Conservation of the Environment

The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the better known and most successful of the New Deal programs following the Great Depression. The causes...

Despite a modest revival in city living, Americans are spreading out more than ever - into exurbs and boomburbs miles from anywhere, in big houses ...

What motivates people to become involved in issues and struggles beyond their own borders? How are activists changed and movements transformed when...

The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity, Second Edition describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiver...

Making Nature Whole is a seminal volume that presents an in-depth history of the field of ecological restoration as it has developed over the last ...

In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous e...

Anthropogenic climate change has become a reality, and in Australia this means longer wildfire seasons with more intense fires across a wider area....

In the 150 years since the birth of the petroleum industry oil has saturated our culture, fueling our cars and wars, our economy and policies. But ...

The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the most successful fishery in the world. When it collapsed in 1992 causing the l...

Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup'ik elders to document the qanruyutet (words of wisdo...

On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia. With archipelagos surrounding its shores ...

A wild and gripping novel about one woman's quest to reintroduce wolves to the Scottish Highlands at any cost.Inti Flynn arrives in the Scottish Hi...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around...

Save the earths most precious resource while also saving yourself money. Laura Allen provides expert strategies for using water smartly and efficie...

CITIZEN SCIENTIST is award-winning environmental journalist and author Mary Ellen Hannibal's story of becoming a citizen scientist - and finding mo...

In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for ...

In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for ...

The relationship between economic growth and the environment is at the forefront of public attention and poses serious challenges for policymakers ...

In the 150 years since the birth of the petroleum industry oil has saturated our culture, fueling our cars and wars, our economy and policies. But ...

From leading climate scientist Dr. Friederike Otto, this gripping book reveals the revolutionary science that definitively links extreme weather ev...

A wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences an...

The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for re...

A Rock between Two Rivers is the story of a man coming to terms with the environmental legacy of his familys ranch in Dimmitt County, Texas, and re...

WINNER OF THE 2021 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARFF MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR THE CRITICAL STUDY OF NORTH AMERICA! Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictio...

This book addresses urban ecology, green technology, problems with climate change prediction, groundwater contamination, invasive species and ma...

Mountain regions encompass nearly 24 percent of the total land surface of the earth and are home to approximately 12 percent of the worlds populati...

Howard Zahniser (19061964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the pe...

From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But...

Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Evergladesa landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes,...

Discover the secrets and beauty of the worlds rarest trees in this fantastic book filled with more than 300 color photographs. Did you know that ...

In 1994, Ray Anderson felt a 'spear in the chest': he realised that his company, billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer Interface, Inc, was plunderi...

Part of a series of guides following key figures and themes, this book looks at the life and work of John Muir, Man of the Millennium in the US and...

This publication contains the Revised Guidelines which have been developed as a tool for the consistent practical implementation of transboundary e...

**Winner of the 2010 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, presented by the American Anthropological Association**Shared concern for nature ...

'Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain... a revolutionising force' Isabella TreeOur relationship with our land is broken: we must...

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's old...

The revolution will not take place indoors.Kenyan beekeeper-turned-farmer Jess de Boer embarks upon a decade-long journey to find purpose and poten...

How did our relationship with nature become broken, why does it matter and how can we fix it? From a past in which we were embedded in the natural ...

An eye-opening guide on how to lessen ones dependence on plastics. . . . This is a clarion, convincing wake-up call to the scope of the global plas...

In this important new primer, Dustin Mulvaney makes a passionate case for the significance of solar power energy and offers a vision for a more sus...