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1. Insects and Sustainability of Ecosystem Services

   By Timothy D. Schowalter

   Series: Social Environmental Sustainability

   With few exceptions, insects are perceived in industrialized countries as undesirable pests. In reality, relatively few insects interfere with us or our resources. Most have benign or positive effects on ecosystem services, and many represent useful resources in non-industrialized countries....

   Published May 16th 2013 by CRC Press
2. Biosequestration and Ecological Diversity

   Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Environmental Degradation

   By Wayne A. White

   Series: Social Environmental Sustainability

   Increased throughput of carbon-based fossil energy, the destruction of Earth’s forests, and other land use changes have resulted in ever higher levels of waste in the form of greenhouse gases—as well as a diminished capacity of the planet to absorb and store those wastes. This means that to avoid...

   Published October 17th 2012 by CRC Press
3. Decision-Making for a Sustainable Environment

   A Systemic Approach

   By Chris Maser

   Series: Social Environmental Sustainability

   Increasingly, environmental decision making is like playing a multidimensional game of chess. With interactions between the atmosphere, the litho-hydrosphere, and the biosphere, the game is at once a measure of complexity, uncertainty, interdisciplinary acuity, social-environmental sustainability,...

   Published July 25th 2012 by CRC Press
4. Economics and Ecology

   United for a Sustainable World

   By Charles R. Beaton, Chris Maser

   Series: Social Environmental Sustainability

   The earth, our home, is in crisis. There are two sides to this crisis—our global economy, and its effect on the ecology of our home planet. Despite conventional thinking that typical monetary and fiscal manipulations will put us back on the path of economic growth, the reality is not that simple....

   Published August 4th 2011 by CRC Press
5. Resolving Environmental Conflicts, Second Edition

   By Chris Maser, Carol A. Pollio

   Series: Social Environmental Sustainability

   True progress toward an ecologically sound environment and a socially just culture will be initially expensive in money and effort. The longer we wait, however, the more disastrous the environmental condition will become, the more disputes will arise as a result of our declining quality of life,...

   Published July 11th 2011 by CRC Press
6. Fundamentals of Practical Environmentalism

   By Mark B. Weldon

   Series: Social Environmental Sustainability

   Environmental decisions present themselves every day in forms large and small. Should I walk to work today? What about global warming—should I write my congressperson and demand that the government do something? Should I put solar panels on my roof? Should I get a different car or turn up the...

   Published June 19th 2011 by CRC Press
7. Sustainable Development

   Principles, Frameworks, and Case Studies

   Edited by Okechukwu Ukaga, Chris Maser, Michael Reichenbach

   Series: Social Environmental Sustainability

   Coined in the 1970s, the term sustainable development and the ideas behind it have enjoyed varying amounts of popularity over the years. And while dire predictions abound, the full impacts of global warming are not known, nor can they be known. What we do know is that to be sustainable, all...

   Published January 6th 2010 by CRC Press
8. Social-Environmental Planning

   The Design Interface Between Everyforest and Everycity

   By Chris Maser

   Series: Social Environmental Sustainability

   With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level. Written by Chris Maser, international consultant on forest ecology, sustainable forestry practices, and sustainable...

   Published September 21st 2009 by CRC Press
9. Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development

   By Jane Silberstein, M.A., Chris Maser

   Series: Social Environmental Sustainability

   Is the doomsday scenario inevitable? With our increasingly diminishing natural habitat and other natural resources, it seems that we are headed in that direction. After centuries of patchwork land planning, out-of-scale development and cookbook methods, it is clear that we need a better way....

   Published June 26th 2000 by CRC Press