Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Freshwater Ecosystems in Protected Areas
Conservation and Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species. This book shows that, rather than being a marginal part of terrestrial protected area management, freshwater conservation is central to sustaining biodiversity. It focuses on better practices for conserving...
North Pacific Temperate Rainforests
Ecology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The North Pacific temperate rainforest, stretching from southern Alaska to northern California, is the largest temperate rainforest on earth. This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of key issues important for the management and conservation of the northern portion of this rainforest, located...
by Jeffrey A. McNeely
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Protected areas around the globe national parks, wildlife reserves, biosphere reserves will prosper only if they are supported by the public, the private sector, and the full range of governmagencies. Yet such support is unlikely unless society appreciates the importance of protected areas to its...
Creating Africas
Struggles Over Nature, Conservation and Land
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
In Africa, conflicts between protected areas for fauna and flora and space for their surrounding human populations continue despite years spent trying to find an accommodation between the needs of both parties. Creating Africas investigates the roots of the current conservation boom, demonstrates...
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada
From Boys to Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Great Depression of the 1930s had a devastating impact on sparsely populated Nevada and its two major industries, mining and agriculture. Luckily, thanks to Nevada’s powerful Senate delegation, Roosevelt’s New Deal funding flowed abundantly into the state. Among the programs thus supported...
by Helen Corbett, Susanne Swibold
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
The Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a comprehensive presentation of definitions, philosophies, policies, models, and analyses of global environmental and developmental issues. With a wealth of comparative, multidisciplinary, and geographically varied perspectives on environmental...
Media, Ecology and Conservation
Using the Media to Protect the World's Wildlife and Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book focuses on global connectivity and the role of new digital and traditional media in bringing people together to protect the world's endangered wildlife and conserve fragile and threatened habitats. New media offers opportunities for like-minded individuals, community groups, businesses,...
A Field on Fire
The Future of Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history
Inspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline....
Ethics on the Ark
Zoos, Animal Welfare, and Wildlife Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Ethics on the Ark presents a passionate, multivocal discussion—among zoo professionals, activists, conservation biologists, and philosophers—about the future of zoos and aquariums, the treatment of animals in captivity, and the question of whether the individual, the species, or the ecosystem...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Get Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Helping The Earth And Going Green With Waste!
Is the fact that you would like to learn how to be more concious with waste and help out Mother Earth but just don't know how to get started making you feel really bad... maybe you have even thought...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Recent advances in the study of bats have changed the way we understand this illusive group of mammals. This volume consist of 25 chapters and 57 authors from around the globe all writing on the most recent finding on the evolution, ecology and conservation of bats. The chapters in this book are not...
Marine Conservation Biology
The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2005
Marine Conservation Biology brings together for the first time in a single volume leading experts from around the world to apply the lessons and thinking of conservation biology to marine issues.
Species at Risk
Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Protecting endangered species of animals and plants is a goal that almost everyone supports in principle—but in practice private landowners have often opposed the regulations of the Endangered Species Act, which, they argue, unfairly limits their right to profit from their property. To encourage...
The Wildlife in Trust
A Hundred Years of Nature Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In May 1912, banker and naturalist, Charles Rothschild, laid the foundations for nature conservation as we know it today. His new organization, the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves, had one main objective—to save Britain's finest wildlife sites. The Wildlife in Trust is a history of...