Applied ecology

Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands.

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The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

This book, as a part of a series of CERES publications, provides a multi-regional and cross-sectoral analysis of food and water security, especially in the era of climate risks, biodiversity loss, pressure on scarce resources, especially land and water, increasing global population, and changing dietary preferences.

This book addresses the main enigmas of Easter Island's (Rapa Nui, in the Polynesian language) prehistory from the time of initial settlement to European contact with a multidisciplinary perspective.

Conservation interest in moths, by far the predominant components of Lepidoptera, lags far behind that for butterflies, for which conservation practice provides many well-established lessons for extension to their near relatives.

The captive breeding and reintroduction of highly threatened species are among the most challenging conservation interventions and often represent the final tool in a comparatively small toolbox to conserve rapidly declining species.

Was Wildnis ist und ob und wie wir Wildnis erhalten und fördern wollen, ist eine anhaltende, interdisziplinär geführte Debatte.

This book provides insight into the hydrology, ecosystem services and management of water resources in the Parana River basin, including the importance of water to the socio-economic development of the countries within the watershed.

This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs.

From tiny, burrowing lizards to rainforest canopy-dwellers and giant crocodiles, reptile populations everywhere are changing.

Historical Ethnobiology presents a unique approach to analyzing human-nature interactions, using theoretical and methodological aspects to examine historical scientific knowledge.

In Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylha bring together crucial insights from environmental history, sociology, media and communication studies and psychology to help us understand why we are failing to take necessary measures to avert the unfolding climate crisis.

How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation''s largest port.

Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the species–area relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.

This book is a collection of speculative judgments that, along with accompanying commentaries, pursue a novel enquiry into how judges might respond to the formidable and planetary-scaled challenges of the Anthropocene.

Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.

Soundscape Ecology represents a new branch of ecology and it is the result of the integration of different disciplines like Landscape ecology, Bioacoustics, Acoustic ecology, Biosemiotics, etc.

Ecotourism and natural resource extraction may be seen as contradictory pursuits, yet in reality they often take place side by side, sometimes even supported by the same institutions.

This volume is a complete review and reference work for scientists, engineers, and students concerned with coral reefs in the Red Sea.

This book focuses on global efforts to protect plant diversity and the role that botanic gardens play in conserving plant species.

This book is part of the 4-volumes collection of Atlas of Chinese Macrofungal Resources.

The History of British Birds reviews our knowledge of avifaunal history over the last 15,000 years, setting it in its wider historical and European context.

This book presents a new account of Euphorbia in southern Africa.

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.

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Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on contemporary futures studies.

Soil degradation is a widespread problem in Africa resulting in decreased agricultural productivity while demand for food continues to increase.

Drought, a serious global issue, is being aggravated by climate change.

Low-carbon transition is a shift from an economy that depends heavily on fossil fuels to a sustainable, low-carbon energy economy.

With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live.

Sustainable Engineering: Principles and Implementation provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability as it applies to engineering and methods for implementation of sustainable practices.

In the last two decades since publication of the first edition, substantial advancements have been made in the science, the need for transdisciplinary approaches to coral reef protection greater than ever before.

Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds of homes, businesses and temples.

Globally climate-induced disasters have been impacting marginalised communities' lives, livelihood and gendered relations.

Trees and plants are important components of the human environment having significant presence beyond agricultural and recreational values.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology contains timely review articles concerned with all aspects of chemical contaminants (including pesticides) in the total environment, including toxicological considerations and consequences.

Tropical Stream Ecology describes the main features of tropical streams and their ecology.

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

Using theory, applications, and examples of inferences, Niche Modeling: Predictions from Statistical Distributions demonstrates how to conduct and evaluate niche modeling projects in any area of application.

This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies.

This new book is the first to make logical and important connections between trapping and foraging ecology.

This book critically engages the emerging field of global animal law from the perspective of an intersectional ethical framework.

A crucial component of the New Education reform movement, nature study was introduced to elementary schools throughout the English-speaking world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Rove beetles (Staphylinidae) are common elements of the soil biota, living in the litter and deeper soil layers.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology publishes authoritative reviews on the occurrence, effects, and fate of pesticide residues and other environmental contaminants.

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores and analyses the field of the blue humanities through an Australian lens.

This book explores the relationship between oil pollution laws and environmental justice by comparing and contrasting the United States and Nigeria.