Resources Tagged: Environmental Protection
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2022-04-01 Traditionally, livestock manure has been used to provide nutrients for plant growth and to improve soil conditions. However, the increase in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) results in high levels of plant nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, in the proximal crop and...
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1988-01-19 The improvement in living conditions of the inhabitants of the Third World involves both economic growth and ambient ecological conditions. Development of a country implies improvements in both spheres, yet these two factors are often in conflict. Ecology and Development in the Third World...
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Red sky at morning: America and the crisis of the global environment / A Citizen's agenda for action
This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth’s... -
The text was designed to accommodate students with various academic backgrounds. Most of the chapters contain two types of text materials. In the basic text portion of each chapter, information is presented at a level suitable for beginning college students. Here students are given a solid...
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Developed by and for college students, this is the first book to outline a detailed, practical program for researching, evaluating, and improving the environmental integrity of college campuses. Profiling the successful environmental programs of schools around the globe, this guide tells how to...
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This directory is a comprehensive, multi-sector listing of non-governmental organisations in the Asia-Pacific region. The Directory provides data on address, telephone numbers, contact persons, membership, activities, publications, achievements, problems and proposals of the various...
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1996-01-01 A 2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture, and the Environment is an initiative of the International Food Policy Research Institute to identify solutions for meeting future world food needs whild reducing povery and protecting the environment. This booklet is designed to present the message of the 2020...
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In this brave and provocative book, Gore argues that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature can save the earth's ecology for future generations. Earth in the Balance is an urgent call to action to save our seriously threatened climate, our water, our soil, our diversity of...
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Reversing the downward spiral means negotiating deep cuts in the debt burden in exchange for policy reforms to help the poor out of the cycle of environmental impoverishment.