Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
Meeting the challenge of biodiversity conservation and governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 was the outcome of a long process of setting biodiversity issues at the top of the global environmental agenda....
The Whaling Season
An Inside Account Of The Struggle To Stop Commercial Whaling
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Despite a decades-long international moratorium on commercial whaling, one fleet has continued to hunt and kill whales in the waters surrounding Antarctica. Refusing to let this defiance go unchallenged, the environmental organization Greenpeace began dispatching expeditions to the region in an effort...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Urban Environmental Education Review explores how environmental education can contribute to urban sustainability. Urban environmental education includes any practices that create learning opportunities to foster individual and community well-being and environmental quality in cities. It fosters novel...
by Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
No one sets out to intentionally cause environmental problems. All things being equal, we are happy to protect environmental resources; in fact, we tend to prefer our air cleaner and our species protected. But despite not wanting to create environmental problems, we all do so regularly in the course...
by Richard N. L. Andrews, Michael E. Kraft, Karin Bäckstrand
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.”
Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning...
by E. Boon, A. Ahenkan, K. A. Domfeh
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Scientific Study from the year 2008 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: B, , 69 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Health, environment and poverty are closely interrelated and inseparable, particularly in developing countries. WHO estimates that environmental factors...
Applying Nature's Design
Corridors as a Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
The fragmenting of habitats is endangering animal populations and degrading or destroying many plant populations throughout the world. To address this problem, conservationists have increasingly turned to biological corridors, areas of land set aside to facilitate the movement of species and ecological...
Conjuring Property
Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American GeographersHonorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Since the 1960s, when Brazil first encouraged large-scale...
Living Shorelines
The Science and Management of Nature-Based Coastal Protection
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Living Shorelines: The Science and Management of Nature-based Coastal Protection compiles, synthesizes and interprets the current state of the knowledge on the science and practice of nature-based shoreline protection. This book will serve as a valuable reference to guide scientists, students, managers,...
Coral Whisperers
Scientists on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world’s precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today’s coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and polluted...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs. In recent decades, there has been increased appreciation of the risk this implies for food security and quality, especially in times of environmental change. As a result, agricultural biodiversity has...
Global Environmental Biotechnology
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the International Society for Environmental Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Environmental Biotechnology is an emerging field of scientific and technological investigations that is truly global. People around the world are now joined together by a common technical bond. Furthermore, popular recognition is high for the environmental problems being faced and solved by biotechnology...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2019
Environmental translation studies has gained momentum in recent years as a new area of research underscored by the need to communicate environmental concerns and studies across cultures. The dissemination of translated materials on environmental protection and sustainable development has played an...
An Environmental History of the World
Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. Throughout their evolutionary history,...