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Author
Series
Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • One of the most beloved books of our time: an illuminating account of the forest, and the science that shows us how trees communicate, feel, and live in social networks. After reading this book, a walk in the woods will never be the same again.
"Breaks entirely new ground ... [Peter Wohlleben] has listened to trees and decoded their language....
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into a verdant Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these-collectively known as swamplands or peatlands-often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, and function...
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (30 min.)
Description
Steve Backshall takes a look at the archipelago of Svalbard in the ArcticCircle. He tries to unpick exactly how life can exist in such a cold, darkplace, he follows the fortunes of the islands residents and visitorsthrough the winter and brief summer, polar bears, ringed seals, sea birdsand reindeer all feature in the food web but he discovers that the wholeecosystem is driven by the primary producers and the bottom of the foodchain, phytoplankton...
Series
Studies in environmental humanities volume 5
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (vi, 258 pages)
Description
"The concept of framing has long intrigued and troubled scholars in fields including philosophy, rhetoric, media studies and literary criticism. But framing also has rich implications for the environmental debate, urging us to reconsider how we understand the relationship between humans and their ecological environment, culture and nature. The contributors to this wide-ranging volume use the concept of framing to engage with key questions in environmental...
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (279 pages).
Description
"The edited collection, Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse, opens a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology. The dynamic between these two great forces comes into stark relief when a disaster--in its myriad forms and narratives--reveals the fragility of our ecological and cultural landscapes."--
Pub. Date
[2012], c2012
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (16 min.) : sd., col. + instructional materials (online)
Description
Using examples of food chains and food webs, describing the difference between producers and consumers, and illustrating the importance of scavengers and decomposers in maintaining a healthy ecosystem, this program explores the dynamic relationship between plants and animals in a shared ecosystem. The presenter-led, nature documentary-style video is also ideal for sparking classroom discussion on environmental issues such as climate change, deforestation,...
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xii, 190 p. : ill.
Description
This book argues that an attentive encounter with nature is of key importance for the development of an environmentally appropriate culture. The fundamental idea is that the environmental degradation that we are increasingly experiencing is best conceived as the consequence of a cultural mismatch: our cultures seem not to be appropriate to the natural environment in which we move and on which we depend in thoroughgoing ways. In addressing this problem,...
18) Ecofeminism
Author
Series
Critique influence change volume 05
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Description
Two authors, one an economist, the other a physicist and philosopher, come together in this book on a controversial environmental agenda. Using interview material, they bring together women's perspectives from North and South on environmental deterioration and develop and new way of approaching this body of knowledge which is at once practical and philosophical. Do women involved in environmental movements see a link between patriarchy and ecological...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 331 pages) : illustrations.
Description
In this edition of the Long Term Ecological Research Network series, editors John Hobbie and George Kling and 58 co-authors synthesize the findings from the NSF-funded Arctic LTER project based at Toolik Lake, Alaska, a site that has been active since the mid-1970s. The book presents research on the core issues of climate-change science in the treeless arctic region of Alaska. As a whole, it examines both terrestrial and freshwater-aquatic ecosystems,...





