Winner of the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThis handbook presents a comprehensive overview of insect conservation and provides practical solutions to counteract insect declines, at a time where insects are facing serious threats across the world from habitat destruction to invasive species and climate change.
The fascinating story of how Ronald Reagan, self-proclaimed "e;sagebrush rebel,"e; took his revolutionary energy policies to Washington and revitalized the American economy.
La formación de profesionales de cara a los nuevos retos del siglo xxi representa un gran desafío, debido a la necesidad de desarrollar en los estudiantes competencias para un mundo cambiante.
Forest is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting today as they ever have been.
The fascinating story of how Ronald Reagan, self-proclaimed "e;sagebrush rebel,"e; took his revolutionary energy policies to Washington and revitalized the American economy.
Tantôt lieu de vie ou de récréation, la forêt est également une source importante de services écosystémiques, de ressources économiques et constitue à l’évidence un espace aussi fragile qu’essentiel à la protection et à l’amélioration de l’environnement.
Alors que de multiples crises environnementales, climatiques, sociales et économiques affectent le monde, la notion de risque a pris de l’importance, notamment pour anticiper les catastrophes.
This collection of reflective, critical, philosophical, and practical chapters represents the author's 60 years as a veterinarian, ethologist, and bioethicist.
La formación de profesionales de cara a los nuevos retos del siglo xxi representa un gran desafío, debido a la necesidad de desarrollar en los estudiantes competencias para un mundo cambiante.
Il ne se passe pas une journée sans qu’on nous alerte à propos d’une crise planétaire, voire d’un effondrement à court terme si l’humanité refuse de changer de cap.
This book provides for the first time an integrative analysis of the major drivers of decline and threats of insects and related arthropods in the Neotropical region.
This book provides for the first time an integrative analysis of the major drivers of decline and threats of insects and related arthropods in the Neotropical region.
In the mid-eighteenth century metaphysics was broadly understood as the study of three areas of philosophical thought: theology, psychology and cosmology.
This textbook provides students with a more holistic, systems-based perspective of harmful algal blooms, or HABs and HAB toxins, while explaining details on occurrence, health effects, and treatment processes for the removal of HAB cells and toxins from drinking water.
This book, aimed at Engineers, Architects, Building Technicians, and Students, offers a crucial insight into bioclimatic building construction in Tropical Africa.
Biofuels are promising eco-friendly, renewable energy alternatives, simultaneously curbing the dependence on depleting fossil fuel reserves, reducing the global carbon footprint.
L’idée d’une réinvention de la nature sert de point de départ, dans cet ouvrage, à une réflexion sur les possibles relations entre littérature et écologie.
This book investigates the relationship between human rights and taxation, exploring how human rights have been impeded or enhanced through tax laws and policies, and what this means for sustainable development in the Global South.
John Muir's 'A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (Illustrated Edition)' is a captivating recounting of the author's journey from Louisville, Kentucky, to Cedar Key, Florida.
In the seminal work 'Walden' by Henry David Thoreau, readers are invited to join the author on a journey of self-discovery and introspection as he immerses himself in nature near Walden Pond.
Richard Jefferies' 'After London' is a captivating dystopian novel set in a post-apocalyptic world where nature has reclaimed the land and society has disintegrated.
Et si l’intelligence artificielle (IA), régulièrement dénoncée pour son empreinte carbone croissante, était au contraire la meilleure alliée de la transition environnementale ?
Darwin legte in diesem Werk zahlreiche Belege für seine Theorie vor, dass sich Tier- und Pflanzenarten durch natürliche Selektion im Laufe langer Zeiträume verändern und dass alle heute existierenden Lebewesen von gemeinsamen Vorfahren abstammen.
Practicing veterinarians, veterinary technicians, professional aquarists, fish researchers, and tropical fish hobbyists will find this thorough yet concise handbook a complete how-to guide for keeping fish under human care healthy and thriving.
Practicing veterinarians, veterinary technicians, professional aquarists, fish researchers, and tropical fish hobbyists will find this thorough yet concise handbook a complete how-to guide for keeping fish under human care healthy and thriving.
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 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 contributed volume focuses on the Neotropical region, and explores the environmental, ecological and socio-economic components that facilitate the emergence of zoonotic diseases.
This contributed volume focuses on the Neotropical region, and explores the environmental, ecological and socio-economic components that facilitate the emergence of zoonotic diseases.
