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Free Download Advances in Geospatial Technologies for Natural Resource Management
by Dwivedi, Ravi Shankar
English | 2025 | ISBN: 0367893797 | 509 pages | True PDF EPUB | 64.22 MB

Free Download A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places by Christopher Brown Esq.
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 1643263366 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 9 MB
A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society.

Free Download Michael W. Dunne, "Peter of Ireland, Writings on Natural Philosophy: Commentary on Aristotle’s on Length and Shortness of Life and the Determinatio Magistralis"
English | ISBN: 2503605680 | 2023 | 226 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Peter of Ireland (Petrus de Ybernia) was born sometime around the beginning of the thirteenth century in Ireland, probably of a Norman family. He probably left Ireland aged around age 15 to pursue his studies abroad. His interest in medical and scientific questions would suggest a stay at Oxford, whereas his approach to logic would suggest a Parisian influence. By the middle of the century he was Professor of Logic and Natural Philosophy at the University at Naples. Peter is perhaps one of the best known of medieval Irish thinkers on the continent owing to the fact that he was held to be the teacher of the young Thomas Aquinas at Naples University from 1239-44. As such, it would be he who, in all likelihood, first introduced Thomas to the study of Aristotle and perhaps also to the commentaries of Avicenna and Averroes. The works presented here date from at least a decade later, and relate to lectures given at Naples in the 1250s and 1260s. The extent to which he was held in respect by his contemporaries is to be seen in his solution (determinatio) to the disputed question on the origin of the design of an animal’s body which was held before King Manfred around 1260.It was, perhaps the culmination of a famous scholarly career.

Free Download Philippe Cullet, "The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India"
English | ISBN: 0198884680 | 2024 | 880 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Environmental law is a broad discipline covering issues such as nature conservation, the prevention or abatement of pollution, and waste management. It also encompasses concerns related to natural resources, such as forests, minerals, and fisheries, and the balance between their use and conservation. India has been at the forefront of jurisprudential developments among countries with similar environmental, geographical, socio-economic, and cultural conditions. Concurrently, the country has been receptive to ideas and principles arising from other parts of the world or from international law. The growth of environmental and natural resources law in India has been sustained in equal measure by growing environmental awareness and the increasingly dire nature of the problems associated with the environment and natural resources, ranging from local issues to the global climate crisis. At the same time, the continuous push for development has not abated, leading to recurrent pressure to weaken existing standards for environmental protection and the management and use of natural resources.

Free Download Our Land, Our Oil!: Natural Resources, Local Nationalism, and Violent Secession By Stefano Casertano (auth.)
2013 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 3531194429 | PDF | 3 MB
Stefano Casertano explores the connections between the presence of energy natural resources and the development of "local nationalism" in the producing regions. In particular, he applies a specific focus on those cases where such nationalism leads to secession attempts. The research is based on eight case studies in Bolivia, Sudan, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Iran, Angola, and Nigeria.

Free Download William Burch, "Ecosystem Management: Adaptive Strategies For Natural Resource Organizations in the Twenty-First Century"
English | 1998 | pages: 206 | ISBN: 1560326077, 1560326069 | PDF | 89,9 mb
This book documents some of the perceptions, strategies, and actions of natural resource agencies in the twenty-first century as they seek to respond to the changed reality influencing their policies and practices. It considers some of the responses in tools, techniques, and organizational change.

Free Download The Natural History of Crime: Case Studies in Death and the Clues Nature Leaves Behind (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D7MYPLXX | 2024 | 11 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 650 MB
Author: Patricia Wiltshire
Narrator: Charlotte Strevens
I love puzzles, and finding answers is the only truly enjoyable part of what I do. Professor Patricia Wiltshire is a forensic ecologist, her days spent at crime scenes collecting samples, standing over dead bodies in a mortuary, or looking down her microscope for evidence. Working at the interface of where the criminal and natural world interact, Patricia has been involved in some of the most high-profile murder cases. Now, through a study of her most infamous, and fascinating cases-including the murder of Sarah Payne, and the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman-Patricia will show us how she finds the answers to some of the worst crimes imaginable. Not only does she help the police solve crimes and give answers to the most bemusing circumstances, but she can help to exonerate the innocent and enable confessions from the guilty. In The Natural History of Crime, we join Patricia in putting the puzzle together, teasing the evidence out of her cases and showing us all how life and death have always been, and always will be, intertwined. Nature has given us a messy, imperfect world, but her job is to help make sense of it when we need it to most.

Free Download Ellen Ruppel Shell, Coleen Marlo (Narrator), "Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels"
English | ISBN: 9798855577303 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:37:00 | 210 MB
What is it about eels? Depending on who you ask, they are a pest, a fascination, a threat, a pot of gold. Eels emerged some 200 million years ago, weathered mass extinctions and continental shifts, and were once among the world’s most abundant freshwater fish. But since the 1970s, their numbers have plummeted. Because eels-as unagi-are another thing: delicious.
In Slippery Beast, journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell travels in the world of "eel people," pursuing a fascination with this mysterious creature. Despite centuries of study by thinkers from Aristotle to Leeuwenhoek to Sigmund Freud, much about eels remains unknown. Eels cannot be bred reliably in captivity and infant eels are unbelievably valuable. A pound of the tiny, translucent, bug-eyed "elvers" caught in the fresh waters of Maine can command $3,000 or more on the black market. Illegal trade in eels is an international scandal measured in billions of dollars every year. In Maine, federal investigators have risked their lives to bust poaching rings.
Ruppel Shell follows the elusive eel from Maine to the Sargasso Sea, stalking riversides, fishing holes, laboratories, restaurants, courtrooms, and America’s first commercial eel "family farm." This is an enthralling, globe-spanning look at an animal that you may never come to love, but which will never fail to astonish you.

Free Download Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast (Audiobook)
English | May 07, 2019 | ASIN: B07QTBD4TJ | M4B@64 kbps | 5h 5m | 162 MB
Author and Narrator: Jennifer Ackerman
From the best-selling author of The Genius of Birds, the revised and reissued edition of her beloved book of essays describing her forays along the Delaware shore
For three years, Jennifer Ackerman lived in the small coastal town of Lewes, Delaware, in the sort of blue-water, white-sand landscape that draws summer crowds up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Birds by the Shore is a book about discovering the natural life at the ocean’s edge: the habits of shorebirds and seabirds, the movement of sand and water, the wealth of creatures that survive amid storm and surf. Against this landscape’s rhythms, Ackerman revisits her own history – her mother’s death, her father’s illness, and her hopes to have children of her own.

Free Download White Pine: The Natural and Human History of a Foundational American Tree by John Pastor
English | January 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1642831417 | True EPUB | 276 pages | 3.8 MB
America was built on white pine. From the 1600s through the Civil War and beyond, it was used to build the nation’s ships and houses, barns, and bridges. It became a symbol of independence, adorning the Americans’ flag at Bunker Hill, and an economic engine, generating three times more wealth than the California gold rush. Yet this popularity came at a cost: by the end of the 19th century, clear cutting had decimated much of America’s white pine forests. In White Pine: The Natural and Human History of a Foundational American Tree, ecologist and writer John Pastor takes readers on walk through history, connecting the white pine forests that remain today to a legacy of destruction and renewal.