New Library Acquisitions - Week of September 24th

Featured Book: 

Jay Erskine Leutze, Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail (2012). This commentary tells the tale of the battle to prevent the dynamite destruction of Belview Mountain, a North Carolina peak that sits adjacent to the Appalachian Trail.  Enagagingly written, the author a graduate of a the University of North Carolina's law school at Chapel Hill is currently a Trustee for Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy.   

New Library Acquisitions:

BIODIVERSITY.

Connecting biodiversity and climate change mitigation and adaptation : report of the second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

 

CLIMATE CHANGE.

The politics of climate change / Anthony Giddens

ENERGY POLICY.

New security frontiers : critical energy and the resource challenge / edited by Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel

 

Clean energy, climate and carbon / Peter J. Cook

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM.

Living downstream : an ecologist's personal investigation of cancer and the environment / Sandra Steingraber

 

Raising Elijah : protecting our children in an age of environmental crisis / Sandra Steingraber

 

Stand up that mountain : the battle to save one small community in the wilderness along the Appalachian Trail / Jay Erskine Leutze

FISHERIES.

Fish / Elizabeth R. DeSombre, J. Samuel Barkin

FOOD & DRUG SAFTEY.

Food and development / E.M. Young

 

HISTORY.

Evolution of water supply throughout the millennia / Andreas N. Angelakis ... [et al.]

 

INTERNATIONAL LAW.

EU energy security in the gas sector : evolving dynamics, policy dilemmas and prospects / Filippos Proedrou

 

Democratization, decentralization, and environmental governance in Asia / edited by Akihisa Mori

 

Canadians and the natural environment to the twenty-first century / Neil S. Forkey

 

Russia's energy policies : national, interregional and global levels / edited by Pami Aalto

 

China's environmental challenges / Judith Shapiro

New environmentalism : managing New Zealand's environmental diversity / Chris R. de Freitas, Martin Perry

 

EU energy innovation policy towards 2050 / edited by Jean-Michel Glachant, Nicole Ahner, Leonardo Meeus ; written by Isabel Azevedo ... [et al.]

 

Brazilian upstream oil and gas : a practical guide to the law and regulation / consulting editor: Eduardo Pereira

 

MINING.

Coltan / Michael Nest

MUNICIPAL LAW.

Local climate change law : environmental regulation in cities and other localities / edited by B.J. Richardson

 

NANOTECHNOLOGY.

Nanotechnology for a sustainable world : global artificial photosynthesis as nanotechnology's moral culmination / Thomas Faunce

NATIONAL PARKS.

Rethinking park protection : treading the uncommon ground of environmental beliefs / Will La Page

 

NEPA.

Preparing NEPA environmental assessments : a user's guide to best professional practices / Charles Eccleston, J. Peyton Doub

 

NEW YORK.

Crossing the Hudson : historic bridges and tunnels of the river / Donald E. Wolf

 

Central Park : an anthology / edited by Andrew Blauner

OCEANS.

Ocean governance : a way forward / Yen-Chiang Chang

 

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

Public-private partnerships for sustainable development : emergence, influence and legitimacy / edited by Philipp Pattberg ... [et al.]

TRANSPORTATION.

Paving the road to sustainable transport : governance and innovation in low-carbon vehicles / [edited by] Måns Nilsson... [et al.]

WATER RESOURCES.

Every last drop : rainwater harvesting and sustainable technologies in rural China / Zhu Quang, Li Yuanhong, and John Gould