Conservation of the environment

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

Leading researchers present current methodological approaches and future directions for a less anthropocentric study of animal cognition.

Leading researchers present current methodological approaches and future directions for a less anthropocentric study of animal cognition.

This book focuses on global efforts to protect plant diversity and the role that botanic gardens play in conserving plant species.

This interdisciplinary and accessible book will help environmentalists to make stronger arguments in favor of conserving biodiversity.

This book focuses on global efforts to protect plant diversity and the role that botanic gardens play in conserving plant species.

This interdisciplinary and accessible book will help environmentalists to make stronger arguments in favor of conserving biodiversity.

A comprehensive account of how abiotic and biotic interactions shape patterns of coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystem processes globally.

Research papers from the end of twentieth-century have been assembled, alongside expert commentary, for the first collected volume on complexity-based ecology.

Presents solutions to turn conflict into tolerance and coexistence, with an emphasis on the human dimensions of human-wildlife interactions.

A comprehensive account of how abiotic and biotic interactions shape patterns of coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystem processes globally.

Research papers from the end of twentieth-century have been assembled, alongside expert commentary, for the first collected volume on complexity-based ecology.

Presents solutions to turn conflict into tolerance and coexistence, with an emphasis on the human dimensions of human-wildlife interactions.

This book introduces the principles of landscape stewardship in relation to sustainability governance, applying them to a broad range of land-use systems.

This book introduces the principles of landscape stewardship in relation to sustainability governance, applying them to a broad range of land-use systems.

This fully updated third edition provides a modern synthesis and review of the latest advances in understanding native vegetation across Australia.

A guide to making good decisions about wildlife management and biodiversity conservation against a backdrop of socio-environmental change.

This fully updated third edition provides a modern synthesis and review of the latest advances in understanding native vegetation across Australia.

A guide to making good decisions about wildlife management and biodiversity conservation against a backdrop of socio-environmental change.

Challenges conservationists to rethink protecting the natural world; making political strategies central to increase support and influence.

Using first-person stories and approachable scientific reviews, this volume explores how zoos conduct and support science around the world.

An introduction to chimpanzee behavior and conservation, synthesizing findings from long-term field studies in the African rainforest belt.

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet.

Challenges conservationists to rethink protecting the natural world; making political strategies central to increase support and influence.

Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change.

Using first-person stories and approachable scientific reviews, this volume explores how zoos conduct and support science around the world.

An introduction to chimpanzee behavior and conservation, synthesizing findings from long-term field studies in the African rainforest belt.

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet.

The real question examined by this book is not the extent of the failure of environmental policy, but exactly why did the policy fail?

The real question examined by this book is not the extent of the failure of environmental policy, but exactly why did the policy fail?

This book synthesises key insights from a century of ecological research and monitoring efforts in one of Africa''s oldest protected areas.

This book reviews the latest risk-based techniques to protect national interests from invasive pests and pathogens before, at and within national borders.

This book synthesises key insights from a century of ecological research and monitoring efforts in one of Africa''s oldest protected areas.

This book reviews the latest risk-based techniques to protect national interests from invasive pests and pathogens before, at and within national borders.

Tailored to environmental scientists, this guide outlines seven steps for writing documents in the context of conserving natural resources.

Tailored to environmental scientists, this guide outlines seven steps for writing documents in the context of conserving natural resources.

The first reference to demonstrate how birds survive the high-altitude Central Asian Flyway and the threats to this unique migration.

The first reference to demonstrate how birds survive the high-altitude Central Asian Flyway and the threats to this unique migration.

Make conservation investments using structured decision-making, mathematical programming, the power of markets, and behavioral nudges.

This book explains the changing philosophies and permutations in research and management of South Africa''s national parks during the twentieth century.

Through the lens of time, the book critiques environmental law and recommends ways to enable it to respond to nature''s time scales.

Make conservation investments using structured decision-making, mathematical programming, the power of markets, and behavioral nudges.

This book explains the changing philosophies and permutations in research and management of South Africa''s national parks during the twentieth century.

This first full-length study of modern British nature writing is timely and invaluable for literary scholarship in the environmental crisis.

Through the lens of time, the book critiques environmental law and recommends ways to enable it to respond to nature''s time scales.

This accessible book challenges and provokes readers by posing a series of topical questions concerning climate change and society.

This accessible book challenges and provokes readers by posing a series of topical questions concerning climate change and society.

This book synthesises recent research across temperate and tropical forest ecosystems, to present the numerous ways forests are responding to global change.

The first richly illustrated worldwide portrayal of urban ecology, tying together organisms, built structures, and the physical environment around cities.