S’adressant tant aux chercheurs et intervenants du milieu touristique qu’aux amateurs d’écotourisme, cet ouvrage collectif vise à partager la signification et les composantes de l’écotourisme en soulignant des initiatives écotouristiques entreprises partout dans le monde.
Greenwood Plantation in the Red Hills region of southwest Georgia includes a rare one-thousand-acre stand of old-growth longleaf pine woodlands, a remnant of an ecosystem that once covered close to ninety million acres across the Southeast.
This stunning chronicle of the first civilian Antarctic clean-up project, with contemporary and historic anecdotes and photographs, journal entries, and more than forty delicious recipes, is an intricately woven ode to the last wilderness.
Mono Lake is one of the largest lakes in California, and Californians have been using it, enjoying it, and abusing it since nomadic northern Paiutes began hunting the lake's vast bird populations.
Safeguarding the Environment in Mining Development gives a description of the role the extractive industry plays in the economic sector of most developing countries.
After many years of limited commitments to people or places, writer and naturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in his hometown of Spartanburg, in the South Carolina piedmont.
More than twenty-five years after his death, iconic writer and nature activist Edward Abbey (1929-1989) remains an influential presence in the American environmental movement.
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which todays industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.
As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called "e;ecocide.
In over 30 years as a senior captain for Greenpeace International, Peter Willcox has been in the vanguard of the international environmentalist movement.
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "e;dead heaps of ruins,"e; novel sights in the southern landscape.
Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert.
After many years of limited commitments to people or places, writer and naturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in his hometown of Spartanburg, in the South Carolina piedmont.
For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River, a region which is unlike any other on earth in its religious and historical significance.
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which todays industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.
