This wide-ranging study of urban environmental history draws our attention to environmental challenges faced by American cities over the past four centuries, showing how understandings of race, class, and gender shape discourse on the environment.
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Foundations of ecological resilience
by Gunderson, Lance H., Allen, Craig R., Holling, C. S.
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Provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and recover from licolaised disturbances like hurricanes, fires, pest outbreaks and floos, as well as large-scale perturbations such as climate change.
Forty-two chapters by international experts from a wide range of disciplines make The Wetlands Handbook the essential tool for those seeking comprehensive understanding of the subject. A departure from more traditional treatises, this text examines freshwater wetland ecosystem s…
Written by a highly accredited scientist, this book offers a compelling and original alternative to outdated approaches to the life sciences. It presents a metaphysical basis for living systems that significantly mitigates several purported conflicts between science and religion.
Adventurer turned environmentalist Robert Swan illuminates the perils facing the planet come 2041'the year when the international treaty protecting Antarctica is up for review'and the many steps that can be taken to avoid environmental calamity. In 1985, when Robert Swan walked …
Arktis. Et benhårdt og iskoldt miljø, hvor dyr og planter gennem årtusinder har tilpasset sig ekstreme forhold. Men Arktis er også et sårbart miljø, der i de seneste årtier har undergået store forandringer. Temperaturen er steget markant, og havisen er skrumpet betragteligt. Kan…