Category: Environment

By Les Standiford

ISBN-10: 0062251449

ISBN-13: 9780062251442

The writer of Last educate to Paradise tells the tale of the most important public water venture ever created—William Mulholland’s l. a. aqueduct—a tale of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one made up our minds guy who's imaginative and prescient formed the longer term and maintains to affect us today.

In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and equipped one of many maximum civil engineering feats in background: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles—allowing this small, resource-challenged desolate tract urban to develop right into a smooth worldwide city. Drawing on new examine, Les Standiford vividly captures the larger-then-life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six-year, $23 million venture that may rework a zone, a country, and a state on the sunrise of its maximum century.

With power and colourful aspect, Water to the Angels brings to existence the personalities, politics, and power—including bribery, deception, strength, and bicoastal monetary warfare—behind this dramatic occasion. At a time whilst the significance of water is being well-known as by no means before—considered via many specialists to be the basic source of the twenty-first century—Water to the Angels brings into concentration the power of a fabled period, the may possibly of a bigger than existence person, and the size of a helpful development undertaking, and sheds serious gentle on a previous that provides insights for our future.

Water to the Angels contains eight pages of pictures.

By Helen Caldicott

ISBN-10: 0393072703

ISBN-13: 9780393072709

"Helen Caldicott has the infrequent skill to mix technology with ardour, common sense with love, and urgency with humor." —Naomi KleinFrom the chief and spokeswoman of the antinuclear circulate comes a revised and up-to-date version of this groundbreaking, generally acclaimed vintage. Exploring risky worldwide developments comparable to ozone depletion, international warming, poisonous toxins, nutrients infection, and deforestation, Helen Caldicott provides an image of our global and the forces that threaten its life. As consistently, she offers a prescription for a healing and reason for desire, rallying readers to motion with the competition that our struggle for the planet will draw its power from love for the Earth itself.

By Madalena Cruz-Ferreira

ISBN-10: 1853598380

ISBN-13: 9781853598388

The booklet describes 3 siblings' apportioning of linguistic and cultural area between 3 languages: Portuguese, Swedish and English. Parallel suggestions accounting for monolingual and multilingual language administration form a very illuminating photo of kid linguistic competence. Written via a multilingual dad or mum, educator and linguist, this e-book is for fogeys, educators and linguists in our predominantly, more and more multilingual global.

By Laurence Packer

ISBN-10: 1443400394

ISBN-13: 9781443400398

A global with no bees will be less vibrant, with fewer vegetation and plants. yet that's now not all -- nutrition will be in a lot shorter provide, and to be had in less sort. whereas the media specializes in colony-collapse ailment and the threats to honey bees particularly, the genuine possibility is far better: all bees are in danger. and due to the essential function those bugs play within the ecology of our planet, we will be in danger as well.

The lifetime of Laurence Packer, a melittologist at Toronto's York college, revolves round bees, no matter if he's trying to find them below leaves in a South American jungle or determining new species within the wilderness warmth of Arizona. Packer frequently reveals himself in unique or even risky locales, risking snake bites, sunstroke, or even the ire of alternative scientists. all over he travels, he discovers an identical unsettling development: bees are disappearing. and because bees are chargeable for as much as one-third of our meals offer, the implications are scary.

By Roger A. Hinrichs, Merlin H. Kleinbach

ISBN-10: 1111990832

ISBN-13: 9781111990831

Publish yr note: First released in 1992 (first edition)
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This textual content, applicable for strength classes or for the other actual technology direction emphasising power, explores the fundamental actual rules concerning power use and the surroundings. present issues, together with international warming, radioactive waste disposal, call for facet administration, and the Rio Earth Summit, stimulate considering modern concerns.

Features:
* Hands-on actions demonstrating bankruptcy ideas have interaction scholars and toughen studying. those experiments now seem inside bankruptcy textual content.
* specialise in bins spotlight attention-grabbing purposes and weird proof approximately power.
* designated subject sections talk about peripheral or extra technical fabric. those seem at bankruptcy ends for person choice.

New to this version:
* Environmental elements of strength use seem early within the textual content, starting in bankruptcy 1, and obtain higher emphasis than within the first version. This new association caters to pupil curiosity and to the turning out to be expertise of environmental matters.
* solar power looks early in addition, mentioned in bankruptcy 6, sparking pupil curiosity and emphasizing the relevancy of this subject.
* a world point of view on power use acquaints scholars with the global

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By Earl of Cranbrook

ISBN-10: 0080288669

ISBN-13: 9780080288666

Of the significant region of structurally related plants that varieties the some distance jap tropical rain wooded area block, purely the forests of peninsular Malaysia lie at the mainland of Asia. even though displaying a few impact from this resource, the natural world are specified and exceptionally wealthy in species. between different elements, this richness displays the advanced constitution of the crops, justly well-known for the broad stands of tall bushes that create the stipulations to which many smaller vegetation, fungi and a major number of animals are tailored. After a century of clinical research, it truly is now attainable to appreciate peninsular Malaysia's advanced atmosphere as a vital prerequisite to the profitable administration for conservation and long term productiveness within the sector. Compiled by way of authors with own event of the quarter, this ebook constitutes the main authoritative account of this different and fragile zone. it's crucial examining for all these attracted to Malaysia and its conservation.

