A lone wild wolf lives on a small group of uninhabited islands in British Columbia’s Salish Sea, surrounded by freighter, oil tanker and other boat...

Tar Wars offers a critical inside look at how leading image-makers negotiate escalating tensions between continuous economic growth mandated by a g...

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation's largest public power provider, is a self-financing, federal electric utility with annual revenue...

From the towering pines of Shasta Trinity National Forest, to the chaparral scrub of San Diego's Mexican border, to Yosemite and the Western Sierra...

This book provides current research on terrestrial biomes. Chapter One demonstrates the severe conditions of arctic areas that lead to the formatio...

In 1983, Swiss psychiatrist C.A. Meier delivered a fascinating paper at the 3rd World Wilderness Congress in Inverness, Scotland. 'Wilderness and t...

This book covers the following themes and cross-cutting research and development activities: Agronomy, economics and market trends for the producti...

In this collection, the authors report on the pretreatment methods for waste activated sludge based on pulsed electric field and corona discharge t...

Greenland's Inuit have for generations depended upon the hunting and sharing of whales to fulfill their needs. Yet their ability to continue their ...

The importance of the Arctic in many fields of human activity strongly increased over the past decades. The academic scientific research demonstrat...

The Pacific coast is the most iconic region of California and one of the most fascinating and rapidly changing places in the world. Densely populat...

In this distilled account, Stanislav Kulchytsky ably incorporates a vast array of sources and literature that have become available in the past thr...

There is an old fundamentalist argument that the world will eventually be destroyed in the Apocalypse, so there is no point in caring for it. When ...

The grizzly bear, once the archetype for all that is wild, is quickly becoming a symbol of nature's fierce but flagging resilience in the face of h...

"Nifty book on honeybees . . . helpful things you can do!" -- Margaret Atwood (via Twitter) In this updated bestseller (with new science and data r...

In our ever-warming world, trillions of indigenous bark beetles are killing billions of mature conifers throughout the forests of western North Ame...

This is a remarkable and deeply wise reflection on land, farming, a sense of place, connecting with nature and what it means to live on this earth....

The book first emphasises how indigenous ecological views are affected by the rise of materialism, further investigating the discursive responses o...

The goals of the National Environmental Policy Act are to declare a national environmental policy, provide federal agencies with action-forcing pro...

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was established by the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and was most recently reauthorized to May 3...

"In the delta, water is boss, change is the only constant, and creation and destruction exist side by side." The Peace-Athabasca Delta in northern ...

"In the delta, water is boss, change is the only constant, and creation and destruction exist side by side." The Peace-Athabasca Delta in northern ...

The aim of this collective volume is to study the crucial aspects related to the interconnection between the political economy of energy security a...

This book is about the empirical analysis of household electricity saving behavior. In particular, we focus on effective methods to promote energy ...

Established by Congress as an amendment to the Clean Air Act, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) mandates that U.S. transportation fuel contain a mi...

Chapter 1 is focused on oceans and the coastal communities that depend on them. 40 percent of the United States is living in coastal shoreline coun...

The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) involves the adoption of certain changes in management practices for rice cultivation that create a better...

Based on the provocative film documentary of the same name, The Third Dive investigates the shocking death of a world-renowned conservation activis...

The dramatic rise of the Tibetan Plateau's land surface exerts a particular thermal and mechanical force on air flows above and surrounding this hi...

The book opens with a biography by Peter's wife, the Reverend Vicky Cullen, offering the reader an insight into Peter's personal life and the influ...

In 1858 Canterbury settler Thomas Potts protested against the destruction of tōtara on the Port Hills near Christchurch. A decade later, as a membe...

Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in e...

As defined in this book, an ecological threshold is the point at which there is an abrupt change in an ecosystem quality, property, or phenomenon, ...

The global characteristics of environmental problems such as climate change and the need for more sustainable patterns of production and consumptio...

Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes affect communities across the United States every year, causing fatalities, destroying property and crops, and d...

In the last decades, the human harvesting of marine resources became more efficient as the understanding of the habits and behaviours of the variou...

Since first emerging in the 1990s, the concept of a "dependence" on the motorcar has gradually gained currency among theorists and practitioners. T...

This is an E-supplement to GAO-08-128, which was released on November 30, 2007. The Environmental Protection and Community Right-to-Know Act requir...

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), also called by other names including Indigenous Knowledge or Native Science, refers to the evolving knowled...

The authors introduce the reader to traditional island villages built based on Feng Shui concepts around 300 years ago. The traditional village lan...

Traffic and industrial environmental problem is a big concern around the world. The present global situation faces traffic and industrial pollution...

In East Asia, the economics and industrial outputs of Japan, China, Korea and Russia have developed rapidly in recent decades. Together, these coun...

Pollution is undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities so that t...

Biological diversity, or 'biodiversity', refers to the variety of all life on earth, and the complex relationships among living things, and between...

The preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources and recycling or the processing of used or abandoned materials ...