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Book Category: Sustainable Development
In the late sixties, as the world was waking to a need for Earth Day, a pioneering group founded a small non-profit research and education organization they called the New Alchemy Institute. Their aim was to explore the ways a safer and more sustainable...
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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
The construction of the Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River. The transformation of the Amazon into a site for huge cattle ranches and aluminum smelters. The development of Nevada's Yucca Mountain into a repository for nuclear waste.
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
Society has limited hazard mitigation dollars to invest. Which actions will be most cost effective, considering the true range of impacts and costs incurred? In 1997, the H.
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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
Though the forests are still green and the lakes full of water, an unending stream of invasions is changing many ecosystems around the world from productive, tightly integrated webs of native species to loose assemblages of stressed native species and...
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Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments brings together the world's leading ecologists, systematists, and evolutionary biologists to present scientific information that integrates soil and sediment disciplines across...
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Book Category: Natural History & Travel
Aldo Leopold's classic work A Sand County Almanac is widely regarded as one of the most influential conservation books of all time.
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Book Category: Business & Economics
We sit at the doorstep of multiple revolutions in robotic, genetic, information, and communication technologies, whose powerful interactions promise social and environmental transformations we are only beginning to understand.
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
Property and Values offers a fresh look at property rights issues, bringing together scholars, attorneys, government officials, community development practitioners, and environmental advocates to consider new and more socially equitable forms of...
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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
Ecological restoration is an inherently challenging endeavor.
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Book Category: Business & Economics
Environmental concerns can greatly affect business success, regardless of whether a business person or corporation shares those concerns.