Environmental history

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.

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. Al corso aveva partecipato anche Francesco Borzaga, che in seguito divenne il principale protagonista della difesa dell’ambiente in Trentino Ideatore del corso è stato il prof.

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.

During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challenges for ecological advocacy groups such as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).

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. It charts WWF's battle to save the world's wildlife from early campaigns for endangered species such as the tiger, whale or panda, to their more recent efforts to promote sustainable development and combat climate change.

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.

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. He traces the links between mineral riches and empires, wars, and civilizations, and shows how mining in its various forms came to be one of the largest global industries. He also illustrates how the gigantic mining machine is now starting to show signs of difficulties.

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. With Gilgamesh's well-documented exploitation of the cedar forests began the age of the conspicuous consumption of Lebanon's natural resources -- which proved so popular that the destruction never stopped but in fact worsened as one civilization was defeated and another took its place.