Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
by J.P. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that...
Environmental Disputes
Community InvolvemIn Conflict Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Environmental Disputes helps citizen groups, businesses, and governments understand how Environmental Dispute Settlement--a set of procedures for settling disputes over environmental policies without litigation--can work for them.
Breaking the Logjam
Environmental Protection That Will Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. Schoenbrod, Stewart, and Wyman, distinguished scholars in the field...
by Mr. Nathaniel O. Keohane, Dr. Sheila M. Olmstead
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A clear grasp of economics is essential to understanding why environmental problems arise and how we can address them. So it is with good reason that Markets and the Environment has become a classic text in environmental studies since its first publication in 2007. Now thoroughly revised with updated...
Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature
Essays on Conservation-based Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature addresses an urgent and complex issue facing communities and cultures throughout the world: the need for heightened land stewardship and conservation in an era of diminishing natural resources. Agricultural lands in rural areas are being purchased for development....
Materials and the Environment
Eco-informed Material Choice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Materials and the Environment: Eco-Informed Material Choice, Second Edition, is the first book devoted solely to the environmental aspects of materials and their selection, production, use and disposal, by one of the world's foremost materials authorities. It explores human dependence on materials...
Urban Biodiversity
From Research to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Urban biodiversity is an increasingly popular topic among researchers. Worldwide, thousands of research projects are unravelling how urbanisation impacts the biodiversity of cities and towns, as well as its benefits for people and the environment through ecosystem services. Exciting scientific discoveries...
Endangered Species Threatened Convention
The Past, Present and Future of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is the best known and most controversial of international conservation treaties. Since it came into force 25 years ago, debate has raged over its most basic assumptions. CITES treats the international trade in wildlife as the most...
Measures of Success
Designing, Managing, and Monitoring Conservation and DevelopmProjects
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Measures of Success is a practical, hands-on guide to designing, managing, and measuring the impacts of community-oriented conservation and developmprojects. It presents a simple, clear, logical, and yet comprehensive approach to developing and implementing effective programs, and can help conservation...
Comprehensive Action Plans of the Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion
A Priority Seascape of the Coral Triangle Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion (SSME), as the apex of the Coral Triangle, is considered the center of the center of marine biodiversity where the highest number of colorful reef and marine fishes, various sizes of corals and shells, myriad shapes of algae, and protective mangrove forests are found....
Beyond Conservation
A Wildland Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
After decades of operating off-the-backfoot and protecting and conserving nature perceived as under threat, conservationists are becoming proactive and creative in the face of habitat loss, agricultural intensification and climate change. Beyond Conservation offers a revolutionary agenda for both...
by Sean Callery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In Secrets of Pollution and Conservation, you will find out how human activity has polluted the air, land, and sea, and what steps people are taking to clean up the planet.
A New Environmental Ethics
The Next Millennium for Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
No one looking ahead at the middle of the last century could have foreseen the extent and the importance of the ensuing environmental crises. Now, more than a decade into the next century, no one can ignore it.
A New Environmental Ethics: the Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear,...
by Robert J. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Thousands of young men embarked on the adventure of a lifetime when they joined the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Service at Wisconsin�s popular state park offered notoriety absent at most camp assignments. While most of the CCC work around the country was in remote forests...