Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment & Planning books

Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures...  Read More >>

The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a...  Read More >>

This study presents a unique collection of essays which focus on the relationships among form, aesthetics, and...  Read More >>

By employing the modernist devices of fragmentation, recombination, and accentuated blank space, E. E. Cummings...  Read More >>

National Parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their...  Read More >>

A conservationist history of Indiana  Read More >>

This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between...  Read More >>

This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD --T.p. verso.  Read More >>

During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor,...  Read More >>

The concept of sustainability holds that the social, economic, and environmental factors within human communities...  Read More >>

The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development,...  Read More >>

Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored place in various senses, little cross-cultural...  Read More >>

Since the rise of the contemporary ecology movement in the 1960s, American songwriters and composers, from folk...  Read More >>

This book presents an entirely new theory of values, in the context of an environmentally centered ethic. It constitutes...  Read More >>

A social and cultural history of waste, environmental policy, and postsocialist transition  Read More >>

The landscape of the Calumet is a direct result of the glaciers that last left the area about 14,500 years ago -...  Read More >>

Why should New Age trends and philosophies shape the ecological agenda? Loren and Mary Ruth Wilkinson believe that...  Read More >>

While the suburbs of most metropolitan areas are wealthier than their urban counterparts, rapid regional growth...  Read More >>

When Peter and Miranda Harris uprooted from England with their young family to explore the possibilities of nature...  Read More >>

Understand Geology is a comprehensive guide to the nature and history of the Earth, covering many key areas such...  Read More >>

Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here! <br>A bountiful vegetable garden is a mainstay of the backyard farm;...  Read More >>

Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here! <br>Whether for eggs, meat, fun, or profit, chickens are the perfect...  Read More >>

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods...  Read More >>

Collects twenty-three stories that show the evolution of the adventurer's work, from ducking avalanches near the...  Read More >>

Integrated Water Resources Management in a Changing World provides an overview on important issues concerning the...  Read More >>