Monday, November 26, 2012

New Library Acquisitions -- Weeks of November 12th & 19th

Featured Book: 

Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success (2012). This 264-page text authored by Andrew Balmford, a professor of conservation science in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, examines successful conservation efforts around the world.  Featuring stories from such locations as India, the United States, and Africa, this text paints a positive view of what conservationists can do to turn the tide for ecological and biological preservation.

New Library Acquisitions:

 
AGRICULTURE.

BROWNFIELDS.
Reclaiming brownfields : a comparative analysis of adaptive reuse of contaminated properties / edited by Richard C. Hula, Laura A. Reese, Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore

CARBON.
Carbon footprint analysis : concepts, methods, implementation, and case studies / Matthew John Franchetti, Defne Apul

CLIMATE CHANGE.
Shaping the law for global crises : thoughts about the role the law could play to come to grips with the major challenges of our time / Jaap Spier ; Elbert de Jong, [editors]



CONSERVATION.
Wild hope : on the front lines of conservation success / Andrew Balmford

EDUCATION.
Schooling for sustainable development in Canada and the United States / Rosalyn McKeown, Victor Nolet, editors.

ECONOMICS.
Moving to markets in environmental regulation : lessons from twenty years of experience / edited by Jody Freeman and Charles D. Kolstad
 
ECOLOGY.
The earth charter : a study book of reflection for action / Elisabeth M. Ferrero, Joe Holland

ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT.
ESA, Endangered Species Act / Sam Kalen, Murray Feldman

ENVIRONMENTAL  MANAGEMENT.
Risk and social theory in environmental management / edited by Thomas Measham and Stewart Lockie


FOREIGN LAW.
Environmental law in Serbia / Vid Vukasovic, Dragoljub Todic.


HISTORY.
Children of the sun : a history of humanity's unappeasable appetite for energy / Alfred W. Crosby

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING.
Environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing / Frank R. Spellman

LAW OF THE SEA.
Environmental governance of the great seas : law and effect / Joseph F.C. Dimento, Alexis Jaclyn Hickman

PHILOSOPHY.
Wilderness and the American mind / Roderick Frazier Nash

PSYCHOLOGY.
Vulnerability, risks, and complexity : impacts of global change on human habitats / Sigrun K. Kabisch ... [et al.] (editors)

SUSTAINABILITY.
Indicators of sustainable development for tourism destinations : a guidebook
 


TOXICS.
Chelating agents for land decontamination technologies / sponsored by Hazardous Waste Committee of the Environmental Council, Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by Daniel C.W. Tsang, Irene M.C. Lo, Rao Y. Surampalli
 
WATER LAW.
Water / David Lewis Feldman
 
WILDERNESS ACT.
Wilderness forever : Howard Zahniser and the path to the wilderness act / Mark Harvey
 
WILDERNESS AREAS.
A storied wilderness : rewilding the Apostle Islands / James W. Feldman ; foreword by William Cronon


ZONING.
Fair land governance : how to legalise land rights for rural development / edited by Jan Michiel Otto and André Hoekema


 

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