Author: Stanford Environmental Law Society
Publisher: Stanford Environmental Law Soc
ISBN: 9780804738439
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This handbook is a guide to the federal Endangered Species Act, the primary U.S. law aimed at protecting species of animals and plants from human threats to their survival. It is intended for lawyers, government agency employees, students, community activists, businesspeople, and any citizen who wants to understand the Act--its history, provisions, accomplishments, and failures.
The Endangered Species Act
Author: Stanford Environmental Law Society
Publisher: Stanford Environmental Law Soc
ISBN: 9780804738439
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This handbook is a guide to the federal Endangered Species Act, the primary U.S. law aimed at protecting species of animals and plants from human threats to their survival. It is intended for lawyers, government agency employees, students, community activists, businesspeople, and any citizen who wants to understand the Act--its history, provisions, accomplishments, and failures.
Publisher: Stanford Environmental Law Soc
ISBN: 9780804738439
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This handbook is a guide to the federal Endangered Species Act, the primary U.S. law aimed at protecting species of animals and plants from human threats to their survival. It is intended for lawyers, government agency employees, students, community activists, businesspeople, and any citizen who wants to understand the Act--its history, provisions, accomplishments, and failures.
Marine Recreational Fisheries
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Category : Fishery management
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Fishery management
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Changes in the Land
Author: William Cronon
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 142992828X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 142992828X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
Enriching the Earth
Author: Vaclav Smil
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262693134
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer. The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or television. The expansion of the world's population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today's six billion would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia. In Enriching the Earth, Vaclav Smil begins with a discussion of nitrogen's unique status in the biosphere, its role in crop production, and traditional means of supplying the nutrient. He then looks at various attempts to expand natural nitrogen flows through mineral and synthetic fertilizers. The core of the book is a detailed narrative of the discovery of ammonia synthesis by Fritz Haber—a discovery scientists had sought for over one hundred years—and its commercialization by Carl Bosch and the chemical company BASF. Smil also examines the emergence of the large-scale nitrogen fertilizer industry and analyzes the extent of global dependence on the Haber-Bosch process and its biospheric consequences. Finally, it looks at the role of nitrogen in civilization and, in a sad coda, describes the lives of Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch after the discovery of ammonia synthesis.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262693134
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer. The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or television. The expansion of the world's population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today's six billion would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia. In Enriching the Earth, Vaclav Smil begins with a discussion of nitrogen's unique status in the biosphere, its role in crop production, and traditional means of supplying the nutrient. He then looks at various attempts to expand natural nitrogen flows through mineral and synthetic fertilizers. The core of the book is a detailed narrative of the discovery of ammonia synthesis by Fritz Haber—a discovery scientists had sought for over one hundred years—and its commercialization by Carl Bosch and the chemical company BASF. Smil also examines the emergence of the large-scale nitrogen fertilizer industry and analyzes the extent of global dependence on the Haber-Bosch process and its biospheric consequences. Finally, it looks at the role of nitrogen in civilization and, in a sad coda, describes the lives of Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch after the discovery of ammonia synthesis.
Barrier Island Visitor Center
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Category : Assateague Island (Md. and Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Category : Assateague Island (Md. and Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Inventory of Projects
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Category : Child health services
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Child health services
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Research Awards Index
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Nutrient Pollution in Coastal Waters
Author: Robert Howarth
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Category : Coastal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Coastal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Adventures with Ari
Author: Kathryn Miles
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1602396388
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Traces the author's forays into experiencing nature and promoting green agendas in accordance with a dog's perspective, describing the rewards she enjoyed while exploring the natural world at the side of her free-spirited puppy.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1602396388
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Traces the author's forays into experiencing nature and promoting green agendas in accordance with a dog's perspective, describing the rewards she enjoyed while exploring the natural world at the side of her free-spirited puppy.
National Coastal Condition Report II
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Category : Coastal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Category : Coastal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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