Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known...
Second Nature
Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Growing recognition of the complexity of animals' physical, social, and psychological lives in the wild has led both zookeepers and the zoo-going public to call for higher environmental standards for animals in captivity.
Bringing together the work of animal behaviorists, zoo biologists, and...
Shifting Ground
People, Animals, and Mobility in India’s Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing sharp lines of distinction - those between geographical spaces (forest, rivers, farms), people (herders,...
The Great Barrier Reef
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing, pollution and climate change, and is now protected as a marine...
Conscious Conservation
Less Doing, More Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Conscious Conservation is an antidote to the "doom & gloom" so pervasive in modern conservation! *Are you feeling disillusioned, frustrated, or angry about the state of our planet today? Do you feel overwhelmed and unsure how to meaningfully contribute given the magnitude of the challenges...
Cultivating Nature
The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The watery terrain of the Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long been prized by residents and visitors alike. Since the twentieth century, the disparate visions of city dwellers, farmers, fishermen, scientists,...
A Fierce Green Fire
Aldo Leopold's Life and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics, the name Aldo Leopold is sure to pop up. Since first publication, Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire has remained the classic short, inspiring biography of Leopold--the perfect...
Conservation and Biodiversity Banking
A Guide to Setting Up and Running Biodiversity Credit Trading Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The conservation of biodiversity is now big business. Whether called conservation banking, species banking, habitat banking, biodiversity banking, biodiversity offsets, compensatory mitigation or ecological footprint offsetting, the idea of financially valuing biodiversity and using the market and...
Genetic Diversity and Erosion in Plants
Case Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Genetic erosion is the loss of genetic diversity within a species. It can happen very quickly, due to catastrophic events, or changes in land use leading to habitat loss. But it can also occur more gradually and remain unnoticed for a long time. One of the main causes of genetic erosion is the replacement...
Genetic Diversity and Erosion in Plants
Indicators and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Genetic erosion is the loss of genetic diversity within a species. It can happen very quickly, due to catastrophic events, or changes in land use leading to habitat loss. But it can also occur more gradually and remain unnoticed for a long time. One of the main causes of genetic erosion is the replacement...
Alaska's Brooks Range
The Ultimate Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1992
* Explores both geologic and human history of the region
* Includes a sampling of literature inspired by the Brooks Range
* Examines past, present, and future conservation efforts in this extraordinary place
Not just the ultimate mountains for their northernmost location on the North American...
Global Visions, Local Landscapes
A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
In her new book, Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. She challenges analytical distinctions between separate 'local' and 'global' spaces, rather proposing that the global is one aspect of the local, to the extent that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is a collection of reports presented at the International NATO Advanced Research Workshop Conservation of the Biological Diversity as a Prerequisite for Sustainaible Development of the Black Sea Region. The seminar was held at Batumi - Kobuleti, Georgia, on the Black Sea during October...
Drafting a Conservation Blueprint
A Practitioner's Guide To Planning For Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Drafting a Conservation Blueprint lays out for the first time in book form a step-by-step planning process for conserving the biological diversity of entire regions. In an engaging and accessible style, the author explains how to develop a regional conservation plan and offers experience-based guidance...