Conservation of the environment

This volume investigates the effects of human activities on coral reefs, which provide important life-supporting systems to surrounding natural and human communities.

Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border community As a borderland city with generations of slow violence and extreme weather events like flash flooding and intense heat waves, San Antonio, Texas, speaks directly to global issues in climate politics.

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

Economic developments in irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric power generation in western Canada at the turn of the last century challenged the way Native peoples had traditionally managed the watershed environment.

A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk.

Taken from a report for the Electric Power Research Institute, Joy Dunkerley's study aims to clarify the relationship between energy consumption and economic output in industrialised countries.

The American Icons series celebrates the people, places, and objects that have informed American popular culture over the last 75 years.

Dive in to this breathtaking read about the world's oceansExplore the last wilderness left on Earth, with an enhanced and updated edition of this exhaustive guide to the underwater world.

The workshop "e;Genes and their products for tolerance to physical stresses in plants"e; was held in Maratea, Italy, from 24-27 September 1995.

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global political economy are often poorly understood.

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.

This book proposes strategies for improving the resilience and conservation of temperate forests in South America, such that these forests can provide ecosystem services in a sustainable way.

Rivers provide about 60 percent of the nation's drinking water and irrigation water and 10 percent of the nation's electric power needs.

The stingless bees are the most diverse group of highly social bees and are key species in our planet's tropical and subtropical regions, where they thrive.

Once the exclusive prerogative of domaine reserve, landscape has gained increasing importance in international law in recent years.

Das Öko-Auditing wird in Zukunft eines der wichtigsten betrieblichen Werkzeuge des professionellen Umweltschutz-Managements sein.

Monitoring has become fashionable.

A straightforward introduction to a wide range of statistical methods for field biologists, using thoroughly explained R code.

As human populations expand and have increasing access to technol- ogy, two general environmental concerns have arisen.

The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees.

This book presents the main drivers of benthic structure and processes in estuaries from the 8,000 km-Brazilian coast, assesses the influence of natural and human disturbance, and discusses their ecological importance and management needs.

Canadian Environmental Philosophy is the first collection of essays to take up theoretical and practical issues in environmental philosophy today, from a Canadian perspective.

Water scarcity, urban population growth, and deteriorating infrastructure are impacting water security around the globe.

This book focuses on eco-evaluation system monitoring and sensing, carbon-water modeling, mapping, and disaster prediction.

Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the species–area relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.

Thorough, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairies: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of the prairies, or the Great Plains grasslands of North America, offering a view of the past, a vision for the future, and a clear focus on the present.

Mediterranean-type ecosystems have provided ecologists with some of the most scientifically-rewarding opportunities to formulate and evaluate hypotheses about large and small-scale ecological phenomena.

Modern shore-station whaling on Canada's eastern shores developed with the spread of Norwegian-dominated whaling from local areas where stocks that had been depleted by new hunting technologies to more productive locations in the North Atlantic and elsewhere.

Mangroves and seagrasses form extensive and highly productive ecosystems that are both biologically diverse and economically valuable.

Originally published in 1988, this book was a plea for new approaches to environmental education.

Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) have been studied by primatologists since 1948, and considerable knowledge of the primate has been accumulated to elucidate the adaptation of the species over time and to distinct environments in Japan.

This book provides in-depth information on Caatinga's geographical boundaries and ecological systems, including plants, insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Today, problems such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and illegal logging have provoked various policy responses that are often referred to as forest and nature governance.

In less than a decade, activism against the fossil fuel industry has exploded across the globe.

This work was begun to provide keys to the aquatic insect species known from Brazil.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of recent trends of green science and technology.

Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country.

Recovering Bookchinholds social ecologist Murray Bookchin's ideas and legacy alive.

Governance of Marine Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation explores governance of the world s oceans with a focus on the impacts of two inter-connected but historically separate streams of governance: one for fisheries, the other for biodiversity conservation.

Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea.

A comprehensive account of how abiotic and biotic interactions shape patterns of coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystem processes globally.

From time immemorial the Bengal Delta had been an important maritime des- nation for traders from all parts of the world.

Four seasons of immersion in New Englands Great MarshLike Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of natures most intimate details.

A concise but comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of global deforestation for a broad audience of scientists and policymakers.

This book began when Kevin Timoney noticed a suspicious pattern in data reported by the Alberta Energy Regulator.

The Boids are back in town .

This advanced text focuses on the uses of distance sampling to estimate the density and abundance of biological populations.

This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation.