This updated and expanded second edition textbook, describes all main aspects of soil management, to address the serious problems of soil erosion and the attendant environmental pollution.
The fundamental ecological, cultural and economic roles of insects give them central importance in functioning of terrestrial and inland water ecosystems worldwide.
Biologist John Spicer shows how closely our future is linked with that of biodiversity while navigating readers through some key problems facing our planet, including mass extinctions, population explosions, habitat destruction, and pollution.
Microorganisms, the catalysts of all biogeochemical cycles on Earth, are the origin and essence of life-an invisible yet powerful force sustaining all living organisms.
In recent years, pollination has become a very important research trend, and wild bees in particular play a key role in the dynamics of plant pollination.
This book reviews all the findings about bonobos and the local people of Wamba village in the Luo Scientific Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the last 50 years.
The fundamental ecological, cultural and economic roles of insects give them central importance in functioning of terrestrial and inland water ecosystems worldwide.
In recent years, pollination has become a very important research trend, and wild bees in particular play a key role in the dynamics of plant pollination.
Quoting contemporary accounts from hunters, missionaries and traders from the early nineteenth century onwards, this book illustrates the ecology of the country as it was emphasizing its rich large mammal fauna, its decline from increasing aridity of the country, it destruction by hunters, by disease, and most importantly, destruction of its vast herds, notably of wildebeest, due to the developing beef export economy and the erection of veterinary cordon fences depriving the large game of migration routes in times of drought.
Through this book, readers will gain a comprehensive overview of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production in local contexts as an issue-driven and solution-oriented process, and will come to understand its relationship to societal transformation processes toward sustainability.
This thought-provoking volume unites bioethics experts from seven major world religions-Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism-alongside secular thinkers to explore environmental protection through the lens of the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
This thought-provoking volume unites bioethics experts from seven major world religions-Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism-alongside secular thinkers to explore environmental protection through the lens of the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
The Rouge River Valley, eleven thousand acres of urban wilderness, is a unique, yet very fragile and transient natural phenomenon existing within the confines of a major North American city, Toronto.
Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker's Book Award Edmund Zavitz (1875-1968) rescued Ontario from the ravages of increasingly more powerful floods, erosion, and deadly fires.
From the celebrated author of The Ends of the World, an epic biography of the molecule that made and could now break everything we knowAll life is made from CO2 .
The core dilemma in environmental advocacy may be illustrated by the question, "When we communicate about the world, should we stress what we know or what we feel?
This book describes a fauna of global conservation concern and provides a framework for researchers to begin to test hypotheses regarding the evolution of freshwater mussels in Central America.
Im Rahmen eines vom BMBF geförderten Verbundprojekts wurde die Errichtung und Integration von Großwärmespeichern mit mehreren Zehntausend Kubikmeter zur saisonalen Speicherung und Bereitstellung von Wärme im Quartiersmaßstab untersucht.
This book is the first comprehensive reference work ever published on the systematics, ecology, conservation status, and management of all the world's deer species.
In the early 1920s, in many a sawmill town across the South, the last quitting-time whistle signaled the cutting of the last log of a company's timber holdings and the end of an era in southern lumbering.
This book is the first comprehensive reference work ever published on the systematics, ecology, conservation status, and management of all the world's deer species.
Deep in the heart of the southern West Virginia coalfields, one of the most important environmental and social empowerment battles in the nation has been waged for the past decade.
This new, second edition of Primate Ethnographies: Fieldwork from Across the Globe is a collection of first-person accounts of immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions, revealing the excitement of studying wild primates and the multi-faceted challenges involved in conducting field research.
