Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment & Planning books

The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts. Modern botanical and medical science...

This study presents a unique collection of essays which focus on the relationships among form, aesthetics, and transnational women's writing produced in recent years. The essays in this volume treat literary works from diverse...

By employing the modernist devices of fragmentation, recombination, and accentuated blank space, E. E. Cummings engages singularly with being on earth. This ecological achievement was largely ignored by the New Critics, and the...

National Parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. This volume...

A conservationist history of Indiana

This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how walls, borders, and boundaries signify both interdependence and contact...

This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD --T.p. verso.

During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city's cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the...

The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political,...

The concept of sustainability holds that the social, economic, and environmental factors within human communities must be viewed interactively and systematically. Sustainable development cannot be understood apart from a...

Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored place in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of kinds of place, or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective. In this...

Since the rise of the contemporary ecology movement in the 1960s, American songwriters and composers, from folk singer Pete Seeger to jazz saxophonist Paul Winter, have lamented, and protested against, environmental degradation...

This book presents an entirely new theory of values, in the context of an environmentally centered ethic. It constitutes a major new treatment of value theory, arguing for an agent centered, active theory in which value represents...

A social and cultural history of waste, environmental policy, and postsocialist transition

The landscape of the Calumet is a direct result of the glaciers that last left the area about 14,500 years ago - toward the end of the last ice age. In the years since, many forces, including wind, running water, and the waves of...

Why should New Age trends and philosophies shape the ecological agenda? Loren and Mary Ruth Wilkinson believe that it's time Christian families took a biblical position on environmental issues. In this practical book, they offer...

While the suburbs of most metropolitan areas are wealthier than their urban counterparts, rapid regional growth can improve the welfare of both city and suburb, according to a new book from Janet Rothenberg Pack. In Growth and...

When Peter and Miranda Harris uprooted from England with their young family to explore the possibilities of nature conservation in Portugal, they swapped a satisfying urban ministry for the uncertainties of a pioneering project....

A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of learning to live with grief--that begins in Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously...

Lyanda Lynn Haupt's sublime tribute to the crow and an invitation to engage with the wild life in our midst.

A unique, highly accessible, lavishly illustrated introduction to the history of maps, which have been at the forefront of altering our perceptions of the world and our place within it.

Offers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the deserving poor. This title offers the novel concept of design politics to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about...

A riveting account of a day that stopped a nation -- and a community. The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people -- wreaking a greater human toll than any other fire in Australia's history. Ten of those people died in Steels...

A focused discussion on the existential threats of our time, and their points of intersection since World War II. Both nuclear war and environmental catastrophe have the potential for similar outcomes: a world made uninhabitable...

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