Applied ecology

Economic growth, reflected in increases in national output per capita, makes possible an improved material standard of living and the alleviation of poverty.

This book tells the sweeping story of the role that East African savannas played in human evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region today, and how these relationships might shift as the climate warms, the world globalizes, and human populations grow.

Renewable Energy and Green Technology: Principles and Practices is based on the present need to understand the principles and utility of renewable energy and green technology to minimize dependency on fossil fuels in global development.

Artificial or constructed wetlands are an emerging technology particularly for tropical areas with water scarcity.

Biological diversity - or 'biodiversity' - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem.

We don't know what we've got until it's gone.

This title was originally published in 1959.

As part of the Environmental and Ecological Modeling Handbooks series, the Handbook of Ecosystem Theories and Management provides a comprehensive overview of ecosystem theory and the tools - ecological engineering, ecological modeling, ecotoxicology and ecological economics -to manage these systems.

Sustainability challenges blur the boundaries between academic disciplines, between research, policy and practice, and between states, markets and society.

This book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of different environmental problems via in-depth studies of the Indian subcontinent.

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

Britain is home to fifteen species of breeding birds of prey, from the hedgerow-hopping Sparrowhawk to the breathtaking White-tailed Eagle.

When the first sputnik was launched and the space era began, few gave thought to the possible negative impact of putting satellites into orbit.

This first volume includes scientific sources that were foundational in the professionalization of science and in the development and dissemination of scientific thinking as it moved towards evolutionary thought, including emerging ideas in biology, botany, zoology, anatomy, natural theology, and geology.

Urbanisation and climate change are among the major challenges for sustainable development in Africa.

This book provides an enlightening picture of the role of microbes for sustaining life systems and how climatic factors will change the course of the processes.

Scientists and consultants need to estimate and map properties of the terrestrial environment.

This book brings together a wide range of sampling methods for investigating different arthropod groups.

What are plant galls and how are they caused?

This comprehensive guide describes the 447 species of wild orchids that occur in Victoria, Australia.

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism.

The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology was the first comprehensive and international anthology dedicated to green criminology.

In Green Equilibrium, Christopher Wills explains the rules by which ecosystems maintain a diversity of interdependent species, in particular the balance of predators and prey.

This book relates one of the most representative species of Patagonian wildlife, the guanaco, to human societies across time, and explores how that relationship has changed over time due to different land uses and productive interests.

The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem.

The ocean characterises planet Earth and differentiates it from the more than 5000 known planets.

The trend in industry and with the EPA is to prevent wastes before they are created instead of treating or disposing of them later.

Never before has the quest to balance the needs of people, the environment, and the economy been so important.

This book examines the issues of ecological crisis and sustainable development through critical reading of literary texts.

The use of GIS, and its application for solving environmental problems is growing rapidly.

Groupers are fascinating charismatic fishes commonly found in reef habitats around the world that sustain a global multimillionaire fishery.

Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment provides a surprising projection of a much greener planet, based on long-range analysis of trends in the efficient use of energy, materials, and land.

Waterlog celebrates the magic of water and the beauty of wild Britain.

Currently 868 million people are undernourished and 195 million children under five years of age are stunted.

This book presents a systematic study of transboundary, regional and local water conflicts and resistance across several river basins in South Asia.

The ecological sciences are a diverse array of major scientific disciplines.

This book explores the concepts, premises, advancements, and challenges in quantifying natural forest landscape patterns through mapping techniques.

This book sets out to bridge the order scales among pike researchers, populations, communities, management, and fisheries.

Animals are a major link between the water column (pelagic) and the bottom (benthic) habitats in most shallow systems.

This book comprises issues at the cutting edge of fruit fly management in the Americas, covering topics that are focal points of current activity and likely long-term importance to the progress of the field.

This book assesses the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), examining both implementation and compliance.

Key features:Captures the historic context and recent developments in science and policy arenas that address the potential for coastal wetlands to be considered as significant contributors to carbon sequestrationLinks multiple levels of science (biogeochemistry, geomorphology, paleoclimate, etc.

This book gathers interdisciplinary reflections fromresearchers, educators, and other experts on the subject of biodiversity closerto education and learning.

International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi- ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic en- vironments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published research papers and progress reports, and archival documentations.

Sharing Nature by author Joseph Bharat CornellA nature education classic has been rewritten!

Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives.

Sustainable Urbanisation in the Caribbean critically examines the socio-geographic context of island states, prioritising the nuanced experiences of Caribbean island states and territories that are largely considered small island developing states (SIDS), against the backdrop of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Water Crises and Governance critically examines the relationship between water crises and governance in the face of challenges to provide water for growing human demand and environmental needs.