Island Press imprint: 745 books
by Diana H. Wall
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments brings together the world's leading ecologists, systematists, and evolutionary biologists to presscientific information that integrates soil and sedimdisciplines across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. It offers a...
River Notes
A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world’s mregulated river drainage. The Colorado River provides mof the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are home to more than 25 million people....
Growing Greener
Putting Conservation Into Local Plans And Ordinances
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Growing Greener is an illustrated workbook that presents a new look at designing subdivisions while preserving green space and creating open space networks. Randall Arendt explains how to design residential developments that maximize land conservation without reducing overall building density, thus...
Creating Successful Communities
A Guidebook To Growth ManagemStrategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Creating Successful Communities is a practical compendium of techniques for effective land use and growth management. It offers a framework for land-use decisionmaking and growth management: techniques for protecting key resources such as agricultural land, open space, historic and cultural structure,...
by Stephen R. Kellert, Scott McVay, Aaron Katcher
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
"Biophilia" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson to describe what he believes is humanity's innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes might be a biologically based need, integral to our developmas individuals...
A Fierce Green Fire
The American Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In A Fierce Green Fire, renowned environmental journalist Philip Shabecoff presents the definitive history of American environmentalism from the earliest days of the republic to the present. He offers a sweeping overview of the contemporary environmental movemand the political, economic, social, and...
by Frederic H. Wagner, Ronald Foresta, Richard Bruce Gill
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
This volume presents the results of a five-year study of wildlife-managempolicies in national parks. It synthesizes interviews with individuals inside and outside the National Park Service, provides a comprehensive review of published and unpublished literature, and draws on the collective experience...
by Tim Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Photographer and writer Tim Palmer has spmore than 25 years researching and experiencing life on the waterways of the American continent. He has travelled by canoe or raft on more than 300 differrivers, down wide placid streams and rough raging rapids. His journeys have taken him to every corner of...
The Snake River
Window To The West
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Tim Palmer weaves natural history into a comprehensive account of the complex problems that plague natural resource managemthroughout the West, as well as the practical solutions that are available.
Lifelines
The Case For River Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
"In Lifelines, Tim Palmer addresses the fate of our waterways. While proposals for gigantic federal dams are no longer common, and some of the worst pollution has been brought under control, myriad other concerns have appeared -- many of them more subtle and complex than the threats of the past.Palmer...
No Place Distant
Roads and Motorized Recreation on America's Public Lands
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
While many of the roads on public lands provide a great service with relatively little harm, others create significant problems -- from habitat fragmentation to noise pollution to increased animal mortality -- with little or no benefit.In No Place Distant, author David Havlick presents for the first...
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Population, Nature, and What Women Want
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In the capital of Ghana, a teenager nicknamed “Condom Sister” trolls the streets to educate other young people about contraception. Her work and her own aspirations point to a remarkable shift not only in the West African nation, where just a few decades ago women had nearly seven children on...
From The Land
Articles Compiled From The Land 1941-1954
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Begun in 1941 as an outgrowth of Friends of the Land, the journal The Land was an attempt by editor Russell Lord to counteract -- through education, information, and inspiration -- the rampant abuse of soil, water, trees and rivers. But for all its seriousness of mission, The Land was a stimulating...
Taking Back Eden
Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Taking Back Eden is the gripping tale of an idea—that ordinary people have the right to go to court to defend their environment—told through the stories of lawsuits brought in eight countries around the world. Starting in the United States in the l960’s, this idea is now traveling the planet,...