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Environmental Science eBooks

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  • How Bad Are Bananas?

    The Carbon Footprint of Everything

    Part green-lifestyle guide, part popular science, How Bad Are Bananas? is the first book to provide the information we need to make carbon-savvy purchases and informed lifestyle choices and to build carbon considerations into our everyday thinking.The book puts our decisions into perspective with entries for the big things (the World Cup, volcanic eruptions, the Iraq war) as well as the small ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the term 'nuclear power' causes anxiety in many people and there is confusion concerning the nature and extent of the associated risks. Here, Maxwell Irvine ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Dominant Animal

    Human Evolution and the Environment

    In humanity’s more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it. In short, we have become the dominant animal. Why, then, are we creating a world that threatens our own species? What can we do to change the current trajectory toward more climate change, increased famine, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Vulnerable Planet

    A Short Economic History of the Environment

    From reviews of the first edition (1994): "Extraordinarily well written . . . "--Contemporary Sociology "A readable chronicle aimed at a general audience . . . Graceful and accessible . . . "--Dollars and Sense "Has the potential to be a political bombshell in radical circles around the world."--Environmental Action The Vulnerable Planet has won respect as the best single-volume introduction to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Planet Remade

    How Geoengineering Could Change the World

    by Oliver Morton ...
    A fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planetThe risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Science Be Dammed

    How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River

    Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management—and perils in the mismanagement—of water in the western United States. It seems deceptively simple: even when clear evidence was available that the Colorado River could not sustain ambitious dreaming and planning by decision-makers throughout the twentieth century, river planners and political operatives irresponsibly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Living More with Less

    In 1980, before living simply and "green" became trendy and popular, Doris Janzen Longacre, author of the enormously popular More-with-Less Cookbook (over 900,000 sold), wrote Living More with Less, a practical guide for living in simple, sustainable, and healthy ways-ways that keep the future of the planet, and the plight of poor people, in mind.Thirty years later, Living More with Less 30th ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Live Sustainably Now

    A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life

    by Karl Coplan ...
    Any realistic response to climate change will require reducing carbon emissions to a sustainable level. Yet even people who already recognize that the climate is the most urgent issue facing the planet struggle to understand their individual responsibilities. Is it even possible to live with a sustainable carbon footprint in modern American society—much less to live well? What are the options for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Energy Humanities

    An Anthology

    Edited by Imre Szeman, Dominic Boyer ...
    How can humanities scholars help us respond to growing concerns about climate change and fossil fuels?Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Responding to growing public concern about anthropogenic climate change and the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Ends of the Earth

    An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic

    An innovatively packaged literary anthology published to commemorate the International Polar Year-and remind us what we're in danger of losing.The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession for as long as we've known they existed. Countless explorers, such as Richard Byrd, Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Falcon Scott, have risked their lives to chart their frozen landscapes. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rachel Carson and Her Sisters

    Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment

    Choice Outstanding Academic Title“In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving connections from the past through the present. Readers will find new insight into Carson and contemporary figures she influenced...who have historically received less attention. Musil’s respect and enthusiasm for these women is evident throughout the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Hanford Plaintiffs

    Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice

    For more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing radiation, the byproduct of plutonium production. For those who lived in the vicinity, many of them families of Hanford workers, the consequences soon became apparent as rates of illness and death steadily ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • An Ecotopian Lexicon

    Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generationAs the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately match progress in the realms of policy, infrastructure, and technology. Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations, and Civilization

    "A truly welcome and refreshing study that puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective." --Amos Nur, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University, California, and author of Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of GodSince antiquity, on every continent, human beings in search of attractive landscapes and economic prosperity have made a Faustian bargain with ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Removing Mountains

    Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields

    Series series A Quadrant Book
    A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. Peaks are flattened and valleys are filled as the coal industry levels thousands of acres of forest to access the coal, in the process turning the forest into scrubby shrublands and poisoning the water. This is dangerous and environmentally ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Global Fever: How To Treat Climate Change

    Passionately written yet thoroughly grounded in the latest climate science, "Global Fever" delivers both a stark warning and an ambitious blueprint for saving the future of the planet. Photos. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Field Notes from a Catastrophe

    Man, Nature, and Climate Change

    A new edition of the book that launched Elizabeth Kolbert's career as an environmental writer-updated with three new chapters, making it, yet again, "irreplaceable" (Boston Globe).Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Native Plant Propagation Guide And Nursery Model

    For Gardeners, Activists, and Professionals in the Eastern U.S.

    This eBook is designed to empower individuals, businesses, non-profits, and public organizations to grow high quality native plants for their projects in support of biodiversity and restoration. The 13 Chapter eBook is sectioned off into 3 parts; Part 1. A Native Nursery Model, Part 2. Native Plant Propagation, Part 3. Sales, Installation and Native Plant Horticultural Guidance. Due to the amount ... Read more

    $18.50 USD

  • The Conceivable Future

    Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change

    "This reassuring consideration of a deeply personal matter teams seamlessly with a reasoned, emphatic call to action." - Booklist, Starred Review • ABooklist Top 10 Book on the Environment & Sustainability 2024Explore the ways in which the climate crisis is affecting our personal decisions about family planning, parenting, and political action.In The C... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Environmental History of Latin America

    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Green Logistics

    Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Logistics

    Leading the way in current thinking on environmental logistics, Green Logistics provides a unique insight on the environmental impacts of logistics and the actions that companies and governments can take to deal with them. It is written by leading researchers in the field and provides a comprehensive view of the subject for students, managers and policy-makers.Fully updated, the 3rd edition of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Falling Sky

    Words of a Yanomami Shaman

    The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. Representing a people whose very existence is in jeopardy, Davi Kopenawa paints an unforgettable picture of Yanomami culture, past and present, in the heart of the rainforest--a world where ancient indigenous knowledge ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Wisdom for a Livable Planet

    The Visionary Work of Terri Swearingen, Dave Foreman, Wes Jackson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Werner Forn

    The author profiles the work of eight visionaries who have dedicated their lives to various environmental issues. Each story provides a portrait of an individual's valiant and inspiring campaign to improve the conditions for life on our planet. Taken together, the work of these people points the way toward creating an ecologically centered civilization in which a brighter future for all life, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Sustainable Manufacturing

    Challenges, Solutions and Implementation Perspectives

    Series series Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
    This edited volume presents the research results of the Collaborative Research Center 1026 “Sustainable manufacturing - shaping global value creation”. The book aims at providing a reference guide of sustainable manufacturing for researchers, describing methodologies for development of sustainable manufacturing solutions. The volume is structured in four chapters covering the following topics: ... Read more

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