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A Dictionary of Environmental History

Author : Ian Whyte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755618712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Environmental History written by Ian Whyte and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Increasing awareness of the extent and cause of environmental problems has fuelled the emergence of a new and timely discipline: environmental history. An exciting blend of geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, landscape, environment and science, it seeks to reveal how human activity has affected the environment in the past and how we, in turn, have been affected by that environment. How did people use and transform their environment? What problems of pollution and resource depletion occurred? What has been the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation? How have people's perceptions of nature and the environment changed over time? Environmental historians are revealing how and why our environment changed in the past, they are providing key insights into the mechanisms that influence environmental change today, and are helping to make informed decisions on crucial environmental concerns such as deforestation, desertification, pollution, global warming and climate change. Professor Whyte's A Dictionary of Environmental History provides in a single volume a comprehensive reference work covering the past 12,000 years of the Earth's environmental history. An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline. Entries range from shorter factual accounts to substantial mini-essays on major topics and issues. Fully cross-referenced and with an extensive bibliography, this pioneering work provides an authoritative yet accessible resourcethat will form essential reading for academics, practitioners and students of environmental history and related disciplines."--Bloomsbury publishing.

A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation

Author : Chris Park
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199641668
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation written by Chris Park and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 8500 entries, this informative dictionary addresses the social, legal, political and economic aspects of the environment and conservation as well as the scientific terms.

A Dictionary of Environmental History

Author : Ian D. Whyte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784028565
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Environmental History written by Ian D. Whyte and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline.

A Dictionary of Environmental History

Author : Ian Whyte
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857722204
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Environmental History written by Ian Whyte and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing awareness of the extent and cause of environmental problems has fuelled the emergence of a new and timely discipline: environmental history. An exciting blend of geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, landscape, environment and science, it seeks to reveal how human activity has affected the environment in the past and how we, in turn, have been affected by that environment. How did people use and transform their environment? What problems of pollution and resource depletion occurred? What has been the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation? How have people's perceptions of nature and the environment changed over time? Environmental historians are revealing how and why our environment changed in the past, they are providing key insights into the mechanisms that influence environmental change today, and are helping to make informed decisions on crucial environmental concerns such as deforestation, desertification, pollution, global warming and climate change. Professor Whyte's A Dictionary of Environmental History provides in a single volume a comprehensive reference work covering the past 12,000 years of the Earth's environmental history. An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline. Entries range from shorter factual accounts to substantial mini-essays on major topics and issues. Fully cross-referenced and with an extensive bibliography, this pioneering work provides an authoritative yet accessible resourcethat will form essential reading for academics, practitioners and students of environmental history and related disciplines.

A Dictionary of Environmental History

Author : Ian Whyte
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857733591
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Environmental History written by Ian Whyte and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing awareness of the extent and cause of environmental problems has fuelled the emergence of a new and timely discipline: environmental history. An exciting blend of geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, landscape, environment and science, it seeks to reveal how human activity has affected the environment in the past and how we, in turn, have been affected by that environment. How did people use and transform their environment? What problems of pollution and resource depletion occurred? What has been the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation? How have people's perceptions of nature and the environment changed over time? Environmental historians are revealing how and why our environment changed in the past, they are providing key insights into the mechanisms that influence environmental change today, and are helping to make informed decisions on crucial environmental concerns such as deforestation, desertification, pollution, global warming and climate change. Professor Whyte's A Dictionary of Environmental History provides in a single volume a comprehensive reference work covering the past 12,000 years of the Earth's environmental history. An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline. Entries range from shorter factual accounts to substantial mini-essays on major topics and issues. Fully cross-referenced and with an extensive bibliography, this pioneering work provides an authoritative yet accessible resourcethat will form essential reading for academics, practitioners and students of environmental history and related disciplines.

