Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Environmental Monitoring using GNSS
Global Navigation Satellite Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are revolutionizing the world in a way their original developers never envisaged. From being military “war” tools, GNSS satellites are rapidly becoming “peace” tools that play a potentially critical role in enabling changing environmental phenomenon...
Biodiversity and the Precautionary Principle
Risk, Uncertainty and Practice in Conservation and Sustainable Use
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Great uncertainty typically surrounds decisions and management actions in the conservation of biodiversity and natural resource management, and yet there are risks of serious and irreversible harm for both biodiversity and the humans that rely on it. The precautionary principle arguably underlies...
by Tim Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2004
A dam proposal sparked the first great conservation battle in the United States when John Muir fought to safeguard Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. Since then, people have worked to preserve free-flowing rivers from Florida to Alaska, and in doing so, they have changed the way natural...
Across the Great Divide
Explorations In Collaborative Conservation And The American West
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Amid the policy gridlock that characterizes menvironmental debates, a new conservation movemhas emerged. Known as “collaborative conservation,” it emphasizes local participation, sustainability, and inclusion of the disempowered, and focuses on voluntary compliance and consrather than legal and...
Place-Based Conservation
Perspectives from the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The concept of “Place” has become prominent in natural resource management, as professionals increasingly recognize the importance of scale, place-specific meanings, local knowledge, and social-ecological dynamics. Place-Based Conservation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences offers a thorough...
The Endangered Species Act at Thirty
Vol. 1: Renewing the Conservation Promise
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The Endangered Species Act at Thirty is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of issues surrounding the Endangered Species Act, with a specific focus on the act's actual implementation record over the past thirty years. The result of a unique, multi-year collaboration among stakeholder groups...
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks;...
Conservation
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The need to protect nature has never been so pressing. As unprecedented environmental challenges threaten to wipe out many of the planet’s species, there is a battle against time to formulate new ways of defending nature. Jepson and Ladle cover all aspects of modern conservation from inspiring successes...
You Can Save the Earth, Revised Edition
A Handbook for Environmental Awareness, Conservation and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
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.
In its long-awaited revised edition, You Can Save the Earth, Revised Edition provides even more reasons and ways to pay attention to our...
Global Action for Biodiversity
An International Framework for Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the nations of the world adopted the convention on Biological Diversity. Since then, over 160 countries have ratified the Convention, three Conferences of the Parties have taken place and a permanent secretariat has been established. Despite this, there remains a lot...
A Good That Transcends
How US Culture Undermines Environmental Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s, the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality, ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy. With these changes has also come an increased popular resistance to environmental reform, but, as Eric T. Freyfogle...
Conservation Biology
For the Coming Decade
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Reflecting a new generation of conservation biologists' upper-division and graduate level conservation biology courses, as well as for individual reference, this book incorporates a number of new authors and additional chapters, covering all aspects of one of the most dynamic areas in the life sciences....
Gifford Pinchot
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot was central to the early twentieth-century conservation movement in the United States and the political history and evolution of the Keystone State. This collection of Pinchot’s essays, articles, and...
The Hunt for the Golden Mole
All Creatures Great & Small and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
An environmental journalist chronicles the animal conservation movement in this “informed and informative, provocative and rousing work” (The Telegraph)****.
“This is natural history at its funniest, most curious, enlightening and heartfelt. I couldn’t put it down. It was like going on...