Applied ecology

The purpose of this book is specific and ambitious: to outline the distinctive elements, scope, and usefulness of a new and emerging field of applied ecology named warfare ecology.

An intimate portrait of a mysterious and misunderstood animal.

Fruit and Nut Crops: A Treasure Trove of Diversity and ResilienceDive into the fascinating world of fruit and nut crops in this comprehensive volume.

What do wild animals mean to humans?

This is the second of three Books that together provide an integrated picture of the Aegean Sea, presenting the natural components of the system (Book I and Book II) as well as the human presence in the extended area (Book III).

The Neotropics hold high levels of biodiversity, figuring among the essential hotspots for conservation on Earth.

The second edition of Ecological Forest Management Handbook continues to provide forestry professionals and students with basic principles of ecological forest management and their applications at regional and site-specific levels.

Two experts explain the consequences for the planet when corporations use sustainability as a business tool.

Originally published in 1988, Conservation at Home looks at practical methods of conservation that can be carried out within the home.

'The ecological challenge demands a paradigm shift in our thinking about the human-environment relation.

This book addresses the ways in which the Black Summer megafires influenced the development of climate narratives throughout 2020.

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This book examines the economic costs and benefits of the ecological restoration of estuaries, utilizing case studies from South Africa.

This book provides up-to-date information on the concepts and technologies in decentralized sanitation for wastewater treatment and management.

The underlying theme of this book is that a widespread, taxonomically diverse group of animals, important both from ecological and human resource perspectives, remains poorly understood and in delcine, while receiving scant attention from the ecological and conservation community.

Examining the current literature, research, and relevant case studies, presented by a team of international experts, the Urban Water Reuse Handbook discusses the pros and cons of water reuse and explores new and alternative methods for obtaining a sustainable water supply.

Documenting and understanding intricate ecological interactions involving insects is a central need in conservation, and the specialised and specific nature of many such associations is displayed in this book.

AWARD WINNER OF THE 2018 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZEThis volume is the first sustained examination of the complex perspectives that comprise ecomusicology-the study of the intersections of music/sound, culture/society, and nature/environment.

The book describes mechanisms whereby the Earth naturally thrives towards energy and resources abundance and how unsustainable industrial practices alter this trend.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of grassland ecosystems based on publications by Chinese scholars.

This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, and is an essential guide to peatland history and heritage for scientists and enthusiasts.

This handbook, produced by world renowned experts from the World Conservation Union (IUCN), spans the full terrain of protected area management and is the international benchmark for the field.

This book questions how bureaucracies conceive of, and consequently interact with, nature, and suggests that our managed public landscapes are neither entirely managed nor entirely wild, and offers several warnings about bureaucracies and bureaucratic mentality.

A pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology explores the ways in which the voice of the natural world informs many subjects   Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording the sounds of remote landscapes, endangered habitats, and rare animal species.

Heat Conversion Systems develops the underlying concepts of advanced Rankine-based absorption and compression cycles and introduces the Building Block Approach as a general concept.

This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the Water War, offering innovative methodological and theoretical conceptualizations of what it means to be "e;public,"e; helping to move debates on water services beyond the paralyzing binary of public versus private with a focus on the contested terrain of community engagement around water services.

This book "e;Biodiversity of lianas"e; under the series "e;Sustainable development and Biodiversity"e; is unique as it covers a wide array of topics in this subject covering all continents and will constitute a valuable reference material for students, researchers and forest managers who are concerned with biodiversity, forest ecology and sustainable development of forest resources.

This book delivers stimulating input for a broad range of researchers, from geographers and ecologists to psychologists interested in spatial perception and physicists researching in complex systems.

Environmental laws and regulations are extremely complex and difficult to understand.

This book is the first comprehensive history of international efforts to protect the ozone layer, the greatest success yet achieved in managing human impacts on the global environment.

The Marcell Experimental Forest (MEF) in Minnesota serves as a living laboratory and provides scientists with a fundamental understanding of peatland hydrology, acid rain impacts, nutrient and carbon cycling, trace gas emissions, and controls on mercury transport in boreal watersheds.

California is globally renowned for its biological diversity, including its wealth of unique, or endemic, species.

The second edition of this widely cited textbook continues to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to cave and subterranean biology, describing this fascinating habitat and its biodiversity.

Today molecular data is part of many biological studies, including taxonomic works.

How are indigenous and local people faring in their dealings with mining and related industries in the first part of the 21st century?

An eagerly anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series.

This book addresses the recognition of the Rights of Nature (RoN) in Europe, examining their conceptualisation and implementation.

El Salvador is possibly among the most environmentally degraded nations in Latin Americas, or even the Americas.

This interdisciplinary book brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Environmental health encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents.

This book focuses on upland agricultural systems and applies a multiple capitals approach to explain what they can provide at a time when many are struggling to survive.

Based on graph theory studies this book seeks to understand how tropical species interact with each other and how these interactions are affected by perturbations in some of the most species-rich habitats on earth.

This book examines the critical issue of environmental pollutants produced by the textiles industry.

This book systematically explores the emerging legal discipline of Earth System Law (ESL), challenging the closed system of law and marking a new era in law and society scholarship.

The Living Land sets out a new 'stakeholder' vision for rural regeneration in Europe.

The countryside is changing faster than ever.

Governance of Marine Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation explores governance of the world s oceans with a focus on the impacts of two inter-connected but historically separate streams of governance: one for fisheries, the other for biodiversity conservation.

Unique, global overview of the future effects of climate change and human impact on the world''s aquatic ecosystems.