Author: Ian James Corlett Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439194572 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
The author of E Is for Ethics offers a new interactive family book featuring twenty-six original stories with different eco-friendly messages, accompanied by delightful illustrations, discussion questions, and tips for conserving energy and natural resources. While there are many children’s books on the market that emphasize the importance of eco-awareness, there are few parenting books available that help shape a family discussion on what it means to be environmentally friendly. E Is for Environment fills that void. Perfect for reading together with children, this book will help both kids and adults think about ways to make their homes and habits better for the earth. Each story features Elliott and his younger sister Lucy, and each focuses on a different eco-friendly message to help kids learn how to appreciate our planet. A fun illustration and thought-provoking discussion questions accompany each tale, in addition to clever tips for thinking “green” and conserving natural resources. Corlett’s warm, approachable writing style, paired with R.A. Holt’s charming illustrations, result in a winning formula that is sure to garner the same rave plaudits that E Is for Ethics earned.
Author: TERI Publisher: Ratna Sagar ISBN: 9788183324342 Category : Languages : en Pages : 76
Book Description
E for Environment is a series of books on Environmental Education developed jointly by TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), a pioneering institute in the field of energy and resources, and Ratna Sagar formulated in accordance with the NCF guidelines. The series hopes to inculcate in students the spirit of conservation of natural resources and respect for environment.
Author: Alan McIntosh Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0128018089 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 518
Book Description
Case Studies for Integrating Science and the Global Environment is designed to help students of the environment and natural resources make the connections between their training in science and math and today’s complex environmental issues. The book provides an opportunity for students to apply important skills, knowledge, and analytical tools to understand, evaluate, and propose solutions to today’s critical environmental issues. The heart of the book includes four major content areas: water resources; the atmosphere and air quality; ecosystem alteration; and global resources and human needs. Each of these sections features in-depth case studies covering a range of issues for each resource, offering rich opportunities to teach how various scientific disciplines help inform the issue at hand. Case studies provide readers with experience in interpreting real data sets and considering alternate explanations for trends shown by the data. This book helps prepare students for careers that require collaboration with stakeholders and co-workers from various disciplines. Includes global case studies using real data sets that allow readers to practice interpreting data and evaluating alternative explanations Focuses on critical skills and knowledge, encouraging readers to apply science and math to real world problems Employs a system-based approach, linking air, water, and land resources to help readers understand that cause-effect may be complex and solutions to environmental problems require multiple perspectives Includes special features such as links to video clips of scientists at work, boxed information, a solutions section at the end of each case study, and practice exercises
Author: Ian James Corlett Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416596550 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
A collection of 26 fun, simple and original stories, each centering on a different positive value, for parents to read to their children.
Author: Benedetto DeVivo Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 044464007X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 644
Book Description
Environmental Geochemistry: Site Characterization, Data Analysis and Case Histories, Second Edition, reviews the role of geochemistry in the environment and details state-of-the-art applications of these principles in the field, specifically in pollution and remediation situations. Chapters cover both philosophy and procedures, as well as applications, in an array of issues in environmental geochemistry including health problems related to environment pollution, waste disposal and data base management. This updated edition also includes illustrations of specific case histories of site characterization and remediation of brownfield sites. Covers numerous global case studies allowing readers to see principles in action Explores the environmental impacts on soils, water and air in terms of both inorganic and organic geochemistry Written by a well-respected author team, with over 100 years of experience combined Includes updated content on: urban geochemical mapping, chemical speciation, characterizing a brownsfield site and the relationship between heavy metal distributions and cancer mortality
Author: Gustavo Sosa-Nunez Publisher: ISBN: 9781910814093 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
This edited collection provides an understanding about the complex relationship between International Relations, the environment, and climate change. It details current tendencies of study, explores the most important routes of assessing environmental issues as an issue of international governance, and provides perspectives on the route forward.
Author: David E. Cooper Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351954318 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 299
Book Description
Buddhism, one increasingly hears, is an 'eco-friendly' religion. It is often said that this is because it promotes an 'ecological' view of things, one stressing the essential unity of human beings and the natural world. Buddhism, Virtue and Environment presents a different view. While agreeing that Buddhism is, in many important respects, in tune with environmental concerns, Cooper and James argue that what makes it 'green' is its view of human life. The true connection between the religion and environmental thought is to be found in Buddhist accounts of the virtues - those traits, such as compassion, equanimity and humility, that characterise the life of a spiritually enlightened individual. Central chapters of this book examine these virtues and their implications for environmental attitudes and practice. Buddhism, Virtue and Environment will be of interest not only to students and teachers of Buddhism and environmental ethics, but to those more generally engaged with moral philosophy. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book presents an original conception of Buddhist environmental thought. The authors also contribute to the wider debate on the place of ethics in Buddhist teachings and practices, and to debates within 'virtue ethics' on the relations between human well-being and environmental concern.
Author: M. F. Ashby Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN: 0123859719 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 629
Book Description
Addressing the growing global concern for sustainable engineering, this title is devoted exclusively to the environmental aspects of materials.
Author: Joy A. Palmer Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134756240 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 338
Book Description
Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures – from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are: Philosophers such as Rousseau, Spinoza and Heidegger Activists such as Chico Mendes Literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth Major religious and spiritual figures such as the Buddha and St Francis of Assisi. Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind’s view and understanding of the physical world.
Author: Ian James Corlett
Author: TERI
Author: Alan McIntosh
Author: Ian James Corlett
Author: Benedetto DeVivo
Author: Gustavo Sosa-Nunez
Author: David E. Cooper
Author: David E. Cooper
Author: M. F. Ashby
Author: Joy A. Palmer