Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Central American Biodiversity
Conservation, Ecology, and a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
This book highlights key results and lessons learnt from two field sites, La Suerte in Costa Rica and Ometepe Nicaragua. It provides long term data on species abundance and distribution. Primates receive specific attention in this book, as they are flagship species and good indicators for the “health”...
The Snow Leopard Project
And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
The remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife-and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape.
Postwar Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty. Evolutionary...
Out of the Wasteland
Stories from the Environmental Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In Out of the Wasteland, founding Executive Director of the Community Environmental Council Paul Relis takes us on a journey of the environmental frontier, from the heady days of the birth of environmentalism in Santa Barbara, into the intricate, obfuscated but all important world of government and...
The Price of Nuclear Power
Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium...
by Karzan Baiz Abd
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Environmental Sciences, University of Wolverhampton (University of Wolverhampton), course: Environmental Sciences, language: English, abstract: Five universities in Iraq; University of Technology Iraq, Al-Nahrain University and University of Baghdad,...
Gunfight at the Eco-Corral
Western Cinema and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Most film critics point to classic conflicts—good versus evil, right versus wrong, civilization versus savagery—as defining themes of the American Western. In this provocative examination of Westerns from Tumbleweeds (1925) to Rango (2011), Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann argue for a more...
A Sand County Almanac:With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
And Sketches Here and There
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1966
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled...
Free-ranging Cats
Behavior, Ecology, Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Feral and stray domestic cats occupy many different habitats. They can resist dehydration for months by relying exclusively on the tissue water of their prey allowing them to colonize remote deserts and other inhospitable
places. They thrive and reproduce in humid equatorial rainforests and windswept...
Indian Hotspots
Vertebrate Faunal Diversity, Conservation and Management Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 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,...
Beasts at Bedtime
Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many children’s books, however, also lie profound teachings...
Biodiversity in a Changing Climate
Linking Science and Management in Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
One major consequence of climate change is abrupt, dramatic changes in regional biodiversity. Even if the most optimistic scenarios for mitigating climate change transpire, the fate of many wild species rests on the shoulders of people engaged in conservation planning, management, and policy. Providing...
Ecoagriculture
Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Although food-production systems for the world's rural poor typically have had devastating effects on the planet's wealth of genes, species, and ecosystems, that need not be the case in the future. In Ecoagriculture, two of the world's leading experts on conservation and developmexamine the idea that...
God and the Human Environment
Catholic Principles of Environmental Stewardship as a Template for Action in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
God and the Human Environment: Catholic Principles of Environmental Stewardship as a Template for Action in Nigeria brings into conversation the Churchs theological reflection on the mandate to care for Gods creation and the circumstances of the environment in Nigeria. In vivid terms and with systemic...
Aires marine protégées ouest-africaines
Défis scientifiques et enjeux sociétaux
Language: French
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Les écosystèmes côtiers, qui concentrent actuellement 70 % dela population mondiale, sont particulièrement impactés par le changement climatique et les activités anthropiques. D’où les espoirs placés dans la création d’aires marines protégées (AMP), qui favorisent la résilience des...