Environment in the Balance

Environment in the Balance
Author: Jonathan Z. Cannon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2015-04-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0674425987

The first Earth Day in 1970 marked environmentalism’s coming-of-age in the United States. More than four decades later, does the green movement remain a transformative force in American life? Presenting a new account from a legal perspective, Environment in the Balance interprets a wide range of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, along with social science research and the literature of the movement, to gauge the practical and cultural impact of environmentalism and its future prospects. Jonathan Z. Cannon demonstrates that from the 1960s onward, the Court’s rulings on such legal issues as federalism, landowners’ rights, standing, and the scope of regulatory authority have reflected deep-seated cultural differences brought out by the mass movement to protect the environment. In the early years, environmentalists won some important victories, such as the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision allowing them to sue against barriers to recycling. But over time the Court has become more skeptical of their claims and more solicitous of values embodied in private property rights, technological mastery and economic growth, and limited government. Today, facing the looming threat of global warming, environmentalists struggle to break through a cultural stalemate that threatens their goals. Cannon describes the current ferment in the movement, and chronicles efforts to broaden its cultural appeal while staying connected to its historical roots, and to ideas of nature that have been the source of its distinctive energy and purpose.

Earth in the Balance

Earth in the Balance
Author: Al Gore
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134038453

Al Gore leads the charge against climate change, the world's greatest threat, in an incendiary new foreword to this timeless classic that launched his environmental career. If you want to know Gore, you need this book!

Economics and the Environment

Economics and the Environment
Author: Allen V. Kneese
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2015-06-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 131740226X

This monograph length report, first published in 1970, originated from a program of research at Resources for the Future that dealt with the management of residuals and of environmental quality. It presents some of the broad concepts that the program was based on and represents the effort to break out of the traditional approach in pollution and policy research, which had treated air, water, and solid waste problems as separate categories. This book will be of interest to students of economics and environmental studies.

Earth in the Balance

Earth in the Balance
Author: Al Gore
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Environmental policy
ISBN: 9781853837432

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Balance of Nature and Human Impact

The Balance of Nature and Human Impact
Author: Klaus Rohde
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1107019613

Explores equilibrium and non-equilibrium in undisturbed and disturbed ecological systems, examining how human activities affect the balance/imbalance of nature.

Restoring the Balance

Restoring the Balance
Author: John A. Vucetich
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1421441551

"A renowned scientist studies wolves on a wilderness island, searching for what it means to better relate to the natural world"--

Nature Out of Balance

Nature Out of Balance
Author: Merrie-Ellen Wilcox
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1459823974

Invasive species threaten local ecosystems and the planet’s biodiversity, but are they all as bad as we think they are? Plants, animals, insects and fish are moving in. In Nature Out of Balance:How Invasive Species Are Changing the Planet author Merrie-Ellen Wilcox profiles all-star invasive species around the world, starting in her own neighbourhood, and warns that humans are the most invasive species of all. We find out how and why species become invasive, what we can do to stop their spread and whether it’s time to think differently about invasive species that are here to stay.

The Sacred Balance

The Sacred Balance
Author: David Suzuki
Publisher: Greystone Books
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1926685490

In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of his best-selling book, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in nature and science — from global warming to the science behind mother/baby interactions — and examines what they mean for humankind’s place in the world. The book begins by presenting the concept of people as creatures of the Earth who depend on its gifts of air, water, soil, and sun energy. The author explains how people are genetically programmed to crave the company of other species, and how people suffer enormously when they fail to live in harmony with them. Suzuki analyzes those deep spiritual needs, rooted in nature, that are a crucial component of a loving world. Drawing on his own experiences and those of others who have put their beliefs into action, The Sacred Balance is a powerful, passionate book with concrete suggestions for creating an ecologically sustainable, satisfying, and fair future by rediscovering and addressing humanity’s basic needs.

A Question of Balance

A Question of Balance
Author: William Nordhaus
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0300209398

How economic analysis can help us design economic policies to address the looming challenges of global warming As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues involved in understanding global warming and slowing its harmful effects are complex and cross disciplinary boundaries. For example, ecologists see global warming as a threat to ecosystems, utilities as a debit to their balance sheets, and farmers as a hazard to their livelihoods. In this important work, William Nordhaus integrates the entire spectrum of economic and scientific research to weigh the costs of reducing emissions against the benefits of reducing the long-run damages from global warming. The book offers one of the most extensive analyses of the economic and environmental dynamics of greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change and provides the tools to evaluate alternative approaches to slowing global warming. The author emphasizes the need to establish effective mechanisms, such as carbon taxes, to harness markets and harmonize the efforts of different countries. This book not only will shape discussion of one the world's most pressing problems but will provide the rationales and methods for achieving widespread agreement on our next best move in alleviating global warming.

Climate Change and Global Poverty

Climate Change and Global Poverty
Author: Lael Brainard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0815703813

Climate change threatens all people, but its adverse effects will be felt most acutely by the world's poor. Absent urgent action, new threats to food security, public health, and other societal needs may reverse hard-fought human development gains. Climate Change and Global Poverty makes concrete recommendations to integrate international development and climate protection strategies. It demonstrates that effective climate solutions must empower global development, while poverty alleviation itself must become a central strategy for both mitigating emissions and reducing global vulnerability to adverse climate impacts.