Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Grazing animals enjoy an ambiguous reputation in the field of nature conservation. Livestock are often treated as a scourge, yet native large herbivores form the prime attraction of many a reserve. This book gives the first comprehensive overview of the use of grazing as a tool in conservation management....
Sustaining Lake Superior
An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation....
The Price of Permanence
Nature and Business in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post–Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so desperate for economic growth that...
Protecting Life on Earth
An Introduction to the Science of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Written to be accessible to any college-level reader, Protecting Life on Earth offers a non-technical, yet comprehensive introduction to the growing field of conservation science. This multifaceted exploration of our current biodiversity crisis delivers vivid examples throughout, including features...
The Green Republic
A Conservation History of Costa Rica
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response...
Natural Connections
Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The mpromising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation...
by Götz Schroth
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Agroforestry -- the practice of integrating trees and other large woody perennials on farms and throughout the agricultural landscape -- is increasingly recognized as a useful and promising strategy that diversifies production for greater social, economic, and environmental benefits. Agroforestry...
A Delicate Balance
Constructing a Conservation Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Sustainability of the natural environment and of our society has become one of the most urgent challenges facing modern Americans. Communities across the country are seeking a viable pattern of growth that promotes prosperity, protects the environment, and preserves the distinctive quality of life...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One of the major challenges of sustainable development is the interdisciplinary nature of the issues involved. To this end, a team of conservation biologists, hunters, tourist operators, ranchers, wildlife and land managers, ecologists, veterinarians and economists was convened to discuss whether...
Habitat Conservation Planning
Endangered Species and Urban Growth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
As environmental awareness grows around the world, people are learning that a diversity of species and the habitat to support them is necessary to maintain the ecological health of the earth. At the same time, however, the pressure to develop wildlife habitat for human settlement and economic gain...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Protected areas and conservation policies ore usually established with only local nature and wildlife in mind. Yet they con have far reaching consequences for local populations, often undermining their access to resources and their livelihoods. This book is the first comprehensive discussion of the...
Climate and Conservation
Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Climate and Conservation presents case studies from around the world of leading-edge projects focused on climate change adaptation-regional-scale endeavors where scientists, managers, and practitioners are working to protect biodiversity by protecting landscapes and seascapes in response to threats...
African American Environmental Thought
Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Choice Outstanding Book
African American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship to nature. In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Uganda has extensive protected areas and iconic wildlife (including mountain gorillas), which exist within a complex social and political environment. In recent years Uganda has been seen as a test bed and model case study for numerous and varied approaches to address complex and connected conservation...