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  • The Natural History of New York
    Mike Nasuti / Stan Freeman
    This is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of New York state, with more than 300 full-color photographs, maps and illustrations. Everything from bears and beavers to snakes and spiders is covered. Learn about the state’s geology, its rivers and mountains. Find out how it was formed by the ice age and the collision of continents. Learn about the first human residents. ...
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    26,22 €

  • Sustaining Nature
    Rosemary Charles
    This book demonstrates the range of information and viewpoints that critically acknowledges the gaps and weaknesses in local, regional and hemispheric ecologies, as well as helps in understanding the limitations and barriers to accomplishing critical nature conservation projects. The book, through original research, enunciates the linkages between the geographical foci of conse...
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    137,98 €

  • Hydrocarbon
    Allegra Smith
    Hydrocarbon is basically defined as a compound of hydrogen and carbon. They are the basis of nearly all our energy resources. Knowledge on their origin, features and phase behaviour is fascinating from the point of view of physical chemistry. At the same time this knowledge is of much value to the oil and gas industry. This book showcases several topics ranging from origin of h...
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    126,25 €

  • Ecosystem Services
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    68,49 €

  • Sustainable Natural Resources Management
    Alfred Muller
    This book brings forth important issues in conservation of natural resources which has come to acquire a position of major concern in both developed and developing countries. However, it is a matter of particular significance for the latter, since majority of their population relies upon terrestrial ecosystems for livelihood. More than one billion people live in poverty, earnin...
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    103,04 €

  • Animal Diversity Natural History and Conservation Vol. 4
    V K & Verma Anil Kumar Gupta
    Present Volume 4 of the series, Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation comprises the vast body of research on the subject and has been designed in such a way as to serve the purpose of the biologists, ecologists, environmentalists and conservationists. This volume includes twenty one original research articles written by eminent researchers from within India and abr...
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    88,67 €

  • Gold! Gold!
    Joseph Petralia
    Recent scientific studies confirm that early miners only scratched the surface and that 75 - 85% of the gold remains in 'them thar hills'. You can find gold! It's history, recovery methods, and identification techniques are revealed in this book. Learn where to look and what basic equipment you will need. Engage in an exciting, healthy, and profitable new hobby.Throughout h...
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    20,21 €

  • Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire
    19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today’s globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental changes never before experienced in history. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire explores how these networks shaped ecosystems, culture...
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    206,12 €

  • Feasibility Analysis for Sustainable Technologies
    Scott Herriott
    Feasibility Analysis for Sustainable Technologies will lead you into a professional feasibility analysis for a renewable energy or energy efficiency project. The analysis begins with an understanding of the basic engineering description of technology in terms of capacity, efficiency, constraints, and dependability. It continues in modeling the cash flow of a project, which i...
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    17,82 €

  • Happier People Healthier Planet
    Belton Teresa
    ’Happier People Healthier Planet’ addresses the diametrically opposed issues of personal wellbeing and ecological destruction as inseparable concerns. It shows how carefully attending to what really matters for personal thriving will also protect the environment.Most human beings are strongly attracted to material possessions, novelty and ever greater comfort and convenience, y...
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    29,21 €

  • Farmland Conservation
    Joscelyne E. Ashpole / Joscelyne EAshpole / Juliana Dänhardt / Lynn V. Dicks / Lynn VDicks
    This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. The list of interventions was organized into categories based on the IUCN classifications of direct threats and conservation actions. ...
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    69,05 €

  • Environmental Markets
    Gary D. Libecap / Gary DLibecap / Terry L. Anderson / Terry LAnderson
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    118,21 €

  • Everything In Its Place
    Constance Perin
    Interviews with bankers, civic leaders, politicians, and architects provide the basis for this searching analysis of the ways in which the physical arrangement of land expresses American ideals, assumptions, and beliefs.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from ...
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    71,90 €