Environment

Author : Susan Holden
Publisher : Macmillan Elt
ISBN 13 : 9781405094948
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Environment written by Susan Holden and published by Macmillan Elt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dictionary of Environmental Health

Author : Frank R. Spellman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 164143399X
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Environmental Health written by Frank R. Spellman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every branch of science, every profession, and every engineering process has its own language for communication. Environmental health is no different. To work even at the edge of the major environmental aspects of this challenging field, you must acquire a fundamental but wide-ranging vocabulary and understanding of the components that make it up. As Voltaire said: "If you wish to converse with me, define your terms." In this publication, we define, and in many instances, fully explain in plain English, the terms or "tools" (concepts and ideas) used by environmental health professionals, environmental science professionals, safety/industrial hygiene practitioners/engineers, and non-science professionals. It is important to point out that environmental health is not a single topic, but rather a complex, colorful, and diversified range of interrelated subjects including all of the basic sciences, computer science, government, engineering, energy, renewable energy, hydraulic fracking, security, disease, industrial hygiene, injury identification prevention and control, and much more. The practicing environmental health professional, specialist, technician or student of environmental health should know these topics—without them it is difficult, if not impossible, to practice in any of the environmental fields. The Dictionary of Environmental Health is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive reference that serves as both a dictionary and encyclopedia. This book is an indispensable resource for individuals throughout environmental, occupational, and public health industries. It defines thousands of words illustrating the enormous magnitude of the environmental health field. Terms are alphabetically arranged with concise and succinct definitions along with expanded explanations wherever needed. These terms and definitions are drawn from varied, specialized, and technical environmental fields that can be understood by professional, students, and general readers alike.

Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology

Author : Andrew Porteous
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111868768X
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology written by Andrew Porteous and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY Dictionary of ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY FOURTH EDITION This superb and highly-acclaimed dictionary includes over 4000 in-depth entries on scientific and technical terminology, associated with environmental protection and resource management. In addition, it contains numerous illustrations, a wide range of international case studies and extensive cross-references to guide the reader. The fourth edition represents a major update with 30% new material, additional illustrations and a greatly expanded list of relevant web resources. Reviews of previous editions: This is a veritable Whitakers’ Almanac of useful information on all aspects of science and the natural environment, and its author needs little introduction. It is as useful for dipping into — being crammed with fascinating facts — as it is for checking definitions. Essential for layman and specialist alike. ...Porteous’ book will contribute to better understanding and protection of the world’s environment... This dictionary is highly recommended as a valuable reference for both students and professionals working in environmental science and technology. ...a formidable rival of many much more expensive and heavier volumes. Porteous succeeds to precisely describe the chosen terms without compromise to readability. Cross-references nicely bring together additional or related information. The reader is often captured by the well-written text and is kept reading far beyond the sought-after term. Environmental Geology Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology, Fourth Edition will be an indispensable reference for all students and professionals concerned with world’s environment.

Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement

Author : Miranda Schreurs
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810864347
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement written by Miranda Schreurs and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings have been concerned about nature and their place in it for millennia. Disquiet about the consequences of human action on the natural environment date back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. The efforts of the green movement can be traced back to the nineteenth century. In this period, individuals, groups, and organizations began campaigning for the conservation and preservation of natural areas and the protection of wildlife species. Efforts to combat pollution also began. It was not until the 1960s, however, that the green movement in its more modern incarnation emerged. The green movements that arose at this time maintained the concerns with conservation, preservation, and industrial pollution held by earlier generations, but added to their agenda new issues, including justice, equality, participatory democracy, and sustainability. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of green parties and movements, green issues, and green concepts. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on countries in the world where green parties or proto-parties have formed, green movement organizations, major international environmental conferences, and green concepts. This useful reference will be greatly valued by students, academics, journalists, and policymakers alike.

Nature's Nation

Author : John Opie
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Nation written by John Opie and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1998 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature's Nation examines our consumer-based industrial and urban society and notes the heavy price paid to create this by placing the political, economic, social and cultural development of the U.S within an environmental framework.

An Environmental History of the World

Author : J. Donald Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134017820
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book An Environmental History of the World written by J. Donald Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an overview of human history in relationship to the natural environment, from origins to the present, with case studies of different societies in each period

A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation

Author : Michael Allaby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192518070
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation written by Michael Allaby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative dictionary provides over 9,000 entries on scientific and social aspects of the environment-its key thinkers, treaties, movements, organizations, concepts, and theories. It covers subjects such as sustainable development, biodiversity, and environmental ethics, it is at the cutting edge of environmental and conservation studies. Expanded to contain more detail on complex topics such as deepwater horizon, and hydraulic Fracturing, and new entries such as angular velocity, and solution mining, this new edition offers definitions on topical and developing issues. It also features new resources including a list of the world's major national parks and IUCN categories for endangered species, as well as new web links and illustrations, providing useful context additional to the entries in the dictionary. This is the essential reference for students studying environmental and natural sciences, environmental studies, conservation, and technology, and related disciplines, as well as anyone with an interest in environment and conservation.

