Conservation of the environment

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda.

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda.

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) strives for the sustainable and equitable utilization of genetic resources, with the ultimate goal of conserving biodiversity.

The experience of environmental governance is approached in Improving Global Environmental Governance from the unique perspective of actor configuration and embedded networks of actors, which are areas of emerging importance.

The experience of environmental governance is approached in Improving Global Environmental Governance from the unique perspective of actor configuration and embedded networks of actors, which are areas of emerging importance.

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) strives for the sustainable and equitable utilization of genetic resources, with the ultimate goal of conserving biodiversity.

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.

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

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

This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development.

This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development.

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.

In recent decades, China has undergone rapid economic growth, industrialisation and urbanisation concomitant with deep and extensive structural and social change, profoundly reshaping the country's development landscape and urban-rural relationships.

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.

Off-grid isn't a state of mind.

Off-grid isn't a state of mind.

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications.

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications.

Arising out of human-environment interaction, sustainability problems resist disciplinary categories and simple solutions.

Arising out of human-environment interaction, sustainability problems resist disciplinary categories and simple solutions.

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.

The Dictionary of Sustainability provides clear and accurate definitions of the extensive vocabulary that has developed in this emerging and interdisciplinary field, saving considerable time from searching through the massive quantity of information of differing degrees of quality that is available through the Internet.

The Dictionary of Sustainability provides clear and accurate definitions of the extensive vocabulary that has developed in this emerging and interdisciplinary field, saving considerable time from searching through the massive quantity of information of differing degrees of quality that is available through the Internet.

Coral reefs are an important tourism resource for many coastal and island destinations and generate a range of benefits to their local communities, including as a food source, income from tourism, employment and recreational opportunities.

Coral reefs are an important tourism resource for many coastal and island destinations and generate a range of benefits to their local communities, including as a food source, income from tourism, employment and recreational opportunities.

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

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

Research from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies.

Research from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies.

Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "e;The Earth Summit"e;, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.

Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "e;The Earth Summit"e;, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.

In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the 'business case' for sustainability.

In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the 'business case' for sustainability.

This edited collection, first published in 1989, provides a detailed analysis of rural land-use policies on a country-specific basis.

This edited collection, first published in 1989, provides a detailed analysis of rural land-use policies on a country-specific basis.

This student-friendly textbook offers a survey of the competing conceptions and applications of the increasingly prominent notion of environmental security.

This student-friendly textbook offers a survey of the competing conceptions and applications of the increasingly prominent notion of environmental security.

The Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is rapidly receiving signatures and ratifications.

The Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is rapidly receiving signatures and ratifications.

As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance.

As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance.

This book, first published in 1985, provides an overview of resource management, together with a geographical treatment of physical, landscape and social resources.

This book, first published in 1985, provides an overview of resource management, together with a geographical treatment of physical, landscape and social resources.

The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice.

The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice.