Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Salt Water Tears
An Eyewitness Account of the Dolphin Drive Hunt Slaughters of Taiji, Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
In 2009, a documentary movie called The Cove focused the spotlight of world attention on the tiny coastal village of Taiji, Japan. Lauded as the birthplace of Japanese whaling, present day Taiji hosts a secretive industry of marine mammal exploitation. This diminutive town is a prinicpal provider...
by Hank Walsh III
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
My name is Hank Walsh and I was born in 1961, which makes me fifty-five years old. I was raised in Ottawa, Illinois and still reside in the rural Ottawa area. My dad always said, live life to the fullest for it goes by fast, and I've done just that. I enjoy life with many activities and I thoroughly...
Environment and Development
Basic Principles, Human Activities, and Environmental Implications
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Environment and Development: Basic Principles, Human Activities, and Environmental Implications focuses on the adverse impact that human activities, developments, and economic growth have on both natural and inhabited environments. The book presents the associated problems, along with solutions that...
White Man's Game
Saving Animals, Rebuilding Eden, and Other Myths of Conservation in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A probing examination of Western conservation efforts in Africa, where our feel-good stories belie a troubling reality
The stunningly beautiful Gorongosa National Park, once the crown jewel of Mozambique, was nearly destroyed by decades of civil war. It looked like a perfect place for Western...
by Sarah Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Growing public interest in environmental sustainability is a gift to historic sites and museums. It is an invitation to use our knowledge, collections, and sites to discuss how human practices and interactions with the environment in past were – and were not – environmentally sustainable. Being...
by Gordon Riddle
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
An appealing book that rightfully raises the profile of the kestrel. It provides an extensive picture of this delightful falcon, including its lifestyle and the factors that affect its breeding success and survival. This is based upon almost 40 years’ monitoring of the kestrel in south-west Scotland...
Nature's Saviours
Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Today's celebrity conservationists, many of whom made their reputations through television and other visual media, play a major role in drawing public attention to an increasingly threatened world. This book, one of the first to address this contribution, focuses on five key figures: the English naturalist...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This volume explores specific approaches that have shown to result in crop yield increases. Research on the physiological understanding of these methods has led to the development of practical applications of plant breeding approaches to genetically improve crops to achieve higher yields. Authoritative...
by George Baird
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The Architectural Expression of Environmental Control Systems examines the way project teams can approach the design and expression of both active and passive environmental control systems in a more creative way. Using seminal case studies from around the world and interviews with the architects and...
by Tim R. New
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more particularly urban threats. The first global overview and synthesis of the impacts of urbanisation on insects and their...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This collection of essays and design case studies explores a range of ideas and best practices for adapting to dynamic waterfront conditions while incorporating nature conservation in urbanized coastal areas. The editors have curated a selection of works contributed by leading practitioners in the...
The Good in Nature and Humanity
Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Scientists, theologians, and the spiritually inclined, as well as all those concerned with humanity's increasingly widespread environmental impact, are beginning to recognize that our ongoing abuse of the earth diminishes our moral as well as our material condition. Many people are coming to believe...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
In 1996, the Guatemalan civil war ended with the signing of the Peace Accords, facilitated by the United Nations and promoted as a beacon of hope for a country with a history of conflict. Twenty years later, the new era of political protest in Guatemala is highly complex and contradictory: the persistence...
People in Nature
Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
This book reviews wildlife management and conservation in Central and South America. The book discusses the threats to biodiversity in this area including habitat fragmentation, development, ranching, tourism as well as hunting. The book contains contributions from many local Latin American authors...