Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Green Wars
Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Global conservation efforts are celebrated for saving Guatemala’s Maya Forest. This book reveals that the process of protecting lands has been one of racialized dispossession for the Indigenous peoples who live there. Through careful ethnography and archival research, Megan Ybarra shows how conservation...
A New Approach to Conservation
The Importance of the Individual through Wildlife Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Conservationists assume a set of underlying values which guide their decision-making and action. The safeguarding or promotion of biodiversity, it is believed, is the means by which nature is best protected. This book examines - and challenges - these general conservation assumptions. While reinforcing...
by Raul Valdez, Dr. José Alfonso Ortega-Santos
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Mexico is the fourteenth largest country in the world and ranks fifth in biodiversity. Located in the transition zone between the temperate and tropical regions of North and South America, Mexico is an important migratory corridor for wildlife and also provides wintering habitat for several species...
Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Grouse
Published for the Cooper Ornithological Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Grouse—an ecologically important group of birds that include capercaillie, prairie chickens, and ptarmigan—are distributed throughout the forests, grasslands, and tundra of Europe, Asia, and North America. Today, many grouse populations are in decline, and the conservation and management of these...
The Fall of the Wild
Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
The passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Tasmanian tiger—the memory of these vanished species haunts the fight against extinction. Seeking to save other creatures from their fate in an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, wildlife advocates have become captivated by a narrative of heroic conservation...
Win-Win Ecology
How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
As humanity presses down inexorably on the natural world, people debate the extent to which we can save the Earth's millions of different species without sacrificing human economic welfare. But is this argument wise? Must the human and natural worlds be adversaries? In this book, ecologist Michael...
by Matthias Okoro
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: A, University of Nigeria (CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL), course: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL, language: English, abstract: The complexity of the paper issue means that firm conclusions are hard...
Greater Sage-Grouse
Ecology and Conservation of a Landscape Species and Its Habitats
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Admired for its elaborate breeding displays and treasured as a game bird, the Greater Sage-Grouse is a charismatic symbol of the broad open spaces in western North America. Unfortunately these birds have declined across much of their range—which stretches across 11 western states and reaches into...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The book provides the most comprehensive review of lamprey biology since Hardisty and Potter’s five-volume “The Biology of Lampreys” published more than 30 years ago. Published in two volumes, it includes contributions from international lamprey experts, reviewing and providing new insights...
Animals in Traditional Folk Medicine
Implications for Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
People have relied on medicinal products derived from natural sources for millennia, and animals have long been an important part of that repertoire; nearly all cultures, from ancient times to the present, have used animals as a source of medicine. Ingredients derived from wild animals are not only...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book addresses issues of monitoring populations of tigers, ungulate prey species and habitat occupancy, with relevance to similar assessments of large mammal species and general biodiversity. It covers issues of rigorous sampling, modeling, estimation and adaptive management of animal populations...
Green Versus Gold
Sources In California's Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
While the state of California remains one of the mstriking and varied landscapes in the world, it has experienced monumental changes since European settlers first set foot there. The past two centuries have witnessed an ongoing struggle between environmand economy, nature and humanity that has left...
A Climate of Crisis
America in the Age of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
A provocative history of the environmental movement in America, showing how this rise to political and social prominence produced a culture of alarmism that has often distorted the facts
Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis,...
Thinking like a Mall
Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.
Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached “the end of nature,”...