Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Early Warming
Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
In Shishmaref, Alaska, new seawalls are constructed while residents navigate the many practical and bureaucratic obstacles to moving their entire island village to higher ground. Farther south, inland hunters and fishermen set out to grow more of their own food-and to support the reintroduction of wood...
Fishing in Contested Waters
Place & Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
After the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi’kmaw fishers’ treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada. At Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, New Brunswick, the Mi’kmaw fishery provoked violent confrontations with neighbours...
Virtualism, Governance and Practice
Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Many people investigating the operation of large-scale environmentalist organizations see signs of power, knowledge and governance in their policies and projects. This collection indicates that such an analysis appears to be justified from one perspective, but not from another. The chapters in this...
by Martyn Murray
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
An alchemic blend of travel and nature writing that explores the primary dilemma of the 21st century - the conflict of modern lifestyles with the natural environment. This is an account of the author's journey from the Cape to the Serengeti Plains and his search for an answer to the Old Timer, a Kenyan...
by Conor Mark Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
American scientist and author Rachel Carson is said to have sparked the modern day environmental movement with the publication of Silent Spring in 1962. She made vivid the prospect of life without birdsong. But has her warning been heeded?
Fifty years on, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
The purpose of this book is to assess the potential effects of biotechnological approaches particularly genetic modification on biodiversity and the environment. All aspects of biodiversity such as ecological diversity, species diversity and genetic diversity are considered. Higher organisms contain...
by Diana H. Wall
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments brings together the world's leading ecologists, systematists, and evolutionary biologists to presscientific information that integrates soil and sedimdisciplines across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. It offers a...
Game Changer
Animal Rights and the Fate of Africa’s Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Are conservation and protecting animals the same thing? In Game Changer, award-winning environmental reporter Glen Martin takes a fresh look at this question as it applies to Africa’s megafauna. Martin assesses the rising influence of the animal rights movement and finds that the policies championed...
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw
One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
“The first time we came here I didn’t know what to expect,” she told me as we paddled upstream. “What we found just blew me away. Jaguars, pumas, river otters, howler monkeys. The place was like a Noah’s Ark for all the endangered species driven out of the rest of Central America. There...
Golden Wings & Hairy Toes
Encounters with New England’s Most Imperiled Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book profiles fourteen of New England’s most rare and endangered flora and fauna—mammals, birds, insects, plants, and fish—by following the biologists who are researching, monitoring, and protecting them. Each chapter includes a first-person account of the author’s experience with these...
The Imperiled Cutthroat
Tracing the Fate of Yellowstone's Native Trout
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Yellowstone, the world’s first national park and one of America’s truly great trout fisheries, has been a crucible for ideas on how to look after wild places. Renowned Australian fishing writer Greg French gives a sparkling firsthand account of how the park’s history, landscapes, wildlife, and...
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin
Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability. Touching on topics including conservation efforts in specific locales; social and political constructions of rhetorical place and space; community literacy;...
by Andrew Flach, Sean Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Finally a hopeful book which empowers us to make the choices we need to make...not out of fear but out of love for ourselves, our Earth, and each other.
Includes inspirational quotes from influential environmentalists and thought leaders including Al Gore, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Martin Luther...