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  • A C.S. Rafinesque Anthology
    C.S. Rafinesque / Charles Boewe
    Among American naturalists, C.S. Rafinesque (1783-1840) is second only to Audubon in the popular interest he sustains. This interest is due in part to his colorful life and provocative personality, but he is also remembered for devising Latin scientific names for more plants than any other naturalist who ever lived--and a great number in the animal kingdom, as well. This passio...
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    73,33 €

  • Economy and Environment
    Charles Perrings
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    51,49 €

  • Forest Fires
    Phillip Omi
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    81,88 €

  • Nature’s Way
    Ed McGaa
    Now in paperback! US bestselling author of Mother Earth Spirituality returns with a call for a spiritual awakening to create a new global culture. Beginning with the ways of the Lakota Sioux and branching outward, Sioux tribal leader Ed McGaa, known as Eagle Man, shows the error of using animals and the natural world as a whole for economic and political gain. He then offers e...
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    16,32 €

  • Look to the Land
    Lord Northbourne
    ’Without vision the people perish.’ So wrote the poet William Blake. Lord Northbourne (1896-1982) was a man of exceptional and comprehensive vision, who diagnosed the sickness of modern society as stemming from the severance of its organic links with the wholeness of life. But like his better-known younger contemporary E. F. Schumacher (author of Small is Beautiful), whose work...
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    31,24 €

  • Facilitating Watershed Management
    Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most important innovators in the field. Presenting an introduction to the diversity of tools (sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological) needed to implement watershed management in the real world trenches, the book helps move students and pract...
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    108,70 €

  • Phosphate Deposits of the World
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    209,86 €

  • Regulation through Revelation
    James T. Hamilton / James THamilton
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    96,53 €

  • Environmental Education and Advocacy
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    185,41 €

  • Ecohydrology
    Peter S. Eagleson / Peter SEagleson
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    108,62 €

  • Tourism, Recreation and Climate Change
    This is the first comprehensive book-level examination of the relationship between tourism and climate change, of interest not only to students of tourism but to policy makers and the industry who will have to respond to the challenges posed. ...
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    169,25 €

  • GARDEN PLANET
    William H. Kötke / William HKötke
    Kötke’s new book brilliantly integrates the best contemporary research into a compelling argument on the inevitable collapse of the consumer empire. The argument presented is not a fuzzy doomsday prophecy but rather a strong fact-based prediction that will leave the reader awestruck.Equally brilliant, however, is the 'solution' that is offered. The solution offered is not wed...
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    20,37 €

  • GARDEN PLANET
    William H. Kötke / William HKötke
    Kötke’s new book brilliantly integrates the best contemporary research into a compelling argument on the inevitable collapse of the consumer empire. The argument presented is not a fuzzy doomsday prophecy but rather a strong fact-based prediction that will leave the reader awestruck.Equally brilliant, however, is the 'solution' that is offered. The solution offered is not wed...
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    11,74 €

  • The Tire House Book
    Ed Paschich / Paula Hendricks
    What are tire houses? Who builds them? How do they do it? Will I see the tires when the house is finished? How weird are they? Can I do it myself?You’ll find the answers to these questions and more in this book that 'Earth Quarterly' called '...an excellent addition to the library of any potential tire house builder, offering a wealth of unique ideas that can jump-start you to ...
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    16,05 €

  • The Agony of an American Wilderness
    Samuel a MacDonald / Samuel A. MacDonald / Samuel AMacDonald
    What is a forest? What are forests for? Who should control them? These are familiar questions, but the Allegheny casts them in a new light. The national environmental movement has become less willing to compromise since its victories in the Pacific Northwest, and the Allegheny is its newest proving ground. This book explains what activists are after, how the struggle differs fr...
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    54,45 €

  • Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World
    Deane Curtin / Deane WCurtin
    Deane Curtin puts today’s most important social and environmental ethical issues into their historical, political, and philosophical contexts, and offers deep insights into the nature of our freedom and its relation to justice in our globalized, commercialized culture. Using familiar literary and historical icons to make surprising points about colonial attitudes and practices,...
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    55,80 €

