Conservation of the environment

Advances in Carbon Management Technologiescomprises 43 chapters contributed by experts from all over the world.

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice is the much-needed complementary volume to Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction (CRC Press, May 2017).

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice is the much-needed complementary volume to Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction (CRC Press, May 2017).

Much of the country's recent population growth is situated in exurban areas.

Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year.

and management is presently undergoing enormous change: away L from managing single resources to managing ecosystems.

The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples.

Horseshoe crabs, those mysterious ancient mariners, lured me into the sea as a child along the beaches of New Jersey.

In this book, we document and evaluate the recovery of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

What was our planet like before the advent of our modern civilization?

Who Cares About Wildlife?

We developed the first edition of this book because we perceived a need for a compilation on study design with application to studies of the ecology, conser- tion, and management of wildlife.

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Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources will be the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact.

It has been increasingly recognized that trees and vegetation in urban areas provide a number of ecological services beyond beautifying cities.

The world is undergoing unprecedented changes in many of the factors that determine its fundamental properties and their in- ence on society.

The Alsea Logging and Aquatic Resources Study, commissioned by the Oregon Legislature in 1959, marked the beginning of four decades of research in the Pacific Northwest devoted to understanding the impacts of forest practices on water quality, water quantity, aquatic habitat, and aquatic organism popu- tions.

In the late 1960s, I worked as a graduate teaching assistant in plant ecology for the late Dr.

Wetlands throughout the world, including those described in this book are among the most sensitive and vulnerable ecosystems.

While studies of restoration and ecological succession have been published independently, there is much overlap between these approaches that has not been adequately explored.

Science for Ecosystem-based Management: Narragansett Bay in the 21st Century addresses the broad problem of coastal nutrient pollution.

A decline in populations of Allegheny woodrats (Neotoma magister) was first noticed in the 1980s.

Coral reefs around the world are sustaining massive damage at an alarming rate.

Post-agricultural studies have been central to the development of both the science of plant ecology and ecology in general.

Ecology of the Golden Mouse will interest students and professionals in ecology, conservation biology, mammalogy, and wildlife management.

In North America Juniperus woodlands occupy approximately 55 million hectares, an area larger than the state of Texas.

Is it a sign of the times that last year the Nobel committee chose to award the Nobel Peace prize to Wangari Maathai for having planted 30 million trees?

Rain Forest Biology and the Canopy System, Sarawak, 1992-2002 The rain forest takes an immense breath and then exhales, once every four or ?

Despite the number of wildlife and conservation studies that are conducted, researchers and resource managers have not had a comprehensive guide to planning new studies.

Big-Leaf Mahogany is the most important commercial timber species of the tropics.

The Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program that builds on one of the nation's leading undergraduate environmental studies programs.

Things have changed.

In boreal forests, which contain large amounts of the world's terrestrial organic carbon, fire is a natural and fundamental disturbance regime essential in controlling many ecosystem processes.

Small mammals can be regarded as excellent subjects to test suppositions about population growth migration and reproduction, and, in particular, on how the complex physical structure of the environment affects the ecology of populations and communities.

Knowledge is not to be sought Jor the pleasures oJ the mind, or Jor contention, or Jor superiority to others, or Jor profit, or Jame, or power, or any oJ these inJerior things, but Jor the benefit and use oJ life.

Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist.

The Appalachian Trail is America’s most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year.

Tanoak (Notholithocarpus densiflorus) is a resilient and common hardwood tree native to California and southwestern Oregon.

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The Political Economy of Nature draws extensively on current insights from sociology, ecology, economics and earth science.

In this book, Marco Verweij presents a new and challenging theoretical framework with which to understand international relations, based on the cultural theory developed by Mary Douglas, Michael Thompson, Aaron Wildavsky and others.

Governing for the Environment explores one of the dimensions of the value-knowledge system needed in any movement towards humane governance for the planet: the ecological sustainability and integrity of the Earth's environment.

This book explains the role and limitations of liberalized international trade on the global environment and sustainable development.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of migration as the default response to climate change, introducing the concept of Environmental Non-Migration (ENM).