  • Farmland Conservation
    E. Joscelyne Ashpole / EJoscelyne Ashpole / Joscelyne E. Ashpole / Juliana Dänhardt / Lynn V. Dicks / Lynn VDicks / V. Lynn Dicks / VLynn Dicks
    This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. The list of interventions was organized into categories based on the IUCN classifications of direct threats and conservation actions. ...
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    147,62 €

  • A Beginner’s Handbook for Rural Texas Landowners
    Jim Stanley
    WHAT RURAL TEXAS LANDOWNERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THEIR LAND... Living in the country in Texas can be the most enjoyable experience of your life, but managing rural property is not the same as taking care of a half-acre suburban lot. Living in the country and taking care of the land involves issues many new landowners have not experienced before. This book discusses why it is so ...
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    21,40 €

  • Handbook of Research on Pedagogical Innovations for Sustainable Development
    Education is a key component for progress in both the developed and developing world. It is imperative that society has access to new strides made in the area of sustainability so that current global challenges are resolved. Handbook of Research on Pedagogical Innovations for Sustainable Development brings together case study examples in the fields of sustainability, sustainabl...
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    453,58 €

  • Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
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    142,44 €

  • Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency
    Samuel P. Hays / Samuel PHays
    2014 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The relevance and importance of Samuel P. Hay’s book, 'Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency,' has only increased over time. Written over a half a century ago, it offers an invaluable history of the conservation movement’s origins, and provides an excel...
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    20,14 €

  • Managing the Unknown
    Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber, these essays show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge ...
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    184,46 €

  • Mainstreaming Climate Change in Development Cooperation
    Nicolien Van Der Grijp
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    92,98 €

  • DYNAMIC AND STOCHASTIC RESOURCE ECONOMICS
    AMITRAJEET A BATABYAL
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    150,77 €

  • An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to the Present
    Marianna Dudley
    This book brings to attention the history of places that have traditionally remained under-the-radar in discussions of war and the environment, through site-based studies of five training areas in southwest England and Wales: Salisbury Plain, Lulworth, Dartmoor, Sennybridge and Castlemartin. At these sites, the big events of the twentieth century are written into landscapes tha...
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    64,02 €

  • Water Insecurity
    This book critically analyses the associated social issues of increasing water scarcity in countries such as India. It documents the social impacts and predicament of water scarcity through topics such as arsenic contamination, the impact of salinity on livelihood and mitigation, and drought resilience, adaptation and policy. ...
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    226,80 €

  • Karystian Cipollino Marble
    Jeanne Sutherland
    This carefully illustrated book tells the fascinating story of how thousands of tons of the much-desired Karystian cipollino marble were transported across the Empire as part of the great Roman marble trade. It is the culmination of years of research by Jeanne Sutherland who describes how great columns and blocks of the green-veined marble were carved from the mountainside quar...
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    117,52 €

  • An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650 - 1950
    Tom Williamson
    While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens’ accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of past land use and landscape, with contemporary analyses made by modern natural scientists, in order to ...
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    52,19 €

  • An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650 - 1950
    Tom Williamson
    While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens’ accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of past land use and landscape, with contemporary analyses made by modern natural scientists, in order to ...
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    206,36 €

  • Things Fall Apart?
    Pauline Von Hellermann
    Governance failure and corruption are increasingly identified as key causes of tropical deforestation. In Nigeria’s Edo State, once the showcase of scientific forestry in West Africa, large-scale forest conversion and the virtual depletion of timber stocks are invariably attributed to recent failures in forest management, and are seen as yet another instance of how 'things fa...
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    184,48 €

  • An Account of the Nature and Medicinal Virtues of the Principal Mineral Waters of Great Britain and Ireland
    John Elliot
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    43,05 €

  • Removing the Commons
    Eric Roark
    Removing the Commons defends a Lockean Left-Libertarian account of the moral conditions in which people may remove, either via use or appropriation, natural resources from the commons. I conclude that self-owning agents may remove natural resources from the commons just so long as they leave others the competitive value of their removal in a way that best affords others an equa...
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    132,06 €

  • The Social Life of Water. Edited by John R. Wagner
    John R. Jr. Wagner / John RJrWagner
    Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with w...
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    183,90 €


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