Environment and Ecology

In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believednaive...

An infamous voyage explores the hazardous waste trade and environmental justiceIn 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash...

This book presents light microscopic anatomical images of aquatic and wetland plant stem. It features double-stained cross- and longitudinal sectio...

This full color guide makes foraging accessible for beginners and is a reliable source for advanced foragers. Edible Chicago The Midwest offers a v...

No one has advanced wild foraging in the desert Southwest as much as John Slattery. Gary Paul Nabahn, director of the Center for Regional Food Stud...

This comprehensive, accessible, full-color guide includes plant profiles, step-by-step instructions for essential herbal remedies and seasonal fora...

An incredibly thorough guide for identifying, harvesting, and utilizing medicinal plants. Dr. Deborah Frances RN, ND Naturopathic physician, herbal...

A stunning look at the natural abundance of the mountain stateswith clear guidance on identification, gathering techniques, and uses. Jennifer McGr...

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals pests and others notfrom cats to rats, elephants to pigeonsand what this tells us ...

This open access book offers a timely guide to challenges and current practices to permanently plug and abandon hydrocarbon wells. With a focus on ...

Through research and proven practice, the aim of the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) is t...

This volume compiles and discusses the fundamental and multidisciplinary knowledge on adsorption and separation processes using zeolites as adsorbe...

Leisure activities undertaken in nature are immensely popular. This book examines the new serious leisure concept of nature challenge activity (NCA...

The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of po...

Forrest Galante, host of Extinct or Alive and the world's #1 rare species expert, takes readers along with him through the deepest wilderness and m...

Als Reaktion auf die Havarie im japanischen Kernkraftwerk Fukushima Daiichi wird Deutschland als erstes Industrieland der Welt innerhalb von rund e...

The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of po...

In this edited volume, leading environmental policy experts from China, USA, and Europe provide a contemporary view of Chinese environmental policy...

An analysis of the global climate talks and the key human systems threatened by increased greenhouse gas emissions including health, refugee manage...

Tanasescu examines the rights of nature in terms of its constituent parts. Besides offering a thorough theoretical grounding, the book gives a firs...

This book describes how NGOs' efforts to promote sustainable development are affected by their funding, management strategies, and relationships wi...

The author uses the work of the eminent Canadian philosopher, Charles Taylor, to develop a critique of those political perspectives that are based ...