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Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America Best Price: $68.13 Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America offers a road map for...	A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge Best Price: $17.00 "A Pivotal Moment" is a mixed bag. On the positive side, contributors like Brian...	Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It Best Price: $12.50 In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for...	More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want Best Price: $23.49 In the capital of Ghana, a teenager nicknamed “Condom Sister? trolls the streets to educate...	Shifting Baselines: The Past and the Future of Ocean Fisheries Best Price: $63.21 Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must...



Beware the hurricane!: The story of the cyclonic tropical storms that have struck Bermuda and the islanders' folk-lore regarding them	Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World [RESILIENCE THINKING -OS N/D] Best Price: $30.36	Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Bus	Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for...	Peter Calthorpe'sUrbanism in the Age of Climate Change [Hardcover](2010) Best Price: $998.56



Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences Best Price: $31.00 Salvage logging—removing trees from a forested area in the wake of a catastrophic event such as...	Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It Best Price: $8.20 I was torn between a four and a five and came down on the side of five because this is a real...	Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine Best Price: $19.80 The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one...	The Andrew and the onion: The story of the Royal Navy in Bermuda, 1795-1975	From The Land : Articles Compiled From The Land 1941-1954 - Conservation Classics.

Water, Culture, and Power - local struggles in a global context.	The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear Over the past two decades, a select group of small but highly effective grassroots organizations...	Escape from the Ivory Tower: A Guide to Making Your Science Matter Most scientists and researchers aren?t prepared to talk to the press or to policymakers—or to...	Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in...	The Land We Share: Private Property And The Common Good Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit? Or is it...

Beyond the Ark : Tools for an Ecosystem Approach to Conservation	Bruce Anderson - Hope at Work: Creating Positive, Resilient Organizations Best Price: $14.40 Public sector organizations bring hope and health to our communities. But the fast-paced, high...	In Praise of Nature Best Price: $83.24 Five thought-provoking essays by Stephanie Mills are followed by reviews and excerpts of the ten...	In Search of Nature Best Price: $8.59 Among all of E.O. Wilson's spectacular books, this one is one of my favorites - not just for...	Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes: The Upper San Pedro River Basin In Arizona And Sonora Best Price: $41.45 Leading landscape architect and planner Carl Steinitz has developed an innovative GIS-based...

The Takings Issue: Constitutional Limits On Land Use Control And Environmental Regulation Best Price: $55.00 As challenges to land use and environmental controls by landowners and the property-rights...	Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide To Environmental Teaching In The Liberal Arts Greening the College Curriculum provides the tools college and university faculty need to meet...	Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management: Concepts And Practices Best Price: $60.00 alternative activities fisheries and productivities activities, the processes and cicle to...	Better Environmental Decisions: Strategies for Governments, Businesses, and Communities (Minnesota Series in Environmental Decision Making) Best Price: $49.43 "Better Environmental Decisions" reponds to the need for improved environmental...	Growing Greener: Putting Conservation Into Local Plans And Ordinances Best Price: $19.00 Growing Greener is an illustrated workbook that presents a new look at designing subdivisions...

Modeling in Natural Resource Management: Development, Interpretation, and Application Best Price: $15.85 This work covers topics in natural resource modelling to explain how they can be, have been, and...	Beyond the Last Village: A Journey Of Discovery In Asia's Forbidden Wilderness Best Price: $41.67 This was a good book, I think Jaguar was his best book but I liked this one. It must have been...	This Sovereign Land: A New Vision For Governing The West Best Price: $19.98 Daniel Kemmis, the author of this thoughtful boook, is the director of the Center for the Rocky...	MetroGreen: Connecting Open Space in North American Cities Best Price: $34.99 In metropolitan areas across the country, you can hear the laments over the loss of green space...	Better Environmental Policy Studies: How To Design And Conduct More Effective Analyses Best Price: $59.97 This book looks at five of the most important environmental policy studies undertaken in recent...

