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| Author | : Robert Henry Nelson |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780847697359 |
Created in the early 20th century to provide scientific management of the nation's forests, the U.S. Forest Service was, for many years, regarded as a model agency in the federal government. The author contends that this reputation is undeserved and the Forest Service's performance today is unacceptable. Not only has scientific management proven impossible in practice, it is also objectionable in principle. Furthermore, the author argues that the Forest Service lacks a coherent vision and prefers to sponsor only fashionable environmental solutions--most recently ecosystem management. Describing its history and failures, the author advocates replacing the service with a decentralized system to manage the protection of national forests.
| Author | : Mark Adams |
| Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2011-06-16 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0643094431 |
The role of fire in Australia's ecosystems, and how to manage fire both for safety and for diversity.
| Author | : Karyn Cooper |
| Publisher | : R&L Education |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781578861446 |
Intended to situate self-examination and issues-based learning in reality in a professional context in which teachers and students work to shape practices and identities.
| Author | : Alan Krell |
| Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781861898562 |
"From the Greek myth of Prometheus to the counter-cultural Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, fire has always sparked our imagination. Like knowledge in the Garden of Eden, fire is at once essential to life and a threat to it. We are fascinated and comforted by the fire that warms us and cooks our food and frightened and horrified by the fire that destroys our home and environment. Its power is an unavoidable presence in our lives. In Burning Issues Alan Krell reflects on fire's paradox through fascinating myths and biblical tales of fire, newspaper reports, diaries, children's fables, paintings, photography and film. Krell specifically examines representations of fire in the work of painters including El Greco, Millais, Magritte and Kokoschka, as well as that by modern and contemporary artists, such as Jean Tinguely, Yves Klein and Susan Hiller, who use fire as a theme in their work and performance. Questions surrounding the private and the public, the intimate and the invasive, the destructive and the redemptive, weave through this generously illustrated book. An absorbing history of an element we take nearly for granted until it threatens us, Burning Issues is a timely deliberation on the remarkable discovery that took place when man thought to rub two sticks together until they sparked." --Publisher's website.
| Author | : Mike Berners-Lee |
| Publisher | : Greystone Books |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2013-09-21 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1771640081 |
The Burning Question reveals climate change to be the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle in history. It shows that carbon emissions are still accelerating upwards, following an exponential curve that goes back centuries. One reason is that saving energy is like squeezing a balloon: reductions in one place lead to increases elsewhere. Another reason is that clean energy sources don't in themselves slow the rate of fossil fuel extraction. Tackling global warming will mean persuading the world to abandon oil, coal and gas reserves worth many trillions of dollars — at least until we have the means to put carbon back in the ground. The burning question is whether that can be done. What mix of politics, psychology, economics and technology might be required? Are the energy companies massively overvalued, and how will carbon-cuts affect the global economy? Will we wake up to the threat in time? And who can do what to make it all happen? Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
| Author | : Simon Pirani |
| Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Energy consumption |
| ISBN | : 9780745335612 |
A history of the excesses of capitalism's rampant fossil fuel consumption since 1950.
| Author | : Laura Bates |
| Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2020-04-07 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 172820674X |
"A smart, explosive examination of gender discrimination and its ramifications." — Publishers Weekly From Laura Bates, internationally renowned feminist and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, comes a realistic novel for the #metoo era. The Burning will prompt all readers to consider the implications of sexism and the role we can each play in ending it What happens when you can't run or hide from a mistake that goes viral? New school. Check. New town. Check. New last name. Check. Social media profiles? Deleted. Anna and her mother have moved hundreds of miles to put the past behind them. Anna hopes to make a fresh start and escape the harassment she's been subjected to. But then rumors and whispers start, and Anna tries to ignore what is happening by immersing herself in learning about Maggie, a local woman accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century. A woman who was shamed. Silenced. And whose story has unsettling parallels to Anna's own. The Burning is a powerful call to action, perfect for readers looking for: feminist novels for teens young adult realistic fiction books contemporary novels with historical fiction elements books that deal with current events and issues Praise for The Burning: "A haunting rallying cry against sexism and bullying." —Kirkus Reviews "Emotionally charged...powerful." —Booklist "A painfully realistic, spellbinding novel." —Shelf Awareness "Bates's twist on a cautionary tale will take readers on an emotional roller coaster". —School Library Journal
| Author | : Peter C. Little |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2021-11-09 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0190934549 |
Introduction: From e-waste ashes to ethnographic intervention -- Amidst global e-waste trades and green neoliberalization -- "We are all North here" : Dagomba migrations and meanings -- Erasure, demolition, and violent obsolescence in the urban margins -- Embodied burning, e-waste epidemiology, and toxic postcolonial corporality -- Visualizing Agbogbloshie and re-envisioning e-waste anthropology -- Looming uncertainties and neoliberal techno-optimism -- Conclusion: New openings, relations, and burning matters.
| Author | : Jennifer Latham |
| Publisher | : Hachette+ORM |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2016-01-26 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0316384941 |
A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.
| Author | : Geoffrey Cary |
| Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2003-11-27 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0643098542 |
The phenomenon of fire in the Australian landscape traverses many interests and disciplines. At a national level, there is an urgent need for the integration of both the natural and social sciences in the formulation of public policy. With contributions from 30 leading experts, Australia Burning draws together these issues, under the themes: *Ecology and the environment *Fire behaviour and fire regime science *People and property *Policy, institutional arrangements and the legal framework *Indigenous land and fire management The book examines some of the key questions that relate to the ecology, prediction and management of fire, urban planning, law, insurance, and community issues, including indigenous and non-indigenous concerns. It looks at what we need to know to inform public policy, given the present risks and uncertainty, and explores the avenues for closer integration between science, policy and the community.
