Island Press: 819 books
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,...
Green Fields Forever
The Conservation Tillage Revolution In America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
*Green Fields Forever*changes the way Americans think about agriculture. It is the story of 'conservation tillage'--a new way to grow food for the first time that works with, rather than against, the soil. Farmers who are revolutionizing the course of American agriculture explain how conservation tillage works.
Living with the Genie
Essays On Technology And The Quest For Human Mastery
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
At a time when scientific and technological breakthroughs keep our eyes focused on the latest software upgrades or the newest cell-phone wizardry, a group of today's minnovative thinkers are looking beyond the horizon to explore both the promise and the peril of our technological future.
Human...
Steering a New Course
Transportation, Energy, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Steering a New Course offers a comprehensive survey and analysis of America's transportation system -- how it contributes to our environmental problems and how we could make it safer, more efficient, and less costly.
An Indomitable Beast
The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The jaguar is one of the mmysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable spirit so strong,...
Principles of Brownfield Regeneration
Cleanup, Design, and Reuse of Derelict Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
The US. EPA defines brownfields as "idle real property, the development or improvement of which is impaired by real or perceived contamination." The authors of Principles of Brownfield Regeneration argue that, compared to "greenfields"-farmland, forest, or pasturelands that have never been developed-brownfields...
Seven Modern Plagues
and How We Are Causing Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Epidemiologists are braced for the big one: the strain of flu that rivals the pandemic of 1918-1919, which killed at least 20 million people worldwide. In recyears, we have experienced scares with a hof new influenza viruses: bird flu, swine flu, Spanish flu, Hong Kong flu, H5N1, and mrecently, H5N7....
Striper Wars
An American Fish Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Striper Wars is Dick Russell's inspiring account of the people and events responsible for the successful preservation of one of America's favorite fish and of what has happened since.
Vital Signs Volume 22
The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
What we make and buy is a major indicator of society’s collective priorities. Among twenty-four key trends, Vital Signs Volume 22 explores significant global patterns in production and consumption. The result is a fascinating snapshot of how we invest our resources and the implications for the world’s...
by Marco Festa-Bianchet
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Efforts to conserve wildlife populations and preserve biological diversity are often hampered by an inadequate understanding of animal behavior. How do animals react to gaps in forested lands, or to sport hunters? Do individual differences--in age, sex, size, past experience--affect how an animal...
Conservation of the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
Saving North America's Western Grasslands
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Prairie dogs and the grassland habitat in which they play a key ecological role have declined precipitously over the past two centuries. The currnumber of prairie dogs is believed to be less than 2 percof the number encountered by Lewis and Clark in the early 1800s, and only a fraction of grassland...
People and Predators
From Conflict To Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2004
Carnivores provide innumerable ecological benefits and play a unique role in preserving and maintaining ecosystem services and function, but at the same time they can create serious problems for human populations. A key question for conservation biologists and wildlife managers is how to manage the...
Large Mammal Restoration
Ecological And Sociological Challenges In The 21St Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Evidence is mounting that top carnivores and other large mammals play a pivotal role in regulating ecosystem health and function, yet those are the species that are mlikely to have been eliminated by past human activities. In recdecades, numerous efforts have been undertaken to return some of the...
by David B. Lindenmayer, Philip J. Burton, Jerry F. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Salvage logging—removing trees from a forested area in the wake of a catastrophic evsuch as a wildfire or hurricane—is highly controversial. Policymakers and those with an economic interest in harvesting trees typically argue that damaged areas should be logged so as to avoid “wasting” resources,...