Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
by Paul A. Rees
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
There is currently no basic text in wildlife law suitable for the wide range of courses in wildlife conservation and animal welfare at both bachelors and masters level, or for the large number of people who work in conservation and animal welfare; The Laws Protecting Animals and Ecosystems fills the...
Responsible Tourism
Critical Issues for Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
�Responsible Tourism presents a wide variety of valuable lessons learned in responsible tourism initiatives in Southern Africa that many tourism practitioners can use in their efforts to make the tourism sector work for the poor and for the environment.� Dr Harsh Varma, Director, Development Assistance...
The Vicuña
The Theory and Practice of Community Based Wildlife Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Things have changed. In 1969 when the Convention for the Conservation of the Vicuña was drafted, in an attempt to save the vicuña from its tumbling decline towards extinction, both the science and the philosophy of wildlife conservation were radically different. It is thus a tribute to the prescience...
by Sharon B. Ewing
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt�s establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933 had lasting conservation impacts across the nation. Virginia joined this effort when Will Carson of the Virginia Conservation Commission convinced Roosevelt to use the Civilian Conservation Corps to build a state park...
by Mary Huston Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1911. According to the Preface: " Much has been said and written on the subject of conservation and many excellent ideas have been advanced, but as yet too little has been accomplished in the way of practical results. Probably this is due largely to the fact that most people think...
Beyond Borders
Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Globalisation is about transnational politics. While nation-state governments increasingly struggle with this new politics, which moves beneath, between and beyond national borders, others entities like transnational corporations have flourished. But it is not just business which increasingly bypasses...
The Challenges of Transfrontier Conservation in Southern Africa
The Park Came After Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Established in 2003, the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park encompasses land in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Prioritizing wildlife over people, it paved the way for human rights abuses by park rangers, increased human–wildlife conflict, and the forced resettlement of up to 6,000 Mozambicans....
Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land
The Politics of Natural Resource Governance in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arrangements that define natural resource governance are outcomes of political processes, whereby...
Timber, Tourists, and Temples
Conservation And DevelopmIn The Maya Forest Of Belize Guatemala And Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Stretching across southern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and Belize, the Maya Forest, or Selva Maya, constitutes one of the last large blocks of tropical forest remaining in North and Central America. Home to Mayan-speaking people for more than 5,000 years, the region is also uncommonly rich in cultural...
Enforcement of European Union Environmental Law
Legal Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Offering a detailed account of the various legal arrangements at European Union level, this book is an ideal reference tool for practitioners and legal scholars. As well as examining the principal sources of EU environmental law enforcement, it also contributes to the legal and political debates that...
GroundWork for Community-Based Conservation
Strategies for Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
While ecological and biophysical sciences have dominated the theory and practice of conservation, practitioners and researchers worldwide know that conservation initiatives have profound social impacts and consequences for local communities and cultures. This concise and accessible book will give...
The Hunter Elite
Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880-1925
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began describing their big-game hunting as “manly sport with the rifle.” They also began writing about their experiences, publishing hundreds of narratives of hunting and adventure in the popular press...
A Chance for Lasting Survival
Ecology and Behavior of Wild Giant Pandas
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
From 1984 through 1995 a small band of ecologists led by Pan Wenshi from Peking University conducted a study of wild giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province. This project was the first Chinese-led conservation project in China and was conducted during a significant transition period...
Working Forests in the Neotropics
Conservation Through Sustainable Management?
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2004
Neotropical forests sustain a wealth of biodiversity, provide a wide range of ecosystem services and products, and support the livelihoods of millions of people. But is forest management a viable conservation strategy in the tropics? Supporters of sustainable forest management have promoted it as...