Saving the World: How Forests Inspired Global Efforts to Stop Climate Change from 1770 to the Present, Brett M Bennett & Gregory A Barton

Saving the World: How Forests Inspired Global Efforts to Stop Climate Change from 1770 to the Present, Brett M Bennett & Gregory A BartonNew Hardback Saving the World tells the forgotten history of climatic botany, the idea that forests are essential for creating and recycling rain. Long before the spectre of global warming, societies recognized that deforestation caused drastic climate shifts as early as 1770, concerns over deforestation spurred legislation to combat human induced climate change. Across the twentieth century, climatic botany experienced fluctuating fortunes,

In so doing he recognises the source of his fascination with the aspects of Adèle’s life that reflect and parallel his own

New hardback

soon after his arrival in the allied lines

the fizz and froth of the annual blossom display is explored here both as an exuberant emblem of the natural world and a nervous marker of our vulnerable climate

From menopausal mermaids to student dippers

You'll go gravy wrestling in Lancashire

a box of delights that opens up an entire literary culture to the inquisitive reader

and conservation and environmental biology have traditionally been male-dominated subjects

mouth-watering vegan recipes even meat eaters can love

or interpreted it - and asked how to look with the eye of faith

She also takes strength from them as she recovers from her grief at her father's death

This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the Teutonic Knights