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Book Category: Green Building
The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. The physical design of our homes, neighborhoods and communities shapes every aspect of our live, yet where architects are most desperately needed, they can least be afforded.
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This book offers a paradigm shift in how we design and build our buildings and our communities, one that recognizes that the positive experience of natural systems and processes in our buildings and constructed landscapes is critical to human health,...
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Book Category: Sustainable Development
The environmental movement has made huge progress over the last decades. Among others, it has raised awareness of challenges facing humanity, helped develop a critical mass of policies, and worked towards the implementation of many of these policies in...
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Book Category: Natural History & Travel
The Ganges has always been more than just an ordinary river. For millions of Indians, she is also a goddess.
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Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
Australia, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Indonesia together share all the monotremes (egg-laying mammals) of the world and all the marsupials (pouched mammals) except those of the Americas.
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Book Category: Biodiversity & Wildlife
This review of the European bison’s (Bison bonasus) status clearly indicates that, through proper management and conservation, its present numbers and distribution have improved significantly since its extinction in the wild at the beginning of the 20th...
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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
Reforming the Forest Service contributes a completely new view to the current debate on the management of our national forests.
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Book Category: Sustainable Development
War on Waste offers a comprehensive analysis of the solid waste problem and the major alternatives that could provide viable solutions to the crisis.
Type of content: Books
Book Category: Sustainable Development
Citizens concerned about the environment are taking up the call for a new, sustainable lifestyle. Lessons from Nature tells us what sustainability really is, and how we can achieve it.
Type of content: Books
Book Category: Sustainable Development
Responding to those who argue that resources spent saving lives in impoverished and overpopulated regions are wasted, Klaus Leisinger and Karin Schmitt set forth the components of strategies that can bring down birth rates in an ethically acceptable way.