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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Mannahatta Mannahatta Eric W. Sanderson Reconstructs the ecological history of Manhattan through period maps, archeological discoveries, and computational geography to create pictures and descriptions of Manhattan from 1609 to the present … OL13617846W
Sustainable agriculture Sustainable agriculture Eric Lichtfouse Sustainable agriculture is an alternative for solving fundamental and applied issues related to food production. It integrates biological, chemical, physical, ecological, economic and social sciences… OL16441416W
Green supply chain management Green supply chain management Hsiao-Fan Wang xvii, 302 p. : 24 cm OL16716793W
The Infinite Resource The Infinite Resource Ramez Naam This book is a powerful argument for the existence of global warming, a detail-oriented description of it's causes and a data-driven prescription to solve it. OL16805552W
Biodiversity, sustainability, and human communities Biodiversity, sustainability, and human communities Timothy O'Riordan "Biodiversity is the key indicator of a healthy planet and healthy society. Losses of biodiversity have now become widespread and current rates are potentially catastrophic for species and habitat in… OL17886210W
The case against the global economy The case against the global economy Edward Goldsmith,Jerry Mander Includes sections on GATT, NAFTA, Free Trade, General Electric, and Wal mart. OL19668914W
Sustainable fashion Sustainable fashion Jennifer Farley Gordon "Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today's eco-fashion movem… OL19997166W
Sustainability Sustainability Scott T. Young 'Sustainability' offers a comprehensive treatment of the relationship between business and sustainability. OL20547747W
Practicing sustainability Practicing sustainability Guruprasad Madhavan "In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets, music directors, evangelical pastors, skyscraper architects, artists, filmmakers, as well as scientific leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, business execut… OL20955361W
Nature's Fortune Nature's Fortune Jonathan S. Adams,Mark R. Tercek What is nature worth? The answer to this question-- which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms-- is revolutionizing the way we do business. Tercek and Adams argue that nature is not o… OL21110085W
Traditional wisdom and sustainable living Traditional wisdom and sustainable living Amitabha Sarkar,Hrisikesh Mandal Contributed articles. OL23343562W
We feed the world We feed the world Erwin Wagenhofer Brasilianischer Regenwald wird gerodet, um auf den gewonnenen Flächen Soja anzubauen, mit dem in der EU Tiere gemästet werden. Von der EU mit Exportsubventionen vergünstigte Erzeugnisse werden auf Mä… OL24464253W
Sustainability indicators Sustainability indicators Bell, Simon [This book] addresses the crucial issue of sustainability: how can it be measured. In contrast to the current trends in developing sustainability indicators, the authors discuss the advantages of tak… OL24854297W
APRES LE CAPITALISME - ESSAI D'ECOLOGIE POLITIQUE APRES LE CAPITALISME - ESSAI D'ECOLOGIE POLITIQUE Pierre Madelin 149 pages ; 20 cm OL28600035W
Natural capitalism Natural capitalism Paul Hawken There are no more reespected voices in the environmental movement than these authors, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands of books sold world… OL3940931W
Conflicts over Natural Resources Conflicts over Natural Resources Jacqueline Vaughn Conflicts over natural resources are not new. But they are now worldwide, enduring, increasingly contentious, and in some cases, intractable. In this new book, political scientist Jacqueline Vaughn e… OL8263559W