Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and one of The Observers Thirty books to help us understand the w...

Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions reveals what makes Wes Jackson tick. What kind of lessons does he draw from his unique life expe...

Il n''est pas toujours aise d''etablir une relation entre la theologie et les phenomenes scientifiques complexes comme le changement climatique. La...

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, international aid organizations sought to help the victims but were stymied by post-Soviet political ...

After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent year...

This book approaches environmentalism via two academic disciplines, sociology and philosophy. Both have concerns about the environment's ability...

Hydro-Québec manages one of the largest power grids on the continent. It is among the most profitable, the least expensive and the greenest. With a...

Building on FAO policy advice and incorporating lessons from ongoing agricultural carbon finance projects of FAO and other organisations, this docu...

Knowledge is power. Get informed and choose action over despair. Everything you need to know about the earth and the life it supports - right now....

In the current scenario, frequently changing environmental variables such as salinity, excess or insufficient water availability, cold or high-temp...

A new weapon is emerging to help us fight climate change. It is becoming feasible to take carbon dioxide from power stations and industry, and lock...

We take it for granted that the streets outside out homes are designed for movement from A to B, nothing more. But what happens if we radically ret...

Dinero the Frog Learns to Save Energy is a fun and educational book about energy conservation. Poppi the Frog teaches Dinero about energy, where it...

This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, in...

This volume includes eight chapters that provide updates in the field of environmental research. Chapter One deals with the subject of applied bioe...

With its 104 chapters, this Encyclopedia of aquatic ecotoxicology reveals the diversity of issues, problems and challenges that have faced, and are...

Ancient civilizations routinely relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. In...

Against Ecological Sovereignty is a passionate defense of radical ecology that speaks directly to current debates concerning the nature, and danger...

Soldier-robot teams will be an important component of future battle spaces, creating a complex but potentially more survivable and effective combat...