environmental protection

A collection of essays that focuses on environmental protection issues concerning air, water, land, and life.

Presents a comprehensive reference that includes full-color illustrated photographs, graphics, and maps on environmental, political, and social issues including the destruction of natural habitat, international terrorism, globalization, and much more.

Discusses environmental issues such as population growth, desertification, global warming, ozone depletion, and acid rain, challenging those who downplay the reality and importance of these global environmental problems.

Contains facts, tables, charts, and statistics that provide current and historical information about the environment, covering air quality, the greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, acid rain, nonhazardous waste, recycling and composting, hazardous and radioactive waste, water issues, toxins, and depletion and conservation of natural resources.

Well-known scientist Jane Goodall examines the way food is produced and consumed in Western society and the growing obesity problem in children and adults, and offers ways in which people can exercise their power over the food industry and the environment.

Traces the history of the Environmental Protection Agency and explores its organization, programs, controversies, key events, notable figures, and impact on society.

Details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature.

Presents a collection of essays that examine the global security environment in 2005, and posit an argument that a key component in lasting safety lies with policy changes such as moving away from dependence on oil, managing water conflicts, containing infectious diseases, and moving toward global disarmanment.

When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite sides of an environmental conflict.

Examines the scientific and economic debates over energy, discussing energy supplies, energy development on public lands, the environmental dangers of energy sources, alternatives to fossil fuel, government influence on energy use, and concerns for the future.