Conservation of the environment

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

This book gives voice to a group of leisure scholars who are engaged in conversations about sustainability.

This book gives voice to a group of leisure scholars who are engaged in conversations about sustainability.

This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, and is an essential guide to peatland history and heritage for scientists and enthusiasts.

This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, and is an essential guide to peatland history and heritage for scientists and enthusiasts.

Indigenous sustainability and environmental management cannot be understood apart from a community, its traditions, and ways of practices.

Indigenous sustainability and environmental management cannot be understood apart from a community, its traditions, and ways of practices.

First published in 1999, this book is a contribution to the debate on tourism and Third World development.

First published in 1999, this book is a contribution to the debate on tourism and Third World development.

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are designated areas in geographical regions of global socio-ecological significance.

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are designated areas in geographical regions of global socio-ecological significance.

Originally published in 1987, this book focuses on the areas of labour and employment education, the environment and ecological education, peacemaking and peace education, intercultural relations and multicultural education, education in the developing world and the changing role of the university and technological innovation.

Originally published in 1987, this book focuses on the areas of labour and employment education, the environment and ecological education, peacemaking and peace education, intercultural relations and multicultural education, education in the developing world and the changing role of the university and technological innovation.

This book reviews the frameworks and implementation of marine, fishery and coastal laws and policies in Chile, Mexico and Peru.

This book reviews the frameworks and implementation of marine, fishery and coastal laws and policies in Chile, Mexico and Peru.

Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world.

Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world.

First published in 1998, this volume uses Guyana as an excellent, comprehensive case study to examine various sectors' operations, effects upon the environment and the ways in which the sector can impact upon the vitality and development potential of other sectors.

First published in 1998, this volume uses Guyana as an excellent, comprehensive case study to examine various sectors' operations, effects upon the environment and the ways in which the sector can impact upon the vitality and development potential of other sectors.

This book is designed to show how ecotourism theory can be put into practice by exploring innovation, program applications, and research-supported case studies in ecotourism.

This book is designed to show how ecotourism theory can be put into practice by exploring innovation, program applications, and research-supported case studies in ecotourism.

It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both.

It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both.

The aim of the present volume is to review the effects of human activity on physical environment processes, and this is justified not only as a complement to the approach taken by G.

Since coal is seen by many as the logical solution to the nation's energy crisis, strip mining operations will continue.

This book tells how our welfare is ever more intimately tied up with the welfare of the millions of species that share the One Earth home with us.

Michigan is truly a "e;Great Lake State"e;: the two peninsulas, many islands, and 3,100 miles of shoreline on four of the Great Lakes give the state a unique location and a diverse physical environment.

The Sierra Club's Fourteenth Biennial Wilderness Conference was cosponsored by the National Audubon Society, with over 100 organizations participating.

This book seeks to promote better understanding of China through improved knowledge of its geography.

Without the assistance of Sherry Bryson, PublicationsOfficer of the Institute, this book would never haveappeared in press.

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Originally published in 1994, this volume presents research findings from experts on introduced pest ant species.

The world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular civilization that has struggled for more than a century against external domination.

This volume was assembled by two of Dr.

Although there is in the United States a clear national consensus supporting the protection of the environment, advocates often profoundly disagree about the policies best designed to achieve this end.

Although there is in the United States a clear national consensus supporting the protection of the environment, advocates often profoundly disagree about the policies best designed to achieve this end.

A rich, interdisciplinary study of Central African land ethics incorporating conversations with local rainforest inhabitants that yield vibrant new insights into the dilemmas of sustaining Africa's rainforests and its people.

Based on the proceedings of the First National Wilderness Management Workshop, this book is designed to serve as a guide to understanding and implementing the 1964 Wilderness Act.

This book focuses on the principles of wilderness, exploring the actual and potential values of wilderness, its ecology, economics, the effect of human impact, and mechanisms to protect small, relatively untouched tracts in or near urban areas in the United States.

Successful natural resource administration demands the well-exercised ability to deal with the interests of many actors--including the public and wildlife--in a balanced, constructive way.

Although Asia is the least urbanized continent, it contains half of the world's megacities and many of the world's fastest-growing economies.

The contributors consider how social science perspectives can contribute to our understanding of communities and their conflicting choices regarding the allocation and use of forest, agriculture and other natural resources.

This book is the outcome of a workshop on the conversion of tropical forest to pasture in Latin America convened in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1988.

This book provides an understanding of the many biological and sociopolitical considerations involved in the conservation of biological resources.

Bioenergy, a promising alternative for developing countries, is already a key resource (in the form of fuelwood, for example) in millions of households around the world.

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This book seeks to promote better understanding of China through improved knowledge of its geography.

Without the assistance of Sherry Bryson, PublicationsOfficer of the Institute, this book would never haveappeared in press.

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