The environment
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The environment
Paperback. Between 1994 and 2008, American voters approved almost $32 billion for local land conservation. This manual compiles and distills advice from professionals involved in successful conservation efforts across the country, including a list of 'best practices' for the most critical issues conservationists can expect to face. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RNF; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Island Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597266666
- ISBN
- 9781597266666
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.69
€ 52.69
Paperback. Reports the results of a study based on financial and technical analyses of more than 150 green buildings in the United States and ten other countries. This book analyzes the costs and financial benefits of building green on both large and small scales, and addresses the role of the built environment in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: AMCR; KCN; RN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 266 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Island Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597266680
- ISBN
- 9781597266680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.95
€ 50.95
Paperback / so. Illustrator(s): Vinyeta, Kirsten R. Num Pages: 179 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: RNF; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 213 x 13. Weight in Grams: 443.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Island Press United States
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597268042
- ISBN
- 9781597268042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.16
€ 47.16
Paperback. In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out. This title captures the irony - and tragedy - of America's water crisis. Num Pages: 396 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RNFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Island Press United States
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597268165
- ISBN
- 9781597268165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.40
€ 53.40
Paperback. On her deathbed, Sue asked her sister for one thing: to write about the connection between the industrial pollution in their hometown and the rare cancer that was killing her. Fulfilling that promise has been Nancy Nichols' mission for more than a decade. This title tells the story of her investigation. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Island Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597268219
- ISBN
- 9781597268219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.04
€ 39.04
Hardback. Explores the relationship between science and practice in ecological restoration. Despite the often distinct cultures and methodologies of scientists and practitioners, this title shows how each has a vital role in effective restoration and offers suggestions for improving working relationships. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Island Press United States
- Edition
- 3
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597269636
- ISBN
- 9781597269636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.27
€ 95.27
paperback. Explores the history of wilderness preservation politics in the United States. This title recounts that American pioneers originally viewed the wilderness as an enemy to destroy but with the rapid decline in natural resources in the nineteenth century, citizens realized their error and began to enact revolutionary environmental policies. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP; RNKH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602230255
- ISBN
- 9781602230255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.24
€ 27.99
€ 26.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; JHMC; RNPG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602232662
- ISBN
- 9781602232662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.94
€ 35.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GBC; RNK; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University Press of Colorado United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607325536
- ISBN
- 9781607325536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.64
€ 24.99
€ 21.64
Hardback. The authors examine how far internal policies in the European Union move towards the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 80-95 per cent by 2050, and how or whether the EU's 2050 objective to 'decarbonise' could affect the EU's relations with a number of external energy partners. Editor(s): Dupont, Claire; Oberthur, Sebastian. Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPSN2; KCN; RND; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406828
- ISBN
- 9781137406828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.43
€ 117.43
paperback. The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose humanity never disappears in her analysis. With her penetrating critical gift, Vendler assesses American poets from T. S. Eliot to Charles Wright. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674654761
- ISBN
- 9780674654761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.69€ 48.09
€ 51.69
€ 48.09
Paperback. Environmental history has traditionally told the story of Man and Nature. This book reintroduces gender as a meaningful category of analysis for environmental history, showing how women's actions, desires and choices have shaped the world and seeing men as gendered actors as well. Editor(s): Scharff, Virginia J. (Professor of History, University of New Mexico, USA). Num Pages: 344 pages, 18 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBT; JFSJ; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700612857
- ISBN
- 9780700612857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 34.86
€ 34.99
€ 34.86
Paperback. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history. Series: Themes in Canadian History. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 12. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802048967
- ISBN
- 9780802048967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.70
€ 34.99
€ 31.70
hardcover. The first systematic treatment of the spatial dimensions of the colonization of the prairie west, Improved Earth is a unique and thorough study certain to provoke new debates about the way space and time are imagined. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCS; 3JH; 3JJ; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802087829
- ISBN
- 9780802087829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.16
€ 62.16
Paperback. Editor(s): Reuss, Martin; Cutcliffe, Stephen H. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, tables. BIC Classification: RN; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813929897
- ISBN
- 9780813929897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.69
€ 44.69
Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817317348
- ISBN
- 9780817317348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.09
€ 47.09
Paperback. Editor(s): Grossman, Zoltan; Parker, Alan. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RNK; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oregon State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870716638
- ISBN
- 9780870716638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.17
€ 25.99
€ 24.17
Paperback. How has the human-nature relationship changed over time in Japan? How does Japan's environmental history compare with that of other countries, or that of the world as a whole? This volume attempts to answer these questions through a series of case studies by leading Japanese and Western historians, geographers, archaeologists, and climatologists. Editor(s): Batten, Bruce L.; Brown, Philip C. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations, colour insert, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HDP; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oregon State University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870718014
- ISBN
- 9780870718014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.71
€ 31.99
€ 27.71
Paperback. Editor(s): Crimmel, Hal. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: RNF; TQSW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607813750
- ISBN
- 9781607813750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.43
€ 25.99
€ 23.43
Paperback. How humans transformed mountains and other elevated areas into culturally rich living places through tangible and intangible social practices Editor(s): Scheiber, Laura L.; Zedeno, Maria Nieves. Num Pages: 264 pages, 33 illustrations, 24 maps. BIC Classification: HDDA; JHMC; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607814337
- ISBN
- 9781607814337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.66
€ 58.66