Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
People, Plants, and Justice
The Politics of Nature Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2000
In an era of market triumphalism, this book probes the social and environmental consequences of market-linked nature conservation schemes. Rather than supporting a new anti-market orthodoxy, Charles Zerner and colleagues assert that there is no universal entity, "the market." Analysis and...
Escaping the Dark, Gray City
Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A compelling and long-overdue exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its lasting effects on American culture, politics, and contemporary environmentalism The turn of the twentieth century caught America at a crossroads, shaking the dust from a bygone era and hurtling toward the...
The Green Web
A Union for World Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the often turbulent story of the...
Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation
Creating Values that Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives. These new values, assigned to areas previously considered outside of economic systems, often act to qualify, alter or replace former non-pecuniary values. Valuing Development,...
Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Prioritizing Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse. It contains about half of the world’s remaining tropical forests, nearly one-fifth of its coastal habitats, and some of its most productive agricultural and marine areas. But agriculture, fishing and other human activities...
Nature in Common?
Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
This important book brings together leading environmental thinkers to debate a central conflict within environmental philosophy: should we appreciate nature mainly for its ability to advance our interests or should we respect it as having a good of its own, apart from any contribution to human well-being?...
Environmental Dilemmas
Ethics and decisions
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2007
This is a book by people who have had to make decisions which affect the environment in which we all live, decisions which sometimes affect the quality of life of millions. It is not an academic disquisition on how to approach decision-making. Most of the chapters are written by scientists who have...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
The earth’s biodiversity is a degree of ecosystem health which is vital to ecology and environmental sustainability. The microbial world is the largest unexplored reservoir. The agro-ecosystem enriched with rhizosphere implicit abundant and species-rich component of microbial diversity. Its global...
by G. Vishwanatha Reddy, K. Ullas Karanth, N. Samba Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This book demonstrates how varying levels of human disturbance manifested through different management regimes influence composition, richness, diversity and abundance of key mammal, bird and plant species, even within ecologically similar habitats. Based on our results, we show the critical importance...
Coastal Conservation and Management
An Ecological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Coastal Conservation and Management provides the reader with a synthesis of the range and variation of the main coastal formations and includes practical guidance on their management. The book discusses all the main coastal habitats of importance for nature conservation (saltmarsh, shingle, sand dune...
by Miriam Horn
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**Now a feature-length documentary on the Discovery channel narrated by Tom Brokaw.
“Lush, gorgeously written…A profoundly hopeful book.” —Tina Rosenberg, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award**
A Kirkus Best Book of 2016
Many of the men and women doing...
Human Impacts on Amazonia
The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2006
From the pre-Columbian era to the present, native Amazonians have shaped the land around them, emphasizing utilization, conservation, and sustainability. These priorities stand in stark contrast to colonial and contemporary exploitation of Amazonia by outside interests. With essays from environmental...
A Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives...
Implementing Ecological Integrity
Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains some of the papers which were presented at the NATO Science, Environmental Security, Advanced Research Workshop on "Implementing Ecological Integrity: Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health" held in Budapest from June 26 to July 1, 1999. All papers...