Island Press: 819 books
Safe Passages
Highways, Wildlife, and Habitat Connectivity
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Safe Passages brings together in a single volume the latest information on the emerging science of road ecology as it relates to mitigating interactions between roads and wildlife. This practical handbook of tools and examples is designed to assist individuals and organizations thinking about or working...
Forests at Risk
Climate Change and the Future of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Climate change poses a huge threat to the West. The currmountain pine beetle epidemic with over 50 million acres of dying trees in western North America has created a powerful “teachable moment” across the region.
A primary goal of the Forests At Risk symposium was to reframe the nation’s...
Global Marine Biological Diversity
A Strategy For Building Conservation Into Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Global Marine Biological Diversity presents the mup-to-date information and view on the challenge of conserving the living sea and how that challenge can be met.
Water Ethics
Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Having manipulated water for irrigation, energy, and burgeoning urban centers, humans are facing the reality that although fresh water is renewable, it is as finite as any other resource. Countries, states, and cities are now scrambling to develop an intelligent, well-informed approach to mitigate...
by Richard L. Knight, Robert Costanza, Vawter Parker
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
This book explores the changes that are leading to a new century of natural resources management. It places the currsituation in historical perspective, analyzes the forces that are propelling change, and describes and examines the specific changes in goals, policy, and practice that are transforming...
Greening the College Curriculum
A Guide To Environmental Teaching In The Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Greening the College Curriculum provides the tools college and university faculty need to meet personal and institutional goals for integrating environmental issues into the curriculum. Leading educators from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature,...
Ecology and Design
Frameworks For Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Professionals, faculty, and students are aware of the pressing need to integrate ecological principles into environmental design and planning education, but few materials exist to facilitate that development.Ecology and Design addresses that shortcoming by articulating priorities and approaches for...
Reconstructing Conservation
Finding Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In the 1990s, influenced by the deconstructionist movemin literary theory and trends toward revisionist history, a cadre of academics and historians led by William Cronon began raising provocative questions about ideas of wilderness and the commitments and strategies of the contemporary environmental...
Good Urbanism
Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
We all have a natural nesting instinct—we know what makes a good place. And a consensus has developed among urban planners and designers about the essential components of healthy, prosperous communities. So why aren’t these ideals being put into practice?
In Good Urbanism, Nan Ellin identifies...
Across the Great Divide
Explorations In Collaborative Conservation And The American West
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Amid the policy gridlock that characterizes menvironmental debates, a new conservation movemhas emerged. Known as “collaborative conservation,” it emphasizes local participation, sustainability, and inclusion of the disempowered, and focuses on voluntary compliance and consrather than legal and...
Community Forestry in the United States
Learning from the Past, Crafting the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Across the United States, people are developing new relationships with the forest ecosystems on which they depend, with a common goal of improving the health of the land and the well-being of their communities. Practitioners and supporters of what has come to be called community forestry are challenging...
Let the People Judge
Wise Use And The Private Property Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
"One of the mserious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independmovemof small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations...
The Dominant Animal
Human Evolution and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In humanity’s more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it. In short, we have become the dominant animal. Why, then, are we creating a world that threatens our own species?...
Betrayal of Science and Reason
How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this hard-hitting and timely book, world-renowned scientists and writers Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich speak out against what they call the "brownlash." Brownlash rhetoric, created by public relations spokespersons and a few dissidscientists, is a deliberate misstatemof scientific findings...