Environment

Living in Two Worlds is the result of a four-month, 5 000 km non-motorised journey - walking, kayaking, and cycling - by authors Ian Michler and Ian McCallum through six countries across southern Africa, from the Atlantic Ocean in the West to the Indian Ocean in the East.

Ever wondered why people in the Nordic countries are said to be the happiest in the world? Nordic Lifestyle has been praised as the antidote to modern-day busyness. Understand how the Nordics have managed to keep it all together.

Marxist singer and actor Frank Meade returns to ultraconservative Oxford, CO and battles the bigwigs seeking to enrich themselves by selling off the town's water. Soon, even his enemies agree: Frank Meade is the only one who can save the town.

Experts have combined their knowledge and experiences to provide a non-technical narrative that describes the history, ecology, and management of Big Horn Sheep and Mountain Goats in the Greater Yellowstone region.

Natural Resources and the Environment: Economics, Law, Politics, and Institutions provides a new approach to the study of environmental and natural resource economics.

We've messed up. Our Earth is in trouble. Human Nature is your guide to saving it. In a thoughtful and witty reimagining of environmental rhetoric, Elliot Connor explores how recasting the human character could save our fellow animals. Illustrated with counting toads, gambling monkeys and Tinder-using rhinos, the narrative sets out to fill the gaps in our ecological IQ and to show how animals make us human. Just how dumb were dinosaurs? What is the Loch Ness monster really? And which in

All around the planet in the 21st century, there are calls for changes to how we manage natural resources, as the ravages of deprivation, resource depletion and unemployment bite harshly on many fronts. We need to rejuvenate resources, not continue to deplete them. Fields such as human settlements, medicine, ecology, economics, natural resource management and climate change have lagged some one hundred years behind in implementing the principles of exciting scientific discoveries about the biop

This volume presents a graphic and compelling exposZ of the impact man is having upon the Earth, and collaterally upon himself. The author uses his solid and wide-ranging knowledge of the arts, sciences, and humanities to present climate change as the worldwide phenomenon it truly is.y is.

Food isn't just what we eat, it connects us to our family, our community and the world around us. We live in a challenging time in history, facing unprecedented global crises, and yet, local food initiatives by small farmers, community workers, and activists offer solutions to these large complex problems. Solutions at the local level can give us personal and community agency, connecting us with one another and inspiring new ways of thinking, sharing and creating value.The problems with gl

Welcome to A 4-Step Carbon Emission Eradication Systems in HVAC&R for End users and Professionals. This book represents almost 18 years of research responding to issues and challenges of climate change from a Satellite based data perspective.

You will need intellectual clarity, courage and determination to help construct a new form of society, emotional stability to live communally and share responsibility for half a dozen spouses and a dozen children. Will you be able to live harmoniously on an equal footing with all life forms and elements?

From living with the poor in India to life in middle class Australia, father Mark and 21-year-old son Tom weave their extraordinary journey through this climate change book-with-a-difference. They show us that living sustainable lives in the West is absolutely necessary, and that it's also doable, fulfilling and even fun.