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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
From naked ape to superspecies From naked ape to superspecies David T. Suzuki,Holly Dressel From Naked Ape to Super Species takes an unflinching look at where we are at this unprecedented moment in history. Suzuki and Dressel reveal that a clear and present environmental danger is staring u… OL111002W
Natural environmental change Natural environmental change Antoinette M. Mannion Environmental Change has been transforming the Earth throughout its 5 billion year history. The dynamism of planet Earth is especially well illustrated by the changes that have occured during the pas… OL1909970W
Earth Odyssey Earth Odyssey Mark Hertsgaard Like many of us, Mark Hertsgaard has long worried about the declining health of our environment. But in 1991, he decided to act on his concern and investigate the escalating crisis for himself. Trave… OL1918666W
Global environmental risk Global environmental risk Roger E. Kasperson,Jeanne X. Kasperson Despite international initiatives such as the Earth Summit in 1992 and ongoing efforts to implement the Kyoto Protocol, human activities continue to register a destructive toll on the planetary envir… OL20885436W
Molecular red Molecular red McKenzie Wark "Of all the 'liberation movements' of the twentieth century, the one that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams did not liberate a class or a gender or a race. It liberated an element: carbon. Tod… OL23221404W
Ma dernière conférence Ma dernière conférence David Suzuki Imaginons un instant que David Suzuki ait voulu résumer sa pensée et son action dans une seule et ultime conférence. C'est exactement ce qu'il a fait en décembre 2009, et c'est cette conférence qui a… OL24283970W
Physical geography and global environmental change Physical geography and global environmental change Olav Slaymaker,Tom Spencer This text adopts global environment change and its repercussions for society, as the coherent integrating theme to reinvigorate the physical geography of the 21st century. OL24716574W
La Terre sur un fil La Terre sur un fil Éric Lambin Une analyse scientifique rigoureuse apporte un éclairage serein sur l'avenir de la planète et sur l'avenir de l'humanité. OL26184178W
UNEP year book 2010 UNEP year book 2010 United Nations Environment Programme. Division of Early Warning and Assessment "The UNEP Yearbook 2010 is essential, informative and authoritative reading and within six chapters the Year Book addresses the following: In 2009, efforts to advance international environmental gove… OL28760097W
2009 state of the future 2009 state of the future Theodore J. Gordon,Elizabeth Florescu,Jerome C. Glenn "The 2009 state of the future is composed of two parts: print and CD. This print book contains the executive summary of each of the studies conducted in 2008-09. The enclosed CD of about 6,700 pages … OL28761630W
Les saboteurs du climat Les saboteurs du climat Nicolas de La Casinière Le changement climatique, à qui la faute? Vous, moi, les Etats, les riches, les pauvres? Oui, mais pas seulement. Derrière les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, des multinationales et des banques s'… OL28946590W
The big thaw The big thaw Edward Struzik "Traveling in time and space across the Arctic, in The big Thaw Ed Struzik describes at first hand the most alarming environmental crisis of our times,. It's a land that Struzik is passionate about, … OL4237902W
Zenith Zenith Julie Bertagna After finding that New Mungo is not the refuge they sought, Mara, leaving Fox behind, again sets out to sea with a ship full of refugees and, with the help of the "Gipsea" boy Tuck, tries to find lan… OL8464816W