sustainable development

Discusses various issues related to sustainable cities, covering unplanned growth, unequal access to resources, transportation problems, the environmental impacts of building, and relocation, and including two case studies for each as well as advice on what that reader can do to help.

Explains how the manufacturing of everyday products can damage the Earth, offering solutions for more Earth-friendly designs and how to promote them.

This book asks questions about an environmental crisis, air and water pollution, the American lifestyle, ecological conservation, and more.

Investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.

Examines environmentally friendly careers in transportation, describing the roles and responsibilities of people who work to create more fuel efficient and environmentally sound modes of mass transit and transportation.

Examines the United Nations' role in helping nations to overcome poverty and their efforts to help finance and develop economic stability.

Examines many of the methods used to preserve the earth's natural resources including protecting wildlife, reducing pollution, and educating people on conservation.

Contains thirteen essays in which the authors explore the interrelated themes of cultural identity, health, relationship to the environment, environmental restoration, and organic foods as part of a greater whole; and provide insight into how sustainable living can be achieved and maintained.

Political scientists, economists, and environmental experts examine environmental policy in the developing nations of Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, discussing environmental policy analysis, pollution sources and control, and the unique problems in environmental policy faced by each country covered.

Discusses environmental problems including population growth, air and water pollution, and the depletion of natural resources.