Water: A Natural History
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.
A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated large-scale energy production and unprecedented growth—and the environmental cost of that development.
State of the World 2006 provides a special focus on China and India and their impact on the world as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems.
Barlow draws on her extensive experience and insight as a water activist to lay out a set of key principles that show the way forward to what she calls a “water-secure and water-just world.”
The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.
A book by James Borton on overfishing, illegal and unregulated fishing, coral reef destruction and reclamations, and, eventually, on ways of preserving our oceans.