Conservation Fallout

Author : John Wills
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874176889

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Conservation Fallout by John Wills Pdf

One of the most controversial atomic projects of the US nuclear industry during the 1960s and 1970s was the construction of a nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon, a relatively unsettled and biologically rich part of the central California coast. Conservation Fallout traces the course of opposition that tore apart local communities, almost destroyed the Sierra Club, and attracted massive demonstrations in San Francisco and at the plant itself. The result is a balanced examination of nuclear politics in California and of the evolution and strategies of little-studied grassroots protest groups determined to resist the spread of nuclear technology.

Author : Jan de Graaff
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781482280258

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Monitoring and Evaluation of Soil Conservation and Watershed Development Projects by Jan de Graaff Pdf

This book provides diverse information and critical know-how to implement appropriate methodology and cost-efficient monitoring and evaluation systems better suited to assess the impacts of soil conservation and wastershed multi-sectoral development activities. It draws on a worldwide experience of specialists and a large array of ground-truthing projects and programmes. This book will meet its objective if it contributes to convince financing institutions and project managers that integrated watershed management activities have the potential to generate highly desirable impacts for the society at large, which have to be accurately measured by adequate M&E systems.

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : IND:30000090043245

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List of Available Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture by United States. Department of Agriculture Pdf

Author : United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112100650750

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List of Available Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture by United States. Dept. of Agriculture Pdf

Author : Monte Hummel,Justina C. Ray
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781459718425

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Caribou and the North by Monte Hummel,Justina C. Ray Pdf

"If the caribou die, then we die." These few words speak eloquently to the significanceof caribou for northern peoples. They were spoken not by a wise old chief, but by a 13-year-old Dene youth in 2007 during a hearing regarding uranium exploration on the caribou wintering grounds. Right now there is urgent, widespread concern about the future of the most centralof species: caribou. Caribou and the North brings both the facts and the feelingsof the current situation to a North American readership. The writers look at why we need to conserve the caribou, the threats that have faced caribou in the past, present, and future, and the actions that we can take. Also included is an appendixwith up-to-date information on the range, movements, habitats, numbers, population trends, and key threats to caribou in North America.

Author : Kathleen A. Cairns
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496207470

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At Home in the World by Kathleen A. Cairns Pdf

At Home in the World examines the extraordinary and largely unheralded role women played in forging the modern environmental movement, specifically in California.

Author : Finis Dunaway
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226597614

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Seeing Green by Finis Dunaway Pdf

"Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events. Seeing Green is the first history of ads, films, political posters, and magazine photography in the postwar American environmental movement. From fear of radioactive fallout during the Cold War to anxieties about global warming today, images have helped to produce what Dunaway calls "ecological citizenship," telling us that "we are all to blame." Dunaway heightens our awareness of how depictions of environmental catastrophes are constructed, manipulated, and fought over"--Publisher info.

Author : United States. Office of Civil Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211183780

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Federal Civil Defense Guide by United States. Office of Civil Defense Pdf

Author : Harry Henderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9798216124054

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Nuclear Power by Harry Henderson Pdf

Provides timely and up-to-date facts, context, perspectives, and tools to make informed decisions about nuclear energy. In the 21st century, nuclear power has been identified as a viable alternative to traditional energy sources to stem global climate change, and condemned as risky to human health and environmentally irresponsible. Do the advantages of nuclear energy outweigh the risks, especially in light of the meltdown at the Fukushima plant in 2011? This guide provides both a comprehensive overview of this critical and controversial technology, presenting reference tools that include important facts and statistics, biographical profiles, a chronology, and a glossary. It covers major controversies and proposed solutions in detail and contains contributions by experts and important stakeholders that provide invaluable perspective on the topic.

Author : Marianna Dudley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441113573

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An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to the Present by Marianna Dudley Pdf

This book brings to attention the history of places that have traditionally remained under-the-radar in discussions of war and the environment, through site-based studies of five training areas in southwest England and Wales: Salisbury Plain, Lulworth, Dartmoor, Sennybridge and Castlemartin. At these sites, the big events of the twentieth century are written into landscapes that absorb their impact and reflect change in intriguing ways. Here, however, environment is more than a canvas on which historical forces play out; it has an agency of its own, as the depiction of the surprising nature and robust habitats of the training areas recognises. An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to the Present critically examines the gradual 'greening' of the MoD as it developed policies of military environmentalism. It includes the histories of the ghost-villages created by forced evictions, and charts the rise and fall of anti-military protest movements. It depicts heated confrontations, mass trespasses, and demands for public access alongside conservation work and training activities, situating the human histories of these sites within their environmental history, and taking the reader behind the barbed wire in the first study of its kind.

Author : United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015035380362

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List of Available Publications of the United States Dept. of Agriculture by United States. Dept. of Agriculture Pdf

Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Research Grants
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Medicine
ISBN : IND:30000090423827

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Research Grants Index by National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Research Grants Pdf

Author : F. Zapata
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781402010415

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Handbook for the Assessment of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Using Environmental Radionuclides by F. Zapata Pdf

This Handbook is a new comprehensive reference of the methodologies (field, laboratory and desk work) for using radionuclides, primarily 137Cs and210Pb, to establish rates and spatial patterns of soil redistribution within the landscape and determine the geochronology of sediment deposits. It is based on the recent developments made by a global network of research scientists working on soil erosion and sedimentation research using environmental radionuclides.

Author : Pandi Zdruli,Marcello Pagliai,Selim Kapur,Angel Faz Cano
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789048186570

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Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation and Remediation by Pandi Zdruli,Marcello Pagliai,Selim Kapur,Angel Faz Cano Pdf

Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation, and Remediation reports research results in sustainable land management and land degradation status and mitigation in 36 countries around the world. It includes background papers with continental and international perspectives dealing with land degradation and desertification studies. The book assembles various topics of interest for a large audience. They include carbon sequestration and stocks, modern techniques to trace the trends of land degradation, traditional and modern approaches of resource-base conservation, soil fertility management, reforestation, rangeland rehabilitation, land use planning, GIS techniques in desertification risk cartography, participatory ecosystem management, policy analyses and possible plans for action. Various climatic domains in Africa, Asia, Europe and The Americas are covered. The book will be of interest to a variety of environmental scientists, agronomists, national and international policy makers and a number of organizations dealing with sustainable management of natural resources.

Author : Sarah Alisabeth Fox
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803269491

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Downwind by Sarah Alisabeth Fox Pdf

Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War. Sarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans. In chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.” With the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.