Island Press imprint: 745 books
When City and Country Collide
Managing Growth In The Metropolitan Fringe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Strips of urban and suburban "fabric" have extended into the countryside, creating a ragged settlempattern that blurs the distinction between rural, urban, and suburban. As traditional rural industries like farming, forestry, and mining rapidly give way to residential and commercial development, the...
Public Produce
Cultivating Our Parks, Plazas, and Streets for Healthier Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Plum and pear trees shade park benches in Kamloops, British Columbia. Tomatoes and cucumbers burst forth from planters at City Hall in Provo, Utah. Strawberries and carrots flourish along the sunny sidewalks of a Los Angeles neighborhood.The idea that public land could be used creatively to grow fresh...
Shading Our Cities
A Resource Guide For Urban And Community Forests
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Shading Our Cities is a handbook to help neighborhood groups, local officials, and city planners develop urban forestry projects, not only to beautify their cities, but also to reduce energy demand, improve air quality, protect water supplies, and contribute to healthier living conditions.
Forests for the People
The Story of America's Eastern National Forests
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Forests for the People tells one of the mextraordinary stories of environmental protection in our nation’s history: how a diverse coalition of citizens, organizations, and business and political leaders worked to create a system of national forests in the Eastern United States. It offers an insightful...
Where We Live
A Citizen's Guide To Conducting A Community Environmental Inventory
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Where We Live is a practical workbook to help citizens find information concerning their local environmand to use that information in furthering environmental goals. The book includes general information on human impacts on the environmand instructions for citizens to use in creating a community environmental...
Climate Change in the Northwest
Implications for Our Landscapes, Waters, and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Climate Change in the Northwest: Implications for Our Landscapes, Waters, and Communities is aimed at assessing the state of knowledge about key climate impacts and consequences to various sectors and communities in the northwest United States. It draws on a wealth of peer-reviewed literature, earlier...
Natural Assets
Democratizing Ownership Of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2003
Low-income communities frequently suffer from a lack of access to, or lack of control over, the natural resources that surround them. In many cases, their local environmhas been degraded by years of resource extraction and pollution by distant corporations or governmagencies. In such settings, initiatives...
Wildlife and Society
The Science of Human Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Winner of The Wildlife Society's 2009 Wildlife Publication Award for outstanding edited book
As human populations around the world continue to expand, reconciling nature conservation with human needs and aspirations is imperative. The emergence in recdecades of the academic field of human...
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
From meat consumption to automobile production to hydropower, Vital Signs, Volume 20 documents over two dozen trends that are shaping our future in concise analyses and clear tables and graphs. The twentieth volume of the Worldwatch Institute series demonstrates that while remarkable progress has...
Lawyers, Swamps, and Money
U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Lawyers, Swamps, and Money is an accessible, engaging guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these critical natural areas, the book examines the evolution of federal law, principally the Clean Water Act, designed to protect them.
Readers...
From Walden to Wall Street
Frontiers of Conservation Finance
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
"From Walden to Wall Street makes clear that a system of market-based conservation finance is vital to the future of environmental conservation." -Henry M. Paulson, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Chairman of the Board of Governors, The Nature Conservancy In the absence of innovation...
Collaborative Planning for Wetlands and Wildlife
Issues And Examples
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Collaborative Planning for Wetlands and Wildlife presents numerous case studies that demonstrate how differcommunities have creatively reconciled problems between developers and environmentalists. It answers questions asked by regulators, environmentalists, and developers who seek practical alternatives...
Rivers of Gold
Designing Markets To Allocate Water In California
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The movemto implemmarket-based approaches to allocating water is gaining ground across California and in other western states. Proponents argue that markets offer an efficiand cost-effective means of promoting conservation -- those who need water would pay for it on the open market, while others would...
by John Terborgh
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
For ecologist John Terborgh, Manu National Park in the rainforest of Peru is a second home; he has sphalf of each of the past twenty-five years there conducting research. Like all parks, Manu is assumed to provide inviolate protection to nature. Yet even there, in one of the mremote corners of the...