Applied ecology

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades.

Climate change poses multiple challenges to development.

Climate change poses multiple challenges to development.

The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope.

The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope.

Sustainable communities raise questions about the compatibility of capitalism and environmentalism and how we can green our way of life in a capitalist economy that values short-term production and consumption over long-term conservation and simple living.

The global demand for clean, renewable energy has rapidly expanded in recent years and will likely continue to escalate in the decades to come.

The global demand for clean, renewable energy has rapidly expanded in recent years and will likely continue to escalate in the decades to come.

Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally.

Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally.

Projecting win-win situations, new economic opportunities, green growth and innovative partnerships, the green economy discourse has quickly gained centre stage in international environmental governance and policymaking.

Projecting win-win situations, new economic opportunities, green growth and innovative partnerships, the green economy discourse has quickly gained centre stage in international environmental governance and policymaking.

Environmental problems - particularly climate change - have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades.

Environmental Anthropology studies historic and present human-environment interactions.

Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands.

Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands.

Household vulnerability to weather shocks and changing climatic conditions has become a major concern in developing countries.

Household vulnerability to weather shocks and changing climatic conditions has become a major concern in developing countries.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

Understanding Urban Metabolism addresses the gap between the bio-physical sciences and urban planning and illustrates the advantages of accounting for urban metabolism issues in urban design decisions.

Understanding Urban Metabolism addresses the gap between the bio-physical sciences and urban planning and illustrates the advantages of accounting for urban metabolism issues in urban design decisions.

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.

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.

Feeding an expanding population in light of environmental preservation and keeping production lean is a considerable challenge.

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

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

The second edition of Ecological Forest Management Handbook continues to provide forestry professionals and students with basic principles of ecological forest management and their applications at regional and site-specific levels.

This collection of reflective, critical, philosophical, and practical chapters represents the author's 60 years as a veterinarian, ethologist, and bioethicist.

Ecology - unlike astronomy, physics, or chemistry - is a science with an associated political and ethical movement: the Green Movement.

Ecology - unlike astronomy, physics, or chemistry - is a science with an associated political and ethical movement: the Green Movement.

This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia.

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

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

Farmers have developed a range of agricultural practices to sustainably use and maintain a wide diversity of crop species in many parts of the world.

Farmers have developed a range of agricultural practices to sustainably use and maintain a wide diversity of crop species in many parts of the world.

Human activities are depleting ecosystems at an unprecedented rate.

This original contribution to the field is the first to bring economic sociology theory to the study of federal land exchanges.

This original contribution to the field is the first to bring economic sociology theory to the study of federal land exchanges.

Demonstrating the shortcomings of current policy and legal approaches to access and benefit-sharing (ABS) in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), this book recognizes that genetic resources are widely distributed across countries and that bilateral contracts undermine fairness and equity.

Demonstrating the shortcomings of current policy and legal approaches to access and benefit-sharing (ABS) in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), this book recognizes that genetic resources are widely distributed across countries and that bilateral contracts undermine fairness and equity.

AWARD WINNER OF THE 2018 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZEThis volume is the first sustained examination of the complex perspectives that comprise ecomusicology-the study of the intersections of music/sound, culture/society, and nature/environment.

AWARD WINNER OF THE 2018 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZEThis volume is the first sustained examination of the complex perspectives that comprise ecomusicology-the study of the intersections of music/sound, culture/society, and nature/environment.

A key goal of fisheries management is to regulate extractive pressure on a resource so as to ensure social, economic and ecological sustainability.

A key goal of fisheries management is to regulate extractive pressure on a resource so as to ensure social, economic and ecological sustainability.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

Cultural Ecologies of the Land is a radical and challenging reassessment of the way we relate to the land and to infrastructure.

Winner of the 2017 CBHL Literature Award of Excellence in Landscape Design and ArchitecturePhyto presents the concepts of phytoremediation and phytotechnology in one comprehensive guide, illustrating when plants can be considered for the uptake, removal or mitigation of on-site pollutants.

Winner of the 2017 CBHL Literature Award of Excellence in Landscape Design and ArchitecturePhyto presents the concepts of phytoremediation and phytotechnology in one comprehensive guide, illustrating when plants can be considered for the uptake, removal or mitigation of on-site pollutants.