The Lost Rainforests Of Britain

Author : Guy Shrubsole
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008527970
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Rainforests of Britain written by Guy Shrubsole and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year As seen on Countryfile ‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’ Sunday Times

Author : Grace Blakeley
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839762055
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corona Crash written by Grace Blakeley and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free market, competitive capitalism is dead. The separation between politics and economics can no longer be sustained. In The Corona Crash, leading economics commentator Grace Blakeley theorises about the epoch-making changes that the coronavirus brings in its wake. We are living through a unique moment in history. The pandemic has caused the deepest global recession since the Second World War. Meanwhile the human cost is reflected in a still-rising death toll, as many states find themselves unable—and some unwilling—to grapple with the effects of the virus. Whatever happens, we can never go back to business as usual. This crisis will tip us into a new era of monopoly capitalism, argues Blakeley, as the corporate economy collapses into the arms of the state, and the tech giants grow to unprecedented proportions. We need a radical response. The recovery could see the transformation of our political, economic, and social systems based on the principles of the Green New Deal. If not, the alternatives, as Blakeley warns, may be even worse than we feared.

Author : Guy Shrubsole
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008321710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Land and How to Take It Back written by Guy Shrubsole and published by Collins. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who own's England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and darkest secret. This is the history of how England's elite came to own our land - from aristocrats and the church to businessmen and corporations - and an inspiring manifesto for how we can take control back.

Author : Clifton Bain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910124260
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rainforests of Britain and Ireland written by Clifton Bain and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In beautiful prose and stunning color photographs, this book explores the rainforests that run along the west coasts of Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland.

Author : Tony Juniper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1642830720
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rainforest written by Tony Juniper and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity--but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world have a powerful and concrete impact, reaching as far as America's Great Plains and central Europe. In Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines, a prominent conservationist provides a comprehensive view of the crucial roles rainforests serve, the state of the world's rainforests today, and the inspirational efforts underway to save them. In Rainforest, Tony Juniper draws upon decades of work in rainforest conservation. He brings readers along on his journeys, from the thriving forests of Costa Rica to Indonesia, where palm oil plantations have supplanted much of the former rainforest. Despite many ominous trends, Juniper sees hope for rainforests and those who rely upon them, thanks to developments like new international agreements, corporate deforestation policies, and movements from local and Indigenous communities. As climate change intensifies, we have already begun to see the effects of rainforest destruction on the planet at large. Rainforest provides a detailed and wide-ranging look at the health and future of these vital ecosystems. Throughout this evocative book, Juniper argues that in saving rainforests, we save ourselves, too.

Author : Glennie Kindred
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781856233262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking with Trees written by Glennie Kindred and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking with trees takes us on an intimate journey with 13 native trees of Britain and Europe. Glennie leads us into their world, describes their unique characteristics, natural history, healing properties, mythologies and crafts, and opens us to their subtle 'signatures'; what each tree can teach us when our hearts are open. This is a book about our relationships with trees, their relationships with each other and the natural world around them, and the deep interconnection between trees and the web of life on earth. It reveals a transformative pathway for individuals and provides an empowering practice for active engagement in the great challenges of our time.--COVER.

Author : John F. Oates
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520222526
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest written by John F. Oates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a timely, clear-headed, and uniquely important contribution to conservation, one that should be read by all bureaucrats, scientists, and others involved with development projects that supposedly benefit wildlife and wilderness."--George B. Schaller, author of Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe

Author : Ross Barnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472957334
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missing Lynx written by Ross Barnett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's lynx are missing, and they have been for more than a thousand years. Why have they gone? And might they come back? Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago – home to lions, lynx, bears, wolves, bison and many more megafauna. But as its climate changed and human populations expanded, most of early Britain's largest mammals disappeared. Will advances in science and technology mean that we can one day bring these mammals back? And should we? In The Missing Lynx, palaeontologist Ross Barnett uses case studies, new fossil discoveries and biomolecular evidence to paint a picture of these lost species and to explore the ecological significance of their disappearance. He discusses how the Britons these animals shared their lives with might have viewed them and investigates why some species survived while others vanished. Barnett also looks in detail at the realistic potential of reintroductions, rewilding and even of resurrection in Britain and overseas, from the successful return of beavers in Argyll to the revolutionary Pleistocene Park in Siberia, which has already seen progress in the revival of 'mammoth steppe' grassland. As widespread habitat destruction, climate change and an ever-growing human population lead us inexorably towards the sixth extinction, this timely book explores the spaces that extinction has left unfilled. And by helping us to understand why some of our most charismatic animals are gone, Ross Barnett encourages us to look to a brighter future, one that might see these missing beasts returned to the land on which they once lived and died.

Author : Matthew Green
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039363535X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages written by Matthew Green and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 A “brilliant London historian” (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before—through its abandoned villages and towns. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black Death; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in 2002; and a Norfolk village zombified by the military and turned into a Nazi, Soviet, and Afghan village for training. Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across Britain to explore their haunting and often-beautiful remains, Green transports the reader to these lost towns and cities as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction, and revisit their lingering remains as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers, and mavericks. A stunning and original excavation of Britain’s untold history, Shadowlands gives us a truer sense of the progress and ravages of time, in a moment when many of our own settlements are threatened as never before.

Author : Maurice Warwick Beresford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Villages of England written by Maurice Warwick Beresford and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: