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Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science , which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement , which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's ...
Environmental justice: Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming: Richard Heinberg: M: Oil depletion: The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies: Lawrence Joseph Henderson: M: 1878– Environmental science: The Fitness of the Environment: Julia Butterfly Hill: F ...
The Skeptical Environmentalist's subtitle refers to the State of the World report, published annually since 1984 by the Worldwatch Institute. [1] Lomborg designated the report "one of the best-researched and academically most ambitious environmental policy publications," but criticized it for using short-term trends to predict disastrous consequences, in cases where long-term trends would not ...
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors is a 2014 book by cultural geographer Carolyn Finney.The book examines the relationship between African Americans and the environment, particularly challenging the notion of the environment and environmentalism as white spaces.
The history of environmental pollution traces human-dominated ecological systems from the earliest civilizations to the present day. [1] This history is characterized by the increased regional success of a particular society , followed by crises that were either resolved, producing sustainability , or not, leading to decline.
This is a list of Australian environmental books: Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism (1997), by Sharon Beder; Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future (1997), edited by Mark Diesendorf and Clive Hamilton
As time goes by, the pollution begins to clear up and the cities slowly begin to age and fall apart. Though the book ends with a message of hope about nature's ability to recover and a small plant sprouting up between the cracks of a sidewalk, and says that in time the planet will heal, it notes that the Wump World would never be quite the same.
Pages in category "Environmental non-fiction books" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 228 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .