Conservation of the environment

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent international issues to be addressed.

Ce livre, destiné aux chercheurs comme aux praticiens réflexifs des métiers de l’accompagnement, s’attache à explorer ces moments d’étrangeté où la vie ordinaire apparait comme un rêve, alors même que surgit quelque chose d’inespéré, encore informe, mais porteur de résonances à l’échelle de l’existence entière de cette personne-là, forcément singulière.

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique - a form of 'environ-metrics' - to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated, and attributed to causes as varied as poverty, external debt, multinational logging companies, government corruption, the IMF, population growth, and non-sustainable agriculture.

In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City.

Retrouver l’art dans la logique de la nature, avec toutes ses épaisseurs, c’est le propre de l’Art contemporain qui a détruit les formes de médiation entre l’acte créatif et l’objet naturel, pour retrouver la notion de Vie dans l’œuvre et rejoindre l’acte vital.

Tailored to environmental scientists, this guide outlines seven steps for writing documents in the context of conserving natural resources.

This book presents the state-of-the-art of knowledge in assessing, mapping, and modeling mangrove ecosystem services and outlines various scientific tools and techniques, including environmental scenario-building, spatial and econometric modelling to understand the fluctuations and future availability of mangrove ecosystem services.

This book brings together articles and conference papers on the Zambezi River and Kariba Dam written by Dr.

This book explores the intimate relationship of the people of North East India with the environment as evinced from their traditional beliefs, cultural practices, and livelihood.

The plains vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus) is a remarkable rodent of the Neotropic given several peculiar aspects of its biology, some of them quite unique among rodents or even among mammals.

Heritage and its preservation is a major concern around the world.

Life began in the sea, and even today most of the deep diversity of the planet is marine.

Ecosystems today are dynamic and complex, leaving conservationists faced with the paradox of conserving moving targets.

In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world's precious coral reefs.

By re-imagining how we plan and use our gardens, we can all do our bit to support local wildlife, improve our health and help tackle the climate crisis.

Living with the Unexpected deals with complexity and uncertainty, two major challenges in a world faced with climate change and hazards.

Concern for environment is as old as human civilization.

Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home.

The black rhino is nature's tank, feared by all animals.

Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness.

This book is a call to action, providing the tools photographers need to help preserve threatened species and environments around the world or in their own backyards.

A redefinition of the animal's relationship to sound and language in French texts from medieval England.

This up-close, captivating look at an iconic animal traces our complex relationship to bears throughout historyand what they can tell us about ourselves.

Overall Winner, SAGT (Scottish Association of Geography Teachers) Awards 2022
Winner, Global Dimension Teachers' Choice Award 2023
Shortlisted, BERA Educational Research Book of the Year 2023
Highly Commended, GA (Geographical Association) Publisher's Awards 2023

Sustainability Education: A Classroom Guide provides an accessible, in-depth guide and critique of sustainability education for school and university students, teachers, curriculum makers and school governors working around the world with children aged 3- to 14-years old.

The book explores how Darwin's legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America.

This book offers a comprehensive review devoted exclusively to slate as dimension stone.

Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature.

This book provides a highly illustrated synthesis of research on cold-water corals worldwide.

Welcome to the Commonsverse, a parallel social economy helping millions of commoners take charge and escape the predatory Market/State order.

The environmental crisis besieges morality with unanswered questions and ethical dilemmas, requiring fresh examination of nature''s value, animal rights, activism, and despair.

This volume gathers case studies on plant diversity from selected, representative mountain systems of Italy (Mediterranean and temperate zones), while also addressing the biodiversity of avian fauna.

Swanson's book provides a good framework for understanding the extinction process in deeper socio-economic terms, and for evaluating some of the suggestions that have been made to arrest the decline.

This volume provides comprehensive overviews of the primate's and each lagomorph species' biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat, diet, mortality and age determination.

Almost half of all life on earth may exist in the world's forest canopies.

A concise and contemporary synthesis of research into the ecology and conservation of wood ants, encompassing all known species.

 This book provides a synthesis of the past decade of research into global changes that occurred in the earth system in the past.

This book addresses urban ecology, green technology, problems with climate change prediction, groundwater contamination, invasive species and many other topics, and offers a guardedly optimistic interpretation of humanity's place in nature and our unique caretaker role.

In Not So Golden State, leading environmental historian Char Miller looks below the surface of California's ecological history to expose some of its less glittering conundrums.

This book explores and outlines the reference theoretical basis of ecological networks within the international debate, focusing on how protected areas should no longer be considered as the sum of different components but rather as a network.

Mit der Geoökologie hat sich in den letzten Jahren eine interdisziplinäre Naturwissenschaft entwickelt, welche die Strukturen, die Funktionsweise und die Wirkungszusammenhänge in unserer Umwelt aufklärt.

Written with passion for anyone interested in seeing an end to the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, this book shows how, by working together, people all over the world who care about these animals are gradually bringing about change for the better.

"e;Anyone who doubts the power of history to inform the present should read this closely argued and sweeping survey.

When you look at the world through the lens of upfront carbon, everything changes The astonishing upfront carbon of everyday objects from coffee cups to heat pumps, and why electric bikes, not electric cars, are the answer.

Black Beaches and Bayous: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster provides a multidisciplinary, international perspective on one of the major disaster events within the United States during the last ten years.

This book illustrates an alternative approach to 'state of sustainability' reporting by presenting cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary discussions on sustainability issues in the context of a developing country, Botswana.