Island Press: 819 books
by Jessica Eise
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How can we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by tackling big issues one-by-one. Covering population,...
Rainforest
Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity—but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world...
Trophic Cascades
Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Trophic cascades—the top-down regulation of ecosystems by predators—are an essential aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades are often drastically disrupted by human interventions—for example, when wolves and cougars are removed, allowing deer and beaver to become destructive—yet...
Saving a Million Species
Extinction Risk from Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The research paper "Extinction Risk from Climate Change" published in the journal Nature in January 2004 created front-page headlines around the world. The notion that climate change could drive more than a million species to extinction captured both the popular imagination and the attention of policy-makers,...
Hazardous Waste Management
Reducing The Risk
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
*Hazardous Waste Management: Reducing the Risk*is the first book to study and rate toxic waste disposal sites and to provide step-by-step guidelines for evaluation, decision, and action. The innovative and practical ranking system shows how to rate facilities on the basis of site, management, and technology.
Taking Out the Trash
A No-Nonsense Guide To Recycling
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Taking Out the Trash is a practical and useful guide to how individuals, businesses, and communities can help alleviate America's garbage crisis.
Beyond 40%
Record-Setting Recycling And Composting Programs
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
Beyond 40% is a practical guide for communities trying to solve their solid waste disposal problems.
The Poisoned Well
New Strategies For Groundwater Protection
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The Poisoned Well offers vital strategies for citizens, community organizations, and public officials who want to fight the battle against pollutants.
Climate Change in the Midwest
A Synthesis Report for the National Climate Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Developed to inform the 2013 National Climate Assessment, and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage and conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, Climate Change in the Midwest examines the known effects and relationships of climate change variables...
Experiments in Consilience
Integrating Social And Scientific Responses To Save Endangered Species
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
In his 1998 book Consilience, E.O. Wilson set forth the idea that integrating knowledge and insights from across the spectrum of human study -- the humanities, social science, and natural sciences -- is the key to solving complex environmental and social problems. Experiments in Consilience tells...
Making Nature Whole
A History of Ecological Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Making Nature Whole is a seminal volume that presents an in-depth history of the field of ecological restoration as it has developed in the United States over the last three decades. The authors draw from both published and unpublished sources, including archival materials and oral histories from...
Urban Raptors
Ecology and Conservation of Birds of Prey in Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Raptors are an unusual success story of wildness thriving in the heart of our cities—they have developed substantial populations around the world in recent decades. But there are deeper issues around how these birds make their urban homes. New research provides insight into the role of raptors as...
The Value of Life
Biological Diversity And Human Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The Value of Life is an exploration of the actual and perceived importance of biological diversity for human beings and society. Stephen R. Kellert identifies ten basic values, which he describes as biologically based, inherhuman tendencies that are greatly influenced and moderated by culture, learning,...
Energy Sprawl Solutions
Balancing Global Developmand Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Over the next several decades, as human populations grow, the demand for energy will soar. But renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity. In Energy Sprawl Solutions, scientists Joseph M. Kiesecker and David Naugle...