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Island Press began with a simple idea: knowledge is power—the power to imagine a better future and find ways for getting us there. Founded in 1984, Island Press’ mission is to provide the best ideas and information to those seeking to understand and protect the environment and create solutions to its complex problems.

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Design with Microclimate

The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space

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Arguing that a comfortable microclimate is the foundation of well-used outdoor places, Robert Brown provides useful guidelines for dealing with climate data, site assessment, microclimate modification, communication, design, and evaluation.

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5 Easy Pieces

The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems

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5 Easy Pieces features five contributions demonstrating the massive impacts of modern industrial fisheries on marine ecosystems.

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Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities

Design Strategies for the Post Carbon World

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If widely used, these rules would lead to a much more livable world for future generations – a world that is not unlike the better parts of our own.

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Life in a Bottle

The Reality Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water

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Authored by one of the world's foremost experts on water, this lively critique exposes the corporate misdeeds in the bottled water industry within the context of growing water shortages, and possible crisis.

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Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River

Nature and Power in the People’s Republic of China

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This book brings big geopolitical issues to life through the narrative of a particular region and its people.

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Modeling the Environment, Second Edition

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Modeling the Environment was the first textbook in an emerging field—the modeling techniques that allow managers and researchers to see in advance the consequences of actions and policies in environmental management. This new edition brings the book thoroughly up to date and reaffirms its status as the leading introductory text on the subject.
System dynamics is one of the most widely used methods of modeling. The fundamental principles of this approach are demonstrated here with a wide range of examples, including geohydrology, population biology, epidemiology, and economics. The applications demonstrate the transferability of the systems approach across disciplines, across spatial scales, and across time scales. All of the models are implemented with stock and flow software programs such as Stella and Vensim, which are easy for students to learn and use.
Visit http://www.wsu.edu/~forda/AA2nd.html for valuable classroom materials.

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Building an Emerald City

A Guide to Creating Green Building Policies and Programs

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Public Produce

The New Urban Agriculture

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Floodplain Management

A New Approach for a New Era

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Floodplain Management outlines a new paradigm for flood management, one that emphasizes cost-effective, long-term success by integrating physical, chemical, and biological systems with societal capabilities.

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Megaregions

Planning for Global Competitiveness

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Resilient Cities

Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change

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Urban Transformation

Understanding City Form and Design

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Creating Vibrant Public Spaces

Streetscape Design in Commercial and Historic Districts

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Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems

Principles and Practices

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The Option of Urbanism

Investing in a New American Dream

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Shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.

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A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

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A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation brings together knowledge and experience from conservation practitioners and experts around the world to help readers understand the global challenge of conserving biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems.

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Earth in Mind

On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect

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The crises we face, noted educator David Orr explains, is one of mind, perception, and values. It is, first and foremost, an educational challenge.

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Ex Situ Plant Conservation

Supporting Species Survival In The Wild

Edited by Edward O. Guerrant, Kayri Havens-Young, and Michael Maunder; Foreword by Peter H. Raven; By Center for Plant Conservation
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Ex Situ Plant Conservation outlines the role, value, and limits of ex situ conservation as well as updating best management practices for the field.

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Environmental Land Use Planning and Management

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Environmental Land Use Planning and Management is a unique new textbook that presents a diverse, comprehensive, and coordinated approach to issues of land use planning and management and their impacts on the environment.

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Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

A Framework For Assessment

By Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
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Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes

The Upper San Pedro River Basin In Arizona And Sonora

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Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes presents for the first time in book form a detailed case study of one alternative futures project — an analysis of development and conservation options for the Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico.

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Ranching West of the 100th Meridian

Culture, Ecology, and Economics

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Ranching West of the 100th Meridian offers a literary and thought-provoking look at ranching and its role in the changing West.

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A Guide to Careers in Community Development

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A Guide to Careers in Community Development is an essential reference for anyone interested in working in the community development field, including graduate and undergraduate students.

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Betrayal of Science and Reason

How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future

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The Rain Forests of Home

Profile Of A North American Bioregion

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Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century

The Science Of Ecosytem Management

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Reinventing Nature?

Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction

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