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The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living

by Josh Dorfman

We canÆt all camp out in old-growth forests, lying down in front of the bulldozers. And itÆs not only that weÆre too busy: Some of us just donÆt want our fabulous threads to get caked with mud. But that...

Water Governance as Connective Capacity

by Jurian Edelenbos & Nanny Bressers

Bringing together case studies from countries including The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Romania, Sweden, Finland, Italy, India, Canada and the United States, the book focuses on the question of how to deal...

Dancing with the Vodka Terrorists: Misadventures in the 'Stans

by Rob Ferguson

When Rob Ferguson went off to the five former Soviet 'Stans of Central Asia to work on a project to save the rapidly disappearing Aral Sea, he expected to have challenges and adventures, but he didn't anticipate...

After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California

by Peter S. Alagona

Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists...

Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Lookingat Animals in America

by Jon Mooallem

Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter's world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls-while the actual world she's inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half...

The A to Z of the Green Movement

by Miranda Schreurs & Elim Papadakis

The A to Z of the Green Movement provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of green parties and movements, green issues, and green concepts. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography,...

This High, Wild Country: A Celebration of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

by Paul Schullery & Marsha Karle

A colorful gift of words and art from two of the West's most knowledgeable and talented naturalists.

The Power of Trees

by Charles Katz & Gretchen Daily

Intimate in size yet quietly breathtaking in scope, this graceful gift book will forever change how you think, and how you feel, about trees. In poetically sparse scientific observations, renowned conservation...

The Green Thoreau: America's First Environmentalist on Technology, Possessions, Livelihood, and More

by Henry David Thoreau & Carol Spenard LaRusso

At turns passionate, funny, and profound, this collection serves as a compelling introduction - or vivid reminder - of why Thoreau is one of America's iconoclastic greats.

The A to Z of Environmentalism

by Peter Dauvergne

The A to Z of Environmentalism is a paperback edition of the Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism. It strategically skips across issues, concepts, time, organizations, and cultures, not with any pretense...

The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb

by Samuel Avery & Bill Mckibben

This thoroughly researched and wholly engaging book investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline—a project so controversial it has inspired the...

Creative Habitat Restoration: Comprehensive Planning, Implementation, and Long-Term Management

by Larry Lodwick

Creative Habitat Restoration provides guidance on the processes of rehabilitating natural systems of plant and animal communities. This book is an extended communication to novices and entry and mid-level environmental...

Weather, Climate and Human Affairs (Routledge Revivals): A Book of Essays and Other Papers

by H. H. Lamb

First published in 1988, this is a reissue of a groundbreaking collection of essays written by Hubert Lamb, one of the world's foremost experts on weather and climate and a uniquely authoritative voice in...

Contested Waters: An Environmental History of the Colorado River

by April R. Summit

"To fully understand this river and its past, one must examine many separate pieces of history scattered throughout two nations--seven states within the United States and two within Mexico--and sort through...

Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised: Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden

by Janet Hogan Taylor & Loren Nancarrow

A practical guide to repelling indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods, updated with new information on getting rid of bedbugs and dust mites, plus includes updated online resources.

If you’ve ever...

Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

by Mark R. Tercek & Jonathan S. Adams

A bold proposal to harness capitalism for the sake of environmentalism by a former investment banker and a conservation biologist

Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods

by Christine Byl

A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work

Christine Byl first encountered the...

Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism

by Peter Dauvergne

The Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism strategically skips across issues, concepts, time, organizations, and cultures, not with any pretense of producing a definitive dictionary but rather with the aim...

China's Disappearing Countryside: Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor

by Yongjun Zhao

This book examines the linkages between land tenure, development and governance in the context of China's development transformation. Drawing on empirical studies, it advocates the exploration of innovative...

Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change

by Elizabeth Shove & Nicola Spurling

Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive...