Island Press imprint: 745 books
Human Ecology
Following Nature's Lead
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
In Human Ecology, noted landscape planner Frederick Steiner presents a historical and analytical examination of how humans interact with each other as well as with other organisms and their surroundings.
June Keith's Key West & The Florida Keys
A Guide to the Coral Islands
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
From Key Largo to the Dry Tortugas, this true insider’s guide to Florida’s subtropical islands offers a comprehensive look at famous attractions such as daily sunset celebrations, historic bars, renowned restaurants, and America’s only living coral reef. Supplemented with information about local...
Life Between Buildings
Using Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
“. . .thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening...”—Jane Jacobs
“This book will have a lasting infl uence on the future quality of public open spaces. By helping us better understand the larger public life of cities, Life between Buildings can only move us toward more lively and healthy...
A Safe and Sustainable World
The Promise Of Ecological Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In the late sixties, as the world awoke to a need for Earth Day, a pioneering group founded a small non-profit research and education organization they called the New Alchemy Institute. Their aim was to explore the ways a safer and more sustainable world could be created. In the ensuing years, along...
by Greg Aplet, Hal Salwasser
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Before the transition in forestry can be made from conventional approaches of the past century to the ecosystem approach of the next, a consensus must be reached on the meaning of "sustainable forestry." Defining Sustainable Forestry presents the results of a national conference convened by The Wilderness...
by Oswald J. Schmitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Meeting today’s environmental challenges requires a new way of thinking about the intricate dependencies between humans and nature. Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation provides students and other readers with a basic understanding of the fundamental principles of ecological science and their applications,...
Green Infrastructure
Linking Landscapes and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
With illustrative and detailed examples drawn from throughout the country, Green Infrastructure advances smart land conservation: large scale thinking and integrated action to plan, protect and manage our natural and restored lands. From the individual parcel to the multi-state region, Green Infrastructure...
Conservation Design for Subdivisions
A Practical Guide To Creating Open Space Networks
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In mcommunities, land use regulations are based on a limited model that allows for only one end result: the production of more and more suburbia, composed of endless subdivisions and shopping centers, that ultimately covers every bit of countryside with "improvements." Fortunately, sensible alternatives...
Measuring Landscapes
A Planner's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
This practical handbook bridges the gap between those scientists who study landscapes and the planners and conservationists who must then decide how best to preserve and build environmentally-sound habitats. Until now, only a small portion of the relevant science has influenced the decision-making...
Site Design for Multifamily Housing
Creating Livable, Connected Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The United States is over eighty percent urbanized, yet over half of the population still lives in suburban settings, characterized by low-density, automobile-dependent development with separated land uses. These disconnected and isolated models of development have been linked to increased greenhouse-gas...
Resilience Thinking
Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from mquarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification,...
Resilience Practice
Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
In 2006, Resilience Thinking addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that sustain us are subjected to shock after shock, how much can they take and still deliver the services we need from them? This idea caught the attention of both the scientific community and the general public....
The Most Important Fish in the Sea
Menhaden and America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
In this brilliant portrait of the oceans’ unlikely hero, H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America’s national—and natural—history, and why reckless overfishing now threatens their place in both. Since Native Americans began using menhaden as fertilizer, this amazing fish has...
Wild By Design
Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Can nature—in all its unruly wildness—be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book, Wild by Design, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick urges designers to look beyond the rules often imposed by both landscaping convention and sustainability checklists....