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Ending Hunger: The quest to feed the world without destroying it
"Nutritionists tell you to eat more fish. Environmentalists tell you to eat less fish. Apparently they are both right. It's the same thing with almonds, or quinoa, or a hundred...
The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history
When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood...' John Carey,...
Big Pacific: An Incredible Journey of Exploration and Revelation
The Pacific Ocean has been the focus of our fascination for as long as we have lived beside and on it. It covers one-third of Earth's surface - greater than...
Blowfish's Oceanopedia: 291 Extraordinary Things You Didn't Know About
The seas of our planet cover more than seventy percent of the Earth, but still remain shrouded in mystery. We know more about the surface of the Moon than we...
A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice
Wood was essential to the survival of the Venetian Republic. To build its great naval and merchant ships, maintain its extensive levee system, construct buildings, fuel industries, and heat homes,...
Countryside in Trust: Land Management by Conservation, Recreation and
The development of agriculture has caused rapid changes to the rural environment. Today, with growing awareness and concern for environmental issues, there is a movement to stem further damage to...
Energy for Tomorrow's World: The Realities, the Options and the Agenda
This volume is the result of a unique project which set out to reconcile global views on the important energy issues confronting the world at present. All the important factors...
Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage - Revised and Updated
Were the energy concerns of 2000 a preview of everyone's future? Will gas lines in the coming years make those of 1973 look short? Is the present chaos in oil...
Well Fed: How modern diets are failing us (and what we can do about
What you eat doesn't just impact you - it shapes the world around you. Wonderfully enlightening and engagingly written. Dr Idz If you are looking at ways to combat the...
The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025 A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES ________________________________ The lie...
The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025 A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES ________________________________ The lie...
Manual of Heritage Management
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This manual is designed to satisfy the considerable and expanding need in the heritage field for a volume of practical, authoritative information on good management practice. Published at the initiative...
Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain
From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster 'A rich social history ... Paxman's book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES 'Vividly...
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to
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'A formidable, brave and important book' Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England's elite...
Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens: Quarterly Essay 8
Who are the Greens, where do they come from and where are they going? In the wake of the Cunningham by-election and the Tasmanian results Amanda Lohrey, novelist and political...
Water Wars: Is the World's Water Running Out?
This is a story of the vainglorious and often brutal attempt to control and harvest the Earth's most precious resource.
Advances in Reintroduction Biology of Australian and New Zealand Fauna
Advances in Reintroduction Biology of Australian and New Zealand Fauna is a timely review of our understanding of translocation from an Australasian perspective, ensuring translocation becomes an increasingly effective conservation...
Managing Water for Australia: The Social and Institutional Changes
This book addresses major challenges in implementing required reforms in Australian water policy and management, with particular focus on social sciences research and knowledge that can inform policy. The NWI...
Electrify: An Optimists Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do...
Zobi and the Zoox: A Story of Coral Bleaching
With her home under threat from a warming ocean, Zobi, a brave rhizobia bacterium, teams up with a family of slow but steady Zoox (zooxanthellae). As the coral bleaches, everyone...
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert reveals how climate battles and energy revolutions are mapping our future A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and...
Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal That Runs the World
For most of recorded history, copper has proven invaluable: not only did the ancient Romans build their empire on mining copper but Christopher Columbus protected his ships from rot by...
The Cheapest Electricity on Earth
When the barbecue discussion in Bendigo or Brisbane, Adelaide or Alice Springs focuses on how many rooftop solar panels you have and how much money you are saving, you realise...
Bring on the Apocalypse: Six Arguments for Global Justice
George Monbiot is a fearless heretic, with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. In these incendiary essays, he tears apart the fictions of religious conservatives, the claims of those who deny...
Laboratory Earth
The possibility of global climatic change as a result of increasing numbers of people requiring higher stands of living has spawned an international controversy over the appropriateness of controls on...
Conservation Research, Policy and Practice
Conservation research is essential for advancing knowledge but to make an impact scientific evidence must influence conservation policies, decision making and practice. This raises a multitude of challenges. How should...
Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World: A
Habitat loss and degradation are currently the main anthropogenic causes of species extinctions. The root cause is human overpopulation. This unique volume provides, for the very first time, a comprehensive...
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain...
Nature's Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back
Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on ConservationShortlisted for the 2024 Richard Jefferies AwardA Times Science Book of the Year 'Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues...
Introduction to Conservation Biology
This book provides a modern introductory textbook for the rapidly developing field of conservation biology. Using current literature and the presentation of documented case studies, Primack presents a synthesis of...
Elephant Rescue
In 1979, the African elephant population was 1.3 million. By 1989 that total dropped dramatically to 609,000. During the 1980s, poachers killed some three hundred elephants a day. Although active...
Mashesha: The Making of a Game Warden
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Power Trip: The Story of Energy
For centuries, human activity has been dominated by the need to fuel human civilization. Energy is unique: no other physical resource in society has had such a wide-ranging impact on...
Nature's Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back
Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on ConservationShortlisted for the 2024 Richard Jefferies AwardA Times Science Book of the Year 'Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues...
Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
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A breath-taking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food...
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has...
More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy
A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change It has become habitual to think of our...
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present
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Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of...
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy
'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler . Perfect for fans...
Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia
Winner of the Prize for Australian History in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2012; The History Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards 2012; the Victorian Prize for Literature 2012;...
Stormwater Management for Sustainable Urban Environments
Traditional urbanization has created many environmental problems, among which urban flooding is becoming even more severe due to the dramatic increase in impervious surfaces in the form of rooftops, highways,...
Sponge City: Water Resource Management
The term "Sponge City" refers to the idea of a city where its urban underground water system operates like a sponge to absorb, store, leak and purify rainwater, and release...
Rainwater Park: Stormwater Management and Utilization in Landscape
Landscaping is a critical element in improving both the function and appearance of rainwater recycling and storm water management practices. Designing landscaped areas to soak up rainfall runoff from building...
Habitat Creation and Repair
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The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan
This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries....
Hippies in the City - Natural Urban Living
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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Author: Annie Proulx Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Remarkable ... A compact classic!' Bill McKibben 'I learned something new...