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Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
"I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic.
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Book Category: Oceans
A significant number of the world's ocean fisheries are depleted, and some have collapsed, from overfishing. Although many of the same fishermen who are causing these declines stand to suffer the most from them, they continue to overfish. Why is this...
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Book Category: Food & Agriculture
Although food-production systems for the world's rural poor typically have had devastating effects on the planet's wealth of genes, species, and ecosystems, that need not be the case in the future.
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"This book recounts my journey through the Colorado Plateau, a journey through place and time and self.... During my explorations of more than three decades, I found a land that sears into my heart and soul, a place that has taught me and changed me.
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Book Category: Natural History & Travel
"Starting out, my mind and spirit were open to the mystery of foreign cultures, the spareness of aridity, the tension of seismicity, the heat of fire, the exuberance of the vast, the abundance of rot and rebirth, the kindness of strangers, the...
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Book Category: Natural History & Travel
"All the wild and lonely places, the mountain springs are called now. They were not lonely or wild places in the past days.
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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
When business leaders, government officials, and other stakeholders come to the table in an environmental, health, or safety dispute, acrimony often results, leading to expensive and time-consuming litigation.
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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
In 1990, with the forests of British Columbia the focus of economic, environmental, and social conflict over resource management, British Columbia's Ministry of Forests established the British Columbia Forest Resources Commission.
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Book Category: Business & Economics
In all societies, the main causes of environmental degradation are resource extraction and the generation of wastes by households and industries.
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Book Category: Oceans
Marine pollution causes significant damage to fisheries and other economically productive uses of the ocean.