Conservation of the environment

National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century.

National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century.

An introduction to runoff agriculture - a form of agricultural irrigation - this text describes how the use of surface and subsurface water, often overlooked and wasted, enables both small farmers and commercial agriculturists to improve yields and the security of harvest, even in harsh and remote environments.

An introduction to runoff agriculture - a form of agricultural irrigation - this text describes how the use of surface and subsurface water, often overlooked and wasted, enables both small farmers and commercial agriculturists to improve yields and the security of harvest, even in harsh and remote environments.

This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology.

This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology.

This volume works to connect issues in environmental ethics with the best work in contemporary normative theory.

This volume works to connect issues in environmental ethics with the best work in contemporary normative theory.

This book integrates three decades of owl monkey research conducted since 1994 when the first and only book focused on the genus Aotus was published.

For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks, countryside services have provided leisure, tourism, conservation, restoration and regeneration across Britain.

For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks, countryside services have provided leisure, tourism, conservation, restoration and regeneration across Britain.

The key aim of this book is to explore the global conservation and management of sharks.

The key aim of this book is to explore the global conservation and management of sharks.

Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional 'ecosystem services', from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection.

Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional 'ecosystem services', from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection.

`This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting major environmental issues.

`This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting major environmental issues.

This book reviews key developments in the field of marine science and technology.

This book reviews key developments in the field of marine science and technology.

European agriculture is on the brink of a financial and ecological crisis.

European agriculture is on the brink of a financial and ecological crisis.

First Published in 2004.

First Published in 2004.

In industrial societies imagining the future is a serious business; our assumptions about the future govern the present management of domestic, national and global resources, and are projected, some would say inflicted, on societies whose visions are different.

In industrial societies imagining the future is a serious business; our assumptions about the future govern the present management of domestic, national and global resources, and are projected, some would say inflicted, on societies whose visions are different.

Tropical Rainforests presents the most up-to-date and wide-ranging review of the problems and prospects of the world's most complex and abundant ecosystem.

Tropical Rainforests presents the most up-to-date and wide-ranging review of the problems and prospects of the world's most complex and abundant ecosystem.

We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little.

We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little.

This book looks at the transition from New Labour's 'Spatial Planning' approach to the Coalition Government's preferred 'Localism' approach.

This book looks at the transition from New Labour's 'Spatial Planning' approach to the Coalition Government's preferred 'Localism' approach.

The rural areas of Britain, Europe and the developed world are undergoing massive changes, with increasing concern about productivity, agricultural methods and environmental policy.

The rural areas of Britain, Europe and the developed world are undergoing massive changes, with increasing concern about productivity, agricultural methods and environmental policy.

Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, enviromental law and policy, and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their enviroments in hunter/gatherer societies, Enviromentalism: The View from Anthropology offers an original perspective on what is probably the best-known issue of the late twentieth century.

Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, enviromental law and policy, and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their enviroments in hunter/gatherer societies, Enviromentalism: The View from Anthropology offers an original perspective on what is probably the best-known issue of the late twentieth century.

This book provides an accessible overview of the ways that key areas of technology have impacted global ecosystems and natural communities.

This book provides an accessible overview of the ways that key areas of technology have impacted global ecosystems and natural communities.

The pace of environmental degradation in China has intensified in recent decades.

The pace of environmental degradation in China has intensified in recent decades.

Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest.

Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest.

Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers.

Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers.

Our attitudes towards `nature' and the countryside are fickle.

Our attitudes towards `nature' and the countryside are fickle.

This book marks a watershed in the social sciences.

This book marks a watershed in the social sciences.

Faking Nature explores the arguments surrounding the concept of ecological restoration.

Faking Nature explores the arguments surrounding the concept of ecological restoration.

The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five hundred years.