Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Nature Policies and Landscape Policies
Towards an Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The book focuses on the relationship between nature conservation policies and landscape policies. This is a relevant subject due to the current need of reviving nature conservation policies, which are today affected by a general effectiveness deficiency. To this end, landscape policies can play a...
Biodiversity Hotspots
Distribution and Protection of Conservation Priority Areas
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Biodiversity and its conservation are among the main global topics in science and politics and perhaps the major challenge for the present and coming generations. This book written by international experts from different disciplines comprises general chapters on diversity and its measurement, human...
by F.B. Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Monitoring has become fashionable. Business now talks about monitoring its activities, efficiency, costs and profits. The National Health Service is monitoring general practices and hospitals; it is keen to have more information about efficiency and the duration of stay of patients in different hospitals...
by Rudolf Reuther
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is not long ago that scientists realized, our study and understanding of most environmental problems call for a cross-sectional, more holistic view. In fact, environmental geochemistry became one of the legs to stand on for such a required interdisciplinary approach. Geochemists do not only describe...
Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts
Concepts And Cases
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Despite a vast amount of effort and expertise devoted to them, many environmental conflicts have remained mired in controversy, stubbornly defying resolution. Why can some environmental problems be resolved in one locale but remain contentious in another, often carrying on for decades? What is it...
Redefining Diversity and Dynamics of Natural Resources Management in Asia, Volume 3
Natural Resource Dynamics and Social Ecological Systems in Central Vietnam: Development, Resource Changes and Conservation Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Redefining Diversity and Dynamics of Natural Resources Management in Southeast Asia, Volumes 1-4 brings together scientific research and policy issues across various topographical areas in Asia to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues facing this region.
Natural Resource Dynamics and...
Citizen's Primer for Conservation Activism
How to Fight Development in Your Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Is there anything you can do when development threatens your local forest, beach, prairie, or wetland? Yes, there is. Across America, citizen activists are fighting and winning battles against unwanted development in their own communities. To help you resist the urban sprawl and absentee landowners that...
Caatinga
The Largest Tropical Dry Forest Region in South America
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book provides in-depth information on Caatinga’s geographical boundaries and ecological systems, including plants, insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. It also discusses the major threats to the region’s socio-ecological systems and includes chapters on climate change...
by Ben Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
The purpose of the book is to provide an applied, practical, yet theoretically grounded reference on social influence strategies for changing environmental behaviors. The book is intended to be used as a professional reference by practitioners in governmental and nongovernmental organizations worldwide....
Asia's Wildlife
A Journey to the Forests of Hope (Proceeds Support Birdlife International)
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
"Close-up views of endangered fauna in their natural habitats are difficult enough to obtain, but the breathtaking artistic quality of the photography in this valuable documentation of Asia's disappearing forest habitats makes this book highly recommended for both scientists and nature lovers...
Indian Hotspots
Vertebrate Faunal Diversity, Conservation and Management Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This book offers a comprehensive account of India’s four biodiversity hotspots: the Himalaya, Indo-Burma, Western Ghats and Sri Lanka and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. With a focus on tropical rainforests, it includes more than 30 chapters covering different vertebrate fauna e.g. fishes, amphibians,...
Old Growth in a New World
A Pacific Northwest Icon Reexamined
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Old-growth forests represa lofty ideal as much as an ecosystem—an icon of unspoiled nature, ecological stability, and pristine habitat. These iconic notions have actively altered the way society relates to old-growth forests, catalyzing major changes in policy and management. But how appropriate...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This book brings together the latest information on the rapid advances and developments in the field of aquatic ecology. India is very rich in terms of biological diversity due to its wide range of habitats and climatic conditions. It is home to as much as 7 per cent of the world’s animal species,...
Wahb
The Biography of a Grizzly
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
First published more than a century ago, The Biography of a Grizzly recounts the life of a fictitious bear named Wahb who lived and died in the Greater Yellowstone region. This new edition combines Ernest Thompson Seton’s classic tale and original illustrations with historical and scientific context...