The Facts on File Dictionary of Ecology and the Environment

Author : Jill Bailey
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109415
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Facts on File Dictionary of Ecology and the Environment written by Jill Bailey and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents over 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries on various concepts and topics in ecology and environmental science.

The Facts on File Dictionary of Environmental Science

Author : Bruce C. Wyman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109423
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis The Facts on File Dictionary of Environmental Science by : Bruce C. Wyman

Download or read book The Facts on File Dictionary of Environmental Science written by Bruce C. Wyman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines more than 5,000 terms used in the field of environmental science.

Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism

Author : Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442269618
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism by : Peter Dauvergne

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism written by Peter Dauvergne and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To capture the diversity within environmentalism, this dictionary takes a global tack with a focus on ideas, events, institutions, initiatives, and green movements since the 1960s. It strives to avoid a common error in many histories of environmentalism: to exaggerate the input of the wealthy countries of Europe and North America and understate the influence of Africa, Asia, South and Central America, and the Polar Regions. It aims as well for a more comprehensive analysis than most histories of the modern environmental movement, understanding environmentalism as emerging not only from grassroots and formal nongovernmental associations, but also from corporate, governmental, and intergovernmental organizations and initiatives. This assumes the ideas and energy infusing environmentalism with political purpose arise from hundreds of thousands of sources: from corporate boardrooms to bureaucratic policies to international negotiations to activists. Thus, environmentalists are not only indigenous people blocking a logging road, Greenpeace activists protesting a seal hunt, or green candidates contesting an election; an equal or larger number of environmentalists are working within the Japanese bureaucracy to implement environmental policies, within the World Bank to assess the environmental impacts of loans, within Wal-Mart to green its purchasing practices, or within intergovernmental forums to negotiate international environmental agreements. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important events, issues, organizations, ideas, and people shaping the direction of environmentalism worldwide. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about environmentalism.

A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations

Author : Barbara K. Rodes
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801857386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations written by Barbara K. Rodes and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,700 quotations in 143 categories—from Acid Rain to Zoos—that provide a comprehensive collection of the wise and witty observations about our natural environment. "Three months of camp life on Lake Tahoe would restore an Egyptian mummy to his pristine vigor, and give him an appetite like an alligator. I do not mean the oldest and driest mummies, of course, but the fresher ones. The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?—it is the same the angels breathe."—Mark Twain, Roughing It Here are more than 3,700 quotations in 143 categories—from Acid Rain to Zoos—that provide a comprehensive collection of the wise and witty observations about our natural environment. The Dictionary of Environmental Quotations will delight, provoke, and inform readers. It is at once stimulating, entertaining, and enlightening, with quotations that provide a complete range of human thought about nature and the environment. Quotations have been drawn from a variety of documented sources, including poems, proverbs, slogans, radio, and television, congressional hearings, magazines, and newspapers. The authors of the quotes range from a philosopher in pre-Christian times to a contemporary economist, from a poet who speaks of forests to an engineer concerned with air pollutants. Organized into 143 topic areas such as Air, Conservation, Forests, Greenhouse Effect, History, Nuclear Energy, Water, Wildlife, and other subjects. The Dictionary of Environmental Quotations presents a sweeping look at the history of environmentalism as well as the issues and topics that are debated today. It includes two indexes, one by subject and one by author.

Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples

Author : Dale D. Goble
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801379
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples written by Dale D. Goble and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environment—in a place. This collection of essays explores the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest of North America, addressing questions of how humans have adapted to the northwestern landscape and modified it over time, and how the changing landscape in turn affected human society, economy, laws, and values. Northwest Lands and Peoples includes essays by historians, anthropologists, ecologists, a botanist, geographers, biologists, law professors, and a journalist. It addresses a wide variety of topics indicative of current scholarship in the rapidly growing field of environmental history.