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Books : Scientific, Technical & Medical : Environment : Environmental Science

• Ecological Census Techniques: A Handbook

  
  The practical methods necessary for carrying out an ecological census of plants and each group of animals are described here.
  
   

• The Earth: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

  Martin Redfern

  
  Exploring the geological research, this title explains how advances in the understanding of plate tectonics, seismology, and satellite imagery have enabled us to see the Earth for what it is. It introduces the concepts of continental drift, the earth's structure, sea floor spreading, and the relationship between the atmosphere and the oceans.
  
   

• The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting with Nature and Our Place in It

  Jules Pretty

  
  
   

• The Earth : A Very Short Introduction

  Martin Redfern

  
  
   

• Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R (Statistics for Biology and Health)

  Alain F. Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Neil Walker, Anatoly A. Saveliev, Graham M. Smith

  
  Building on their previous book on the subject, the authors provide an expanded introduction to using Regression to analyze ecological data. As with the earlier book, real data sets from postgraduate ecological studies or research projects are used throughout.
  
   

• What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous

  George Poinar, Roberta Poinar

  
  
   

• Green Alternatives to Globalisation: A Manifesto

  Michael Woodin, Caroline Lucas

  
  
   

• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart

  
  
   

• The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison

  John Emsley

  
  What killed Charles II? Who thought he had discovered the perfect poison? Why did hatters go mad? This is an account of murderous chemical elements. Through stories of innocent blunders, poisoners of various hues - cold, cunning, desperate - and deaths that remain a mystery, it uncovers the dark side of the Periodic Table.
  
   

• An Introduction to Corporate Environmental Management: Striving for Sustainability

  Stefan Schaltegger, Roger Burritt, Holger Petersen

  
  
   

• Recycle!: "Salvage Style in Your Home", "Salvage Style in Your Garden"

  Nicholas Hankinson, Moira Hankinson

  
  
   

• Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

  Brian Walker, David Salt

  
  Offers a different way of understanding the world and a fresh approach to managing resources. This work embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability.
  
   

• Chomolungma Sings the Blues: Travels Round Everest (Travel Literature)

  Ed Douglas

  
  
   

• Remote Sensing of Coastal Aquatic Environments: Technologies, Techniques and Applications (Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing)

  
  
   

• Fundamentals of Ecology

  Eugene P. Odum, Gary W. Barrett

  
  
   

• Global Environmental Change

  Peter D. Moore, WG Chaloner, P. A. Stott

  
  
   

• Glaciers and Glaciation (Hodder Arnold Publication)

  Doug Benn, David J.A. Evans

  
  A new edition of the classic textbook for all students of glaciation.
  
   

• Environmental Management Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementation and Maintenance

  Christopher Sheldon, Mark Yoxon

  
  Covers the changes in international standards and other related developments in the field of Environmental Management Systems such as British Standard BS 8555. This title describes how such systems can be used to prioritize actions and resources, increase efficiency, minimize costs and lead to informed decision making.
  
   

• Ecology of Woodlands and Forests: Description, Dynamics and Diversity

  Peter Thomas, John Packham

  
  A concise, non-technical account of the structure and evolution of woodlands and forests.
  
   

• Geostatistics for Natural Resources Evaluation (Applied Geostatistics)

  Pierre Goovaerts

  
  This text covers areas of geostatistical methodology, including: tools for description; quantitative modelling of spatial continuity; spatial prediction; and theoretical background for GSLIB programmes. Application is to environmental data, but the algorithms may be used in other disciplines.