Applied ecology

In the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' responses to past environmental changes and reflects on the lessons for current and future environmental challenges.

This textbook offers a reasoned and accessible introduction to the philosophy of the environment and the current environmental crisis, designed for scholars and students in both philosophy and the natural and environmental sciences.

In the three decades since the U.

La plage est devenue un espace de production de faits sociaux dans les villes d’Accra (Ghana) et de Lomé (Togo).

Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate.

This volume is taken from an ecological study of wetlands undertaken in northern Lake Victoria (East Africa) between 1993 and 1996 with the major aim of characterizing shallow vegetation-dominated interface habitats, and evaluating their importance for fish, in particular, for the Nile tilapia.

The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world.

The Himalaya, a global biodiversity hotspot, sustains about one-fifth of the humankind.

The Himalaya, a global biodiversity hotspot, sustains about one-fifth of the humankind.

Originally published in 1982, Biogeographical Processes is a concise introduction to biogeography aimed at undergraduate students.

This book provides an analysis of the recent governance of the Amazon in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia with a particular focus on deforestation processes, demonstrating that current policies and political and socioeconomic dynamics in the four countries are risking the forest's resilience.

Solid and liquid wastes generated as a result of various agricultural, municipal, industrial and several other processes have become a global concern.

In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the 'business case' for sustainability.

This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge related to concerns about methylmercury (MeHg) in the soil-rice system.

Written by Chris Maser, one of the architects of the sustainability movement, Interactions of Land, Ocean and Humans: A Global Perspective explores a critical number of the myriad aspects that comprise the great, reciprocal feedback loops between the mountain peaks, the deep sea, and everywhere in between.

In the first book-length study of Paula Meehan, one of Ireland's leading contemporary poets emerges as an original voice whose perspectives on gender, class, and ecology are transforming the Irish literary landscape and beyond.

The Fish in the Forest is an elegantly written, beautifully illustrated exploration of the complex web of relationships between the salmon of the Pacific Northwest and the surrounding ecosystem.

A complete user''s guide to structural equations explaining the underlying principals and practical implementation of these methods.

How to imagine and then realize an ecological order based on living within our biophysical means.

For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite suddenly and mysteriously.

This monograph on the Central European Magdalenian aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the archaeological record of this period.

In the face of what seems like a concerted effort to destroy the only planet that can sustain us, critique is an important tool.

Ausuferndes Siedlungswachstum hat nicht nur negative ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Folgen, es steht auch im Widerspruch zum Prinzip der Nachhaltigkeit.

This book addresses the use of Benedict Spinoza's philosophy in current attempts to elaborate an ecological basis for international environmental law.

Mistletoes are an enigmatic group of plants.

All life on Earth has the right to exist, but as we teeter on the verge of a sixth extinction this book discusses why biodiversity matters and why we should care if species go extinct.

This book is a guide for the identification of the indigenous forest trees of Uganda.

The landscape we see and live in is an important part or our everyday lives, be they urban or rural.

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Originally published in 1979, Solar Energy provides a tour of the world of solar energy and asks two key questions: is solar energy the key to the future of our energy needs, and what are the facts and potential of this source of renewable power.

This book is about disease and death.

That residues of pesticide and other "e;foreign"e; chemicals in food- stuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "e;Residue Reviews"e; and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the in- dividuals from whom manuscripts have been solicited.

This title was originally published in 1962.

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

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

Wild Mammals of Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park provides the scholar, conservationist, and interested lay reader with information on the state's 117 wild mammalian species from grizzly bears to pygmy shrews.

Every year, the world's governments spend over US $700 billion subsidizing activities that harm the environment.

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.

The dry land is one world and the wet sea is another, but the line separating them is ever-changing.

Nonlinear Physics of Ecosystems introduces the concepts and tools of pattern formation theory and demonstrates their utility in ecological research using problems from spatial ecology.

The new research described in this book demonstrates that the interplay of a host of founding conditions can frequently produce profound differences in population expansion rates and maintenance of genetic diversity in contrasting populations that differ, often only to slight degrees, in initial founding conditions.

Presents new evidence from more than twenty countries on the role of ecosystems in supporting the livelihoods of the poor.

The 2nd edition of this comprehensive book provides one of the most complete overviews of the aquatic beetles in the family Dytiscidae, also known as predaceous diving beetles.

Alors que culture et nature sont indissociables, les initiatives mises en place par les États pour préserver les ressources culturelles et naturelles ont donné naissance à des ensembles normatifs distincts.

Film has taken a powerful position alongside the global environmental movement, from didactic documentaries to the fantasy pleasures of commercial franchises.

That residues of pesticide and other "e;foreign"e; chemicals in food- stuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "e;Residue Reviews"e; and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the in- dividuals from whom manuscripts have been solicited.

This book presents recent research work on Biosaline Agriculture presented during First International Forum on Biosaline Agriculture in Laayoune, Morocco from May 3rd to May 4th 2019.