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Overview: A New Perspective of Earth by Grant Benjamin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Grant, Benjamin [Grant, Benjamin]

PORT OF SINGAPORE 1.237656°, 103.806422° Cargo ships and tankers—some weighing up to 300,000 tons—wait outside the entry to the Port of Singapore. The facility is the world’s second-busiest port in ...
( Category: Natural History July 4,2020 )
From the Inside Out by Jill Lindsey Harrison;
epub |eng | | Author:Jill Lindsey Harrison;

Notes 1. Scholars have shown that EJ activists widely challenge the epistemic authority of scientists (Allen 2003, 2004; Brown 2007; Collins and Evans 2002; Di Chiro 1998; Espeland 1998; Hannigan ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 4,2020 )
Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence by Dunne D. John
epub |eng | | Author:Dunne D. John

9 The Influencers of Choice and Decision Making PRESENTER: Elke Weber, Columbia University ROSHI JOAN HALIFAX: At this point in our exploration, Elke Weber will help us understand why we ...
( Category: Dalai Lama July 3,2020 )
The Planet Remade by Morton Oliver;
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Morton, Oliver;

The Anthropocene That humans can, in lifetimes, make changes over which the Earth unaided would labour for millions of years is at the heart of the idea of the Anthropocene. ...
( Category: Environmentalism July 3,2020 )
Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care by Giorgos Kallis
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Giorgos Kallis [Kallis, Giorgos]

5 THE LIMITS OF LIMITS Until now, I have been arguing for limits as part of a desire for freedom, justice, and sustainability. In this chapter I follow some loose ...
( Category: Sustainable Development July 3,2020 )
The Land Is Full by Alon Tal
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Alon Tal

THE CULTURAL TRANSITION—ISRAELIZATION There are those who believe that the shift into a Stage 3 demographic mode is simply a result of integration into Israeli society. Arab citizens follow Israeli ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 3,2020 )
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Brad Lancaster

Fig. 5.3. Late-winter garden grown entirely from rainfall and roof runoff harvested in 1,300-gallon (4,920-liter) tank in 2005. Our original cistern has a 1,300-gallon (4,920-liter) capacity. We selected this size ...
( Category: Environmental July 3,2020 )
The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-16 | Author:Gary Snyder

To return to my own situation: the land my family and I live on in the Sierra Nevada of California is “barely good” from an economic standpoint. With soil amendments, ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays July 2,2020 )
Applied Wildlife Habitat Management by Roel R. Lopez Israel D. Parker & Michael L. Morrison
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Roel R. Lopez, Israel D. Parker & Michael L. Morrison [Lopez, Roel R.]

Source: Adapted from Seifres and Hamilton (1993); Volesky, Stubbendieck, and Mitchell (2007). Table 4.5. Mechanical treatment cost checklist Function and Benefits There are many benefits to mechanical treatments used as ...
( Category: Wildlife July 2,2020 )
Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture by Sena S. Silva & F. Brian Davy
epub |eng | | Author:Sena S. Silva & F. Brian Davy

The inland fishery of Sri Lanka has been essentially a capture fishery from perennial reservoirs (major and medium-scale irrigation reservoirs; Table 6.1). However, most small-sized (<100 ha) minor irrigation reservoirs ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks July 2,2020 )
Limit Analysis Theory of the Soil Mass and Its Application by Chuanzhi Huang
epub |eng | | Author:Chuanzhi Huang

(7.102) where Only the slip surface is unknown; therefore, it is not necessary to regard the stress field as an independent unknown when the variation is solved. In addition, since ...
( Category: Weather July 2,2020 )
Why Preservation Matters by Max Page
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Max Page

Factory and Canal in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 2013 The abandoned factories of Holyoke, once the papermaking capital of the country, are slowly being renovated. The water flowing through turbines underneath the ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 1,2020 )
The Future Earth by Eric Holthaus
epub |eng | 2020-05-06 | Author:Eric Holthaus

WHAT WOULD IT FEEL LIKE TO TRANSITION TO A DEGROWTH ECONOMY? Putting radical ideas like these into action may seem scary, from the vantage point of today. In order for ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 1,2020 )
Big Lonely Doug by Harley Rustad
epub |eng | 2018-08-28 | Author:Harley Rustad

* * * Less than a year after Cronin wrapped the green flagging around the big Douglas fir, the trees of cutblock 7190 were gone. Throughout the summer of 2011, ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry June 30,2020 )
Biology of Spiders by Foelix Rainer F.;
epub |eng | 2014-04-10 | Author:Foelix, Rainer F.; [Foelix, Rainer F.]

Figure 7.25 An exceptional dimorphism of males occurs in the jumping spider Maevia inclemens. One morph is grey and rather inconspicuous (a), the other one is black and has typical ...
( Category: Entomology June 30,2020 )

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