Conservation of the environment

This volume brings together a collection of case studies examining wildlife ecology and conservation across India.

Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, ContemporaryMention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts like Aspen and Vail.

Materials and the Environment: Eco-Informed Material Choice, Second Edition, is the first book devoted solely to the environmental aspects of materials and their selection, production, use and disposal, by one of the world's foremost materials authorities.

An interdisciplinary research unit consisting of 30 teams in the natural, economic and social sciences analyzed biodiversity and ecosystem services of a mountain rainforest ecosystem in the hotspot of the tropical Andes, with special reference to past, current and future environmental changes.

The question of whether the earth's climate is changing in some significant human-induced way remains a matter of much debate.

The decision to implement environmental protection options is a political one.

Explores the complex relationship humans have with the environment.

An engaging history of the founding of one of the world’s most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine.

Feeding the world's growing human population is increasingly challenging, especially as more people adopt a western diet and lifestyle.

In zunehmendem Maße wird deutlich, daß Veränderungen in der Umwelt über komplexe Rückkoppelungen in alle Bereiche der menschlichen Existenz einwirken.

This book focuses on the long-term interactions between people and nature in and around Lake Biwa, one of the oldest lakes in the world.

The Times Best Gardening Books of 2022 Ornamental plants are the cornerstone of our gardens and we are spoiled for choice with literally tens of thousands of hardy beauties from which to select.

Whether referring to a place, a nonhuman animal or plant, or a state of mind, wild indicates autonomy and agency, a will to be, a unique expression of life.

While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of them, and many of us, may struggle to define the term, let alone trace its history.

It presents a new approach to set fish quota based on holistic ecosystem modeling (the CoastWeb-model) and also a plan to optimize a sustainable management of the Baltic Sea including a cost-benefit analysis.

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The many economic factors affecting sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico region are perhaps as important as the waves on its shores and its abundant marine life.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

People are key elements of wild places.

Professor Linda M.

A timely analysis of carbon pricing that contains important lessons for anyone concerned with the development of post-Copenhagen climate policy.

Im diesem Buch werden 6 thematische Schwerpunkte behandelt die leicht verständlich aufbereitet und daher für Vertreter verschiedener Disziplinen geeignet sind.

A major concern among ecologists in and outside the ASEAN region is the degradation of the environment, and the overexploitation of freshwater and marine resources.

A River Flows Through It: A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia explores water disputes in Asia and addresses the question of how states sharing a river system can be incentivized to cooperate.

An overview of our current understanding of how people influence, and are influenced by, the ''green'' component of urban environments.

This book provides insight into the hydrology, ecosystem services and management of water resources in the Parana River basin, including the importance of water to the socio-economic development of the countries within the watershed.

Environmental Management Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities details the environmental problems posed by the various types of toxic organic and inorganic pollutants discharged from both natural and anthropogenic activities and their toxicological effects in environments, humans, animals, and plants.

Tracing the life of Sir Cyril Norwood, one of England's most prominent and influential educators, this book investigates the historical development of secondary education in England and Wales during the early Twentieth century.

An accessible, engagingly written book on Arctic environmental change and cooperation by an author intimately involved in Arctic science and policy.

Selenium is a naturally occurring trace element that can become concentrated and released by industrial, agricultural, petrochemical and mining activities.

The Santa Ana River Guide by Patrick Mitchell reveals both the wild and urban sides of the Southland's most important river.

Protection of the environment has nowadays become a major challenge and a condi- tion for survival of future human generations and life on Earth in general.

This book gives basic facts about litter decomposition studies, which are of guidance for scientists who start studies.

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet.

Until now there has been no single, comprehensive resource on the status of North America's most threatened birds and what people can do to help protect them.

The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals is the only definitive reference on all the land-breeding mammals recorded in the New Zealand region (including the New Zealand sector of Antarctica).

This book provides a detailed evaluation of the hydro-ecological characteristics of the Western Balkans, an area characterized by still preserved inland waters and fish resources important for the European continent, as well as the biodiversity of inland waters important for the planet Earth.

Generations of plant scientists have been fascinated by alpine plant life - with the exposure of organisms to dramatic climatic gradients over a very short distance.

The World Heritage community is currently adopting policies to mainstream human rights as part of a wider sustainability agenda.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T.

Monitoring Nature Conservation in Cultural Habitats presents monitoring as an integral component of responsible conservation management and as a catalyst for decision making.

In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, use of agrochemicals, and biodiversity in order to challenge popularly held notions of environmental crisis.

Hier berichten Fachleute einschlägiger Ingenieurbüros und aus der Verwaltung von Schwierigkeiten, die sich bei der Durchführung einer Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung (UVP) im Planungsalltag ergeben können.

Like John Muir, David Pitt-Brooke stepped out for a walk one morninga long walk of a thousand kilometres or more through the arid valleys of southern interior British Columbia.

A survey of the development and practice of butterfly conservation in south east Australia, tracing evolution of the science through a series of cases from focus on single subspecies through increasing levels of ecological complexity to critical biotopes and communities.

Large predators are among the most threatened species on the planet and ways of conserving them in the face of increasing human populations and associated resource requirements are becoming critical.