By Kees Jansen, Sietze Vellema

ISBN-10: 1842774131

ISBN-13: 9781842774137

This quantity examines intimately how a ways agribusiness businesses are responding to the possibilities and pressures as a result of rising environmental understanding, to play their half within the "greening" of agriculture and nutrition. particularly, in what methods are those organisations altering their R&D and enterprise practices for you to increase new environmentally orientated items, prone and strategies of creation? And what can they alter in their personal volition, and the place is exterior path an important of environmentally pleasant innovation? those questions are explored via a sequence of hugely unique investigations of specific biotech and different agribusiness companies--including Monsanto, Ciba Geigy, Dole, and Chiquita--and their habit particularly components of the area, together with California, Europe, Australia, Brazil, and primary the USA.

By Barry Max Brandenberger

ISBN-10: 0028655656

ISBN-13: 9780028655659

By William G. Robbins

ISBN-10: 0295976322

ISBN-13: 9780295976327

"Landscapes of Promise" is the 1st finished environmental heritage of the early years of a nation that has lengthy been linked to environmental safety. protecting the interval from early human habitation to the top of worldwide conflict II, William Robbins indicates that the truth of Oregon's environmental historical past contains excess of a dialogue of trees slicing and land-use making plans. Robbins demonstrates that ecological switch isn't just a construction of contemporary business society. local american citizens altered their setting in a few methods, together with the deliberate annual burning of grasslands and light-burning of understory wooded area particles. Early Euro-American settlers who suggestion they have been taming a virgin desolate tract have been basically enforcing a brand new set of adjustments on an already converted landscape.Beginning with the 1st 18th-century investors at the Pacific Coast, adjustments to Oregon's panorama have been heavily associated with the pursuits of worldwide industry forces. Robbins makes use of interval speeches and guides to rfile the expanding commodification of the panorama and its products." setting melts sooner than the fellow who's in earnest," wrote one Oregon booster in 1905, reflecting triumphing methods of considering. In a magnificent synthesis of basic assets and historic research, Robbins lines the transformation of the Oregon panorama and the evolution of our attitudes towards the wildlife. William Robbins is unique professor of background at Oregon kingdom collage. he's the writer of "Hard instances in Paradise: A background of Coos County, Oregon" and "Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the yank West".

By Mark Pelling

ISBN-10: 1844075567

ISBN-13: 9781844075560

Released with ProVention Consortium, UNDP and UN-Habitat 'This very good e-book is key analyzing for these taken with city danger and its relief in Africa, the main swiftly urbanizing quarter of the world.' Professor Jo Beall, improvement experiences Institute, London tuition of Economics 'At final a ebook that acknowledges the affects of failures on Africa's 350 million city dwellers, together with the numerous failures that get ignored and cross unrecorded. but in addition a e-book that, via cautious case stories, exhibits what creates catastrophe possibility and what neighborhood measures should be taken to deal with it.' David Satterthwaite, overseas Institute for surroundings and improvement (IIED). 'This cutting edge quantity combines the newest conceptualisations of city catastrophe probability and vulnerability with case reports from around the African continent on how current and leading edge details can tell efforts to handle the issues. assurance levels from the foremost catastrophes of stories headlines to small, daily mess ups with which negative city citizens need to cope of their survival suggestions. Written through overseas specialists and native experts, this super precious publication may still discover a position within the fingers of teachers and practitioners alike.' Professor David Simon, division of Geography, Royal Holloway, college of London it is a exceptional ebook full of unique examine and delivering an cutting edge state of mind in regards to the relief of threat in speedily urbanizing towns around the globe. it's a must-have for pros, researchers and coverage makers. The booklet addresses 4 inter-related issues severe for city possibility relief: atmosphere; livehood; city governance and the iteration of city dangers. Its concentration is on Africa, the main swiftly urbanizing international area, however it illustrates international approaches. half one experiences improvement, urbanization and catastrophe probability in Africa as an entire, identifies cutting-edge practices and regulations for development city resilience and gives a device equipment for city threat relief. It additionally offers a robust conceptual framework to examine and examine catastrophe possibility and resilience in several towns and groups. half offers specific case reviews from Algeria, Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa illustrating vulnerability to risks starting from earthquake to shack fireplace, environmental healthiness dangers, site visitors dangers and flooding. half 3 seems to the long run and descriptions a imaginative and prescient for a more secure city Africa in line with reaching earnings in human protection via inclusive governance and funding within the inventive capacities of Africa's city dwellers. With foreword through Anna Tibaijuka, government Director, UN-HABITAT