Environment and Ecology

Charles Flower is passionate about restoring the countryside. He has spent many years working on and writing about the restoration of wild flowers ...

In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-cen...

In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and wate...

Cabinets of prints and drawings are found in the earliest art collections of Early Modern Europe. From the sixteenth century onwards, some of them ...

Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hatsand he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil explorat...

Environmental issues appear deceptively simple: science tells us what the problems are and how to solve them, and, for Christians, the Bible motiva...

South Pacific island nations are committed to international agreements and regional declarations to progress gender equality within their own terri...

Are natural resources really so limited that, as Mahatma Gandhi once famously said, Earth provides enough to satisfy every man''s need, but not ev...

The diversion of water from Colorados Western Slope to meet the needs of the rest of the state has been a contentious issue throughout Colorados hi...

Plant leaves collectively represent the largest above-ground surface area of plant material in virtually all environments. Their optical properties...

In this book, the authors gather and present current research in the study of the types, threats and management of pine forests. Topics discussed i...

In recent decades, there has been increased interest in understanding ecosystems in order to be able to manage and conserve them. Yet examples of h...

The national forests have been the focus of controversy for many years. Reduced timber harvests, increased wildfire risks, degraded forest health, ...

This book deals with the environmental issues in an integrated manner. Topics like Natural Resources, Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Pollution, relat...

A fascinating survey of the geologic, environmental, and human history of southeastern Ohio The southeastern third of Ohio is quite different from ...

As a journalist, advocate, and professor, Michael Frome has spent decades engaged with conservation topics and has taken particular interest in Ame...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are hazardous highly toxic pollutants that cause a number of environmental and human health problems. They are re...

This book provides new research on the management strategies, environmental impacts and health risks of air pollution. Chapter One analyses histori...

Even with all the advances in technologies, humans continue to suffer from the consequences of flooding century after century. This book covers two...

Wetlands have already been recognised to hold the capacity for efficiently reducing or removing large amounts of pollutants from point sources (e.g...

Urbanisation has re-shaped China''''s economy, society, and energy system. Between 1990 and 2007 China added 290 million new urban residents, bring...

The Zambezi Teak forests of western Zambia have been exploited for their timber for over 80 years. The record of this exploitation and the subseque...

An urgent account of the state of our oceans todayand what we must do to protect them  Provides a persuasive guide to recovery, and is an inspiring...

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living condit...

This book provides a comprehensive and balanced account of global energy policy; covering moral, political, social, technical and economic aspects ...

South African temporarily open/closed estuaries (TOCEs) and similar systems along the coastlines of other regions of the world, especially Australi...

Coupled with increasing concerns about the environment, the magnitude of federal spending on contracts has prompted numerous questions from Members...

Africas urban population is growing rapidly, raising numerous environmental concerns. Urban areas are often linked to poverty as well as power and ...