Conservation of the environment

Changing Cold Environments; Implications for Global Climate Change is a comprehensive overview of the changing nature of the physical attributes of Canada's cold environments and the implications of these changes to cold environments on a global scale.

Global climate change requires the development of programs that consider the active restoration of degraded forests and the use of native trees in afforestation to preserve the natural environment.

THE SUNDAY TIMES' BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man's lands and fortress islands - and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place.

Are you wishing you knew how to better communicate science, without having to read several hundred academic papers and books on the topic?

Japan's traditional and fragile satoyama landscape system was developed over centuries of human life on mountainous island terrain in a monsoon climate.

The re-established forests of the Upper Delaware exist as a living reminder of centuries of both exploitation and good intentions.

Urban and Industrial Water Conservation Methods provides comprehensive and practical information regarding water use for various different sectors and describes the most suitable conservation devices and techniques to reduce water consumption in urban environments.

Environmental Crime in the United States provides an introduction to the laws that govern environmental crime, how these laws are implemented and enforced, and the impact they have had since their passing in the twentieth century and their continued applications.

The most up-to-date and authoritative resource on the biology and evolution of solitary beesWhile social bees such as honey bees and bumble bees are familiar to most people, they comprise less than 10 percent of all bee species in the world.

Since the first edition of this book published in 2005, there has been an immense amount of new and fascinating work on the history, ecology, and evolution of the Mediterranean flora.

The science is clear: by the mid-20th century human beings must stop burning coal, oil and natural gas.

Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally.

Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle beckon curious beachcombers with miles of wave-swept Gulf coastline.

This book addresses the technical, health, regulatory, and social aspects of ground water withdrawals, water use, and water quality in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, and makes recommendations to improve the balance of water supply, water demand, and water conservation.

The thoroughly updated new edition of Gordon Bonan''s comprehensive textbook on terrestrial ecosystems and climate change, for advanced students and researchers.

The science is clear: by the mid-20th century human beings must stop burning coal, oil and natural gas.

Wild animals have been housed in zoos and aquariums for 5,000 years, fascinating people living in virtually every society.

Originally published in 1986, Floods and Drainage advanced hazard - response theory as developed mainly by the White/Burton/Kates school of researchers in North America.

This book presents studies on current vegetation topics, from polar to tropical regions.

This book explores the practice of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the cities of the Global South.

Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book covers all aspects of the plant life of Britain and Ireland.

Der Begriff Umweltschutztechnik verbindet Schutz und Umwelt als Vorsorgeprinzip und Wiederherstellung geschädigter Ökosysteme mit technischen Mitteln.

Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth.

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A new and integrative analysis of the concept of ecosystem functioning, providing guidance for its application in conservation practice.

Data assimilation is considered a key component of numerical ocean model development and new data acquisition strategies.

In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services.

First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic.

An incisive examination of community forestry in a pan-national context, highlighting both the possibilities and challenges associated with its implementation.

Reviewed here is the current state of knowledge concerning the relationship between global change and biodiversity of temperate ecosystems.

Visualizing Nature brings together contemporary visionaries to share deeply personal essays on nature, ecology, sustainability, climate change, philosophy, and more.

The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change: Scaling Ecological Energetics from Organism to the Biosphere, Second Edition examines the global carbon cycle and energy balance of the biosphere, following carbon and energy through increasingly complex levels of metabolism-from cells to ecosystems.

Money and market prices obscure an unequal global exchange of resources, which is a prerequisite to what we perceive as technological progress.

This book tells the sweeping story of the role that East African savannas played in human evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region today, and how these relationships might shift as the climate warms, the world globalizes, and human populations grow.

Serpent River Resurgence tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persistent forces of settler colonialism and the effects of uranium mining at Elliot Lake, Ontario.

Fragmentierung und Zerstörung von Wildtier-Lebensräumen durch menschliche Aktivitäten stellen heute im Natur- und Artenschutz eine der grössten Herausforderungen dar.

This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a strong evolutionary focus.

Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a river of grass, most people considered the area worthless.

This practical and bold book unifies multiple aspects of plant conservation into a single coherent concept, linking theory and methodology.

Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Keys to Nearctic Fauna, Fourth Edition presents a comprehensive revision and expansion of this trusted professional reference manual and educational textbook-from a single North American tome into a developing multivolume series covering inland water invertebrates of the world.

The Docks is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles.

Unique, global overview of the future effects of climate change and human impact on the world''s aquatic ecosystems.

Conservationists assume a set of underlying values which guide their decision-making and action.

Britain is home to fifteen species of breeding birds of prey, from the hedgerow-hopping Sparrowhawk to the breathtaking White-tailed Eagle.

At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change.