Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Plant Conservation
An Ecosystem Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this, the latest in the People and Plants series, plant conservation is described in the context of livelihoods and development, and ways of balancing the conservation of plant diversity with the use of plants and the environment for human benefit are discussed. A central contention in this book...
Plant Conservation
Why It Matters and How It Works
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Plants’ ability to turn sunlight into energy makes them the basis for all life; without them there is no life. And they are more than just a food source—they provide us with fuel, fibers, and pharmaceuticals.
Global warming and the destruction of natural habitats are a serious threat to...
by Leroy G. Dorsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Among Theodore Roosevelt’s many initiatives, one of the most important accomplishments was his effort to convince the nation that conserving the environment was crucial to its continued existence. Years of national tours, presidential edicts, and policy wrangling culminated in an unprecedented conference...
Rewilding North America
A Vision For Conservation In The 21St Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Dave Foreman is one of North America's mcreative and effective conservation leaders, an outspoken proponof protecting and restoring the earth's wildness, and a visionary thinker. Over the past 30 years, he has helped set direction for some of our minfluential conservation organizations, served as...
Nature Unbound
Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories...
The Case of the Green Turtle
An Uncensored History of a Conservation Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
The journals of early maritime explorers traversing the Atlantic Ocean often describe swarms of sea turtles, once a plentiful source of food. Many populations had been decimated by the 1950s, when Archie Carr and others raised public awareness of their plight. One species, the green turtle, has been...
Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation
Parks and Game Ranches to Transfrontier Conservation Areas
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The crucible of innovation in wildlife and habitat conservation is in southern Africa where it has co-evolved with decolonization, political transformation and the rise of development, ownership, management and livelihood debates. Charting this innovation, early chapters deal with the traditional...
New Deal, New Landscape
The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolina's State Parks
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Tara Mitchell Mielnik fills a significant gap in the history of the New Deal South by examining the lives of the men of South Carolina's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) who from 1933 to 1942 built sixteen state parks, all of which still exist today. Enhanced with revealing interviews with former...
Fencing for Conservation
Restriction of Evolutionary Potential or a Riposte to Threatening Processes?
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
The conflict between increasing human population and biodiversity conservation is one of the IUCN’s key threatening processes. Conservation planning has received a great deal of coverage and research as a way of conserving biodiversity yet, while theoretically successful, it has never been tested....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Forest wildlife conservation is critically required in many parts of the world today. This book presents a merger between the elements of wildlife conservation and habitat conservation, and explains how these disciplines can be used to promote the conservation of vertebrates in forests around the world.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
The history of interest and practice in insect conservation is summarised and traced through contributions from many of the leaders in the discipline, to provide the first broad global account of how insects have become incorporated into considerations of conservation. The essays collectively cover...
Asian Sacred Natural Sites
Philosophy and practice in protected areas and conservation
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophical and religious contexts of much of Asia. This book provides a new perspective on the topic of sacred natural sites and cultural heritage by linking Asian...
by Tim R. New
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
This overview of the roles of alien species in insect conservation brings together information, evidence and examples from many parts of the world to illustrate their impacts (often severe, but in many cases poorly understood and unpredictable) as one of the primary drivers of species declines,...
by Donald P.A. Sands, Tim R. New
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This survey of one the longest insect conservation campaigns in Australia deals with recovery of one of the most iconic endemic butterflies, the Richmond birdwing, threatened by clearance and fragmentation of subtropical rainforest in eastern Australia and the spread of an alien larval food-plant....