Conservation of the environment

The Eurasian beaver was near extinction at the start of the twentieth century, hunted across Europe for its fur, meat and castoreum.

Muntjac and water deer were introduced to Britain from East Asia.

The committee assesses the USGS's responses to a 1996 program review, evaluates the minerals information team, and examines how the program's mission and vision might evolve to meet the nation's future needs over the next decade.

Katrina's arrival on the Gulf Coast was a long time in coming.

Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century.

Legal and environmental concerns related to Indian law and tribal lands remain an understudied branch of both indigenous law and environmental law.

This book explores the psychology of trophy hunting from a critical perspective and considers the reasons why some people engage in the controversial activity of killing often endangered animals for sport.

Wood-pastures are important elements of European cultural identity and have an exceptional ecological value, yet they are in decline all over Europe.

How one of the world''s most important religions, Christianity, shaped one of the important issues of our time, the environment.

A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social arachnids.

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Der Schneehase (Lepus timidus) in den Alpen ist ein Spezialist für Extreme und lebt von vielen unbeobachtet.

Although all living beings modify their environment, human beings have acquired the ability to do so on a superlative space-time scale.

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Canada and the United States are similar in terms of the species of wildlife that mingle freely across their shared border.

Wetlands perform functions that deliver benefits to society, often referred to as ecosystem services.

The Butterflies of Britain & Ireland provides comprehensive coverage of all our resident and migratory butterflies, including the latest information on newly discovered species such as Cryptic Wood White and the Geranium Bronze.

Voices for the Watershed is a unique look at the singular and ecologically inter-connected region of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence watershed, including the headwater and upland regions.

In Naturschutzgebieten geschieht vieles, das auf den ersten Blick widersprüchlich ist.

Following the discovery of large petroleum reserves in northern Alaska, the US Department of Energy implemented an integrated field and modeling study to help define potential impacts of energy-related disturbances on tundra ecosystems.

Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth.

An engaging and provocative book about the contribution economics can make to environmental policy.

From shipments of Canadian waste rotting in developing countries to overflowing landfills and ineffective recycling programs, Canada is facing a waste crisis.

A celebration of the wildlife and landscapes of Britain's most vital wildlife habitats those that make up our coastline.

Global climate change requires the development of programs that consider the active restoration of degraded forests and the use of native trees in afforestation to preserve the natural environment.

Bats have long been the focus of fascination, and sometimes fear: they move faultlessly through the darkness and spend the day hanging upside down in gloomy caverns and cracks - most at home where humans are least comfortable.

This timely book argues that the New Zealand educational reforms were the product of longstanding unresolved educational issues that came to a head during the profound economic and cultural crisis of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world.

This book sets out the discussion on how cities can contribute solutions to some of the challenges the urbanised world is facing, such as the pressure of growing populations, mitigation of effects of, and adaptation to globally changing environmental, climate and public health conditions.

This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live.

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).

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An exploration of product certification programs and the factors that explain their varied success in becoming global governors equipped to tackle environmental and social problems effectively Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desirable benefits as improved environmental conditions or more equitable market transactions.

The northeastern seaboard of North America, extending from Labrador to Cape Cod, was the first region of North America to suffer from human exploitation.

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature's soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range.

In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human entanglement.

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

Over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas.

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields.

How did a random batch of chimpanzees come to populate a small island in Tanzania where apes had never lived before?

In a world where habitats are constantly changing and the impact of anthropization on the environment is increasingly intense, interactions between human and wildlife are becoming more and more complex.

A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to the Jasper Community Team Society, a long-running local non-profit operated by community volunteers.

This original contribution to the field is the first to bring economic sociology theory to the study of federal land exchanges.

This book demonstrates how varying levels of human disturbance manifested through different management regimes influence composition, richness, diversity and abundance of key mammal, bird and plant species, even within ecologically similar habitats.

Is nature's value only instrumental value for human beings or does nature also have intrinsic value?

Over the last few decades, unprecedented global population growth has led to increased demand for food and shelter.

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

Dieses Buch ist aus einer zweisemestrigen Vorlesung über die Physik der Atmosphäre im Rahmen des Faches Umweltphysik and der Universität Heidelberg hervorgegangen.