Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Just Conservation
Biodiversity, Wellbeing and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed. At the same time, these efforts have too often resulted in unjust social outcomes in which people living in or near to areas designated for conservation...
Reconstructing Conservation
Finding Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In the 1990s, influenced by the deconstructionist movemin literary theory and trends toward revisionist history, a cadre of academics and historians led by William Cronon began raising provocative questions about ideas of wilderness and the commitments and strategies of the contemporary environmental...
Nature's Burdens
Conservation and American Politics, The Reagan Era to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Nature’s Burdens is a political and intellectual history of American natural resource conservation from the 1980s into the twenty-first century—a period of intense political turmoil, shifting priorities among federal policymakers, and changing ideas about the goals of conservation. Telling a...
My Work Is That of Conservation
An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
George Washington Carver (ca. 1864–1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely—and reductively—known as the African American scientist...
Laurance S. Rockefeller
Catalyst For Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Despite his status as a scion of one of the wealthiest and mfamous families in the United States and an enormously successful businessman in his own right, Laurance S. Rockefeller is unknown to all but a few Americans. Yet while he has been neither Vice Presidnor Governor nor chairman of the world's...
Conservation of Tropical Rainforests
A Review of Financial and Strategic Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical rainforests is financed. Beginning with the context of tropical deforestation, alongside an overview of tropical ecology, global environmental policy and finance, the book reviews several conservation financing instruments. These include...
by Michael Frome
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Michael Frome is the pioneer conservation journalist and the premier environmental muckraker who knows a lot about integrity and dedication. He spent years as a media writer defending the environment, while many of his peers played it safe. Frome named names and pointed fingers, often forcing politicians...
Communities and Conservation
Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable...
Between Preservation and Exploitation
Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
A study of biodiversity governance analyzes the factors that determine the effectiveness of transnational advocacy networks and the importance of justice claims to conservation.
In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally...
Connectivity Conservation Management
A Global Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
In an era of climate change, deforestation and massive habitat loss, we can no longer rely on parks and protected areas as isolated 'islands of wilderness' to conserve and protect vital biodiversity. Increasing connections are being considered and made between protected areas and 'connectivity' thinking...
Collected Papers of Michael E. Soulé
Early Years in Modern Conservation Biology
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In the early 1970s, the environmental movemwas underway. Overpopulation was recognized as a threat to human well-being, and scientists like Michael Soulé believed there was a connection between anthropogenic pressures on natural resources and the loss of the planet’s biodiversity. Soulé—thinker,...
Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asia
Challenges in a Changing Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Southeast Asia is highly diversified in terms of socio-ecosystems and biodiversity, but is undergoing dramatic environmental and social changes. These changes characterize the recent period and can be illustrated by the effects of the Green Revolution in the late 1960s and 1970s, to the globalization...
Management Planning for Nature Conservation
A Theoretical Basis & Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The first edition of Mike Alexander’s Management Planning for Nature Conservation, brought a new dimension to the modern literature on conservation management. This second edition, a significant enhancement of the original, deals with the development both, conceptual and practical, of adaptive management...
Staying Maasai?
Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2009
The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa presents in...