The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture Best Price: $19.98 When I received this book recently as a gift I was completely overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by the...	Engineering the Farm: The Social and Ethical Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology Best Price: $39.97 When it comes to topics like bioengineering, a lot of people publish theses and dissertations or...	A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration: New Hope for Arid Lands (The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration Series) Best Price: $49.97 Excellent practical advice on all aspects of arid land ecological restoration. I have no doubt...	Experiments in Consilience: Integrating Social And Scientific Responses To Save Endangered Species Best Price: $69.97 In his 1998 book Consilience , E.O. Wilson set forth the idea that integrating knowledge and...	State of the Wild: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans Best Price: $24.09 How do we gauge the state of earth's wildlife, wildlands, and oceans? State of the Wild is a...

Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007 Best Price: $21.00 I sit in my hotel room in Doha, Qatar and I watch the local government allow (and promote)...	The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival Best Price: $16.89 First of all, you need to know that I am a sucker for just about anything having to do with the...	Conservation for a New Generation: Redefining Natural Resources Management Best Price: $24.31 With each new generation, comes new knowledge and new technology to be applied to many ideas....	Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change Best Price: $22.09 This book offers an introductory presentation of the increasing important concept of...	The World's Water 2008-2009: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources Best Price: $79.97 Produced biennially, The World?s Water provides a timely examination of the key issues...

Sustainability in America's Cities: Creating the Green Metropolis Best Price: $27.00 "Sustainability" is more than the latest "green" buzzword. It represents a...	Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River: Nature and Power in the People's Republic of China Best Price: $21.49 China?s meteoric rise to economic powerhouse might be charted with dams. Every river in the...	Survey of Water Conservation in the Fifty States Model Water Conservation Program for the Nation	America without violence: Why violence persists and how you can stop it	Reinventing Nature? Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction

Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences Best Price: $31.00 Salvage logging—removing trees from a forested area in the wake of a catastrophic event such as...	Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It Best Price: $8.20 I was torn between a four and a five and came down on the side of five because this is a real...	Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine Best Price: $19.80 The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one...	The Andrew and the onion: The story of the Royal Navy in Bermuda, 1795-1975	From The Land : Articles Compiled From The Land 1941-1954 - Conservation Classics.

Water, Culture, and Power - local struggles in a global context.	The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear Over the past two decades, a select group of small but highly effective grassroots organizations...	Escape from the Ivory Tower: A Guide to Making Your Science Matter Most scientists and researchers aren?t prepared to talk to the press or to policymakers—or to...	Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in...	The Land We Share: Private Property And The Common Good Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit? Or is it...

The Oceans and Environmental Security: Shared U.S. And Russian Perspectives Best Price: $6.00 The concept of environmental security, drawing on the widely understood notion of international...	Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Our Human Planet: Summary for Decision Makers (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Series) Best Price: $51.00 Our Human Planet summarizes the findings of the four working groups and serves as a reference...	Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens Best Price: $35.24 This is an interesting and articulate book for both the specialist and the general reader who...	Design for Human Ecosystems: Landscape, Land Use, and Natural Resources Best Price: $37.00 John Lyle continues his seminal work presented in "Regenerative Design for Sustainable...	Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment (World Wildlife Fund Ecoregion Assessments) Best Price: $133.99 Ricketts et al. have tackled a monumental task--describing patterns in biodiversity throughout...

Ecotourism and Certification: Setting Standards In Practice Best Price: $26.86 Island Press uses to publish interesting books. Now they cater to a like-minded group of Beltway...	Wildlife Law: A Primer Best Price: $59.97 Wildlife Law is a comprehensive and readable primer that provides an overview of U.S. wildlife...	The National Wildlife Refuges: Coordinating A Conservation System Through Law Best Price: $41.49 The National Wildlife Refuges provides a comprehensive examination of the laws and policies...	Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007 How often in today?s environmental debates have you read that ?the science is in dispute??even...	The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization Best Price: $17.00 I learned a great deal more about this author when two chapters in a book I just published, ...

Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructure...	Diagnosis: Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison One morning in 2000, Dr. Jane Hightower walked into her exam room to find a patient with...	The Wellbeing of Nations: A Country-by-Country Index of Quality of Life and the Environment	Restoring Streams in Cities: A Guide for Planners, Policymakers, and Citizens Conventional engineering solutions to problems of flooding and erosion are extremely destructive...	Steering a New Course: Transportation, Energy, and the Environment Steering a New Course offers a comprehensive survey and analysis of America's transportation...

Economics for the Wilds: Wildlife, Wildlands, and Development Best Price: $40.00 Examines the many problems surrounding theconservation and use of wild resources and focuses on...	Economics for the Wilds: Wildlife, Diversity, and Development Best Price: $91.06 Conserving the world's wildlife and wildlands is often seen as an aesthetic investment...	Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes : The Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora Carl Steinitz has developed a GIS-based simulation modelling strategy that considers the...	Coastal Waters of the World: Trends, Threats, and Strategies Best Price: $20.00 Nearly 60% of the world's population lives and works within 100 miles of a coast, and even...	Measures of Success : Designing, Managing, and Monitoring Conservation and Development Projects Best Price: $41.46 - Expecting a book funded by the Biodiversity Support Program to be as dry as most of the...

Beyond the Last Village: A Journey Of Discovery In Asia's Forbidden Wilderness Best Price: $13.99 Massachusetts Sierran, March 2002 Diana Muir Alan Rabinowitz has the best day job in America. ...	State of the Wild: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans Best Price: $8.75 How do we gauge the state of earth's wildlife, wildlands, and oceans? State of the Wild is a...	Managing Growth in America's Communities: Second Edition Best Price: $74.97 In this thoroughly revised edition of Managing Growth in America?s Communities , readers...	Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems: A Troubled Sense of Immensity Best Price: $29.48 Professor Robert W. Adler presents Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems: A Troubled Sense of...	Escape from the Ivory Tower: A Guide to Making Your Science Matter Best Price: $45.91 Most scientists and researchers aren?t prepared to talk to the press or to policymakers?or to...

Defending Our Rainforest: A Guide to Community-Based Ecotourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon Best Price: $5.00	Heart of America : Our Landscape, Our Future Best Price: $20.00	Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement The evidence is irrefutable: global warming is real. While the debate continues about just how...	New Geographies of the American West: Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place (Orton Innovation in Place) Reconciling explosive growth with often majestic landscape defines New Geographies of the...	Beyond 40 Percent : Record-Setting Recycling and Composting Programs A practical guide for communities trying to solve their solid waste disposal problems.

Coming Home to the Pleistocene Best Price: $100.00 This book is the culmination of one of the most important academic careers of this century. It...	Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity in an Interdependent World Best Price: $32.13 Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity In An Interdependent World by Charles C. Chester...	Correction Lines: Essays on Land, Leopold, and Conservation Best Price: $59.97 The last fifteen years have been a period of dramatic change, both in the world at large and...	Partnerships in Communities: Reweaving The Fabric Of Rural America Best Price: $2.65 "Partnerships in Communities" provides a fresh perspective on sustainable rural...	Protecting the Commons: A Framework For Resource Management In The Americas Best Price: $31.49 Commons-lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single...

The Historical Ecology Handbook: A Restorationist's Guide To Reference Ecosystems Best Price: $63.24 A fundamental aspect of the work of ecosystem restoration is to rediscover the past and bring it...	The World's Water 2002 - 2003: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources Best Price: $29.48 The World's Water is the leading source of information on the state of the world's...	The ECO Guide to Careers that Make a Difference: Environmental Work for a Sustainable World Developed by The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO, the creators of the popular Complete...	Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World Best Price: $13.22 In the unknown world under our feet uncatologued millions teem. Two-thirds of the world's...	Biodiversity Change and Human Health: From Ecosystem Services to Spread of Disease (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series) Best Price: $65.00 Biodiversity Change and Human Health brings together leading experts from the natural science...

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