  • Insect Diversity Conservation
    Michael J. Samways / Michael JSamways
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    135,54 €

  • Weird, Wild & Unpredictable
    Matthew Miller
    Did you know?Knoxville used to get enough snow to host a sleigh carnival! On one day over two dozen tornadoes tore through the eastern half of Tennessee! Temperatures have reached 106oF in East Tennessee! Winters used to be cold enough to freeze the Tennessee River from one side to the other several inches thick! From being buried under a blanket of snow to gazing on dazzling d...
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    12,59 €

  • Advances in Planning and Management
    J. E. Fitzgibbon
    Sustainable development of water resources is a key to the maintenance of the natural eco-system which supports the wellbeing of human populations.This collection of papers provides an ecosystems approach to watershed andwetlands planning and management. The volume is one of five of the outputof the Environmental Capacity Enhancement Project - a four year projectinvolving parti...
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    45,78 €

  • Conservation
    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder / Peter Coppolillo
    Nearly 90 percent of the earth’s land surface is directly affected by human infrastructure and activities, yet less than 5 percent is legally 'protected' for biodiversity conservation--and even most large protected areas have people living inside their boundaries. In all but a small fraction of the earth’s land area, then, conservation and people must coexist. Conservation is a...
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    116,90 €

  • Constitutional Environmental Rights
    Tim Hayward
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    94,40 €

  • World Water Resources at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
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    173,42 €

  • Signs Of Danger
    Peter C. Van Wyck / Peter CVan Wyck
    Questions the literal burying of the nuclear threat and how it relates to expectations for our future A rising ocean. A falling building. A toxic river. Species extinguished. A nuclear landscape. In a world so configured, the state of contemporary ecological thought and practice is woefully-and perilously-inadequate. Focusing on the government’s nuclear waste burial program in ...
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    37,29 €

  • The International Climate Change Regime
    Farhana Yamin / Joanna Depledge
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    265,02 €

  • Animals, politics and morality
    Robert Garner
    This is an extensively re-written, comprehensive and up-to-date second edition of a well-regarded and much cited text on the politics and philosophy of animal protection. ...
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    29,33 €

  • Volcanoes in Human History
    Donald Theodore Sanders / Jelle Zeilinga de Boer
    When the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as 100,000 people perished as a result of the blast and an ensuing famine caused by the destruction of rice fields on Sumbawa and neighboring islands. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around the world, resulting in the infamous 'year without a summer' in North America, fo...
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    49,94 €

  • The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas
    Tom R. Hulst
    U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas served on the Court for 36 years. He wrote more opinions and more dissents than any other Justice. Douglas was described as an invigorating presence on the Court and possessed unusual stamina, an unyielding will, and enormous courage.Douglas’s achievements on and off the Court were astonishing. He was an adventurer, jurist, and envi...
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    25,39 €

  • Malibu
    Michael Banks
    Malibu is a hiking book about the natural beauty and ecology of Southern California. It combines philosophy with a love of nature and California’s unspoiled coastal beauty. It is also a tragedy, as that landscape is torn up and paved over for 'progress', and Malibu is reduced to just another celebrity suburb of L.A.Malibu is a mixture of a West-coast 'Walden' and a modern day '...
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    25,48 €

  • An African Savanna
    B. H. Walker / BHWalker / R. J. Scholes / RJScholes
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    88,50 €

  • Fisheries Ecology and Management
    Carl J. Walters / Carl JWalters / Steven J. D. Martell / Steven JDMartell
    Quantitative modeling methods have become a central tool in the management of harvested fish populations. This book examines how these modeling methods work, why they sometimes fail, and how they might be improved by incorporating larger ecological interactions. Fisheries Ecology and Management provides a broad introduction to the concepts and quantitative models needed to succ...
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    114,24 €


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