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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
Vigorous, colorful, bold and highly personal, Breaking New Ground is the autobiography of Gifford Pinchot, founder and first chief of the Forest Service.
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Book Category: Policy & Law
Resource management in the United States is undergoing a fundamental change.
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Book Category: Water
Despite nearly three decades of efforts intended to protect the nation's waters, and some success against certain forms of chemical and organic contamination, many of our nation's waterways continue to be seriously degraded.
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Book Category: Oceans
The United States is about to embark on the most thorough reconsideration of its ocean policy in more than three decades.
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Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
The first edition of The Living Ocean, published in 1991 by Island Press in association with Friends of the Earth, was widely praised by scientists, policymakers, instructors, and general readers as a useful and accessible introduction to the...
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Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
The world is in the midst of an ecological explosion with devastating implications. Thousands of species of microbes, plants, and animals are being introduced, both deliberately and inadvertently, to new land areas, seas, and freshwaters.
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Book Category: Water
Water has long been the object of political ambition and conflict. Recent history is full of leaders who tried to harness water to realize national dreams.
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Book Category: Green Building
Because of the profound effects of the built environment on the availability of natural resources for future generations, those involved with designing, creating, operating, renovating, and demolishing human structures have a vital role to play in...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects.
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Book Category: Sustainable Development
Low-income communities frequently suffer from a lack of access to, or lack of control over, the natural resources that surround them. In many cases, their local environment has been degraded by years of resource extraction and pollution by distant...