Island Press imprint: 745 books
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being
A Manual for AssessmPractitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Designed by a partnership of UN agencies, international scientific organizations, and developmagencies, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessm(MA) is the mextensive study ever of the linkages between the world’s ecosystems and human well-being. The goal of the MA is to establish the scientific basis for...
by Richard L. Knight
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Every piece of land, no matter how remote or untrammeled, has a boundary. While sometimes boundary lines follow topographic or biological features, more often they follow the straight lines of political dictate and compromise. Administrative boundaries nearly always fragma landscape, resulting in...
Wildlife and Recreationists
Coexistence Through ManagemAnd Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Wildlife and Recreationists defines and clarifies the issues surrounding the conflict between outdoor recreation and the health and well-being of wildlife and ecosystems. Contributors to the volume consider both direct and indirect effects of widlife-recreationist interactions, including:
•wildlife...
The Western Confluence
A Guide To Governing Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
For 150 years, the American West has been shaped by persistconflicts over natural resources. This has given rise to a succession of strategies for resolving disputes-prior appropriation, scientific management, public participation, citizen ballot initiatives, public interest litigation, devolution,...
Conservation in the Internet Age
Threats and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Since the earliest days of our nation, new communications and transportation networks have enabled vast changes in how and where Americans live and work. Transcontinental railroads and telegraphs helped to open the West; mass media and interstate highways paved the way for suburban migration. In our...
Coastal Waters of the World
Trends, Threats, and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Nearly 60 percof the world's population lives and works within 100 miles of a coast, and even those who don't are connected to the world's oceans through an intricate drainage of rivers and streams. Ultimately the whole of humankind is coastal. Coastal Waters of the World is a comprehensive reference...
The Last Refuge
Patriotism, Politics, and the Environmin an Age of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" -SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775 "a tightly reasoned, excellently written book that should be lethally effective in helping readers who aren't experts understand the contours of the crisis." -TOLEDO BLADE Updated and revised following the 2004 elections, The Last...
Consumption, Population, and Sustainability
Perspectives From Science And Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Consumption, Population, and Sustainability provides a brief history of the dialogue between science and religion on environmental issues.
Planning for Community Resilience
A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
How can we plan and design stronger communities? From New Orleans to Galveston to the Jersey Shore, communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first responders have left. Globally, the average annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980. These...
Discovering the Unknown Landscape
A History Of America's Wetlands
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The rapidly disappearing wetlands that once spread so abundantly across the American continserve an essential and irreplaceable ecological function. Yet for centuries, beginning with the first European settlers, Americans have viewed them with disdain. As neither dry land, which can be owned and controlled...
Design With Microclimate
The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Robert Brown helps us see that a "thermally comfortable microclimate" is the very foundation of well-designed and well-used outdoor places. Brown argues that as we try to minimize human-induced changes to the climate and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels-as some areas become warmer, some cooler,...
by Jensa Bell, Jensa Bell, Bhaswati Bhattacharya
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The book provides a common framework for physicians and biomedical researchers who wish to learn more about environmental concerns, and for members of the environmental community who desire a greater understanding of biomedical issues.
Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids
Protecting Your Children From Everyday Environmental Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This comprehensive and authoritative handbook, written by scientists, identifies many hazards that parents tend to overlook. It translates technical, scientific information into an accessible how-to guide to help parents protect children from even the mtoxic substances.
Limited Wants, Unlimited Means
A Reader On Hunter-Gatherer Economics And The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived in small bands of semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, finding everything they needed to survive and thrive in the biological richness that surrounded them. Mif not all of the problems that threaten our own technologically advanced society...