This list contains 29 entry(ies).
Nell’anno scolastico 1950-51 la Sezione trentina del Movimento Italiano per la Protezione della Natura (M.I.P.N.) ha organizzato a Trento un Corso di protezione della natura per studenti delle scuole secondarie, che è stato il primo corso di educazione ambientale organizzato in Italia.
In recent years, journalists and environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of the growing effects of climate change.
Ugo Bardi delivers a sweeping history of the mining industry, starting with its humble beginning when our early ancestors started digging underground to find the stones they needed for their tools.
This book provides an original account of the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef, based on extensive archival and oral history research.
If the cedars of Lebanon could take they would tell a story of human greed and ignorance going all the way back to the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Organization(s):
- Shouf Biosphere Reserve, LB
National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century.
For a Living Planet is a book on the history of WWF and its successes. Starting from its convening in a small town in Switzerland in April 1961 to its 50th anniversary in 2011.
Based on previously inaccessible archives and a wide range of interviews with WWF VIPs, this book tells the remarkable story of how the idea of a few British naturalists turned into the world's largest environmental organisation.
Mucho antes de que la ecología se convirtiera en moda y la problemática ambiental adquiriese respetabilidad en el debate cultural, Eduardo Galeano alertaba sobre la voracidad y el cinismo de un sistema que devora a hombres y tierras para luego descartarlos, exhaustos.
Organization(s):
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, US
More than any other place on Earth, the Galápagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated and desolate, they were largely overlooked by early explorers until Charles Darwin arrived there in the 1830's.
Author(s):
- Larson, Edward J. (Edward John)
This book chronicles the environmental threat facing Mexico's water, air, natural resources, and public health and how it is affected by the political and economic system of the country.
Author(s):
- Meyer-Abich, Klaus Michael
Author(s):
- Antoine, Serge
- Vilmorin, Jean-Baptiste de
- Yana, André
Organization(s):
- United Kingdom, Nature Conservancy Council
Author(s):
- Barloy, Jean-Jacques
- Civet, Pierre
The programme of the Conference for the Establishment of the International Union for the Protection of Nature contains information about the organisation and the agenda of this conference.
Organization(s):
- Ligue Suisse pour la Protection de la Nature (LSPN), CH
