural and/or human-induced …
Precision Agriculture covers in detail the spatial data for recordkeeping, spatial analysis in decision making and modeling prescription maps for variable rate applications. It provides an overview of precision farming concepts and the tools of …
Explorations in Meteorology: A Lab Manual
Start using real data to get real results and learn real quickly! EXPLORATIONS IN METEROLOGY: A LAB MANUAL helps you understand weather and climate by using actual meteorological data. Plus, it's loaded with full-color pictures and graphs that …
Geodiversity: Valuing and Conserving Abiotic Nature
Since the UN Convention on Biodiversity was signed, attention has been focused on protecting and enhancing biological diversity. However, this does not include the rocks, landforms and processes that form the physical elements of our own …
Environmental Geography: Science, Land Use, and Earth Systems
An environmental studies text written for geographers by geographers. Offering a true geographic approach to environmental issues, this Third Edition of William Marsh and John Grossa's ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY: SCIENCE, LAND USE, AND EARTH SYSTEMS …
The most significant book on climate change to appear for decades. Mayer Hillman argues the case for immediate action, provides solutions and challenges the government, businesses and individuals who claim that radical measures are not practical. …
Dancing with the Tiger: Learning Sustainability Step by Natural Step
Making social and ecological change happen is not easy. At both the planetary and organizational levels, it is a dance that is fraught with danger for both the change agents themselves and their organizations. It is like dancing with a tiger. For …
Organic Weddings: Balancing Ecology, Style and Tradition
The founder of OrganicWeddings.com is the ultimate source for busy, eco-aware brides and grooms who want to plan a beautiful, meaningful occasion that reflects their values.
Environmental Modelling: Finding Simplicity in Complexity
Simulation models are increasingly used to investigate processes and solve practical problems in a wide variety of disciplines. Central to the concept of this book is the idea that environmental systems are complex, open systems. The approach …
The Eco-Foods Guide: What's Good for the Earth Is Good for You!
We are what we eat, as the saying goes. So it follows that if we want to be healthy, we should buy healthy foods. And for foods to be healthy, the earth they grow in also needs to be in good health. This might seem like Ecology 101, but it's what …
Earth Lab: Exploring the Earth Sciences
Utilizing graphs and simple calculations, this clearly written lab manual complements the study of earth science or physical geology. Engaging activities are designed to help you develop data-gathering skills (e.g., mineral and rock …
Practical Atlas for Bacterial Indentification
Biologists and zoologists have the luxury of being readily able to view, touch, measure and observe the life cycles of their organisms of interest without great difficulty. For bacteriologists such tangible examinations are denied. Only recently …
The coming energy crisis caused by a peak in global oil and natural gas production will profoundly affect the lives of all North Americans. As the price of these vital fuels rises, homeowners will scramble to cut their fuel bills. Two options for …
Journey into Environmental Science Just as a Global Positioning System helps you steer your car through systems of roads and highways, Environment, 6th Edition helps you navigate the interconnected-environmental systems presented in your …
Sick Buildings: Definition, Diagnosis and Mitigation
This book is a comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of poor indoor air quality (IAQ) characterized as sick or problem buildings. Significant emphasis is given to defining the nature of the problem, the various potential causal and risk …
Essential Environmental Science
There are about 30,000 Asian elephants in the wild. What are the causes behind the decline? What can be done about saving the elephant population from extinction while also benefiting the growing human population?. Dr. Melissa Songer and Danielle …
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying …