Conservation of the environment

Mutualisms, interactions between two species that benefit both of them, have long captured the public imagination.

This book examines critical themes in environmental studies though theatre and performance studies.

Parrots' colour and charisma, coupled with the fact that they mimic human speech, make them fascinating to many people.

There are many reasons why strategic intelligence is required to support policy decisions.

A detailed description and analysis of European nature conservation and its achievements, focussing on the EU and last forty years.

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism.

The climate crisis and its resulting eco-anxiety is the biggest challenge of our time.

Die "Erinnerungen an Pioniere des Schweizerischen Nationalparks" sind ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Schweizerischen Nationalparks, insbesondere zu dessen Forschungsgeschichte.

This is the first comprehensive science-based primer to highlight the unique ecosystem services provided by mangrove forests, and discuss how these services preserve the livelihoods of coastal populations.

Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia is one of the most famous of the early works of Clifford Geertz.

Redefining Diversity and Dynamics of Natural Resources Management in Southeast Asia, Volumes 1-4 brings together scientific research and policy issues across various topographical area in Asia to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues facing the region.

Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography *';We see through this book the immense power of languageto change the minds of lawmakers and tourists alike.

Why should any society take the decision to devote scarce resources, as a matter of public policy, to preserving natural objects?

The aim of this book is to catalyse global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management.

The book will provide an overview of the practical application of remote sensing for the purposes of nature conservation as developed by ecologists in collaboration with remote sensing specialists, providing guidance on all phases from the planning of remote sensing projects for conservation to the interpretation and validation of the images.

This book addresses the effectiveness of existing protected areas at conserving the diversity of genes, species and ecosystems on land and at sea.

The analysis of polar ice cores has proven to be very instructive about past environmental conditions on the time scale of several climatic cycles, and recent drilling operations have provided information of great value for global change issues.

Rivers have been vitally important to human populations worldwide for millennia as "e;highways"e; for inland travel, and as sources of water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, manufacturing, irrigation, and power generation, as well as repositories for human, animal, and industrial wastes.

The study of primate ecology and conservation has advanced rapidly in recent years.

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Over the past several decades, the field of invasion biology has rapidly expanded as global trade and the spread of human populations have increasingly carried animal and plant species across natural barriers that have kept them ecologically separated for millions of years.

This book aims to quantify and discuss how societies have directly and indirectly benefited from ecosystem services in Patagonia; not only in terms of provisioning and cultural services, but also regulating and supporting services.

Winner of the 2019 Turku Book Award from the European Society for Environmental HistoryThe Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long been prized by residents and visitors alike.

The novelty of the book is a strong focus on perception, perspectives and prediction by scientists with profound insight into the ecology of ecosystems or into human demands and activity.

In The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven Mark W.

Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise twelve species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina.

Biological diversity, the variety of living organisms on Earth, is traditionally viewed as the diversity of taxa, and species in particular.

This volume provides an enlightening and pragmatic approach to preserving biological diversity by gathering a wide range of peer-reviewed scientific content from biodiversity researchers and conservators from around the world.

This book is a guide for the identification of the indigenous forest trees of Uganda.

Trotz 900 bi- oder multilateraler Umweltverträge bleiben die drängendsten Probleme des globalen Wandels ungelöst.

Ebb and Flow was named one of 2007's "e;best science books"e; by Peter Calamai, science editor of the Toronto Star [Dec.

This volume offers extensive information on insect life in dying and dead wood.

Understanding Complex Ecosystem Dynamics: A Systems and Engineering Perspective takes a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on complex system dynamics, beginning with a discussion of relevant systems and engineering skills and practices, including an explanation of the systems approach and its major elements.

A beautiful photographic celebration of the world's 18 species of penguin.

World Oceans: A Reference Handbook offers an in-depth discussion of the world's oceans.

Antelopes constitute a fundamental part of ecosystems throughout Africa and Asia where they act as habitat architects, dispersers of seeds, and prey for large carnivores.

E-Mobilität heißt das neue Zauberwort.

News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect.

The re-established forests of the Upper Delaware exist as a living reminder of centuries of both exploitation and good intentions.

Overwhelmed by climate anxiety?

Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers.

Of all the books written about the problems of sustainable development and environmental protection, Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is one of the first to examine the role of science, economics and law, and ethics as generally applied to decision making on sustainable development, particularly in respect to the recommendations contained in Agenda 21.

In seven works of non-fiction, especially in Birders and the universally acclaimed Birds Britannica, Mark Cocker has established himself as one of the foremost writers on nature and wilderness.

How and why did our most acclaimed birdwatchers take up birding?