Encyclopedias, Dictionaries...: Environment & Sustainability

Examines the ways in which religious ideas, beliefs, and practices have both promoted sustainability and served as roadblocks.

Explores how sustainability is being factored into industries across the globe.

Explores efforts made to address pressing environmental concerns through legislation, conventions, directives, treaties, and protocols.

Explores the many ways in which human society relies on material resources and natural systems such as air, water, energy, agricultural products, and extracted resources for our everyday needs.

Analyzes myriad human-initiated processes and tools developed to foster sustainable natural resource use, preservation, and restoration. It also examines how humans interact with plant, marine, and animal life in both natural and human-altered environments.

Examines why we throw away the trash we do today, using data compiled from the exploration of dumpsters, to better understand our modern society and culture.

Covers the complete field of ecology, from general to applied. Includes topics such as behavioral ecology, ecological processes, ecological modeling, ecological engineering, ecological indicators, ecological informatics, ecosystems, ecotoxicology, evolutionary ecology, global ecology, and human ecology,

This encyclopedia provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change.

Examines the philosophical and ethical issues underlying contemporary and historical environmental issues, policies, and debates.

Covers topics about the relationship between the environment and society. Includes policies and theories

Covers the science and history of climate change, the controversies over climate-change theories, the role of societies, the industrial and economic factors, and the sociological aspects of climate change.

Spans the entire scope of sustainability from ecological concepts to financial concerns to public policy and community action.

Provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues.

Contains speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.

Contains information on the actual catastrophic events - how, where, when, why each of these environmental conditions occurred - what impact the effect has and the kinds of health issues that arise from the event, how to identify the health issues, and how to treat the conditions through test, treatment, therapy, and public health response

Addresses current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives.