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Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures edited by Helaine Selin (Science Across Cultures, 4: Kluwer Academic Publishers) consists of 23 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe . In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. Edited by Helaine Selin, Science Librarian and Faculty Associate, Hampshire College , Amherst , Massachusetts , the essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures, which produced them. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. More

Phytoremediation: Transformation and Control of Contaminants by Steven C. McCutcheon, Jerald L. Schnoor (Wiley-Interscience) A peerless survey of the emerging field of phytoremediation .

Phytoremediation involves the use of vascular plants, algae, and fungi to remove and control waste or spur waste breakdown by microorganisms in the soil zone that surrounds and is influenced by the roots of plants. The diverse wastes that can be managed by using phytoremediation include xenobiotic organic chemicals, sewage, salts, nutrients, heavy metals, metalloids, and air pollutants. Phytoremediation provides an authoritative account of the history and the most recent developments of this exciting, emerging field. More

Conservation Directory 2003: The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations by National Wildlife Federation (Island Press) For the past 47 years, the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Directory has served as the preeminent guide to the conservation community for a broad range of audiences. Now, for the first time, Island Press is joining with the National Wildlife Federation to produce and distribute this key reference. The authoritative sourcebook of 2,800 organizations and agencies concerned with natural-resource use and management.

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