Applied ecology

As the American Southwest faces its deepest drought in history, this book explores the provocative notion of "e;water bankruptcy"e; with a view towards emphasizing the diversity and complexity of water issues in this region.

This book covers a wide range of topics within enviromental engineering and technologies including:* General environmental engineering* Clean energy and sustainability* Water and wastewater management* Public health and environment.

This new edition has been revised throughout, and adds several sections, including: lean manufacturing and design for the environment, low impact development and green infrastructure, green science and engineering, and sustainability.

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities reveals how environmental research infrastructures (RIs) provide new valuable insights on ecological processes that cannot be realized by more traditional short-term funding cycles and are integral to understand our changing world.

Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to ecologists, evolutionary scientists, geographers, geologists, and scientists in related disciplines.

There has been ever increasing interest in understanding the various aspects of available resources and production, in terms of need and supply, conservation and environmental impacts and so on.

This book is a bridge between ecological paradigms - organismal/community approaches to food web dynamics and ecosystem-level approaches to production.

Drought is a slow-onset natural hazard that is often referred to as a creeping phenomenon.

This compendium volume, Urban Land Use: Community-Based Planning, covers a range of land use planning and community engagement issues.

Over the last decade, the study of shark biology has benefited from the development, refinement, and rapid expansion of novel techniques and advances in technology.

Over the last decade, the study of shark biology has benefited from the development, refinement, and rapid expansion of novel techniques and advances in technology.

In this second edition of a bestseller, authors Paul H.

In this second edition of a bestseller, authors Paul H.

This text reflects the immense current growth in interest in agroecology and changing approaches to it.

This text reflects the immense current growth in interest in agroecology and changing approaches to it.

Southeast Asia is highly diversified in terms of socio-ecosystems and biodiversity, but is undergoing dramatic environmental and social changes.

Southeast Asia is highly diversified in terms of socio-ecosystems and biodiversity, but is undergoing dramatic environmental and social changes.

This book covers all facets involving the production and use of ethanol.

This book covers all facets involving the production and use of ethanol.

This book presents an integrated discussion on ecotoxicology, containing both general concepts and specific ecotoxicological issues of major biological groups, extending beyond conventional systems.

This book presents an integrated discussion on ecotoxicology, containing both general concepts and specific ecotoxicological issues of major biological groups, extending beyond conventional systems.

Forestry today, like many other sectors that traditionally rely on material goods, faces significant global drivers of societal change that are less often addressed than the environmental concerns commonly in the spotlight of scientific, political, and news media.

Forestry today, like many other sectors that traditionally rely on material goods, faces significant global drivers of societal change that are less often addressed than the environmental concerns commonly in the spotlight of scientific, political, and news media.

This book examines the current literature and knowledge on the evolution and ecology of all the birds named as eagles, with particular emphasis on the larger species.

This book examines the current literature and knowledge on the evolution and ecology of all the birds named as eagles, with particular emphasis on the larger species.

Die Gestaltung und Nutzung öffentlicher Räume hat sich in den letzten Jahren radikal verändert.

This book presents a series of "e;ecological law"e; case studies, designed to illustrate in concrete, real-world ways how ecological law would transform law in a range of diverse contexts.

Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region.

A critical synthesis of the impacts of climate change on birds, examining potential future effects and conservation responses.

A critical synthesis of the impacts of climate change on birds, examining potential future effects and conservation responses.

An accessible introduction to the theory and practice of multivariate analysis for graduates, researchers and professionals dealing with ecological problems.

An accessible introduction to the theory and practice of multivariate analysis for graduates, researchers and professionals dealing with ecological problems.

The Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC is the standard scientific reference on climate change for students, researchers and policy makers.

An important, interdisciplinary study of the many dimensions of human-driven biodiversity change.

This book examines the threat that climate change poses to the projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation.

A critical insight into the diverse socio-cultural, political, economic and ecological contexts of the global whale-watching industry.

An important, interdisciplinary study of the many dimensions of human-driven biodiversity change.

The Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC is the standard scientific reference on climate change for students, researchers and policy makers.

This book discusses linkages between the natural and disturbed chemical composition of the earth's surface and ecological and human health.

This book examines the threat that climate change poses to the projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation.

A critical insight into the diverse socio-cultural, political, economic and ecological contexts of the global whale-watching industry.

An exploration of the biodiversity status of coastal habitats worldwide, emphasising their importance to society, major threats and conservation challenges.

This book reviews state-of-the-art research into trait-based effects and their importance in community and ecosystem ecology.

The first volume to integrate life''s biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions into a single, coherent framework.

This book reviews state-of-the-art research into trait-based effects and their importance in community and ecosystem ecology.

This reference book comprehensively delves into the systematics, taxonomy, morphology, ecology, and behaviour of the Lepidostomatidae (Trichoptera) in India.

Synthesis of remarkable long-term and well-known study of the population dynamics of soay sheep on St Kilda.

This book combines the ''resilience'' and ''cultural landscape'' approaches to develop a new perspective on analysing and managing landscape changes.

This book combines the ''resilience'' and ''cultural landscape'' approaches to develop a new perspective on analysing and managing landscape changes.

An accessible account of how forest fires work, the ecological effects they have, and why and how we fight fires.