Environment and Ecology

This revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect is full of new content, building on the success of the previou...

Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent th...

Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground comprises a collection of 118 papers, four reports on symposium themes, and four in...

The Niger Delta, the crude oil extraction center of Nigeria, features in the global public imagination as the archetypal theatre of oil production....

Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, pl...

As the environmental crisis accelerates, we can easily feel overwhelmed, but our feeling of powerlessness is partly due to a misunderstanding of th...

This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analyti...

Sustainable Tourism in the Americas introduces the reader to the establishment of sustainable tourism across the region. It examines questions such...

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the First International Conference on Advanced Renewable Energy Systems (ICARES22) held in Tipaza, A...

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive river flood in...

One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States food supply is the safest in the world because the government wor...

Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)Winner of the 2017 Hal K. Rothman Book ...

Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants...

REVERSE OSMOSIS Reverse osmosis (RO) is the worlds leading demineralization technology. It is used to provide clean water for potable and ultrapure...

Fifty fun & buzz-worthy ways to bee a local hero!Did you know that honey bees pollinate a third of the food we eat, but that a third of them ar...

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical ...