Thunder at Michigan and Thunder in the Heartland is about a chronicle of changes that took place in a small school in a major Midwestern university. The change that took place had a profound impact upon both the students and faculty...
Conservation of natural resources
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- Auteur:Brinkley, DouglasSommaire:
Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early...
- Auteur:Suzuki, DavidSommaire:
- Auteur:Suzuki, DavidSommaire:
In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of his best-selling book, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in nature and science — from global warming to the science behind mother/baby interactions — and...
- Auteur:LOVELOCK, JamesSommaire:
James Lovelock, one of the giants of environmental thinking, argues passionately and poetically that, although global warming is now inevitable, we are not yet too late to save at least part of human civilization. Not only is mankind on...
- Auteur:Drake, JaneSommaire:
A comprehensive look at the environmental movement of rewilding whereby habitats are restored to their natural states and native plants and animals are reintroduced to these habitats.
- Auteur:Ritchie, HannahSommaire:
This "truly essential" audiobook will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems (Margaret Atwood) - and explains how we can solve them. It's become common to tell kids that they're going to die from...
- Auteur:Mielnik, Tara MitchellSommaire:
Tara Mitchell Mielnik fills a significant gap in the history of the New Deal South by examining the lives of the men of South Carolina's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) who from 1933 to 1942 built sixteen state parks, all of which...
- Auteur:White, GrahamSommaire:
Co-management boards, established under comprehensive land claims agreements, have become key players in land-use planning, wildlife management, and environmental regulation across Canada's North. This book provides a detailed...
- Auteur:Beyers, Bert, Wackernagel, MathisSommaire:
Ecological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet can renew--its biocapacity--and distils this...
- Auteur:Mosey, RichardSommaire:
The American middle class is disappearing, and an obtuse, short-sighted and self-centered emphasis on growth rather than stability ensures this. Economic collapse is only accelerating the privatization of essential resources like water...