Island Press: 819 books
Tidal Marsh Restoration
A Synthesis of Science and Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Many coastal tidal marshes have been significantly degraded by roadways and other projects that restrict tidal flows, limiting their ability to provide vital ecosystem services including support of fish and wildlife populations, flood protection, water quality maintenance, and open space.
Tidal...
Ecology and Managemof a Forested Landscape
Fifty Years on the Savannah River Site
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Can land degraded by centuries of agriculture be restored to something approaching its original productivity and diversity? This book tells the story of fifty years of restoration and managemof the forested landscape of the Savannah River Site, a 310-square-mile tract of land in the coastal plain...
by Catherine Rich
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
While certain ecological problems associated with artificial night lighting are widely known-for instance, the disorientation of sea turtle hatchlings by beachfront lighting-the vast range of influences on all types of animals and plants is only beginning to be recognized. From nest choice and breeding...
Nature's Services
Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without...
by Robert W. Adler, Jessica C. Landman, Diane M. Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
This volume explores the issues associated with the complex subject of water quality protection in an assessmof the successes and failures of the Clean Water Act over the past twenty years. In addition to examining traditional indicators of water quality, the authors consider how health concerns of...
Invasive Species
Vectors and ManagemStrategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Invasive Species brings together in a single volume new information from leading scientists around the world on approaches to controlling and managing invasion vectors. This volume is a timely and essential reference for scientists, researchers, policymakers, and anyone concerned with understanding biological invasions and developing effective responses to them.
The Kruger Experience
Ecology And ManagemOf Savanna Heterogeneity
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The Kruger Experience is an invaluable new resource for scientists and managers involved with large, conserved ecosystems as well as for conservation practitioners and others with interests in adaptive management, the societal context of conservation, links between research and managemin parks, and parks/academic partnerships.
Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests
Ecology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as tropical rainforests, and are one of the mrepresentative and highly endangered ecosystems in Latin America, knowledge about them remains limited because of the relative paucity of attention paid to them by scientists...
Changing the Boundaries
Women-Centered Perspectives On Population And The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Changing the Boundaries explores gender relations with respect to education, reproductive health services, and agricultural resources -- three factors that are widely recognized as being central to the struggle for gender equity, population control, and environmental sustainability. As well as defining...
Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration
Five Case Studies from the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration presents case studies of five of the mnoteworthy large-scale restoration projects in the United States: Chesapeake Bay, the Everglades, California Bay Delta, the Platte River Basin, and the Upper Mississippi River System. These projects embody currefforts to address...
Restoring Neighborhood Streams
Planning, Design, and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Thirty years ago, the best thinking on urban stream managemprescribed cemas the solution to flooding and other problems of people and flowing water forced into close proximity. Urban streams were perceived as little more than flood control devices designed to hurry water through cities and neighborhoods...
To Heal the Earth
Selected Writings Of Ian L. McHarg
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Ian L. McHarg's landmark book Design with Nature changed the face of landscape architecture and planning by promoting the idea that the design of human settlements should be based on ecological principles. McHarg was one of the earliest and minfluential proponents of the notion that an understanding...
The Global Commons
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Vast areas of valuable resources unfettered by legal rights have, for centuries, been the central target of human exploitation and appropriation. The global commons -- Antarctica, the high seas and deep seabed minerals, the atmosphere, and space -- have remained exceptions only because access has...
The Whaling Season
An Inside Account Of The Struggle To Stop Commercial Whaling
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Despite a decades-long international moratorium on commercial whaling, one fleet has continued to hunt and kill whales in the waters surrounding Antarctica. Refusing to let this defiance go unchallenged, the environmental organization Greenpeace began dispatching expeditions to the region in an effort...