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Addressing threats to the world's water supply, this collection of essays by noted scientists, activists, water managers, and environmental writers discusses the growing problem of the lack of Earth's most precious natural resource, examines key issues confronting the world's water supply today, an

Contains 366 digitally modified maps known as cartograms that depict the areas and countries of the world not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a vast range of topics, ranging from basic data on population, health, wealth and occupation. This book is suitable for those involved in understanding the world order.

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A major work in the field of environmental philoisophy that sets out to describe and explain the many strands of thought that underlie and support the environment movement. Hay's aim in writing this book has been to provide a faithful account of the main feeder streams that flow into the swift running river of Western envornmental thought.

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Discusses the water crisis from a unique perspective - the intimate stories of love and loss from the perspectives of Aboriginal people who know the inland rivers as their traditional country. These experiences bring a fresh narrative to contemporary water debates, and how we should look to more sustainable ways to live in Australia.

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100 Places to Go Before They Disappear not only describes stunning locations in danger of disappearance, but also challenges the reader to take action in defence of these vital places on Earth.

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30-Second Ecology explores how the life of organisms on Earth is interdependent and finely tuned to exist as a whole.

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Explore the importance of our oceans through 50 key topics, each concisely explained by a team of experts.

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A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desert

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Herbert Basedow was an anthropologist, geologist and medical doctor who used photography to document his expeditions into central and northern Australia between 1903 and 1928. This title draws on the National Museum of Australia's collection of Basedow's photographic work from 12 of his expeditions.

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An eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military.

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Some parts of the Australian landscape are more than 100 million years old. The dinosaurs roamed a land in which Kakadu, the Macdonnell and Flinders ranges, the Arcoona Plateau and the Mt Lofty Ranges, and many parts of the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia and the Eastern Uplands were recognisably present.

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Critical insights into the successes and failures of biodiversity monitoring, and potential solutions.

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With a plan to own or manage one per cent of Australia by 2025, Bush Heritage Australia is an organisation with big ambitions. With more than one million hectares in its care, Bush Heritages achievements are celebrated in this book along with its growth from humble beginnings into a large non-profit with benefactors all over the world.

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The landmark book on air pollution: a major threat to the health and longevity of each and every one of us.

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It is widely accepted in the scientific community that climate change is a reality. In this second edition, leading climate researcher Barrie Pittock revisits the effects that global warming is having on our planet, in light of ever-changing scientific research. Pittock presents all sides of the arguments about the science and possible remedies.

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From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense.

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A history of the Northcliffe region of Western Australia which seeks to understand the land and the conflicting views over its use.

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An indigenous community's landmark legal case to hold Chevron accountable for its contamination of the Amazon.

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Tim O'Driscoll became well-known nationally and internationally for his experimental work on rock deformation, his plotting of lineaments, associated fracture patterns and ring structures, and for his application of both lines of research to the practical problems of locating mineral deposits. This book presents his work.

The savannas of northern Australia are the most fire-prone part of a fire-prone continent. The book documents key challenges and novel options for addressing chronic landscape-scale fire management issues through development of: collaborative, cross-cultural 'two toolkit' approaches, and commercially supported environmental services programs.

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Examines the relationship between human beings and nature and discusses environmental protection from ethical and philosophical points of view

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Taking the reader to the sites of controversial dams, Leslie shows why dams are at once the hope of developing nations and a blight on their people and landscape.