Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

In the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the low-lying lands of Guyana and the Maldives to grapple with the existential dilemma of seawalls alongsi...

This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the historic distanci...

For every beachgoer, a book filled with surprising information about how to avoid dangers both large and small while at the beach Here, from the na...

This broad-ranging book presents the key concepts of environmental science in an accessible style that can be understood by those who are not natur...

The rapid disappearance of tropical forests is widely recognized as a crucial problem for the world's environment, yet little is known about these ...

Space junk crashing into Earth is a real and escalating danger. Milne provides the first synthesis of the interdisciplinary work of the scientific ...

In 1872 Congress designated Yellowstone National Park as the world’s first national park; nineteen years later, the land adjacent to Yellowstone be...

The biological effects of global warming should be of concern to all thinking individuals, for warming could cause profound disruption of natural e...

In 1984, the Conference on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science Foundation convened a series of pan...

Addressing decades of rain forest destruction, concerned scientists, often in concert with various environmental movements, have amassed an impress...

Footprints of the Forest is the clearest and most comprehensive account to date of the relationship between an Amazonian people and their botanical...

Originally published in 1979, Serengeti: Dynamics of an Ecosystem was immediately recognized as the first synthesis of the patterns and processes o...

Although science may claim to be "objective," scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, ...

Ecologists increasingly find themselves called upon to address the impacts of global change on biodiversity. Yet most studies of biodiversity focus...

In the late 1970s, a Stuttgart zoo imported a lush, bright green seaweed for its aquarium. "Caulerpa taxifolia" was captively bred by the zoo and e...

Ecologists increasingly find themselves called upon to address the impacts of global change on biodiversity. Yet most studies of biodiversity focus...

"The merits of this work are many. A rigorous integration of phylogenetic hypotheses into studies of adaptation, adaptive radiation, and coevolutio...

La Selva, a nature reserve and field station in Costa Rica, is one of the most intensively studied and best-understood tropical field sites in the ...

"The merits of this work are many. A rigorous integration of phylogenetic hypotheses into studies of adaptation, adaptive radiation, and coevolutio...

La Selva, a nature reserve and field station in Costa Rica, is one of the most intensively studied and best-understood tropical field sites in the ...

A Financial Times BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alverà spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in...

"Many of the findings in the book . . . are classics of ecology. . . . A rare and delightful insight into timely science."—Jane Lubchenco, Nature "...

This is the only book that takes a zero-waste approach to propose 100% sustainable water purification techniques. Water is synonymous with life. Th...

Waste Management: A Reference Handbook provides an in-depth look at the waste management industry in the United States and elsewhere, including suc...

Energy Islands provides an urgent and nuanced portrait of collective action that resists racial capitalism, colonialism, and climate disruption. We...

SUSTAINABLE WATER TREATMENT: ADVANCES AND INTERVENTIONS This outstanding new volume is a compendium of reference material which will cover most of ...

Two leaders of the National Park Service provide a front-row seat to the disastrous impact of partisan politics over the past fifty years-and offer...

'Terrifying yet funny, surprising yet predictable, simple yet poignant' Chris PackhamA shocking but informative, eye-catching and witty book of map...

Fossil fuels may be keeping the world running, but they're also destroying the planet. What viable alternatives do we have, and what technological ...

Under imminent threat from habitat destruction, the northern Cordillera Vilcabamba in the Andes is one of Peru's biologically richest areas. This r...

In 1993 and 1994, two Rapid Assessment Program teams conducted biological surveys in the Cordillera del Condor between Ecuador and Peru, one of the...

Algae Mediated Bioremediation Develop new methods for remediating pollution with this cutting-edge guide In a world where environmental remediation...

Expert guide to ecological restoration of post-industrial lands that explains how to re-introduce biodiversity and ecosystem services Biodiversity ...

Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on t...

A compelling look at the challenges of freshwater conservation and management issues facing the United States at the start of the new millennium. B...

This book presents and develops the basic methods and models that are used by demographers to study the behaviour of human populations. The procedu...

This book tells the story of the polution-related activities of companies from the pulp and paper and electric utility industries. The authors trac...

This work explores the promise of pollution prevention in contributing to sustainable development, and acknowledges the difficulty of translating n...

This may be the book to guide advocates and citizens through our complex environmental laws. . . . Not a critique of the pollution laws, this is a ...

Studies of prehistoric exchange of goods provide information about the types of economic interaction, social organization, or political structures ...