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Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
"This is nature writing at its best." —E.O.
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Book Category: Food & Agriculture
In today’s fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating alone, all the time—whether it’s at their desks or in the car.
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Book Category: Energy & Climate
Over the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. Parts of the energy sector are preparing to meet this demand by increasing renewable energy production, which is...
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Book Category: Environmental Health
For more than a century, we have relied on chemical cures to keep our bodies free from disease and our farms free from bugs and weeds.
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Book Category: Oceans
Julia Wondolleck and Steven Yaffee are hopeful. Rather than lamenting the persistent conflicts in global marine ecosystems, they instead sought out examples where managers were doing things differently and making progress against great odds.
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
What does it mean to be a resilient city in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity?
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Book Category: Green Building
In the United States, direct energy use in buildings accounts for 39% of carbon dioxide emissions per year—more than any other sector. Buildings contribute to a changing climate and warming of the earth in ways that will significantly affect future...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
Finalist for a 2018 United Kingdom National Urban Design Award • A 2017 KUOW Public Radio 2017 End-of-Year Book Choice In order to understand and improve cities today, personal observation remains as important as ever. While big data,...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
One of Planetizen's Top Planning Books for 2017 • San Francisco Chronicle's 2016 Holiday Books Gift Guide Pick What makes a great city? Not a good city or a functional city but a great city.
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Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and understanding how to...