"Environmental reporter Amy Green tells the story of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, a $17 billion taxpayer-funded initiative aimed at reclaiming the vast wetland in southern Florida, and she also reveals the efforts of sugarcane-growing interests to block it"--
Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow examines the future of sustainable engineering and architecture. The contributors' analyses of sustainable solutions, such as wind and solar power, offer valuable insights fur future policy-making, scholarship, and the management of energy-intensive facilities.
In Nuclear Power and Human Rights in Japan: The Fallout of Fukushima, Emrah Akyuz examines the impact of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the environment and human rights.
In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the EPA, this book brings together leading scholars and EPA veterans to provide a comprehensive assessment of the agency's key decisions and actions in various areas of its responsibility. The authors have set out to provide a comprehensive analysis of the agency's rich 50-year history.
The untold history of how people came to conceive, to manage, and to dispute environmental crisis, The Environment is essential reading for anyone who wants to help protect the environment from the numerous threats it faces today.
Green Cleaning is your go-to guide for beating the big companies at their own game, giving you chemical-free tips, tricks, and recipes to clean everything from the bathroom tiles to red wine stains on carpet and blocked drains. All recipes are 100% environmentally and budget friendly, making sure your cleaning footprint is green and cost ......
Human-Nature Bonding and Protecting the Natural World
This book explores human-nature connectedness through deep ecological philosophy and conservation social science. Emphasizing ecologically-inclusive identities, it argues that connection to nature is more important than many environmental advocates realize and that deep ecology contributes much to the increasingly pressing conversations about it.
Grappling with Societies and Institutions in an Era of Socio-Ecological Crisis is an autoethnography that examines societies and institutions on how they function in an age of socio-ecological crises. It focuses on the steps involved in becoming a radical anthropologist and impact of societal and institutional settings as a scholar-activist.
This book highlights the environmental challenges that India faces due largely to high population and limited natural resources, making larger implications about environmental issues in developing countries and the role of the judiciary system when tackling these problems.