Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
The Whaling Season
An Inside Account Of The Struggle To Stop Commercial Whaling
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Despite a decades-long international moratorium on commercial whaling, one fleet has continued to hunt and kill whales in the waters surrounding Antarctica. Refusing to let this defiance go unchallenged, the environmental organization Greenpeace began dispatching expeditions to the region in an effort...
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...
by Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
No one sets out to intentionally cause environmental problems. All things being equal, we are happy to protect environmental resources; in fact, we tend to prefer our air cleaner and our species protected. But despite not wanting to create environmental problems, we all do so regularly in the course...
Conjuring Property
Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American GeographersHonorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Since the 1960s, when Brazil first encouraged large-scale...
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...
Forgotten Grasslands of the South
Natural History and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Forgotten Grasslands of the South is a literary and scientific case study of some of the biologically richest and mendangered ecosystems in North America. Ecologist Reed Noss tells the story of how southern grasslands arose and persisted over time and addresses questions that are fundamental for conserving...
Environmental Debt
The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
An award-winning environmental activist and social entrepreneur exposes the link between our financial and environmental crises
For decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that today's challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protection could...
Saving Nature's Legacy
Protecting And Restoring Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
Written by two leading conservation biologists, Saving Nature's Legacy is a thorough and readable introduction to issues of land managemand conservation biology. It presents a broad, land-based approach to biodiversity conservation in the United States, with the authors succinctly translating principles,...
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...
Creating Africas
Struggles Over Nature, Conservation and Land
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
In Africa, conflicts between protected areas for fauna and flora and space for their surrounding human populations continue despite years spent trying to find an accommodation between the needs of both parties. Creating Africas investigates the roots of the current conservation boom, demonstrates...
Varieties of Environmentalism
Essays North and South
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Until very recently, studies of the environmental movement have been heavily biased towards the North Atlantic worlds. There was a common assumption amongst historians and sociologists that concerns over such issues as conservation or biodiversity were the exclusive preserve of the affluent westerner:...
The Shocking
The Message
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
If you have an open mind and are seeking a much higher level of understanding the environment this book is for you. This book is for those who are environmentally conscience. As a resident living in the Victory Heights West Pullman Community under the name Abbas Hassain aka Charles Fletcher, I lived...