Ecology - Environment Studies Books

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11. Land and Resource Scarcity

    Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World without Fossil Fuels

    Edited by Andreas Exner, Peter Fleissner, Lukas Kranzl, Werner Zittel

    Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy

    This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be...

    Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
12. Drought, Risk Management, and Policy

    Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

    Edited by Linda Courtenay Botterill, Geoff Cockfield

    Series: Drought and Water Crises

    Australia and the United States face very similar challenges in dealing with drought. Both countries cover a range of biophysical conditions, both are federations that provide considerable responsibility to state governments for water and land management, and both face the challenges in balancing...

    Published January 27th 2013 by CRC Press
13. Alternative Fuels

    The Future of Hydrogen, Third Edition

    By Michael Frank Hordeski

    Revised and updated, Alternative Fuels addresses many of the factors affecting our energy use, including the availability and desirability of various fuels—especially the use of hydrogen. This new edition covers new hydrogen developments in technology, oil supplies and new drilling techniques,...

    Published January 27th 2013 by Fairmont Press
14. Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems

    Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change

    Edited by Christian Messier, Klaus J. Puettmann, K. David Coates

    Series: The Earthscan Forest Library

    This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history....

    Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
15. Design with the Desert

    Conservation and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Richard Malloy, John Brock, Anthony Floyd, Margaret Livingston, Robert H. Webb

    The modern southwestern cities of Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, and El Paso occupy lands that once supported rich desert ecosystems. Typical development activities often resulted in scraping these desert lands of an ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and...

    Published January 15th 2013 by CRC Press
16. American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship

    Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons

    Edited by Joni Adamson, Kimberly N. Ruffin

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors Adamson and Ruffin...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
17. Encyclopedia of Environmental Management (Print)

    Edited by Sven Erik Jorgensen

    Encyclopedia of Environmental Management gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about specific pollution and management...

    Published December 12th 2012 by CRC Press
18. Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country

    By Stanley W. Trimble

    "This thought-provoking book demonstrates how processes of landscape transformation, usually illustrated only in simplified or idealized form, play out over time in real, complex landscapes. Trimble illustrates how a simple landscape disturbance, generated in this case by agriculture, can spread an...

    Published November 20th 2012 by CRC Press
19. Global Forest Monitoring from Earth Observation

    Edited by Frederic Achard, Matthew C. Hansen

    Series: Earth Observation of Global Changes

    Forests provide a large range of beneficial services, including tangible ones such as timber and recreation, and intangible services such as climate regulation, biodiversity, and watershed protection. On the other hand, forests can also be considered roadblocks to progress that occupy space more...

    Published November 18th 2012 by CRC Press
20. Environmental Governance in Europe and Asia

    A Comparative Study of Institutional and Legislative Frameworks

    By Jona Razzaque

    Series: Routledge Research in International Environmental Law

    This book looks at environmental governance in both Asia and Europe and offers a comparative analysis of the two regions in order to provide a better understanding of the concept of ‘environmental governance’ and its status in Europe and Asia. The book assesses the legislative, institutional and...

    Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge