Applied ecology

This title was originally published in 1966.

The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology presents a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the rapidly growing field of political ecology.

Ecological Microcosms is a seminal work which reviews the expanding field of enclosed ecosystem research, and relates the results and models of microcosm studies to general concepts in ecology.

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour.

The European Union (EU) has a hugely important effect on the way in which environmental policies are framed, designed and implemented in many parts of the world, but especially Europe.

An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths.

Offers a global perspective on freshwater systems, highlighting how the conservation of crayfish will help protect ecosystem quality.

This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues.

A detailed account of the biology and ecology of vascular wetland plants and their applications in wetland plant science, Wetland Plants: Biology and Ecology presents a synthesis of wetland plant studies and reviews from biology, physiology, evolution, genetics, community and population ecology, environmental science, and engineering.

Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from CHOICE MagazineEncyclopedia of Environmental Management gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

Depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, on assiste à un développement exceptionnel des connaissances dans le domaine de la biologie.

Water is intricately linked with food security, energy security, and sustainable development.

The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of environmental regionalism at the international level, analyzing the concept and identifying recurring patterns from six in-depth case studies.

This book describes all of the fishes found in North and South Dakota, USA.

The twenty-first century is a period of great environmental and social transformation as climate change increasingly marks lives at levels that are personal, familial, communal, national, and global.

Originally published in 1981 Historical Plant Geography is an introductory treatment of historical plant geography and stresses the basic theoretical frame of the subject.

For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 150 of the best walks, tracks or trails in Victoria, which can be walked, cycled or driven by the moderately fit individual.

The Conservation of Violence explores the governance of protected forests in Zimbabwe, highlighting the structural and operational mechanism through which violent tactics are produced, employed, and sustained to promote nature conservation.

What can be done to ensure natural resources aren't exploited?

Americans are over-regulated and over-taxed.

Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature.

The extreme microbiomes are those microorganisms thriving under extreme conditions where no other living being will have any chance to survive.

This book consolidates and summarizes smart technologies like IoT, edge computing, and AI used in different aspects of waste material management, mitigation, and recycling for a sustainable environment.

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Sea-Birds introduces us to the sea-birds of the North Atlantic, an ocean in which about half the world sea-bird species have been seen at one time or another.

Effective marine biodiversity conservation is dependent upon a clear scientific rationale for practical interventions.

The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse.

Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com- in foodstuffs and in both abiotic munities over traces of toxic chemicals and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports, and archival documentations.

In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks.

The Handbook of Sustainable Industrial Wastewater Treatment is an indispensable resource for addressing the pressing challenges of wastewater management through innovative and sustainable technologies.

For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics, the name Aldo Leopold is sure to pop up.

In the mid-eighteenth century metaphysics was broadly understood as the study of three areas of philosophical thought: theology, psychology and cosmology.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing transnational climate movement.

Australia and the United States face very similar challenges in dealing with drought.

Agroecology is a science, a productive practice, and part of a social movement that is at the forefront of transforming food systems to sustainability.

The relationship between human rights and the environment, as evidenced by the 2022 UN Resolution on the human right to a healthy environment, is a topical, fascinating, uneasy, and increasingly urgent one.

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world.

Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values.

Himalaya, one of the global biodiversity hotspots, is the abode of a variety of flora and fauna.

This book uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to examine how Earth's human-caused ecological crisis arose and presents a new legal approach for overcoming it.

Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences.

This book presents an earth science-based overview of the challenges to sustainability.

Capitalism and the Commons focuses on the political and social perspectives that commons offer, how they are appropriated or suppressed by capital and state, and how social initiatives and movements contest these dynamics or build their struggles on commoning.

The largest part of the world's food comes from its soils, either directly from plants, or via animals fed on pastures and crops.

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In Eco-Performance, Art, and Spatial Justice in the US, Courtney B.

This book examines the connections between natural resources, tourism and community livelihood practices in Southern Africa, highlighting the successes and constraints experienced over the last 50 years.