Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors
People and Wildlife Working It Out in California
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Wildness beats in the heart of California's urban areas. In Los Angeles, residents are rallying to build one of the largest wildlife crossings in the world because of the plight of one lonely mountain lion named P-22. Porpoises cavort in San Francisco Bay again because of a grassroots effort to clean...
Rivers for Life
Managing Water For People And Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining some "minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viability of a river. In recyears, however, scientific research has underscored the idea that the ecological health of a river system depends not...
Big, Wild, and Connected
Part 3: From the Adirondack Mountains to the Gaspé Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This E-ssential is a three-part series that covers John Davis's epic journey from Florida to Maine. In 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles in 10 months from Florida to Maine by foot, bicycle, skis, and canoe/kayak. His extensive traveles were motivated by wanting...
Dispossession and the Environment
Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities...
A Voice of Reason
Reflections on Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Can civilization survive the 21st century? Professor Ian Lowe, author, pre-eminent scientist and president of the Australian Conservation Foundation, thinks we have a chance-but we have to act now, and not just on global warming. Here, collected for the first time, are Lowe’s views on topics that...
At the Hand of Man
Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Defying conventional wisdom even as it makes an impassioned plea for moral common sense, this book by an award-winning journalist sheds a new light on the history and politics of the African conservation movement. The book will anger and inspire anyone who cares about African wildlife and the people whose future is intertwined with the fate of these animals.
Last Stand
Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Entrepreneur and media mogul Ted Turner has commanded global attention for his dramatic personality, his founding of CNN, his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his company’s merger with Time Warner. But his green resume has gone largely ignored, even while his role as a pioneering eco-capitalist means...
Authenticity in Nature
Making Choices about the Naturalness of Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discusses its values and considers choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts. The author argues that all ecosystems have been modified and the idea of places 'untouched by humans' is a myth. But there are large differences...
Savannas of Our Birth
People, Wildlife, and Change in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book tells the sweeping story of the role that East African savannas played in human evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region today, and how these relationships might shift as the climate warms, the world globalizes, and human populations grow.
Our ancient...
by J. Michael Scott, Michael E. Soulé, Keith Hay
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity experts explain biological diversity conservation, focusing on the need for protecting large areas of the mdiverse ecosystems, and connecting those ecosystems with land corridors to allow species to move among them more easily.
The Perfect Protein
The Fish Lover's Guide to Saving the Oceans and Feeding the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The planet will be home to more than 9 billion people by 2050, and we're already seeing critical levels of famine around the world mirrored by growing obesity in developed nations. In The Perfect Protein, Andy Sharpless maintains that protecting wild seafood can help combat both issues, because seafood...
Running Silver
Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
That one could “walk drishod on the backs” of schools of salmon, shad, and other fishes moving up Atlantic coast rivers was a not uncommon kind of description of their migratory runs during early Colonial times. Accounts tell of awe-inspiring numbers of spawners pushing their way upriver, the...
Managing Protected Areas
A Global Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This handbook, produced by world renowned experts from the World Conservation Union (IUCN), spans the full terrain of protected area management and is the international benchmark for the field. The book employs dozens of detailed international cases studies, hundreds of concise topical snapshots,...
Partnerships for Protection
New Strategies for Planning and Management for Protected Areas
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Taking into consideration the fact that many ecosystems are under-represented in protected areas of land and water and traditional management methods have often been ineffective, this volume describes how improvements can be made. Specifically, it explores ways of ensuring that all major ecosystems...