Conservation of the environment

This volume presents part of the proceedings of NERC 2022, with an emphasis on conservation of bio-diversity in North-east India.

In this book, Paul Clarke argues that in order to live sustainably we need to learn how to live and flourish in our environment in a manner that uses finite resources with ecologically informed discretion.

Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater Treatment: An Innovative Approach: This book highlights the importance of various innovative advanced oxidation technology to clean up the environment from pollution caused by human activities.

The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations.

This beautifully illustrated book is the first comprehensive work ever published on all four tapir species worldwide, filling a gap in the scientific literature.

This book aims to enhance understanding of the foundational principles and ethical considerations of citizen engagement in environmental conservation through an examination of successful cases of shared environmental governance in the Americas.

This volume provides comprehensive overviews of the primate's and each lagomorph species' biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat, diet, mortality and age determination.

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

Welcome to the Commonsverse, a parallel social economy helping millions of commoners take charge and escape the predatory Market/State order.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the intersections between cultural heritage and disaster risks.

Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resources leading to scarcity and conflict.

This book presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of mangrove ecological processes, structure, and function at the local, biogeographic, and global scales and how these properties interact to provide key ecosystem services to society.

The book provides the most comprehensive review of lamprey biology since Hardisty and Potter's five-volume "e;The Biology of Lampreys"e; published more than 30 years ago.

This title was first published in 2000: An original and thought-provoking analysis of modern initiatives in the tropical rain forest.

The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar-over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions.

Hosting Earth is a timely and much-needed volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy, drawing upon art, science, and politics to explore alternatives to the traditional domination of nature by humans.

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically net primary productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people.

The Role of Colloidal Systems in Environmental Protection describes the importance of colloids in many applications that contribute to environmental protection, including drinking water and wastewater treatment, heavy metal remediation, treatment of radioactive materials, corrosion, and energy conversion.

Dieses Buch richtet sich in erster Linie an Studierende in Studiengängen mit umweltwissenschaftlichem Schwerpunkt sowie an Physiker, Chemiker und Biologen, die umweltbezogene Themenfelder aufgreifen und vertiefen wollen.

With particular emphasis on plants, this thought-provoking text examines the implications of human influences on micro-evolutionary processes.

Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed and understood as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property.

In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gomez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital.

This volume is a collection of reports presented at the International NATO Advanced Research Workshop Conservation of the Biological Diversity as a Prerequisite for Sustainaible Development of the Black Sea Region.

Illustrated with case studies which explain key concepts and provide practical examples, this book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to water management issues from a European perspective.

In this important new book on the declining health of one of America's leading environmental treasures, Howard Ernst reveals a Chesapeake bay that has become functionally dead.

Dies ist die sehr persönlich erzählte Geschichte eines Umweltschützers der während des Weltkriegs II geborenen Generation.

A comprehensive photographic field guide to Madagascar's stunning mammal faunaThanks to millions of years of isolation, the island of Madagascar is home to one of the most remarkable assemblages of mammals on earth.

India and adjoining countries with diversity of people, culture and livelihoods are endowed with rich biological diversity and genetic resources.

Education as if people and planet mattered In Transformative Learning, Satish Kumar reflects on the legacy of Schumacher College, a beacon of innovation that fosters an ecological-based, holistic model of higher education built around the college's unique "e;learn by doing,"e; head, heart, and hands pedagogy.

The Arabian Seas Marine Region encompasses marine areas from Djibouti to Pakistan, including the northern part of Somalia, the Red Sea, the Arabian/Persian Gulf, and parts of the Arabian Sea.

The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?

Transportation of species to areas outside their native ranges has been a feature of human culture for millennia.

An absorbing celebration of the ecology, biology and cultural history of the rich hedgerow heritage in the British Isles.

Provides a holistic and comprehensive approach, covering a wide range of topics and issues relevant to conservation translocations.

This book comprehensively describes essential research and projects on climate change and biodiversity.

This volume looks at the ways in which climate change education relates to broader ideas of justice, equity, and social transformation, and ultimately calls for a rapid response to the need for climate education reform.

Life without Lead examines the social, political, and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic.

The author has been visiting the same village in Mauritania on the remote edge of the Sahara for over twenty years.

This book integrates principles of flow through porous media with stochastic analyses, for advanced-level students, researchers and professionals in hydrogeology and hydraulics.

The scientific community has voiced two general concerns about the future of the earth.

Maintaining forest biodiversity by combining protection, management and restoration of forest and woodland landscapes is a central component of sustainable development.

This book describes the biodiversity and biogeography of nothern Mexico, documents the biological importance of regional ecosystems and the impacts of human land use on the conservation status of plants and wildlife.

The book provides an in-depth analysis of the major issues related to the conservation of threatened medicinal plants in the Indian Himalayan region.

To fulfill its commitment to clean water, the United States depends on limnology, a multidisciplinary science that seeks to understand the behavior of freshwater bodies by integrating aspects of all basic sciencesfrom chemistry and fluid mechanics to botany, ichthyology, and microbiology.

Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation are both important societal goals demanding increasing international attention.

Terra preta is the Portuguese name of a type of soil which is thought to have almost miraculous properties.