Applied ecology

Applying a socio-ecological framework, this book explores how the innovative approach of commons-based organic apple breeding can contribute to sustainability in agricultural and food systems more widely.

Secrets of the Manatee offers a fascinating look at Florida's most mysterious marine creature.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature - 6 Book Collection (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:"e;A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"e; is a narrative of a 2 week boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts, down the Concord River to the Middlesex Canal, to the Merrimack River, up to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, taken by Thoreau and his brother John.

Harold Biswell's decades of research and field experience were a major factor in developing policies of controlled or prescribed burning, which mimics or reintroduces the natural fire cycle.

Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, whilst others, now extinct, were abundant.

The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves.

Masterfully connects Scripture to nature and nature to God.

La protección de la biodiversidad constituye uno de los grandes retos actuales de los poderes públicos y, por ende, del Derecho.

Desde muy joven, Geoffroy Delorme tuvo dificultades para relacionarse con sus semejantes.

Aquatic plants play a critically important role in maintaining ecosystem health.

Aquatic plants play a critically important role in maintaining ecosystem health.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2024!

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2024!

This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law and policy in Europe.

Climate change is the most serious crisis of our time.

Climate change is the most serious crisis of our time.

This edited volume examines how to develop a planning and design process with green infrastructure that creates technical answers to the social and ecological function of the city's climate change adaptations demands.

This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law and policy in Europe.

Es más que evidente que el planeta Tierra está experimentando un cambio global que amenaza con diezmar las formas de vida y los ecosistemas de todo el mundo, además de comprometer la supervivencia de la especie humana.

La sanción de la Ley Nacional para la Implementación de la Educación Ambiental Integral N° 27.

Este libro presenta el modelo educativo de la Universidad Politécnica Estatal del Carchi, denominado Modelo Educativo Ecológico Contextual, cuyo propósito es generar acciones integrales que conduzcan el quehacer universitario hacia la sostenibilidad, tanto en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje como en la articulación de proyectos de investigación y vinculación con la sociedad.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development covers the climatic and atmospheric changes, greenhouse gases and their impact on eco-system, biodiversity, water resources, agriculture and food security, human health, extreme weather and environment across two sections.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development covers the climatic and atmospheric changes, greenhouse gases and their impact on eco-system, biodiversity, water resources, agriculture and food security, human health, extreme weather and environment across two sections.

Mistletoes are fascinating, diverse, colourful and ecologically important plants, found in most parts of Western Australia.

This book is a visual tour of Caribbean coral reefs between 1968 and 1978.

Sustainable Uses and Prospects of Medicinal Plants presents information on less known and underexplored medicinal plant species in various regions of the world.

Sustainable Uses and Prospects of Medicinal Plants presents information on less known and underexplored medicinal plant species in various regions of the world.

Understanding Nature is a new kind of ecology textbook: a straightforward resource that teaches natural history and ecological content, and a way to instruct students that will nurture both Earth and self.

Understanding Nature is a new kind of ecology textbook: a straightforward resource that teaches natural history and ecological content, and a way to instruct students that will nurture both Earth and self.

This book is a visual tour of Caribbean coral reefs between 1968 and 1978.

Ecological restoration, although a relatively new endeavour compared to other disciplines, has gained significant momentum during the last decade as accelerating global change becomes more apparent.

Why Elephants Cry is a fascinating frolic through the literature and evidence surrounding the use of unusual behavior of animals to measure and predict the environment.

Why Elephants Cry is a fascinating frolic through the literature and evidence surrounding the use of unusual behavior of animals to measure and predict the environment.

The second edition of this introductory GIS textbook is thoroughly rewritten and updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with technologies that address relevant issues across several disciplines preparing students for higher-level work in geotechnologies.

The second edition of this introductory GIS textbook is thoroughly rewritten and updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with technologies that address relevant issues across several disciplines preparing students for higher-level work in geotechnologies.

At Great Salt Lake, near Robert Smithson's iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty, a motley crew of scientists walks the mudflats to study fossils in the making.

This book introduces students to cultural anthropology with an emphasis on environmental and evolutionary approaches, focusing on how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture.

This book introduces students to cultural anthropology with an emphasis on environmental and evolutionary approaches, focusing on how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture.

En este libro se describe la base conceptual de un nuevo paradigma ecologico en arquitectura, y un proceso de diseno capaz de lograr una arquitectura perfectamente integrada en el ecosistema.

This book explores the biology of decapod shrimps, a group of animals known to most people as a nutritious and tasty food item.

This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking.

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic of cooperation among the involved countries.

This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking.

Amphibians are the oldest tetrapod group and show an astonishing diversity in lifestyles, many of them being unique.

Amphibians are the oldest tetrapod group and show an astonishing diversity in lifestyles, many of them being unique.

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic of cooperation among the involved countries.

Electronic device usage has increased considerably in the past two decades.

This book describes the fauna of the Pernambuco Endemism Center in Brazil's Northern Atlantic Forest, an understudied global biodiversity hotspot.

The world's activated carbon market volume has increased rapidly in recent years due to environmental regulations.