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Almost all environmental books treat the environmental crisis as though humans are in charge of nature, rather than part of it. The Earth and I is the first book to put all preconceived notions aside and to ask, naïvely: Who are we really? What is our relationship to the earth?

Candace Savage's acclaimed and beautifully written guide to the ecology of the prairies, now revised and updated.Praise for the previous edition of Prairie: "Impelled with its sense of the miraculous in nature."-Globe and MailThis revised edition of Prairie features a new preface along with updated research on the effects of climate change on an increasingly vulnerable landscape.It also offers new information on: · conservation of threatened species, including the black-tailed prairie dog and farmland birds; · grassland loss and conservation; · the health of rivers and the water table; · the effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on prairie wetlands; · the benefits of regenerative agriculture. Illustrated with elegant black-and-white line drawings and maps, this award-winning tome continues to be a highly readable guide to understanding the ecology, geological history, biodiversity, and resilience of the prairies.

Threaded Harmony: A Sustainable Approach to Fashion acts as a comprehensive guide exploring the environmental impact of fashion, discussing the ecological footprint of fast fashion, pollution, and waste in the supply chain, supported by real-life case studies.

It all began one late spring morning when a robin unexpectedly fluttered into Bryony's bedroom. With each passing day, the visits of the robin grew more frequent, then, one morning, Bryony heard the robin begin to build a nest in the kitchen on the shelf of a pine dresser...

Your journey is about to begin! Get ready to set sail, soar through the air, climb mountains and blast into space. We are following in the footsteps of history''s most adventurous explorers. Are you ready to start your own amazing adventure?

This new volume addresses the environmental impacts of pollution on freshwater aquatic ecosystems and presents sustainable management and remediation practices and advanced technology help to address the different types of pollutants.

Takes a unique approach to exploring the efficient management of resources in the era of resource depletion due to climate changes and business expansion, in conjunction with considering the multiple dimensions of India-European Union cooperation.

Explores how companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interactions with their stakeholders. It discusses employee quality of life, globalization, industry sustainability, environmental accountability, education, empowerment of women, more.

Looks at the diversity of forest ecosystems and explores such aspects as forest products in enhancing local livelihoods and community participation, forage production, forest conservation and sustainable management, regeneration patterns, seed handling, and more.

Wild flower identification may seem extremely challenging to those not familiar with them, but this brilliant photographic guide changes that forever. Packed with superb photography throughout, including stunning portraits and close-ups of key features along with succinct, no-nonsense text, this book will help you to identify any wild flower that you may encounter in Britain and Ireland. This second edition has been revised, updated, and expanded to become a truly comprehensive work, covering all but the most extreme rarities in the British Isles. This book packs a true floral punch. The pages have been designed to ensure that the photographs are reproduced at a sensible size while retaining a readable text. Key features are highlighted in boxes throughout the book, while details of confusion species and look-alikes are given where relevant. Accurate and fully updated colour maps based on the national plant-mapping scheme are provided for each species. In its first edition, this guide set a new standard for photographic flower guides. This new edition expands on that work, and is an essential field reference for anyone interested in our wild flowers.

Hong Kong Public Housing provides the first comprehensive history of one of the most dramatic episodes in the global history of the modern built environment: the vast public housing programme sponsored by successive Hong Kong governments from the 1950s.

This book studies how transnational migrants create a sense of home in their host countries. It draws on case studies of Sri Lankan migrants living in Australia to argue that 'home' is an existential experience rather than a fixed entity.

Shedding light on the nuances of cross-cultural communication, this edited volume offers insights into how Chinese Malaysians, a major ethnic group, navigate the complexities of translating across diverse languages.

Bringing together emerging ethnographies on kinship in South Asia, this book explores the idea of kinship as 'fiction' in intimate relationships. This volume resurrects the idea of fiction and fictive-ness to understand how intimate relationships may use these particular labels, or create an experiential understanding around relationships.

South Asia Migration Report 2024 documents key themes of remittances, resilience, and rehabilitation from the region.

Provides in-depth explanations of all topics related to quantitative remote sensing and its applications in terrestrial, biospheric, hydrospheric, and atmospheric studies. Written in an easy-to-follow language, logically organized, and with step-by-step examples, readers deepen their understanding of the theory and cutting-edge research.

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the so-called "endowment effect" in the housing market. In a nutshell, the phenomenon of overvaluing things we own which was first conceptualised in 1980 and has since been one of the most studied behavioural biases in economics.

This book, based on recent studies and research, explains how and why the climate is changing across India and how these changes are expected to evolve in the future. It takes a holistic view of the climate from India's perspective and discusses groundwater, land use, livestock, and natural disasters, with impacts and possible adaptations.

South Asia Migration Report 2024 documents key themes of remittances, resilience, and rehabilitation from the region.

This book explores the interplay between intergenerational justice and intra-generational justice using nuclear waste management as a consistent case to explore these themes.

This book calls for the institution of an African feminist philosophy of language, challenging existing debates and encouraging a move away from the Western gaze. An important resource for researchers from across the fields of gender and women studies, feminist philosophy, philosophy of language, cultural studies, and African studies.

Climate change is triggered by a too high concentration of greenhouse gases in the air, carbon dioxide in particular, primarily originating from fossil fuel-burning. Since such burning will not stop any time soon, the concentration will undoubtedly rise further, exacerbating climate change.