Applied ecology

Animal welfare as a concept and practice is important to many disciplines and professions.

The volume on Vegetable Crops as a part of series entitled "e;Handbooks of Crop Diversity: Conservation and Use of Genetic Resources"e; will be a unique resource, first of its kind, which will elaborate on origin, evolution, taxonomy, identification, chemical characterization, and genetic improvement of Vegetable Crop Plants.

This book surveys the ecology of stoats resident in New Zealand since the 1880s, when they were deliberately imported from UK as potential agents of biological control against rabbits.

This edited collection offers fresh perspectives on sustainable development and social impact using a circular economy framework.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the place, value and significance of wetlands, presenting perspectives from across the environmental and social sciences.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of products, services, or related systems.

This title highlights the pertinent issue of climate change and its management using sustainable sources of finance.

This new, second edition of Primate Ethnographies: Fieldwork from Across the Globe is a collection of first-person accounts of immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions, revealing the excitement of studying wild primates and the multi-faceted challenges involved in conducting field research.

Si la langue n’est pas le seul facteur susceptible de favoriser le développement durable, elle y contribue largement.

Nous vivons dans un monde où l’urgence de la dette publique semble être plus importante que celle de la dette écologique.

Gardening during times of crisis can have significant benefits to individuals and populations in terms of health, well-being, social and economic outcomes.

This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms, including film, television and cartoons, among other cultural media.

Le cheval est un animal compagnon dont la relation avec l’humain a fortement évolué au cours des siècles.

This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms, including film, television and cartoons, among other cultural media.

La planète est en danger et la mer est l’une des principales nourricières de l’Homme.

Dans le village de Keur Samba Diop, niché dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal, la terre n’est pas qu’un simple héritage : elle est l’âme de la communauté.

This textbook is the first to teach insect physiology and biology specifically to students who lack a strong background in biochemistry and molecular biology.

Nous vivons dans un monde où l’urgence de la dette publique semble être plus importante que celle de la dette écologique.

Le cheval est un animal compagnon dont la relation avec l’humain a fortement évolué au cours des siècles.

This textbook is the first to teach insect physiology and biology specifically to students who lack a strong background in biochemistry and molecular biology.

This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's various environmental crises.

Discover the Extraordinary in Your EverydayEmbark on a transformative journey with Microadventures: Big Freedom in Small Escapes, a compelling guide that reveals the hidden wonders lurking within your immediate surroundings.

This title was originally published in 1959.

This title was originally published in 1959.

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.

This title was originally published in 1959.

This title was originally published in 1959.

From river otters and minks to bobcats, pikas, and flying squirrels, California boasts a diverse and intriguing fauna.

This volume delves into the colonial past and identifies papers on nature and natural phenomenon that were deemed 'primitive' and 'superstitious' by those who narrated them and analyzed them in the pages of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, published from 1886 to 1936; the period covered by the papers that have been reproduced in this volume.

Terrestrial Biomes: Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity explores the effects of anthropogenic activities on Earth's terrestrial biomes, species, and climate.

Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.

This title was originally published in 1966.

'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, ?

This title was originally published in 1966.

From river otters and minks to bobcats, pikas, and flying squirrels, California boasts a diverse and intriguing fauna.

This title was originally published in 1962.

This title was originally published in 1962.

This title was originally published in 1966.

This title was originally published in 1975.

Technopreneurship is an advanced version of entrepreneurship that incorporates cutting-edge technologies from AI to big data into entrepreneurial activities and leads to innovative solutions to problems that previous solutions have failed to sustain in the long term.

This title was originally published in 1966.

As humanity sits at an existential crossroads, this book introduces the need to build a nature-positive future to secure the functioning and stability of Earth systems essential to the survival and wellbeing of present and future human generations as well as the rest of Earth's amazing diversity of life.

This title was originally published in 1975.