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Author: Jennifer Elliot Publisher: Routledge, (1994) An examination of the world's existing patterns and processes of development and their environmental impact confirms the urgent need for sustainable development. With population, resources, economics and environment inextricably linked, this intro...

Author: Clive Ponting Publisher: Vintage Originals - revised edition (2007) The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilisations. Clive Pontings book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines world civilisations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Isla...

Authors: Matt McGlone, Tom Clarkson and Blair Fitzharris Publisher: GP Books, New Zealand (1990) Three NZ scientists - all presently researching climate change - summarise and interpret the maze of recent studies and predictions. They begin by discussing the nature and workings of the atmosphere and...

Author: Annikka Nilsson Publisher: John Wiley Sons, United Kingdom (1992) Since the greenhouse effect and global warming were first brought up on the international agenda of environmental problems, many efforts have been made to evaluate critically the scientific base for any predictions about clima...

Authors: New Zealand Scientists Publisher: [Christchurch]The NZ Institute of Chemistry (Inc), New Zealand (1974) New Zealand, because of its geography, low population and relatively small industrial capacity, is often regarded as being far removed from the pollution problems of the rest of the worl....

Authors: Donella H Medows, Dennis L Medows and Jorgen Randers Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, United States (1992) The authors of Beyond the Limits, sequal to the international bestseller The Liomits to Growth, have revised their landmark population and economic growth scenarios using t...

Author: Alexander Gillespie Publisher: Dunmore Press, New Zealand (1997) Climate change may be the greatest problem facing humanity in the foreseeable future. Burning Issues has been written to clarify the current debate on climate change and to show how New Zealand contributes to the global problem...

Author: Louis P Pojman Publisher: Wadsworth, United States (2001) Louis P Pojman, renowned philosophy scholar, author, and a pioneer in bringing the environmental ethics course to the college campu, has collected 81 of the best argued, clearestm and most accessible readings inprint. Topics include a...

Author: C George Muller Publisher: Koru Press, New Zealand (2006) Ignoring a 20-year moratorium on commercial whaling, Japan continues to send its whaling fleet deep into the Antarctic to kill whales under the guise of scientific research. Thrust into this volatile situation is Richard Major, an unl...

Authors: Environmentalists and biologists, commentators and natural philosophers in conversation with Fergus Beeley, Mary Colwill, and Joanne Stevens Publisher: BBC, United Kingdom (2006) Planet Earth is the most spectacular television series about the natural world that has ever been broadcast. It ...

Author: John Gribbin Publisher: Bateman Press, United Kingdom (1990) The Greenhouse Effect Gaia Hothouse Earth ecamines the greehouse effect against a broader background of natural climatic processes. Awardwinning science writer John Gibbin explains exactly why the world is getting warmer, what the ...

Authors: David Suzuki and Holly Dressel Publisher: Allen Unwin, Australia (2002) We all know the bad news. The natural systems that support our lives are in trouble. They are threatened by the population explosion around the globe, the unfettered escalation of technology and the seemingly insatiable...

Author: Charles A Lewis Publisher: University of Illinois Press (1996) Green Nature/Human Nature describes the psychological, sociological, and physiological responses of people to vegetation in cities and forests, as well as in horticultural therapy programs in hospitals, geriatric institutions, ph...

Author: Peter Murray Publisher: Murray Books, Australia (2007) Climate change threatens the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food, health, and use of land and the environment. On current trends, average global temperatures could rise by 2-3 degrees celsius within...

Author: Al Gore Publisher: Rodale Books, United States (2006) Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but infact it is happening very quickly - and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for da...

Authors: Richard Welford and Richard Starkey Publisher: Earthscan, United States (1996) This Earthscan Reader includes the most important and innovative chapters and articles on the interaction of business and the environment. The Reader brings together, in one book, the seminal contributions to the...

Authors: Jack Anderson with James Boyd Publisher: Sidgwick Jackson, United Kingdom (1983) The economic crisis of the early 1980s threatened the basic cohesion of the West. It was largely caused by the thirty-fold leap in oil prices during the 1970s. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jack...

Edited by: Michael K Stone and Zenobia Barlow Publisher: Sierra Club Books, United States (2005) Educating Out Children for a Sustainable World Preface by Fritjof Capra Reorienting the way human beings live on the Earth and educating children to their highest capacities have much in common, say the ...

Author: Richard Welford Publisher: Pitman Publishing, United Kingdom (1994) This casebook consists of real-life case studies which illustrate a range of possible strategies for environmental iprovement and is an invaluable resource for further debate on key environmental issues affecting business. I...

Author: John Woodward Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2003) The Biomes series looks at some of the Earth's major life zones: the natural networks of living things found in different regions of the world. Each title opens with one person's experiences, then considers how plants...

Editors: Lisa H Sideris and Kathleen Dean Publisher: State University of New York Press, United States (2008) Long before Rachel Carson would become synonymous with environmental activism, she was a nature and science writer, penning The Sense of Wonder for children, and three books about the ocean ...

Author: B C Wolverton Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson, United Kingdom (1996) Houseplants have always been a popular and stylish addition to homes and offices. Now research at NASA's John C Stennis Skylab Space Center has proved they are also vital to a healthy indoor environment. Dr Wolverton's resea...