Good News, Planet Earth

Sam Bentley

Join sustainability enthusiast and climate activist Sam Bentley as he shares the hopeful developments combating climate change!Do you feel like climate change is just getting worse and there's nothing you can do to stop it? Good news-there are tons of efforts already...

Fire Weather

John Vaillant

The Orchid Outlaw

Ben Jacob

An Atlas of Endangered Species

Megan Mccubbin

Higher Education for Sustainability

J. Paulo Davim , Carolina Machado

This book presents the efforts that different educational institutions, with particular emphasis on higher education institutions, have been developing in order to contribute to a type of teaching that enhances sustainability. It also helps to understand the role...

The Shotgun Conservationist

Brant Macduff

At the intersection of hunting and conservation, a man shares his personal journey from staunch anti-hunter to compassionate, ethical hunter, weaving together a larger history of humans, animals, the environment, and our food systems.The Shotgun...

The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

David E. Reichle

The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change: Scaling Ecological Energetics from Organism to the Biosphere, Second Edition examines the global carbon cycle and energy balance of the biosphere, following carbon and energy through increasingly complex levels of...

Artenvielfalt im naturbelassenen Garten

Heiko K. Voss

Dieses Buch nimmt Sie mit auf eine Gartenerkundung der besonderen Art: In außergewöhnlichen Fotos und persönlichen Texten berichtet der Autor von staunenswerten Entdeckungen in Flora und Fauna, die er in seinem naturbelassenen Garten macht. Durch enthaltsames Gärtnern...

Go Lightly

Nina Karnikowski

This sustainable travel handbook inspires readers to explore our fascinating planet without causing it further harm. Ten chapters help you go lightly, including how to choose the least impactful methods of travel, how best to protect wildlife, how to pack with more...

Making Sustainability Measurable

Michael Wühle

Making something measurable means being able to control it Sustainability is a term with a wealth of meanings and many possible misinterpretations. Yet sustainability can be a powerful and effective tool to guide our practical actions and simplify complicated...

Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Bioresources

Swapna Thacheril Sukumaran , Keerthi T R

This book brings together chapters related to sustainable utilization of biological resources, including in situ and ex situ conservation of rare, endangered, and threatened plants. The title also gives a special emphasis on marine sponges and mangrove ecosystems, which...

Regenerative Fashion

Safia Minney

As our climate, ecological and social crises converge, urgent action is needed to maximize our chances of survival. A new commercial approach is possible but it requires a systemic shift, with companies learning to operate as part of a wider 'ecosystem', allowing...

Nachhaltigkeit messbar machen

Michael Wühle

Etwas messbar zu machen, bedeutet es steuern zu könnenNachhaltigkeit ist ein Begriff mit einer Fülle von Bedeutungen und vielen möglichen Missdeutungen. Dabei kann Nachhaltigkeit ein mächtiges und effektives Werkzeug sein, um unser praktisches Handeln zu leiten und...

Indigenous Methodologies, Research and Practices for Sustainable Development

Sandra Ajaps , Walter Leal Filho , Marcellus F. Mbah

This book states that whilst academic research has long been grounded on the idea of western or scientific epistemologies, this often does not capture the uniqueness of Indigenous contexts, and particularly as it relates to the achievement of the United Nations...

Education for Sustainable Development in Primary and Secondary Schools

Güliz Karaarslan-Semiz

This volume provides teachers with pedagogical approaches and practical applications to implement Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and with assessment strategies to evaluate the learning outcomes of ESD in primary and secondary education. In addition to...

Tree Glee

Cheryl Rickman

Trees and humans essentially want the same thing – to live good, happy, purposeful lives and to flourish. We are inextricably bound.Trees provide us with the necessities of life – they clean the air we breathe, fill us with awe as we walk through forests and provide...

What We Leave Behind

Zosia Krasodomska-Jones , Stanislaw Lubienski

"Everything looked perfect. Sand - unique Baltic sand, the best in the world - and the calm sea. But wait. Something was amiss. Something was wrong"It starts with a day at the beach. A single white sock that somehow spoils everything. It's enough to send writer and...

The Living Environmental Education

Wei-Ta Fang , Arba'at Hassan , Ben A. Lepage

This open access book is designed and written to bridge the gap on the critical issues identified in environmental education programs in Asian countries. The world and its environments are changing rapidly, and the public may have difficulty keeping up and understanding...

Planet-Friendly Hacks

Elizabeth Ajao

This handy guide is brimming with quick tips, life hacks and budget-friendly tricks to help you reduce your carbon footprint and live more sustainablyAn eco-friendly lifestyle is expensive and time-consuming, right? Wrong! There are countless ways to make green choices...

The Baseline Concept in Biodiversity Conservation

Simon Dufour , Laurent Godet , Anne-Julia Rollet

The Anthropocene era has been marked by such significant human pressure that it has led to the sixth mass extinction.The Baseline Concept in Biodiversity Conservation interprets human domination of the Earth as the process of gradual landscape change, the execution of...