Author: Gibilisco, Stan Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The fast and easy way to get up-to-speed on alternative energy Because of current events, geopolitics, and natural disasters, the cost of fuel is front and center in our lives. This book provides...
Author: Vergara, Walter / Deeb, Alejandro / Leino, Irene Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Climate change is beginning to have effects on climate, weather and resource availability in ways that need to be anticipated when planning for the future. In particular, changes in rainfall patterns...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The introduction of plant and animal agriculture represents one of the most important milestones in human evolution. It contributed to the development of cities, alphabets, new technologies, and ultim...
Author: Rozelle, Scott Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This OED study finds that while China ' s forest program was highly successful, much remains to be done. Too little is known, for example, about the distribution of benefits between households and pro...
Author: Connor, David J. / Loomis, Robert S. / Cassman, Kenneth G. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Food security and environmental conservation are two of the greatest challenges facing the world today. It is predicted that food production must increase by at least 70% before 2050 to support contin...
Author: Bonn, Aletta Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Addressing policy related issues, providing up-to-date scientific background information and laying out pressing land management questions, this interdisciplinary volume identifies and discusses key d...
Author: Lambi, Cornelius Mbifung / Neba, Emmanuel Ndenecho Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The densely populated Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon remains one of the regions with the greatest land degradation problems in the country. Factors responsible for this include climate change, the hill...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Showing how big-picture patterns can help overcome the failures of conventional management, this book is ideal for students, researchers and professionals involved with marine fisheries. It explores n...
Author: Anderson, David Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature, present against future, and certain benefits against uncertain consequences. From reluctant-but-necess...
Author: FALK/HEIMLICH/FOUTZ (EDS) Publisher: AltaMira Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Most environmental learning takes place outside of the formal education system, but our understanding of how this learning actually occurs is in its infancy. By surfing the internet, watching nature d...
Author: Trager, Geoffrey Publisher: TheEbookSale Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Description: If you've been dreaming of getting started with clean, green, solar energy on your own, but decided it was just too expensive, or maybe you are not handy enough, then GO SOLAR WITHOUT BIG...
Description: Drawing on both economics and ecology, this book offers telling insights into the confusing 'jobs versus environment' debates as well as charts a recommended path towards a more co-habitable relations...
Author: Kneese, Allen V. Publisher: North Holland Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The "Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics" examines the current theory and sample current application methods for natural resource and energy economics. This third volume deals primarily ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The rapidly increasing global population has dramatically increased the demands for natural resources and has caused significant changes in quantity and quality of natural resources. To achieve sustai...
Author: Marshall, Stephen Publisher: Elsevier Science Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a text/reference, written in a style accessible to non-specialists as well as academic researchers. It shows the inter-relationships between transport and land use planning, emphasising the n...
Author: Boyer, Dennis Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Inspired by years of talking with farmers, foragers, loggers, tribal activists, seed savers, fishers, railroaders, and nature lovers of all stripes, Dennis Boyer has created in Listen to the Land a fa...
Author: Orams, Mark Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Marine Tourism" examines tourism in coastal and marine environments. Mark Orams provides an overview of the history, development and growth of marine tourism and describes the characteristics of mari...
Author: Stopford, Martin Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By exploring new evidence gathered from diaries, memoirs and minutes, "Facing Fascisms" provides the complete historical context of the Conservative Party's foreign policy from 1930 to 1940.
Author: Waterbury, John Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The supply and management of fresh water for the world's billions of inhabitants is likely to be one of the most daunting challenges of the coming century. For countries that share river basins with o...
Author: Wunder, Sven Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Giving an analysis of the impact of oil wealth on tropical deforestation in South America, Africa and Asia, this book takes a much more analytical approach than the usual fare of environmental studies...
Author: Alterman, Rachelle Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Recounts the fascinating saga of how policymakers and planners at both the national and local levels responded to the formidable demand for housing and massive urban growth.
Author: World Bank Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Tanzania's annual real economic growth rate has in recent years been between 6 and 7 percent with Gross National Income equivalent to about US$340 per person. A "hidden" economy could potentially have...
Author: Hillier, Jean Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines issues of decision-making, communication and power in the planning process. The author explores the politics and power-plays which planning practitioners face and engage in, using r...
Author: Lukac, Martin / Godbold, Douglas L. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Forest soils form the foundation that underpins the existence of all forests. This book encapsulates soil ecology and functioning in northern forests, focusing on the effects of human activity and cli...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Source-sink theories provide a simple yet powerful framework for understanding how the patterns, processes and dynamics of ecological systems vary and interact over space and time. Integrating multipl...
Author: Lynch,Daniel Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Natural resources support all human productivity. The sustainable management of natural resources is among the preeminent problems of the current century. Sustainability and the implied professional r...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The future of the world's forests is at the forefront of environmental debate. Rising concerns over the effects of deforestation and climate change are highlighting the need both to conserve and manag...
Author: Giampietro, Mario / Mayumi, Kozo / Sorman, Alevgül H. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: It is increasingly evident that the conventional scientific approach to economic processes and related sustainability issues is seriously flawed. No economist predicted the current planetary crisis ev...
Author: Giampietro, Mario / Mayumi, Kozo / Sorman, Alevgül H. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It is increasingly evident that the conventional scientific approach to economic processes and related sustainability issues is seriously flawed. No economist predicted the current planetary crisis ev...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book considers a number of problems posed by ungulates and their management in Europe. Through a synthesis of the underlying biology and a comparison of the management techniques adopted in diffe...
Author: Anderson, Terry Publisher: Cato Institute Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rain and snow may be falling today, but throughout the world people continually fear water shortages. Is there reason for such apprehension? In Water Markets: Priming the Invisible Pump, Terry L. Ande...
Author: Komives, Kristin / Foster, Vivien / Halpern, Jonathan Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""This book is an extremely thorough and readable review of how effective utility subsidies are in reaching the poor. It makes sobering reading for policy makers who have implemented such subsidy prog...
Author: Bartelmus, Peter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P><i>Environment, Growth and Development</i> offers a unique analysis of sustainable economic growth and development and the implications for policy and planning at the local, natio...
Author: Wathern, Peter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Provides an authoritative contemporary review of both the science and art of EIA, reflecting concern both with the technical aspects of appraisal and the effects of EIA on the decision-making process.
Description: This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective -uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to Security Studies. ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective -uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to Security Studies. ...
Author: Haas, Timothy C. Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The decision to implement environmental protection options is a political one. These, and other political and social decisions affect the balance of the ecosystem and how the point of equilibrium desi...
Author: Pavlick, Leon and Ann Publisher: FriesenPress Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Red Pines on the Ridge is the first in the On the Ridge series. Foxes on the Ridge and Aspens on the Ridge will follow in the near future. The book is the story of a red pine tree that lives on a low ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores the debates surrounding land and agrarian reform in South Africa and explores how these reforms, and particular those that make access easier, have created new options for and broad...
Author: Anderson, Terry Publisher: Cato Institute Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Rain and snow may be falling today, but throughout the world people continually fear water shortages. Is there reason for such apprehension? In Water Markets: Priming the Invisible Pump, Terry L. Ande...
