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Very useful for practical information, a patent overview, and the necessary specifics for people with a brainstorm concoction that they want to unleash on the market.
A very clear, nontechnical presentation useful to high school and community college students encountering ecological concepts for the first time, who will love the online access that comes with this work. The volumes will double as a gazetteer for college and public library users.
Greenwood's three-volume Encyclopedia of Sustainability can't match Berkshire's scope. Other comparable volumes concentrate on the problems, not the solutions, and Berkshire's own three-volume Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (2003) is a precursor. College students and the general public will profit from studying sustainability geographically in these volumes.
These titles will appeal to high school through graduate students and to general readers, some of whom may prefer small, topical, paperback volumes, and libraries will appreciate the shorter volumes' lower cost. The best contemporary feature of encyclopedias is the multiple access points provided by digitization; these titles are available as ebooks (which cost the same as the paperback titles) but lack the wider access to the Salem Science database that is free with purchase of the hardcover set. Libraries that subscribe to the Gale Virtual Reference Library of Encyclopedias, however, will find similar material in its Environmental Encyclopedia.
This is neither a biographical nor a historical encyclopedia, with coverage starting in 2000 and encompassing women's contemporary status in 15 categories: "Activism," "Arts," "Business," "Countries," "Education," "Environment," "Government," "Health," "Media," "Religion," "Science," "Sports," "Sexualities," "War," and "Women's Lives...