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  • Desert Lake

    Art, Science and Stories from Paruku

    Edited by Mandy Martin, John Carty, Steve Morton, Kim Mahood ...
    Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is Walmajarri land, and its people live on their Country in the communities of Mulan and Billiluna. This is a story of water. When Sturt Creek flows from the north, it creates a massive inland Lake among the sandy ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • Tree Faller's Manual

    Techniques for Standard and Complex Tree-Felling Operations

    by ForestWorks ...
    The Tree Faller’s Manual is an essential handbook for forest operators and others who need to fell trees manually using a hand-held chainsaw. This manual builds on the information provided by the Chainsaw Operator’s Manual.Tree felling is a high risk activity. Many fatalities and serious injuries have occurred as a result of being struck by falling trees, dislodged tree limbs or other dangers in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Waterworlds

    Anthropology in Fluid Environments

    Edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Frida Hastrup ...
    Series Book 3 - Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
    In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Come On!

    Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet

    by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Anders Wijkman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Current worldwide trends are not sustainable. The Club of Rome’s warnings published in the book Limits to Growth are still valid. Remedies that are acceptable for the great majority tend to make things worse. We seem to be in a philosophical crisis. Pope Francis says it clearly: our common home is in deadly danger. Analyzing the philosophical crisis, the book comes to the conclusion that the world ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Biodiversity Monitoring in Australia

    Edited by David Lindenmayer, Philip Gibbons ...
    Ecological and biodiversity-based monitoring has been marked by an appalling lack of effectiveness and lack of success in Australia for more than 40 years, despite the billions of dollars that are invested in biodiversity conservation annually. What can be done to rectify this situation? This book tackles many aspects of the problem of biodiversity monitoring. It arose from a major workshop held ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Burning Issues

    Sustainability and Management of Australia's Southern Forests

    by Mark Adams, Peter Attiwill ...
    Southern Australia is one of the three most fire-prone areas on Earth. After more than a century of urban growth and valiant efforts to ‘tame’ the bush, recent decades have seen more people moving back onto the fringe or into the middle of this volatile landscape. As this movement has intensified, so has the debate on how to best protect life and property from the ever-present bushfire threat. A ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Conservation Through Cultural Survival

    Indigenous Peoples And Protected Areas

    by Paul Sneed, Bernard Nietschmann, Terry DeLacy Dean, Peter Herlihy ...
    For more than a century the establishment of national parks and protected areas was a major threat to the survival of indigenous people. The creation of parks based on wilderness ideals outlawed traditional ways of life and forced from their homelands peoples who had shaped and preserved local ecosystems for centuries.Today such tragic conflicts are being superseded by new alliances for ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

    Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

    by Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China. A literature review focuses on the assumptions, methodologies and models of reconstructing ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services

    Edited by Shin-ichi Nakano, Tetsukazu Yahara, Tohru Nakashizuka ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume examines the topic of local biodiversity conservation in the Asia-Pacific region, one of the most rapidly changing areas in the world. With a focus on aquatic systems, this book offers insight on the state of local biodiversity, challenges in management and conservation of biodiversity, and newly developed methods for monitoring biodiversity. In addition, because the service provided ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Public Procurement’s Place in the World

    The Charge Towards Sustainability and Innovation

    Edited by G. Piga, F. Decarolis, M. Frey ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume addresses different issues related to green innovation procurement as well as exploring the challenges involved in public procurement. It offers a broad array of perspectives, addressing both general, abstract problems of optimal public procurement and concrete cases of national or even local public procurement systems. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sol-gel Based Nanoceramic Materials: Preparation, Properties and Applications

    Edited by Ajay Kumar Mishra ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book summarizes recent research and development in the field of nanostructured ceramics and their composites. It presents selected examples of ceramic materials with special electronic, catalytic and optical properties and exceptional mechanical characteristics. A special focus is on sol-gel based and organic-inorganic hybrid nanoceramic materials. The book highlights examples for preparation ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 228

    Edited by David M. Whitacre ...
    Series Book 228 - Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
    Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications. ... Read more

    $188.09 USD