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Endangered Economies: How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity by Heal Geoffrey
epub |eng | 2016-12-19 | Author:Heal, Geoffrey [Heal, Geoffrey]

Watersheds and wetlands are a good place to begin this journey: some of the most ubiquitous and important components of our natural capital, supporting life for billions of people, they ...
( Category: Economic Policy April 19,2020 )
The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century by Ronald Bailey
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ronald Bailey [Bailey, Ronald]

The Biotech Farmer and the Organic Environmentalists Should Be Friends “The farmer and the cowman should be friends,” sing the folks in the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! So ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 14,2020 )
Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada by Bruce E. Johansen
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce E. Johansen

“Blaming the Victims” The New York Times reported from the scene that Trump’s tone-deafness to massive human suffering had “provoked another wave of criticism from the island and its supporters. ...
( Category: Canadian April 9,2020 )
Last Days of the Mighty Mekong by Brian Eyler;
epub |eng | 2018-04-14 | Author:Brian Eyler;

In response to concerns raised both locally and internationally, Laos’s Ministry of Energy and Mines produced a fact sheet called “Don Sahong Made Simple: Questions and Answers about the Don ...
( Category: Asian April 7,2020 )
The 100% Solution by Solomon Goldstein-Rose
epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Solomon Goldstein-Rose [Goldstein-Rose, Solomon]

CATTLE METHANE EMISSIONS Livestock farming’s role in driving deforestation represents its largest contribution to emissions, but it creates emissions in another way as well. Cows, goats, and sheep belch methane ...
( Category: Environmental Policy April 1,2020 )
Fallout from Fukushima by Richard Broinowski
epub |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Richard Broinowski

Chapter Seven Nuclear Nations THE CATASTROPHE AT Fukushima generated immediate environmental concern. Japan was offered technical advice about containing the situation from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Meteorological ...
( Category: Energy Production & Extraction March 31,2020 )
Biopiracy by Vandana Shiva
epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Vandana Shiva

Biodiversity: Whose Resource? Biodiversity has always been a local common resource. A resource is property when social systems exist to use it on the principles of justice and sustainability. This ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 28,2020 )
Meltdown in Tibet by Michael Buckley
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Michael Buckley [Buckley, Michael]

LHASA, SEPTEMBER 2010: ACROSS FROM THE YAK HOTEL AT THE SHANGRI-LA Restaurant, a nightly dinner-dance show for Chinese tourists is staged. Here, nomads have been reduced to a curiosity. Performers ...
( Category: Asian March 23,2020 )
The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Policy by
mobi |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:

For further discussion of “transferable development rights” (TDRs), see Chapter 27 in this volume. 27 A Market Approach to Land Preservation Elizabeth Kopits, Virginia McConnell, and Margaret Walls As more ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 23,2020 )
Troubled Water by Seth M. Siegel
epub |eng | | Author:Seth M. Siegel

The Wildly Varied Cost of Drinking Water Since it is a universal need and a basic government service, as a point of argument, it isn’t clear why anyone is obliged ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 23,2020 )
Under an Ionized Sky: From Chemtrails to Space Fence Lockdown by Elana Freeland
epub |eng | 2018-02-13 | Author:Elana Freeland [Freeland, Elana]

Something unexpected is happening on the sun. 2013 is supposed to be the year of Solar Max, the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle. Yet 2013 has arrived and solar ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 23,2020 )
Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything by Patrick J. Michaels & Paul C. Knappenberger
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Patrick J. Michaels & Paul C. Knappenberger [Michaels, Patrick J. & Knappenberger, Paul C.]

Typically, a doubling of the air ’s CO2 content above present-day concentrations raises the productivity of most herbaceous plants by about one-third; this positive response occurs in plants that utilize ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 22,2020 )
The Climate Casino by William D. Nordhaus
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:William D. Nordhaus

18 CLIMATE POLICY BY BALANCING COSTS AND BENEFITS Chapter 17 concluded that a sensible target for climate-change policy would require balancing abatement costs and climate damages. This approach is often ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 22,2020 )
Oceana by Ted Danson & Michael D'Orso
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Ted Danson & Michael D'Orso [Danson, Ted]

RADIOLARIA collected by HMS Challenger But no human had seen these species alive, in their native habitats. Most of the specimens pulled up by the Challenger’ s crew were dead ...
( Category: Marine Life March 21,2020 )
Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont by Robert Bilott
epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Robert Bilott [Bilott, Robert]

20 HAIL MARY Fall 2002 Cincinnati, Ohio It had taken more than a year, multiple court-imposed deadlines—most of them missed—and my constant pressure for more documents until a threat of ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 21,2020 )

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